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Doing my bit to spend Britain out of recession

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  • Old_Slaphead
    Old_Slaphead Posts: 2,749 Forumite
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    Might do my bit by getting my eyes lasered.

    Ridiculously expensive (but then again I am rediculously blind) - and better than donating it to some council care home.

    After that, as I will hopefully be able to see, I'll buy a decent car - but not till next year when my existing one is 10 y/o and the government will probably pay 2grand towards me buying another gas guzzler..
  • System
    System Posts: 178,433 Community Admin
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    I've got 6 grand burning a whole in my pocket but I'm not spending a penny until I know what my mortgage payments are going to be in the future.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • fedupfreda
    fedupfreda Posts: 318 Forumite
    You might as well spend it now - 'cos next year the Govt will take it away to pay for this years bail outs anyway.

    (Or at least I would spend it - if I had any to spend in the first place :D )
    SMILE....they will wonder what you are up to...........;)
  • Austin_Allegro
    Austin_Allegro Posts: 1,462 Forumite
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    On Saturday I bought a copy of 'The Colditz Story' from a charity shop for 10p. I thought it was a bit extravagant seeing as I could probably have got it from the local library, but I thought, what the hell I'll go mad.
    'Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.' Quentin Crisp
  • nm1213
    nm1213 Posts: 70 Forumite
    Spent £3660 today... £3600 for this year's tuition, and £60 for a damn steam iron at Argos. Watch the stock markets rise....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I'm going to spend about £200 this week on chickens. :) British bred chickens, and some of them a British breed of chicken. :)
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    Austin_Allegro wrote: »
    On Saturday I bought a copy of 'The Colditz Story' from a charity shop for 10p. I thought it was a bit extravagant seeing as I could probably have got it from the local library, but I thought, what the hell I'll go mad.

    i wish i could buy books from charity shops for 10p. there are 4 charity shops on my local highstreet. you'd be lucky to get £1 off RRP in most of those.
  • luvpump
    luvpump Posts: 1,621 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    Dont you have enough of cars at work?
    C & C is by far the best games as you have to use your Brain cells.
    I Disagee .. Battlefield 2 is probably the most addictive & Skillfull Vid game, I have wasted countless hours "Fighting" all over the world :)
  • Austin_Allegro
    Austin_Allegro Posts: 1,462 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    i wish i could buy books from charity shops for 10p. there are 4 charity shops on my local highstreet. you'd be lucky to get £1 off RRP in most of those.

    There's a thread on Old Style about this. Local charity shops (not the big chains) are best, for some reason a lot of them are hospice shops. Mine does old, yellowing PBs for 10p or 20p and newer ones for about 50p-£1.
    'Never keep up with Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.' Quentin Crisp
  • PasturesNew
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    Cleaver wrote: »
    I was 14 in 1995 and was probably either just getting bored of Sonic The Hedgehog on my Megadrive or being very excited at just getting a Sony Playstation 1 (the last console I had before today's stupid decision).
    I could be UR MOM.
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