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

salesaddict

CompletelyLost wrote: »

Thanks for letting me know that - I always thought it was 50p for amounts under £50, but they must have changed it recently.


I'd say that's fate -- it wasn't meant to be. Or someone *up there* is trying to tell you something... maybe... not that I'm religious. Okay I'm rambling, but what I'm trying to say is that it's good that you left it when it was £39. That's progress. I wish I had done the same yesterday.

Thanks for your kind comments. You know we all have good days and bad days too. You today me tomorrow maybe?:)

NGlady

I did sort of live "in the sticks" for a long time, buses used to end at nine pm - never any on a sunday... no shops apart from a takeaway a co-op and a fruit shop... i don't particually live central now, but least im on the city bus routes, still have to take two buses most places I go though. It's so annoying, I would kill for a stint of living in the city!

CompletelyLost

We live in a large town... about 20 miles from two large cities. Our town has a high street though a lot of it has closed down so it's pretty dead - but there are still enough places for me to go in and be tempted (Debenhams, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, Boots, etc etc).

Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in the countryside, away from all the noise and people. There's always internet shopping.

Mags30

salesaddict wrote: »

If it's not too personal Mags, I think you said you live alone. Do you get lonely? Don't answer if I am being too intrusive.

No very rarely, I like living alone, I like having a quiet house to come home to after work. But I never spend full days in the house alone. If I have a day off mid-week I'll always go out for lunch and to the shops. I spend weekends at my mother's house out the country so I'm never alone at weekends. I haven't always lived alone but I've always had this shopping habit so I don't think it's related to being lonely. I like looking good and being fashionable and that sort of requires shopping.

salesaddict wrote: »

The thought of moving out to the middle of the country with no shops or people around scares the s**t out of me. It's what my dh would love to do. He would live on a desert island if he could. It would not bother him if he never saw another soul. Can't think what we have in common really:)

In the city there are loads of people around but mostly they don't talk to each other anyway. If you lived in the country you probably wouldn't be more than an hours drive from a city or shopping centre and you could still shop online.

Mags30

NGlady wrote: »

I did sort of live "in the sticks" for a long time, buses used to end at nine pm - never any on a sunday... no shops apart from a takeaway a co-op and a fruit shop... i don't particually live central now, but least im on the city bus routes, still have to take two buses most places I go though. It's so annoying, I would kill for a stint of living in the city!

CompletelyLost wrote: »

Sometimes I think it would be nice to live in the countryside, away from all the noise and people. There's always internet shopping.

Ye have just reminded me how lucky I am. I actually have the best of both worlds spending my weeks in the city and weekends in the country. Driving is essential for living in the country though.

joesaunt

salesaddict wrote: »

I love red anything. I think it is the best colour. I have beautiful red satin shoes that I recently bought and when the weather improves I am going to wear them to work, as I never go out anywhere much anyway and I don't care if I look over dressed:):)

I had the shoes to match too, I love red, doesn't me as much as I would like, but nothing wrong with a red pair of shoes or bag.

I also had a phase of loving beaded evening bags :think: Never will understand why, I think it was the insecurity, bl00dy ex!

joesaunt

Mags30 wrote: »

Ye have just reminded me how lucky I am. I actually have the best of both worlds spending my weeks in the city and weekends in the country. Driving is essential for living in the country though.

I live out in the sticks, the village has one shop/Post office and one pub! I work in a town so am able to see civilisation Monday to Friday. I avoid shops if I can in my lunchbreak as they are too busy, I usually catch up on work at lunchtime as I spend most of the day on this forum :eek:

At the weekends, I don't really want to go shopping now, I can't afford it and since August I have realised how much I spent and wasted on material things. My son is growing (16 years) and needs new clothes, I am saving so I can get him some.

I love the village life, people say hello and wave to you in the mornings (I drive a bright pink car so they know its me) and it is so quiet it is untrue. Sometimes I can sit with my book on the sofa and not hear a sound. The views from my windows are amazing. I love it!

morocha

Hi ya... i still have the sunglasses ready to be returned to Debenhams this week... so far i have not spent any money... only posting items that i sell on Ebay.
My oh got me a laptop yesterday as i do not have one to have all my personal info and stuff.
All i can think of if going on hols in April- May... i can not wait to go to Spain with my little DD and DH !

I am trying to focus at the moment in loosing weight so hopefully that will keep me from buying things at the moment.

CompletelyLost

joesaunt wrote: »

I live out in the sticks, the village has one shop/Post office and one pub! I work in a town so am able to see civilisation Monday to Friday. I avoid shops if I can in my lunchbreak as they are too busy, I usually catch up on work at lunchtime as I spend most of the day on this forum :eek:

At the weekends, I don't really want to go shopping now, I can't afford it and since August I have realised how much I spent and wasted on material things. My son is growing (16 years) and needs new clothes, I am saving so I can get him some.

I love the village life, people say hello and wave to you in the mornings (I drive a bright pink car so they know its me) and it is so quiet it is untrue. Sometimes I can sit with my book on the sofa and not hear a sound. The views from my windows are amazing. I love it!

That sounds lovely... I wish I lived somewhere like that. Although our town isn't really huge, it's not particularly nice. We do live by the beach though so there are some nice places where you feel like you can escape for a while.

morocha wrote: »

I am trying to focus at the moment in loosing weight so hopefully that will keep me from buying things at the moment.

It's good to have something else to focus on. Maybe you should not buy any clothes (apart from necessities) until you have reached your target size, and then treat yourself to a few nice key pieces?

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I have been pretty organised today - was up and out by 9.30am, walked into town and posted my parcels, got some money bags from the bank (as I have a load of pennies that I need to change), whizzed straight past all the shops... then onto Aldi where I only bought the essentials (milk and bread).

That's my outing for today over and done with, no straying into the shops. Though the main reason I didn't stick around was because it was icy cold and snowing so I just wanted to get home! Oh, I did spend £1 on a lottery ticket but I always do that (and I walked so saved £2 busfare)... so yeah. All done and dusted.

debtdesperado

Morocha - my tip is to get rid of everything that doesn't fit right now... when I do that I always immediately lose half a stone like magic, whereas doing that stupid tip of 'hang your gold kylie size 8 hotpants (only £5 in the sale and maybe ONE DAY you will fit into them) in front of the fridge so you won't be tempted to eat' seems to make me eat more...

Who knows why?!

To stay away from wandering round the shops I have been doing DIY... have discovered though that I am now hoarding value paint rollers and dust sheets in the same way that I used to with lipsticks...what is going on there?!!