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The Thrifty Gifty Girls 'n' Guys 2009 (Organised & Money Neutral for All Occasions)

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  • furrypig
    furrypig Posts: 2,881 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Sugarspun your description made me laugh!! Pregnant boobs are often rather impressive especially if you don't normally have boobs!! (Sorry that may not be your case SS!!) I went up to a J cup in my pregnancies arghhhh!!

    Glad to catch up with you all still feeling a bit queasy here but lots better and even managed to get to see Shamu yesterday, though I came home and went straight to bed!! Haven't got an appetite really and don't fancy much to eat but things are improving. Sadly DH has a dodgy tummy today though he thinks he's prob ok so will have to wait and see. I hope he doesn't have it as I haven't felt so ill for years!

    Glad to see everyone is doing great here and welcome to all the newbies, I agree it is a mega friendly thread and my family think I'm mad when I talk about my 'friends' from here!!

    Hugs to all and sorry you had a bad experience Jammy in the world outside thrifty gifty xxx
  • HI to all newbies :hello: yay, more people to join our ramblings :)

    Sarah, heres the a link to the toys I mean, if you scroll down the gelth & vespiform are shown on the right,

    Glad your feeling a bit better furry

    Get someone to take piccies of your lovely bump figure Sugar, I wish I had with both of my kids, but by the time I thought of it with DS2 I was very ill & looking even worse - would have loved a shot like the b&w anne geddes pregnancy pose, or/& one taken each month to show the growth.

    Claire, bargain on the flask! well done.

    Wish I had the patience to knit like you guys. I tried to learn when I was about 9 but couldnt get the tension right, & still havent got the patience to practice until its continually the same tension. My moms giving me her knitting machine so I can knit things - does anyone know if you can use normal knitting patterns, have to adapt normal knitting patterns, or use patterns specifically for a knitting machine?

    Been very busy this weekend, just having a coffee break. Must be a busy one for PLM as well, strange not seeing her post for a few days - you alright hun?
    You cant take a step forward with both feet on the ground
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    I'm planning on learning to knit.

    My boobs have gone up two cup sizes - I bought four cheap Primark ones when I was up a size thinking they were stretchy and would last me. I didn't even get to wear two of them before I'd grown right out of them!

    A couple of weeks ago I went to La Senza in Cheshire Oaks to get measured thinking I'd mostly stopped growing and could go for something a bit prettier. The girl measured me over my bra as having gone up a back size (fine, my ribcage is expanding and the bands have been a bit tight recently), then looked (looked!) at the girls and told me I needed a 34A! I pointed out that I was spilling over a 32C but she was insistent and gave me two bras to try on that were laughably, ridiculously small. I told her she was taking the pi$$ and I needed a bigger size but she kept telling me I needed a 34A.

    I left without a single pretty bra :( just ordered two from La Senza online in a 34B - one for the evening party after the wedding when spilling cleavage can only be a good thing and who cares if it isn't comfortable, and one maternity bra because it's supposed to be amazingly stretchy and comfortable. GRR.
    Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
    Three gifts left to buy
  • I have to admit Sugar, I still wear my maternity bra's & breastfeeding ones because they are sooooooo comfortable, well worth investing in. I've barely gone down since my 2nd pregnancy (cept my stomach) - the boobs I'm please with not the rest, lol. The bra's are very supportive & very comfy for everyday wear, though they arent the prettiest of things.

    Maybe try getting your partner/mum/friend to measure you, just google how, for example. Or go to another shop for a free fitting, you dont have to buy anything.
    You cant take a step forward with both feet on the ground
  • mhagster
    mhagster Posts: 5,700 Forumite
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    Or you could always knit yourself a bra sugarspun lol
    (no doubt there actually are knitting patterns for maternity bras!)
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    My mother once knitted herself - or maybe crocheted herself - a swimming costume.

    It got waterlogged and gravity took its toll. She was terribly embarrassed...
    Organised Birthdays and Christmas: Spend So Far: £193.75; Saved from RRP £963.76
    Three gifts left to buy
  • jamtart6
    jamtart6 Posts: 8,302 Forumite
    Sugarspun - I have had this awful experience with bra fitters too! "You are a 34A)...no I am quite obviously not! Same when I do a self-measurement, I come out at an A or B when there is most definitely a LOT more than that there! Very odd!

    PLM has been lurking as she has thanked a few posts so hopefully she is OK? X

    :ABeing Thrifty Gifty again this year:A

  • scattymam1
    scattymam1 Posts: 1,045 Forumite
    It's cyber crop weekend on uk scrappers - maybe that's where plm is hanging out.
  • mum2one
    mum2one Posts: 16,279 Forumite
    Xmas Saver!
    Massive congratulations sugarspun, dont know if its any help with the bra situ - but if you go on Betterware webiste, think Avon have done them as well, bra expanders, they give u an extra couple inches across the back.

    Maternity bras - mine looked like you could use as mudslingers, I wouldnt put them on the washing line. x
    xx rip dad... we had our ups and downs but we’re always be family xx
  • phunkles
    phunkles Posts: 1,711 Forumite
    eep
    Wanders back out at the talk of pregnancy and bras and boobs growing
    pulease dont fire those pregnancy vibes in my direction puleaseee

    I is making cards innit :|
    if gluing paper to a card is making cards thats what am doing - no glitter today though
    Love is the answer. At least for most of the questions in my heart,
    Like why are we here? And where do we go?And how come it's so hard?
    It's not always easy,And sometimes life can be deceiving,
    I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together
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