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With prices like this is it any wonder some folk are skint?
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Don't get me started not relevant0
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patchwork_cat wrote: »Don't get me started not relevant
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My work colleagues always thought I was a little weird (or a tomboy) as their discussions about shoes and handbags would bore me to tears.
I just thought they were silly paying lots for the items...although I have succumbed (they brain washed me honest!) into buying a Radley bag, in my defence, it was in the sales at 70% off and only cost me £20 including the purse!
My last handbag cost me £1.50 from a charity shop....We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
A mate of mine goes around the country training people on H&S stuff. His rate used to be £250 per day and he was getting very little work. So he simply upped his rates to £600 per day an all of a sudden he got more work than he could cope with.
Your bloody mate must have been the H&S guy who I asked how much he earned and stated some low income so I stayed in IT. :mad:I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Buy some gloves which come in different sizes, then! Lots around.
Mens gloves are actually not that big.
I know I wear them and I'm 5 inches shorter with big hands.
In fact when I got ski gloves I had difficulty finding gloves that fit me. But then again maybe it's because I will not spend more than a £10 on a pair of gloves..............and £5 if they are for normal wear.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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I only possess one pair of shoes - apair of trainers!I have a problem foot since i fell over on it a few years ago and find it so hard to wear anything that doesn't make my foot hurt i just wear these, luckily i don't get to dress up anymore, a posh frock and trainers would look a little daft lol!
On the shoe front, i am dreading ds1starting school this year, ds1's school shoes cost around £36 a time!He has wide wide and typically the shoes Clarks have in stock (they never seem to have much of their range in stock altho we have two clarks shops), the only ones he is suitable for cost that!Plus i have to buy their wide fitting black daps for PE as his feet are too wide for supermarket/shop ones, and they are about £12 eek! Needless to say he only gets his feet measured twice a year! I cannot understand why kiddies shoes are dearer or as dear as the adult ones even baby shoes can cost £25 a time!
Captive market.
Strangely my feet changed from normal when I became a teenager, and now I have more !!!!ed up feet than I should because I refused to wear sensible shoes when I got past 12.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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Regarding shoes I wasnt Happy today purchasing my little ones new shoes, he is not even 2 yet and they cost me a whopping £28, I nearly fell down and I actually laughed when she told me to come back in 6 weeks for a re fit as and I quote ''he will have grown again by then so you will most likeley need a new pair'' £28 for a pair of kiddies shoes, I tell ya its a discrace!!0
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patchwork_cat wrote: »I was going to say how can you live with yourself wanting seal skin socks!! BUt see it is the brand are they like 1000mile socks
They're different by about fifteen quid. I've got a few pairs of 1000 mile socks for running. Some people think they're great, some think they're rubbish. I like mine. They have 2 layers and the "rub" is taken between the two layers, rather than between the socks and your skin.
So 1000 mile socks are supposed to prevent blisters, whereas seal skins stop your feet getting wet, which in turn will help to prevent blisters and also keep your feet warmer. Neither are 100% effective but I do think that they help.0 -
...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'.0
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