The Crazy £100 Clothes Challenge

mum2one

dobs wrote: »

Really pleased today, my sons friends lovely mum gave me a pair of pjs and several lovely next tops that he has grown out of for ds2. When i looked at the sizes they will actually fit ds1 as he's 2 sizes behind for his age and i was thinking he'd be needing some tops/pjs in this size so am v chuffed. Plus with 2 brothers younger than him they will get plenty of wear - i love a bargain!

Have been looking on ebay tonight at shorts for summer, thinking i will just get him some from primark this year as they will probably be the same price new as used ones on ebay!
Have a look round Tesco, Asda and even Matlan, as they have odds and sods from last yrs stocks, they tend to add them in with the xmas sales, I know it was b4 xmas but got dd shorts from Asda 10p a pair.

Just heard ds2 got into same school as ds1 so will start trying to buy 2nd hand sweatshirts when they have them - worked out if i bought four brand new one it would cost me £32, or for 4 2nd hand ones £2!!!!Bit of a difference there lol!
Sorry to be cheeky, but have they got to have the school logo sweatshirts, or can you get away with supermarket models, I got dd sweatshirts from Sainsburys and they have washed well, if we can get 2 days out of 1 sweatshirt thats a miracle.

Lol Lula-Hula at least you only need to drop one size - i'm three sizes bigger than before i got pregnant!

Join the club, wouldnt mind but when I was pregnant with dd, I only put on 10lbs and she was 7lb15oz, but after having her apparently I have put on 15kgs, darent ask what that is in pounds!!!
I call it mummy weight, sounds much better than saying overweight!!

dobs

lol mum2one 'mummyweight' i like that!

Thanks for the tips, i did get some shorts before xmas in the other kids sizes at Asda but didn't have any for ds1, he's at an age where hes starting to have a say in clothes now so will have to take him with me! I could try Matalan, we have one but i've never been there, we only have a small Tesco which doesn't sell clothes which is a shame cos i like their clothes, then again it saves me money!

No you don't have to supply the logo tops but they prefer it and i think it looks nice, i just get the normal polo tops though i'm not paying for the logo ones of those. I am going to buy 2nd hand ones as theya re actually only 50p each and have got them before, and they only sell good condition ones.

Yep i had my ds3 last february and within 6 months put on 10lbs!I thought i was meant to lose it not gain it lol!

Lula-Hula

Hi everyone & congrats on your new free top JaneLiz & new clothes for ds dobs .

School uniform is such a rip off, DDs head teacher 'insists' on kids having the logo on everything but I just refuse as which sane person would spend £8 on a polo top that's half nylon & cant be tumble dried when tesco do a pure cotton one that can for a mere £2. She does have the sweatshirt & PE t shirt with logo but anything else is just unnecessary.

The infant school had a thriving 'used' shop for all unifrom, book bags etc but no sign of one at the juniors . I did find one of DD1s old secondary school ties in the airing cupboard the other day - 5 years since last worn but will be fine for DD in 3 years time .

bye for now
lula

(Land_of)_Maz

School uniforms are such a rip off aren't they!

I bought some tesco and matalan sweaters last summer, £2 each and paid the shop that does the logos a fiver each, saved £2.50 on each sweater... and i knew the sweaters were going to be big enough to last all year.....

then i bought another spare navy sweater which we didn't get logo'd which we use for in between days as 4 just wasn't enough some weeks....!!!

fedupandskint

Just popping in to say hi to all challlengers and to say I haven't spent another penny out of my £100 since the last spend so my total is still the same on my sig!

It makes me think so hard about what I want and need before I spend.

Can't see another spend coming on for a while now!

Keep on going everyone, kindness and hugs sent to you all!

pandapaws

Got to do an update while I remember...

I have bought:

• ME: Long cardi for myself from Monsoon £18, was £60. Resisted soooooo many other things there that although that's almost a fifth of the yearly spend in one item I was really chuffed. I tried on about half a dozen items and discovered what it felt like to put them back afterwards.
• ME: Work trousers from M&S £2.99 (reduced from £24.99)
• DS1: 3 tshirts in M&S reduced to £1 each
• DS2: 2 tshirts and a pair of trousers in M&S reduced to £1 each
• DH: Nowt so far.

So, probably not doing too well compared to most of you, but doing brilliantly compared to me usually at this time of year.

mum2one

pandapaws wrote: »

Got to do an update while I remember...

I have bought:

• ME: Long cardi for myself from Monsoon £18, was £60. Resisted soooooo many other things there that although that's almost a fifth of the yearly spend in one item I was really chuffed. I tried on about half a dozen items and discovered what it felt like to put them back afterwards.
• ME: Work trousers from M&S £2.99 (reduced from £24.99)
• DS1: 3 tshirts in M&S reduced to £1 each
• DS2: 2 tshirts and a pair of trousers in M&S reduced to £1 each
• DH: Nowt so far.

So, probably not doing too well compared to most of you, but doing brilliantly compared to me usually at this time of year.

Thats some brilliant bargains there, love the sound of the cardi from Monsoon. x

Lula-Hula

Thanks for the update pandapaws & well done for putting stuff back too, believe me I know how much it hurts I hope you have fun with your stuff I'm currently watching an item on ebay, it ends on sunday & I had to tell you all that so you can check up on me Half of me hopes to be outbid, the other half wants to win at any cost.

mum2one

I have a sort of confession, I havent spent any yet, but just had a sale email from the catalogue and as the sale was so gd I've put a large order throu, trs were £3.00 instead of £30, I've ordered more than I want, but I will be sending some back.........

Will update when I know what I've kept xx

Lula-Hula

Good girl Mum2one

Trousers at £3 sounds pretty much irresistible to me I shall await your final confession with glee :rotfl:

G'nite
lula xx