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

supersmith

Hey all

Happy birthday for yesterday verynewmoneysaver! Hope you had a lovely day :beer:
Your OH sounds lovely morocha, buying you shoes! Hope you don't get poorly before your hols *fingers crossed*

flickering ember - what course are you applying for??

hello tlb2408 and stroppy jock

tsk tsk Nglady, can you save up a few returns to take them back all at once (in time of course) so you can save on bus fare?

Good luck with your being frugal Lady V

hello souk, anglea, polly, have enjoyed reading your posts

Well it was pay day for me yesterday and I had to go into town as I completely ran out of toiletories (on purpose, trying to use up some) - but I was saved by feeling really rough Bought a birthay present for my friend £4, toiletories £20, paracetamol and a snack £1.20. However before that I spent £3.75 on lunch, and I spent £4 on food to take round my friends house for a girly night, but had to bow out early as I was feeling ill home and to bed for me. So total about £33 of which I would say £7.75 was un-necessary, the rest was essential so not terrible.

I now have a little purse just for my clothes spends this month - £30! Am also saving up from my weekly money if I don't spend it all but might put it towards a haircut instead of clothes as I really need one! (mop top)

Reading all about the new clothes on this thread is now making me want to spend my clothes money all at once :rotfl: Couldn't be bothered to go to any clothes shops yesterday cos feeling ill but am now looking online at asos at pretty dresses... don't think my money will go far on there, need some real bargains lol

Anglea

Hi girls,

I bet you are enjoying your shopping days with your OH Morocha

Flickering E - what are you planning to buy as you mentioned spending tomorrow?
Supersmith - are you feeling any better? Shame you had to go home early.

NGlady - one aspect about all your buying/returns is that it keeps you active The reason I don't have the types of clothes I want is because I couldn't be doing it - getting the bus and buying clothes then having to return them - I can't bear that type of hassle. Obviously you don't see it as annoying -- do you enjoy it then? Or do you just like getting away from home and having time away, eating out etc?

joesaunt

stroppyjock wrote: »

Ref #1283, Christmas in Tesco, had my Christmas day shop, wine, beer turkey etc etc and because my daughter, who was 18 but had no ID they would not sell me the alchohol. Left the full shop on the conveyor belt and walked out.

Nice one, but why wouldn't they sell it to you?

NGlady

Hi Angela,
Never thought that about the returns keeping me active. It does give me something to do. I certainly don't mind doing the returns I think you are right though I love getting out of the house and having something to eat and just a wonder round, i'm going to go onto the bus timetable website and the train website in a bit and see where I could possibly go just to get out of the house for a bit that doesnt nec involve shoppping

Littlechicken - recieved "save Karyn" thankyouu Will be posting yours tomorrow.

Im not going out tonight now ive come down with the sickness bug thats going around at the minute
Ok so todays spends as I doubt ill be spending anything else
£2.50 buses
£5.50 eye brows
£0.99 magazine
£3.49 on a couple of bits that I needed
Mum gave me a donation to the fund of £3 lol.
therefore total spends £9.48

Pmsl was talking to an ex last night on plenty of fish, weve recently started talking again. And some how ive managed to presuade the fella to take me to see alice in wonderland feed me sweet popcorn, this all stemmed from me telling him im going for my nightly hot chocolate and he wanted some :S Just need to find a courier to post to Wales now or wait until hes back in Sheffield to send it to him lol.

Hopefully now ive recieved Save Karyn I can have a MSD or a NSD tomorrow

Well thats me Off to get comfortable read my book and milk the sympathy for being poorly

Anglea

NGlady - you poor, poor, poor old thing (is that sympathy enough:) )

So you're sending up the hot chocolate to the ex?

On that subject I was really annoyed I bought a tub of HC the other day for DS and yesterday evening poured in the hot water only to discover it was the sort you added to hot milk! so had to pour the cup down the sink. I told him we didn't have enough milk to do it properly that night.

Later I'm on the computer and think I smell burning, go downstairs and nothing in sight, no toast crumbs etc. So go back upstairs, but the smell is stronger. So I ask if he's done anything and he's saying no. Of course I finally discover what it is - a saucepan in the sink - yes he boiled up the milk!

NGlady - I doubt there is anywhere you wouldn't end up buying something.

CompletelyLost

stroppyjock wrote: »

Completlylost, eh dont you think you've missed an opportunity by not filling out a public profile on this site? I browsed so my thinkings are so would others. Go get em!!

MSE as a dating site never occured to me... I reckon any men who read my posts will run a mile when they see what a spender I am :rotfl:Not that I'm a golddigger or anything :S

LadyV1983 wrote: »

Completely Lost: You sound so lovely and bubbly on this thread I can't believe your so shy

I am though. Guess it's easier to type things on a forum where noone knows who I am sad but true...

NGlady wrote: »

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

Oooh I think I saw that bag, was it ruffle-y? I think they had it in brown, nude & black.

ThinkingOfLinking

I was a bad girl today but this has been my FIRST shopping trip of the year, a day to myself.

I spent: £3 on a burger (ostrich, mmm!), £1.65 on a piece of cake and 25p on a can of Tango for lunch, then 27p for another canned drink and 49p for a pasta thing for a meal at home.

I tried on loads of dresses but didn't buy any.

I spent £12.90 in Primark on PJs and undies for me (have NO white underwear at ALL and need white for some of my summer gear) as well as a T shirt as a pressie for someone else. I then spent £8 on a PJ set for myself from New Look which I do need as I have no short sets, and £35 on a Stella McCartney for Gap Kids jumper for myself to replace the old jumper I binned yesterday plus the fact I was already low on jumpers and this is a bright one, well it is stripey
Then I went to Tesco and spent £35, although that DOES include a litre of Baileys for £10...and will last for AGES as it included essentials such as margerine, milk, pasta...
SO that's me done and I am having a NSD tomorrow, minimum spend on Saturday and NSD from Sunday for as many days as I can.

Anglea

Ostrich burger - yuk, I couldn't have ate that So you had a bit of a spend up too LOL

I've had NSD's last two days as haven't been out.

Souk08

Small spend today of a pint for me and a mate! Going to tube out to a free museum tomorrow with him then got a date tomorrow night. X

Anglea

Have a good time Souk