I love a bit of shopping, me. Sometimes I even have to leave my bank card at home when I go out just in case I spend all my hard-earned cash. So when I found out about a vintage kilo sale going on at The People’s History Museum in Manchester (put on by Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair), I knew I had to check it out. £15 for a kilo of clothes? I think yes!

It was the most terrifying experience of my life.

I got there early and there was already a queue, which I joined in good faith. Nothing could prepare me for the absolute carnage that was to follow. What could only be described as skips full of clothes were dotted around the floor and, even though I was one of the first in, I was soon swamped by hordes of fanatical bargain hunters, all of us…