Dead men's shoes? Quite probable in my case! 😄 That's the one thing I do buy from a charity shop. Why pay £40.00 + for a pair of shoes and spend weeks trying to break them in, when for about £8.00 you can buy a perfectly good pair with virtually no wear on them? If the bloke's brown bread they're no good to him, so somebody else may as well benefit from them, including the charity shop. The only thing I always do is buy new insoles. Three years ago I bought a pair of moccasins for £1.00 off a man in a bootsale - no clever answers, please :-). It's the first thing I change into as soon as I come home. They've never been outside the house except when I go on holiday. Shirts are different. Good quality ones are a bit prices, but no matter how good it looks, I never wear it until it's been through the wash.
By the way, if you've ever wondered why you don't see the stuff you donate up for sale the next day, it's because it goes to a large distribution centre and gets farmed out from there. This is done for discretionary reasons - nobody wants to see their late husband's or wife's personal effects so close to home.
