I’ve rarely ever gone to a charity shop where they don’t have:
[This Franz Ferdinand Album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(album))
[My sister’s keeper-Jodi Picoult](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister%27s_Keeper_(novel))
Those readers digest books
[Music in mouth, Bell x1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_Mouth)
[This exact design of crockery](https://itsadaniellelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Where-to-buy-vintage-crockery-3.jpg)
[Eye To the Telescope- KT tunstall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_to_the_Telescope)
[Flock- Bell x1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(Bell_X1_album))
and those random ceramic ornaments with fruit designs.
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Idk why they ALWAYS appear in charity shops, especially the specific books and albums, like who’s putting them there? Does anyone know why? Because I doubt people all over the country are just coincidentally donating the exact same albums and books. I have more examples but I can only think of those at the moment.
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It’s just a bunch of stuff that alot of people had at one point that nobody wants anymore and even fewer want to buy. The good stuff is typically swooped up early.
You also forgot multiple copies of Angela’s Ashes, The DaVinci Code and any of the 50 Shades books.
The best charity shops are in Kilienny, redonculius stuff like Kashmir jumpers and stuff , I was only in one once and have always wanted to go back.
Every charity shop has Roy Keane’s, and Sir Alex Ferguson’s autobiographies
A lot of charity shops get shop clearences given to them, then their warehouse divides up the stock and sends a certain number of each to the shops, otherwise one shop could have 10 of the same book or dvd
The last one I was in had 50 shades of grey and it was a religious ran one I think
Honestly they have all that Tara china because in the 70s and 80s it was the done thing to have nice China and now most of the people who owned are dead and the family members don’t have room for all the stuff they collected so they give it to charity shops rather than dump them.
Apparently thousands of people across Ireland bought these items when they were new. The items were popular in their day. Now it is decades later and the items land in thrift shops. They will either find new life in someone’s home or end up in the dumpster.
Reader’s Digest was enormously popular in years past. It was at its height in the 1970s and 1980s. Half of the households in Ireland probably had subscriptions.