Bad attitude to os?

Greenwellies_2

Wow, what a response!

I honestly don't go in for gossiping, but my neighbours do, whenever I pop to someone's house they're ALL talking about someone else and their downfall.

It's quite surprising, I have lost 2.5st in weight over the last few years, yet none of my neighbours commented on how well I looked. Hubby is looking to re-train to get a new career, yet the neighbours that know all dismiss this idea. Hmmmm I see a pattern here!

This thread has made me realise how shallow they all are, and that I will hold my head up and shop where I am happy to.


Thanks everyone

Greenwellies

calleyw

I can tell quality. So would know that it was not an Asda special. But that does not mean it is designer or suggest designer to me.

But quality does not always equal designer and designer does not always equal quality no matter what the price range.

Anyone who is good seamstress and bought expensive material could run up quality items. But that does not make them designer.

I mean rigby and peller are not designer but I know there underwear is good. I mean I believe the Queen buys from there. So they have to be good.

That was the point I was making about not being able to tell designer clothes from anything else.

I mean when they sell CK underwear in TK Maxx or Matlan you know that it is not designer any more. Rather like Burberry don't care what the price would not touch it with a barge pole. And everyone can now afford to buy Joop etc hardly what I would call designer aftershaves any more.

When it hits the mass market it is not designer. And one reason why I will not buy as the quality is no better than Asda specials.

I today saw Versace makeup items. Selling for a £1 each. The outside of the packaging was just so horrible. So if anyone pulled them out hoping to impress me. I would have just thought it was just cheap tat :rotfl:

But it is about value money. If I found something that I would wear to death and would last me a life time and cost £1000 and I had the money I would buy it. But in the highstreet it is about fashion so it only needs to last a few months.

Mind you fancy some handmade shoes though. Might cost a bit but would last a lifetime. Right where is my lottery ticket.


Yours


Calley

astonsmummy

well i'm known as the 'bag lady', i even have a designated carrier bag drawer in my kitchen, so i just use them if i ever go into lidl, which is not that often as i think some of their food tastes funny, coz basically i think its a cheek that you have to pay for carrier bags!

jobbingmusician

The richest people I know spend very little money, and would be delighted to shop in Aldi, Lidl or Netto.

I am proud to shop in Lidl because the food is so good, and excellent value. I am ashamed to pay 'over the odds' for goods - why not buy them at the cheapest place possible? In fact if you live by very strict morals I think it's your DUTY to do that, and give the money saved to charity!

Smiley_Mum

I recall when I was a teenager, Kicker boots were all the rage. Now they came in this yellow and black bag with black handles etc, now this was the in thing to take your school books etc to school in. Not a school bag which cost as much as Kicker boots, a yellow and black plastic bag!!!

KittyKate

I happily shop in Poundland and get a good many bargains there but I won't compromise on quality (and maybe that's why I'm a pretty bad new OS-er). I don't like Lidl food, simple as that. I lived off the stuff when I was at Uni and it wasn't nice. The steaks were low grade, the chips all had eyes and the veg was wilted. The chickens were clearly old and had never seen the light of day (lesions all over the skin).The butter was oily, the orange juice watery and everything was just a misery to eat. I don't spend a great deal more at tesco, maybe £20 a month (which I appreciate is not a tiny amount but worth it) and the difference in quality is easy (for me) to taste. I don't get branded products where others will do (Tesco baked beans, frozen goods etc). I don't consider myself to be a snob at all and I'd happily shop in Lidl but I hate the food. If I lost my job or something, I'd shop in Lidl though. Live to your means

Bargain_Rzl

KittyKate - like most other shops, Lidl has good stuff and bad stuff. I have snobby German friends who wouldn't be seen dead buying anything that wasn't top quality, and yet they swear by the German sausages and chocs from Lidl.

There's a thread over on the Shop but Don't Drop board about what is worth buying and what isn't.

Personally I wouldn't be without the pasta and rice, mozzarella, and some of the fruit and veg. As good as if not better than Tesco, and quite a bit cheaper.

Am also a fan of the coffee-cream chocolate

smokey112

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

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Am also a fan of the coffee-cream chocolate

Sorry to be OT but coffee-cream chocolate ....mmnnh never noticed that in Lidl before.. coffee cream is my fave.


back OT...I will shop where I want to shop ...I dont give a fig for what my neighbours or anyone else thinks.

Must have been a snob when I was younger..was in Harrods when I was 14 and bought a pint of milk to get a Harrods bag.

Ang
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moggins

The only thing I have bought from Harrods are silk stockings, it's the cheapest place to get real silk ones from Even the lingerie shop in Salisbury are dearer than Harrods for those.

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os shopping isn`t just about food. I love aldi for the quality, price and speed in which I can get around and out. I use hemp shopping bags so I can do a bit towards saving the planet. It is about being strong enough to be yourself and not a designer sheep

We paid cash for a new skoda octavia 4x4 and it stands here at home sandwiched in between a lexus and a jag convertable belonging to some neighbours. We are who we are and don`t need to prove anything to anyone and no-one dislikes us because of this

I have never cared about wearing labels and I am reaping the rewards now, later in life because I saved. It is the pennies that count ,so long live aldi and lidl and skoda