Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't believe I just read that .... I can't believe somebody wrote that ... I can't believe that is somebody's real life.

Good lord. I hope I don't meet people like her when I move .... I'd be too brutally straight with her.

£800 to look good. That's a fortune in a year, never mind EVERY month! That's a whole month's salary for thousands of people ... fc ... will I be expected to spend £800/month looking good when I move??? I hope not

She really needs a slap with some reality. Real reality, not her version.

No...not many like her around our way...but there are some. I have a met a few through work.

Actually, I know a man version and I am mighty peed off with him as he owes us ££ (invoice is late despte him receiving ££ already) and I know what he wasted his companys cash on.
Double actually, we will have extremely MSE meetups if it doesn't come through....like a trip to a museum (are they still free?) so we have somewhere to drink from our flasks. I am not kidding eiher.:o


I didn't want to be rude and personal to her...hence the quote and the pic.....so poeple could draw their own conclusions.
I cannot believe she looks like that after all the work and injections TBH.

Don't worry PN you won't 'need' to spend more than you do now....I will research the hair costs so you can decide whether to or not. ....but it's the time factor with the supervised trainee cuts.

Yes..this is someones life...funny world isn't it?

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

we will have extremely MSE meetups if it doesn't come through....like a trip to a museum (are they still free?) so we have somewhere to drink from our flasks. I am not kidding eiher.:o

I don't know, I've never been to a museum. But I will be compiling a list of free things to do ... and if they're on there I'm going. I figure I can walk too from where I will be.

fc123 wrote: »

Don't worry PN you won't 'need' to spend more than you do now....I will research the hair costs so you can decide whether to or not. ....but it's the time factor with the supervised trainee cuts.

Yes..this is someones life...funny world isn't it?

I need to have my hair done in the next 2 weeks, so before I arrive. Under normal circumstances that would mean it wouldn't need doing again for another 3-4 months. I'm sure roots showing isn't a faux pas these days ... is it? I'll need a new rule book.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know, I've never been to a museum. But I will be compiling a list of free things to do ... and if they're on there I'm going. I figure I can walk too from where I will be.


I need to have my hair done in the next 2 weeks, so before I arrive. Under normal circumstances that would mean it wouldn't need doing again for another 3-4 months. I'm sure roots showing isn't a faux pas these days ... is it? I'll need a new rule book.

No ....roots can add depth.;) I try not to have colour done more than twice a year as it's not good for the scalp..all those scary chemicals, but easy for me as i have very MSE hair that doesn't grow fast.

I wouldn't worry too much about appearance at first...I can take you out people sightseeing if you like? We could sit on benches with our foil wrapped sarnies, flasks and rollies....and just sit and look. It's one of my fave things.;)

Museums are great to have a meet up in as they are warm, calm with lovely architecture and you can wander about, chatter, look at stuff , not look at stuff and if the converstation slows, just admire the million year old fossil of a crocodile or something.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know, I've never been to a museum. But I will be compiling a list of free things to do ... and if they're on there I'm going. I figure I can walk too from where I will be.


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V + A is just the best and Natural History, I think, in Sth Ken. I used to take kids to Science museum a lot as it was free and they loved it.

mystic_trev

JanCee wrote: »

£800 per month on her appearance and thats what she looks like!!! Good grief I actually feel sorry for the woman, she has been robbed.

Agreed she could save £799.95p by buying a brown paper bag to stick over her head. It would make her much more attractive and be very MSE

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

...I can take you out people sightseeing if you like? We could sit on benches with our foil wrapped sarnies, flasks and rollies....and just sit and look. It's one of my fave things.;)

Museums are great to have a meet up in as they are warm, calm with lovely architecture and you can wander about, chatter, look at stuff , not look at stuff and if the converstation slows, just admire the million year old fossil of a crocodile or something.

Both those sound brilliant. Can we find this Liz bird's house/s and sit opposite there with our sandwiches ... it'd be a bit like our own Location, Location, Location programme, but without the budget and having to make it up from the outside.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Both those sound brilliant. Can we find this Liz bird's house/s and sit opposite there with our sandwiches ... it'd be a bit like our own Location, Location, Location programme, but without the budget and having to make it up from the outside.

Its not in London anymore though!

re the pearls comment, it makes me sad. Tht her appreciating of the ''pearls'' was dented by their value after SHE had believed they were real for so long is what confuses me. It is worth spending money on somethings if the uality makes a difference to you: if you can't tell......my husband would shrug nd use the Itlian expresion ''bo'' which is all I really feel up to as well so

bo..........

JanCee

She was only living on jobseekers allowance for a week for a newspaper article. If the pearls were given to her by her father and they had such sentimental value then she shouldn't have been trying to sell/pawn them.

I have always enjoyed reading her columns in the MOS but I am beginning to think that she is no different to Katie Price, Kerry Katona et al, selling every detail of their lives to make a quick buck.

SingleSue

I ruined my parents paper when reading this.....don't think the paper is salvageable after copious amounts of tea has been spat all over it.

dopester

JanCee wrote: »

If the pearls were given to her by her father and they had such sentimental value then she shouldn't have been trying to sell/pawn them.

It was only a week or so ago she revealed she had to wait outside one museum entrance because her parents hadn't been able to afford that extra entrance expense on her school trip.

Even if it was an 18 year old birthday gift, unless their circumstances changed drastically I can't see the father having bought fancy pearls for her, when the imitation ones seemed to be passable as real.

At least he bought her something, which as you point out, she didn't seem to value for the memory and was happy to try and pawn.

And I knew now how hard that must have been, how guilty they would have felt - just like those mothers in Primark trying to eke out the best they could for their children.

Primark.. the poverty.. the shame.. the guilt. :rolleyes: