The Crazy £100 Clothes Challenge

traceyaskham

Have just stumbled upon this thread and think it's a brilliant idea. Please add me to your list.
I am an intermittant e bayer and have so far this year spent precicely £57.15 on clothes. Yes I know it's over half the annual budget BUT......I joined weight watchers in December and have lost over a stone and needed clothes that are a size 12. Yes, I'm now officially a size 12. The saving grace is that up in the loft somewhere are bagsful of clothes I had 4 years or so ago that are size 10-12 so I shall go there immediately and reclaim them. So what if they might be slightly dated and motheaten, but then again, so am I. One question please. If I flog my old size 14/16 stuff on ebay, does that money go back into the budget, or shall I keep it to one side and see if I can build back up my £100 stake?

Lula-Hula

wigglebeena wrote: »

Bit miffed about one of my chazza skirts - the even lovelier one, supposed to be a 10, just hangs off me (or rather falls down to about where indecent teen hippity-hoppity gangbangers wear their jeans). I'm definitely not an 8 plus I've got a pot belly, so I can only suppose George have a 'generous' cut. It is a gorgeous skirt, breaks my blimmin heart. Oh well.

wigglebeena
We'll have none of that defeatist attitude thank you can it be altered ? Not sure your poor mum can cope with the lost red suede coat & this skirt too

traceyaskham - welcome to the crazy challenge congratulations on losing that weight :A a stone is how much I need to lose to get back into all my fave clothes & frankly that's the only thing standing between me & the loss of all £100 I refuse to buy anything in a larger size :mad: .

Any money you make by selling your old clothes is 'free' ie on top of the £100 allowance so get selling girl

wigglebeena

I'm the most rubbish needlewoman ever, sadly, and have no working sewing machine. Although me old mum is an ace tailor it hardly seems fair to ask her, so it'll have to wait till I get myself one of the £29 Lidl machines currently being discussed on the Old Style board and teach myself to use it.

mum2one

wigglebeena wrote: »

I'm the most rubbish needlewoman ever, sadly, and have no working sewing machine. Although me old mum is an ace tailor it hardly seems fair to ask her, so it'll have to wait till I get myself one of the £29 Lidl machines currently being discussed on the Old Style board and teach myself to use it.

I have a dress that needs altering, so may have a go, too tight to pay for it to be professionally altered, when I was out in Gambia in 05, had 2 dresses and blouse made for me, clothes for dd, the brightest kaftan for my mum (wind her up!!), and tie dye shirt for dad, got the lot for £50.
But when I come to wear the one dress for a wedding needed shortening and takeing in, (coz it was lined cost me £25).... but cheaper than a new outfit!

Mums got a sewing machine, shes got no idea how to use it, so for last xmas brought her a kids one from Argos to practice with!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

Buffythedebtslayer

Tis sad that I know this, but there are "how to use a sewing machine" videos on you tube. I also have a sewing machine which I have NO clue how to use!

that's another reason to sell on e bay, need to make my clothes money back!

xx

Primula

Hi everyone
Confession time!.............but I have worked it all out on paper and don't need my figures adjusting..........still have my whole £100 - woo hoo! Went to M&S yesterday and bought:-
Shoes - £39.50
3 x t-shirts - £35
Jeans - £25
Socks - £2
Reusable bag (to take my total over £100 so I could use discount vouchers) - £3.50
TOTAL = £105 less VAT saving of £2.23 = £102.77
Bag, shoes and socks not count in challenge (phew!) so take off £45 for that leaves £57.77. I had 2 x £5 off vouchers if you spend £50 or more so got £10 off taking it down to £47.77.
Then I had the £40 M&S gift voucher my friend gave me taking it down to £7.77, AND I also still had the £10 my mum gave me a few weeks ago to treat myself.................so basically I never spent any of my £100 and still have £2.23 left over from mum's £10! :T

woo hoo. And I had an absolute ball in M&S! I just love love love love my new shoes! I can's stop looking at them! LOL :rotfl:

Lula-Hula

woo hoo primula,

congrats on fabby new stuff :j I'm so glad I dont have to adjust the figures as you'd lost me by the 3rd line :rolleyes: I shall just take your word for it....

NO sarahb that does NOT mean you can dazzle me with your creative accounting/reasoning skills I'm quite capable of doing the maths, just lazy :rotfl:

Buffy - my grandmother (daughter of the tailor & ace dressmaker in her time) has a brilliant sewing machine set into a table that is 'mine', just waiting for me to find a way to transport it here... been waiting quite a few years actually .
I might just have to do something about that.... no rush though

Have fun with your new shoes primula

CurlyTop

Hi Hula

Finally playing catch up with the threads this week. I declared the nighties at £1.25 but I notice on your post #316 that you say sleepwear doesn't count, so can you put my balance back to £100 please (every penny counts!). I'll update my siggy. Lots of tips on here, good to see we are all doing well. Cheers

Yorkshirechick

Can you take another £2 from my total please? I bought a pair of grey wooly tights from Primark. They will look ace with a little skirt. Ta x

Lula-Hula

Yorkshirechick wrote: »

Can you take another £2 from my total please? I bought a pair of grey wooly tights from Primark. They will look ace with a little skirt. Ta x

I could... but in my world tights count as underwear so are you sure

CurlyTop - I shall reinstate your £100 immediately

lula
xx