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

CompletelyLost

Happy Mothers Day to all of you who are mums.

Frogletina - I assumed you were the same age as me & NG. Didn't realise you were older (well I'm guessing you are if you have 4 older children)

KFC... Zinger chicken is my absolute favourite food on the planet. I try not to eat it too often though, mainly because I begrudge paying £4.39 for the meal :S I know... I'm the queen of stinge when it comes to eating out.

My March spends came to £90.34, £44 of which was on clothes/accessories which I have kept.

The bad part - £203 returns! Bad month for internet ordering. Though tbf I'm in dire need of trousers and can only get my length online most of the time, so I order loads of different ones but unfortunately not even one of them fitted this time! :mad:

I forgot what my aims for next month were! I'll have to look back on my past posts to remind myself.

Frogletina

Hi C L

I've 3 children - two girls and a boy, son is the middle one. Yes, one thing about these forums is that you only get clues as to how old people are.

Still, my mother always said - don't socialise with people because they are the same age as you, only with those who have the same interests. It's something I have never forgotten and has stood me in good stead.

Most of my friends are younger than me, as well as the muse, who is only ..

Frogletina

ziggles50

Haha Frogletina...nice...me myself i am a lover of older gentlemen as well as middle aged ladies old enough to be my mum (as friends)...i am drawn to them and they to me...probably because i am a boring old fart really! lol ;-)

Anglea

Hi all

I had written a nice long post this afternoon to you all but had to switch off the computer in a hurry and lost it as I was extremely late due to very long phone calls.

So only a quickie now. Bet you are relieved for that.

CL, what can I say..........returns.........

Frogletina I'm glad you had a lovely day.

So how old did you say the muse was ?????

Ziggy - what was the sexual innuendo you deleted ?????????????

Frogletina

Anglea wrote: »

Frogletina I'm glad you had a lovely day.

So how old did you say the muse was ?????

Ziggy - what was the sexual innuendo you deleted ?????????????

I did say how old (young) the muse was, but then changed my mind;)

As to Ziggles sexual innuendo, well I didn't notice it (not sure how I could have missed it), so can't comment.

NGlady2

Hey all

Know what you mean about being online, kind of without realising it building a picture of who somebody is? For example, I think Anglea is in her late 40s from what shes wrote on here. CL i think you are possibly a little younger than me, maybe 19/20. I cant believe im officially in my mid 20s on my next bday!!

Know what you mean about older men - I am an older man woman. Generally, with exception of my other half whose 5 years older, I always tend to go for guys with a 10ish year age gap. Probably go for older men cos I have older sisters who obviously brought bfs home etc so i kind of grew up with it. Shock here for u - when I was 19 I dated a 41 yr old for a couple of weeks lol.

Anglea

Hi all

NGlady I am older than you believe (but still managing to be younger than Madonna LOL) and I'm very young at heart.

41 year old and you were 19 - hmmmm I wonder what Freud would say about that?

When I was 19 I had a b/f of 29, however the strangest part was that he was on the run from the police so we had some very unusual dates to say the least!

ziggles50

Hi guys...well we are a mixed bunch aren't we...Just goes to show age aint nuthin but a number ;-)
I'm sure Frogletina asaid the muse was in his mid 20's in an earlier post!

As for the innuendo- i was saying how i liked older gents and ladies- and it made me sort of sound like a bisexual with a penchant for geriatrics...or is that my very dirty mind!

Anglea- a man on the run from the cops!!! Really?? That's crazy!

Anglea

Hi all

Ziggles, LOL A good churchgoer like you thinking something like that. That reminds me - Lent Challenge?

Re the b/f. I used to have an extremely adventurous life

That's probably one of the reasons I have a shopping compulsion because life is very quiet in comparison and I can get a bit of excitement choosing between a book I don't need and a pair of misfit jeans :rotfl:

CompletelyLost

Evening ladies,

Am I really the youngest here?! I always feel like the old fuddy-duddy of the group. I'm 23 NG, so I guess we're pretty much the same age? I get on better with older people anyway... I'm an 80yr old trapped in a young(ish) person's body! I feel quite boring when I read about all your exciting love lives, past and present. My life has been quite mundane so far in comparison

Today I bought some jeans and they fit perfectly. So what's the problem, you ask?? Well they don't match anything else that I own :mad: And I can't take them back as I took the hem down to make them longer.

I'm fed up with clothes (I keep saying this and yes I know you wouldn't think it, with the amount of stuff I buy). I think I should just not buy anything, or look at clothing web sites, for an entire month, and maybe my enjoyment of clothes shopping will return??? Maybe if I put myself in a situation where I'm not allowed to buy at all, I'll start to wear the stuff that I've collected in my wardrobe?! I do have things, they're just not exactly perfect on me, if that makes sense. Though I'm sure people wouldn't look at me and think I look bad if I actually wore them...

I must say that today I bought something from my list of 'Things I Avoid Buying But Desperately Need'-List!!!!! :j:j A desk! I found it in a charity shop. £25 well spent, I just have to find someone big and strong to help me to lift it upstairs with me

edit to add - I didn't realise how long my post was. oops.