Reformed shopaholic? please can you give me the benefit of your advice

NGlady

Hi all im back from town, shall be needing lots of vertual wine and sympathy later on when i divulge everything!

ThinkingOfLinking

Well: Spent £9 just now on my UCAS application...but that doesn't really count.

Also have a £50 cheque to pay into the bank tomorrow.

Anglea

Hi girls,

NGlady - I dread to think what you will be telling us LOL

Souk - sending your virtual headache tablets. Now it's my turn to ask - what is stickered lamb that you stick in the SC? :rotfl:

verynewmoneysaver

Went to the city with my friend as i had a £20 gift voucher from my sister for my birthday (today). Was looking for a grey cardigan but didn't see one I liked. Did see one on the web site though when I got back. Had to put a bit extra towards it though.

Anglea

Is grey the in colour these days as I've read other mentions of grey cardigans on here in the past?

Souk08

My cheapo lamb is in the Slow Cooker in case you were wondering!!!

Anglea

SC = slow cooker. Thanks I was wondering what on earth you were talking about LOL

NGlady

Angela, nice to see we're educating you
Lady V - I brought them from Chesterfield hon, in the main town centre there was a market stall for chain store clothing. Bet you would get them from any of the big markets too There lurvely
Littlechicken - your book shall be posted on Friday.

Right... onto pressing matters lol.
First off, returned them two dresses I brought from Tescos the other day.
returned that pink dress from last week
total returns = 30.00

I have brought a couple of things to be honest that I can justify but also something that I really DONT need and as a concquence will pobs be going back

So first off: Returned dress to Oasis but had to have an exchange (brought from Debs concession) £11 paid
Saw a shrug on Coast website - brought it, its a nice cornfield blue colour but i now think it cuts in the most unattractive place. £12 - to be returned.
Had a bit of a spend in Primark, Primark is my new vice used to hate the place. Brought a largeish bag in a nude colour which will be perfect for anything such as going to work/shopping etc as its not tooo big but not too small £9 will keep.
Brought also from Primark. Joggy bottoms £3 to be exchanged for size bigger hoodie £5 (both needed for my nightly walking im tying to get back into doing this spring, did it tonight ) brought a dress for £5 which doesnt fit, to be returned.
Got to the bus station too early this morn so had to spend £2.50 in the cafe waiting bus was £4.80 and dinner was in yates a lovely curry meal deal for £4.95

So expenditure: a wopping £57.55
Possible refunds £17 :O

So far this week I have spent a wopping £110. . . And this will only get worse as ive got a date tomorrow last nights didnt happen lol. Also I am despo for my eyebrows done so I think this is going to be one very expensive week, If I have a NSD on Friday I dont expect much change from £140 :O So basically, I need to hope and pray I have a typical Easter with lots of NSDs to make some of the fundage back up.

Had a think today, one of my biggest problems is this returning clothes lark, even if I dont replace the items with other items, its still several pounds on the bus and then several pounds for a snack or something!

God it still suprises me what I class as wopping now compaired to the past. Really wish that I had of kept notes of what I had spent each day back then to compaire to now, as in the past I wouldnt have thought twice about it. I am going to keep my spend dairy going when I get back into work Also I am going to at the end of the four week period make some pretty graphs about what I have spent on things I need to buy and what ive spent on lets face it crap!

Oooo btw finished the "in the red" book it was pretty good, didnt like the way it ended though. Didnt think it was very in the spirit of the book to hint at the end shes buying some shoes! All in all good read Look forward to recieving saving Karyn

ThinkingOfLinking

Found another 5 books to list on Greenmetropolis.com and used 4 freebie sachets of body lotions from magazines on my dry skin earlier...

Tomorrow's going to be a bit of a spendy one.

morocha

Hi ya... went to River Island yesterday and bought the most gorgeous suede leather shoes you can think of ... £25 my oh paid for those and still i have another £25 to go.... hehehe.... then went to Tesco and abought a lovely black knee length mac, i dont have one, so good buy £15
That was all and i am very happy.. the problem tho is that i want a handbag that i saw on River Island now ... decisions, decisions !... anyway oh will pay for that, i still have £25 left but it is hard !