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

we_shop_therefore_we_are

Hi guys,

Apologies - just dropping in, not had a chance to read back. No clothes spends this week which is amazing (apart from an ebay spend last Sunday which was money neutral as I sold a cardigon on there).

Still going with daily blog update- focus on writing not spending! But it's quite hard to keep going. Please do feel free to add comments on the blog and let me know what you think - any feedback is good, if it can help other people just look and not buy that's a good thing!

So far this week I've been talked out of an M&S leather jacket (down to less than £100) that I thought I wanted - people left comments saying they thought the sleeve design was bad. That made me realise it wasn't worth the money.

Hope to hear from you.
xx

morocha

hi, gone into town.. did some shopping...

£5 in New Look (2 tops)
£ 9 in Claires ( 5 things for £5 and a £4 bag for DD )
£5 in Superdrug ( 2 nail varnish + 1 face mask )
£3 single bus ticket...
£ 2 Pound shop ( 2 waters+ 1 packet of sweets)
£2 Subway ( 1 Ham sandwich )

TOTAL £26

Amazing how evetyhing adds up.

Anglea

Hi girls

You're all quiet today, busy shopping ????

NGlady - you're on a date then seeing friends if I remember correctly. Hope you tell us all your news tomorrow. Your bloke is beginning to sound like James Bond to me - with all the treats .

Morocha, you're right, £26 did add up fast, I was looking at your list and it didn't seem as though it would be that price at all.Are you feeling any better as in your other post you said you had been unwell?

Weshop - I laughed at your comment that you were talked out of buying a jacket. What happens if you had got replies to buy it I wonder?

Completelylost - you were ultra good when you went out with your family shopping. Are you ill?

I stayed in today, garden and mowing. Although I did want to go up the shops but couldn't get the motivation to get myself ready and as I'd been up there 4 times in the week already thought chores would be a better idea.This evening I did loads of excercises which might have been a bad idea on top of the gardening. I might be swearing tomorrow LOL

CompletelyLost

I'm around, just lurking
But yes... I must be ill, there's no other explanation. Or perhaps trying to make up for all those crazy-spend months I've had recently? I'm not sure... but I had another MSD today. Just £2.30 on a takeaway.

Ooh one thing I hate doing is gardening so well done for doing it! Hope you're not too achey tomorrow though :S

we_shop_therefore_we_are

Morning,

Went into town yesterday and only bought some conditioner. The trick is to take your dad with you - too much guilt involved in asking him to wait around outside clothes shops!

Yep, the downside of the blog is that sometimes people say definitely buy something. But by the time I've written it up and thought about it, I've moved onto something else!

xx

Anglea

You two have done well, a MSD day and only a bottle of conditioner.

I've gone fitness crazy and done loads of excs indoors plus ex bike as well as going on a walk. No ill effects from gardening thank goodness.

I haven't bought anything for myself in ages - unheard of..

velocity.girl_2

thinking of you today NGLady, how did it go? i bet you were awesome!!!

nothing to report here...i spent £373 today, all in Ikea...all on furniture we needed as we haven't got anything in the front room and been here 18 months. Was blokes money, felt good to shop lol!!! but least it was all stuff we needed.

nothing else brought, got food shop coming tomorrow but that's ALL essentials...
nothing else to declare.lol

Souk08

Hey all SOOO skint with this 5 week month. Can't wait for payday (Thursday). Had to use the dreaded CC to have a life this last few days but was getting really down sitting in alone so going to a play tomorrow, a mates for dinner Wed and a show on Thursday (Mum and Dad bought the ticket ages ago) and having work girlies Sat. Gay mate cooked me tea tonight too. it was fun. Have been a bit of a hermit this year and it stops now!

Debtbustingbear

Hi ladies and gents

Please could I join you? I have been working my way through this thread for the last week and a half and have lost count of the number of times I have said out loud "my god that's me!".

Hubby and I have decided that we now have to get our finances under control after spending nearly every weekend of our time together (8 and half years) going shopping. Unfortunately/fortunately I have one of the few men in the country who enjoys shopping and he can choose better clothes for me than me in fact.

I have just had my last shopping trip for a while (for my birthday) and think you were all following me around the shops whispering "do you need it?" "where are you going to wear it?" etc as out of the £150 budget I had been given I only managed to spend £80. This is unheard of for me!!!!!

Thanks to salesaddict for posting originally - it really has come at just the right time for me to get my head sorted.

Anglea

Well done Debtbusting B, for spending less than normal since finding us, and welcome to the gang :wave:

Any other vices - crisps, fizzy drinks, yoghurt covered banana chips, magazines?