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

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

PPS; due to snow causing all sorts of delays workwise I am delaying my road trip until Feb.

OK, Feb it is! I'm definitly not around first weekend though...

vivatifosi

fc123 wrote: »

Thanks Lir....I remember Astrakan coats (also called Persian Lamb) from when we dealt in vintage clothing...didn't think it existed still.

Wasn't Astrakhan a brand-name fake at one point (50s?) and Persian Lamb the real thing? I remember I had both when I collected vintage clothes and was mortified when I found out one was real. Now I've read where it comes from I'm even more shocked. I'd never knowingly wear fur. Can't believe its back again.

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

Wasn't Astrakhan a brand-name fake at one point (50s?) and Persian Lamb the real thing? I remember I had both when I collected vintage clothes and was mortified when I found out one was real. Now I've read where it comes from I'm even more shocked. I'd never knowingly wear fur. Can't believe its back again.

Astrakan as the name we gave to those 50's coats that were made of a soft canvas with wiggly viscose/acrylic/ something synthetic glued onto it.........to look like the real thing...Persian Lamb.

You could tell the difference between the real thing as one was soft, much finer 'wiggles', very lush with an expensive lining, the other smelt rank, had a cheap brocade import lining and the wiggles used to peel off and so it could end up looking like a crustys hair style in places.

I did have a real one and had no idea it was unborn lamb at the time.

In vintage, we sold plenty of old animal items but some types people wouldn't buy.....like dead foxes as scarves or mink earrings (we used to call them catsball earrings).

The textile waste yard had tonnes of old fur items..they would be graded and shipped to Eastern Europe years ago.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

...I must practise my writing as she earns £450kpa... That deff deserves one of these :eek:

Blimey. I read £450kpa as meaning:
Year 1: Take home £272k, buy small place cash £200k
Year 2: Take home £272k, shove £200k in pension fund
Year 3: Take home £272k, buy bigger place for £400k after selling 1st place
Year 4: Take home £272k, shove £200k in pension fund
Year 5: Take home £272k, shove £200k in pension fund

Now, at this point, you have £600k in a pension fund, a £400k home paid for in cash ... rest of your life's going to be just joy joy joy ... surely!

BitterAndTwisted

Don't be daft PasturesNew! The sort of person who buys cashmere blankies for her cats to sleep on wouldn't have a penny to put into any pension-fund. In any case, right up until the week before last buying ever more expensive properties on borrowed money was seen as a pension-fund

poppy10_2

In her latest missive she sets out what she owes:

Liz Jones: I've come clean about my debts

Just how much of a financial hole am I in? I tell you the following in the hope your own money worries will seem delightfully trivial.

I have a £15,000 overdraft limit at NatWest and a £8,000 limit at Santander. I also owe £19,000, £10,000, £1,000 and £12,000 (please don't make me add them all up) on various credit cards, a £50,000 bank loan and a mortgage so huge I can't bring myself to write it down.

I'll add it up for you, Liz. That's £23,000 in overdraft, £42,000 on credit cards, and a £50,000 bank loan, making £115,000 in unsecured lending. Plus your mortgage.

Mind you, back in November she said she owed £150,000 in loans and credit cards, so either she's been a very good DFW recently, or she isn't coming quite as clean as she is making out. I somehow doubt it's the former.

The other day, I discovered I had £2,596 to go before I hit my limit but instead of thinking 'Oh dear, I'm nearly £13,000 in the red', I thought: 'Hoorah! I can go to Sweaty Betty and buy a £100 pair of Stella McCartney trainers!' Madness, I know. But I have become so used to being in debt I see the overdraft facility as my money.

fc123

Trumpton started another thread but I thought I would add link to the old one that Poppy10 bumped up.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1254474/The-overdraft-generation-With-red-LIZ-JONES-comes-clean-debt-mountain.html


I am a bit out of touch with LJ as have only been reading her diary in MOS....and it's been the usual 'I want to meet a man stuff' plus some interesting animal tales. She also seems compelled to mention Brazilian waxes every 2 weeks which reads wrong IMO. Yes we do do them but we don;t tell everyone about them
Some things in life should be a surpirse.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If she does do a Z Celeb Martin Lewis debt makeover, then she could start Ebaying all her designer tat and join the Ebay challenge thread.

I just looked for some other poignant quotes but the last line of her article is the bestest bit.

Above all, stop being passive. Take control. Life is too short to be scared.

mrscmr

ummmm sorry... who are all these people having brazillians every 2 weeks????? um not me...

fc123

mrscmr wrote: »

ummmm sorry... who are all these people having brazillians every 2 weeks????? um not me...

:hello::hello::hello: Hi Mrscmr...what you doing here?
OMG I just realised I haven't twittered to day......it has been such a bad day...I have had a total fabric nightmare. All my own fault. I just couldn't write anything positive on Twitter at all.......esp as I have a new follower. Would sound totally wrong.


I did a you...I stood in front of the mirror and shouted at myself '' WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU STUPID FC123.....You are meant to be LIVING BY YOUR SIG...DON'T RUSH INTO THINGS AND NEVER EVER TRUST A UK TEXTILE MERCHANT....GET A BLUDDY SWATCH BEFORE YOU RUSH INTO PRODUCTION''

I may have to go and have a brazilian this week just for punishment.:rotfl:

fc123

mrscmr wrote: »

ummmm sorry... who are all these people having brazillians every 2 weeks????? um not me...

They are quite hard to do in an MSE way. I taught OH how to do them but he used to get distracted.