Library debt - fines/books/fees etc And my BR

affluenza

Have the boss's yellow book and another one by some woman who suggests that you should avoid buying designer bags and buy fakes instead!

In the latest Vogue magazine (or what I could glean standing in Tescos) has 40 tips on frugal living including such gems as boil washing your old pashmina, then embroidering an initial in silk thread to use as a baby blanket, reusing Dyptique candle holders as bud vases, chopping off 5 inches from the hem of your favourite sun dress and using it to make a turban or scrunchie or something bizarre...

I first though it was a joke article but no, it was written as very serious advice.

fiveyearplan

My OH racked up debt at the library in CD fines on his card so he's been using my card for years now. They stopped chasing him.

LilyBart

I'm going to Tesco now to read that edition of Vogue! My, how I've worried about what to do with last year's cashmere! And good grief, the ironing just isn't as much fun without a spritz of Eau Verpriced Remplissage Parfait with hand-pressed oil of siberian violets! Come to think of it, my tiara's looking a bit old-fashioned... Perhaps I can make it into a christmas tree decoration?

affluenza

Indeed, it wouldn't be seen to be mixing with the hoi poloi and sinking down to their level.

They seem to think that credit crunch means cutting back on Foie Gras rather than looking for yellow stickered almost sell by dated meats in Asda.

I very much doubt that the average reader of Vogue would go BR, but I was so intrigued by the 40 thrifty tips highlighted on the cover. The other shoppers were giving me a wide berth and pulling their children close as I was giggling like a loon at the tip for cutting up the old jeans to make deckchair covers...

LilyBart

Hmm... I suspect there may be more BR Vogue readers than you might think. I met a property developer back in the 1980s who did it pretty regularly and still managed to keep a pad in Mayfair and another in the south of France. It wasn't too good for his employees, mind. Perhaps if you go bust to the tune of several million, with a creative solicitor at your elbow, the experience is different?

I'd be more inclined to buy Vogue if they ran features telling you how to fix broken washing machines/cars or how to educate your children not to lose half of their school uniform each term...

affluenza

Prima used to do that, they would give you handy hints and a dress pattern! Whoo hoo - if I buy anything it would be Burda, anyway you can also print off stuff online.

Haven't sewn for while maybe I should get back into it... and now I've totally digressed from library fines and books!

LilyBart

I'd love to learn to sew. Even from a book from the library! (See, got the thread back on track there.) Nothing fancy, just curtains or a skirt.