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Shoe_Gal

Hi Lula

Your Saturday night plans sound fab :j Enjoy

makeup

Lula-Hula wrote: »

I am not tall - 5ft 4" but I have to buy long length trousers & jeans in order for them to look acceptable with boots & heels, makes me wonder where taller people buy theirs .

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xx

Hey Lula,

I think it depends on if you have long legs rather than height. I'm 5'8" but I have short legs (apparently my father is to blame for this.. :rotfl:- according to my mother) so I normally buy regular and have once bought short as I was fed up with the ends of my jeans trailing in the puddles and soaking my legs...the water seems to track up them like litmus paper. They were a touch short for me but not ridiculously so!

sarahb123_3

Lula-Hula wrote: »

I am not tall - 5ft 4" but I have to buy long length trousers & jeans in order for them to look acceptable with boots & heels, makes me wonder where taller people buy theirs .

I have always wondered about this, I am 5'2 ish and always buy M&S long trousers to wear with heels, how on earth can tall people also be buying the same trousers?

Horace

Well I am 5'8 and have to buy M&S long or extra long if I can get them..I have exceptionally long legs..a 32.5" inside leg (gone are the days when I would pinch my dad's trousers..he has a 33" inside leg).

I went shopping in tatco today..now I just use a basket and take two bags with me so that if I cannot lift the basket then I know I have too much. Went in for onions and bought loose ones..assistant on till said.."oh, you can buy a bag of them for a £1), i got a small cabbage, a bag of clementines (apparently I could have had a bag free), a bottle of domestos half price, a box of paxo, a bag of potato chips, a bag of sugar, a newspaper, a carton of juice (I could have had another one too and got 2 for £2 or something like that), 2 bread rolls, and I visited the whoopsie shelf and managed to bag myself a free range chicken for half price...that chicken will make several meals. I was left feeling rather strange at being told about bags of onions for a pound..I live on my own so when am I going to get through 20 odd onions? I then visited the greengrocers next door and bought some loose spuds (real ones with soil on them not those pre-packaged plastic ones) and some vine tomatoes (spent £1.35 in the greengrocers and £13.35 in tatco:eek:).

I have the sniffles too and feel a bit throaty:eek:

Wetlook leggings...sounds naff if you ask me..are you sure the chanel was real and not off some marketstall?:rotfl:

Lula-Hula

sarahb123 wrote: »

I have always wondered about this, I am 5'2 ish and always buy M&S long trousers to wear with heels, how on earth can tall people also be buying the same trousers?

Ahh glad it's not just me then

makeup - i bet you are one of those lucky girls like my sister who although taller than me wears the same length jeans & looks stunning in dresses as she has such a long waist - me, I just look like an upside down cottage loaf

I have spends to declare but first have to shoot over to M&S to return the top I bought yesterday :shhh: ...


back later

Lula-Hula

Not a very MSE day today;

car parking at £2.20, poppies at £4, presents for DDs friend & new school socks for DD £10.33, wine & peanuts at £ 5.94 ... pretty rubbish really & all I want to do is buy new clothes & fabby stuff for the home.

I'm still on the debt busting mission but just feel a bit flat today, town was full of peeps living the consumption dream & I havent been there for while so got swept along by it all & found myself wanting stuff, lots of stuff, any stuff, just let me have stuff pleeeeeeeez

At the back of my mind lurks the uneasy knowledge of not having any real emergency savings ie the 3 months worth of rent, bills etc . I need to work out just how much this should be, not because I can do much about it at the mopment, but at least I should have a figure in my head of the amount I would need.

Now off to drink more wine, eat more chocolate, watch reruns of Buffy & imagine that I can afford to buy new clothes every month ...
:rolleyes:

Shoe_Gal

You have my sympathy Lula :rolleyes: I've been feeling like that recently, I could just spend and spend like everybody else seems to :mad:

Lula-Hula

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

You have my sympathy Lula :rolleyes: I've been feeling like that recently, I could just spend and spend like everybody else seems to :mad:

Thanks for understanding Shoe Gal,

it doesnt help that we are bombarded by advertising - have just seen one by Tatco talking about 'must-have' gifts.

Must-have ? What are they on about :mad:, the only things we humans 'must have' is air to breathe, shelter & food & water to sustain us :rolleyes:

Apologies for the rant but when I see those kind of adverts I just know that they're 'grooming' the next wave of DFWs. No way is a £200 games console a must-have. For the unemployed that's almost a months' income & they are the very people who will be watching the tv, seeing those ads & feeling that they are rubbish parents unless they can provide their children with these 'must-have' gifts.

I hate this kind of agressive advertising that implies that not to have said item means you are a social outcast. The unemployed have enough stigma & negative emotions to cope with already, & in a recession no one needs to hear that an expensive item is a 'must-have' :mad::mad::mad:

rant over

Shoe_Gal

Well said Lula :T:T:T I totally agree

PS: Have just ordered boots from Next Practical, suitable for work type though - and I have over half the cost on a Giftcard from my birthday (and Quidco too of course )

sarahb123_3

I totally agree Lula, it is really hard not to want stuff and the "must have" thing is ridiculous. I find that the only thing that works with me is to just not look. Obviously it is a lot harder if you have children and they are seing all these things advertised.:mad:

You are so right, they are breeding the next generation of DFWers, how I wish I had learned about living within my means, I would be reasonably well off by now. I think if it was a lot harder to get credit a lot of us would have just managed without stuff, it is perfectly doable, even if it is not much fun. When I think of all the worthless crap I have bought over the years I could cry.:o As soon as this is over, hopefully for me that will be this time next year, I am never getting credit again. :mad: