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With prices like this is it any wonder some folk are skint?

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  • Addiscomber
    Addiscomber Posts: 1,010 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Buy some gloves which come in different sizes, then! Lots around.
    Different widths, yes. But the fingers don't get long enough, at least I have never found any. I had men's driving gloves as they were OK. I prefer mittens and I am seriously considering getting some sheepskin, taking a pair of mittens apart, cutting an improved pattern and making some.
  • rozeepozee
    rozeepozee Posts: 1,971 Forumite
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    amcluesent wrote: »
    Take it out of wee chaps pocket money. A valuable lesson learned.
    Awww, he's only 2!
  • GingerSte
    GingerSte Posts: 2,486 Forumite
    carolt wrote: »
    I will never forget a little gem from some tv prog a few years back - about a shopping centre up north (Trafford Centre maybe?) - lots of Cheshire posh types going there, and it featured one particular woman who chose an expensive dress, took it to the cash till to pay for it, and the assistant said "That'll be £90, please."

    "£90?" queried the woman, "but I thought it was "£900! If it's only £90, I don't want it."

    Mad but true. She only wanted it because of the price tag, rather than despite it.

    So for her, the £9 gloves would have been far too cheap. :eek:
    See if that shop assistant had been quick enough, she could have replied "Sorry you're right. That is £900" and pocketed the £810 difference. :cool:
  • clairehi
    clairehi Posts: 1,352 Forumite
    Surely "with prices like this is it any wonder shops are going bust left right and centre"

    (Unless this one was in Alderley Edge of course!)
  • chewmylegoff
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Most I ever spent was £26 on some soft leather Italian court shoes from a small specialist shop in Torquay, when they had the big sale on.

    i spent that much on a pair of socks not so long ago.
  • Lemoncurd
    Lemoncurd Posts: 965 Forumite
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    ouch, Ethel Austin and the markets etc have childrens gloves for 50p a pair, Primark £1 for packs of two pairs
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    dannymccann wrote: »

    I dont get it with the £5 - £10 pairs of shoes people buy though ;)

    It's called "all I could afford" and "living in my means". They were always leather ones...!
  • PasturesNew
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    i spent that much on a pair of socks not so long ago.
    You should be ashamed! £26 on socks!!

    Repeat for effect: £ 2 6 ..... on .... SOCKS!!!!

    Do they put themselves on your feet each morning and self clean? Do they track each other by satellite if they're separated by more than 6'?
  • PasturesNew
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    m1ntie wrote: »
    I wish I could find leather shoes for that.
    Persistence pays off. That's all. I always look when I can and across a year I will usually find one good pair that meets my strict affordability criteria... and I snap them up. One pair I have I've had for a year and not worn yet, but I have them and so they're there for when I next need a new pair of shoes.

    I kept looking for one particular style for 15 years before finding them (these didn't exist for most of that 15 years but I had the style in mind). Persistence and patience will eventually pay off!
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    rozeepozee wrote: »
    Awww, he's only 2!

    Put them on a string?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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