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

NGlady

Angela, yep it certainly would be
If you was that lady please could I have it?

Mags30

salesaddict wrote: »

Still regretting not buying the coat. But I would have regretted buying it. It's not easy being me

Is there another branch of M+S near you that you could have checked for the coat? Is it just M+S or do you frequent other shops?

Anglea wrote: »

I'm going to do a Mystic Meg - I predict that very soon you will set your heart on something else in there and your love affair with the coat will all be forgotten LOL

Probably:) Do you wear all the M+S bargains or are they still in their bags?

salesaddict

Mags30 wrote: »

Is there another branch of M+S near you that you could have checked for the coat? Is it just M+S or do you frequent other shops?



Probably:) Do you wear all the M+S bargains or are they still in their bags?

Hi Mags,

I've stopped going to other shops. I think it's because for the first time in my life I have gone up to a size 14. I know that autograph and limited collection size 14s fit me so I have stopped looking anywhere else. Also recently they have had a lot of the sort of clothes I love like pencil skirts
and lovely fitted dresses that make me look curvy instead of just fat:)
They have had a lot of red, which I love and isn't always available every season. I love colour and silk fabrics and soft leather handbags. I do like their shoes too especially when I get a pair right down from £45 to £7
I love their cerisio underwear range and I also love the basques they have at christmas that start off at £ 40 and go right down to a fiver in January sales:)

I don't have anything that I don't wear. Part of my thing is wearing/ using new stuff immediately. Then I give everything its turn:)

salesaddict

NGlady wrote: »

There was a stuning autograph dress in marks today, and just as I got there aother lady was picking my size dress up. Has anybody ever stood there when somebodies looking at something you want, thinking haha you put it down for a second im HAVING it

Please tell me you don't pay full price for these things:o

salesaddict

Anglea wrote: »

I'm going to do a Mystic Meg - I predict that very soon you will set your heart on something else in there and your love affair with the coat will all be forgotten LOL

I never forget the one's that get away:o
Actually, I was joking when I wrote that but it is true. I wonder why I am like that? If I had got it I would have been annoyed with myself that there was no room in the wardrobe but I would have immediately started wearing it. Then I would have felt guilty because I would feel that everyone would know that I have been buying again. ( As if 'everyone' would really notice or even care)
I think I have more of a problem than even I have faced upto before:o

NGlady

Oh gosh no lol.
The coast top was £15 dow from £55
The autograph dress that I should so have had was £7 down from £45.
In honesty, i very rarely buy anything that isnt i nthe sale lol. x

salesaddict

NGlady wrote: »

Oh gosh no lol.
The coast top was £15 dow from £55
The autograph dress that I should so have had was £7 down from £45.
In honesty, i very rarely buy anything that isnt i nthe sale lol. x

Oh I am hurting for you now. What a bargain to miss out on:(
Coast stuff is lovely too. I did by loads in there up until a few months back. Now I really try to avoid it just because the things I like in m+S tend to get reduced down cheaper than the coast stuff. Sometimes I have kept an eye on prices in there and they just never reduce things down, even in their final reductions. I think they will go out of business this year, just like principles did. I bought so much principles stuff when Debenhams stopped having them as a concession and were selling off all the stuff some time last year:o

Anglea

I must admit girls, those are amazing bargains you're talking about. If it wasn't the fact that I have ludicrous bus fares (nearly £10) I'm not breaking down the door of M&S because if I had to return something I'd be annoyed with having to pay the fare a second time.

On the subject of guilt - I've just eaten another cake and this was after feeling yukky from eating before. I'm sure this is because I'm wanting to give myself a treat for cutting down on the shopping. And of course the shopping is my treat for........ life?

Mags30

salesaddict wrote: »

I don't have anything that I don't wear. Part of my thing is wearing/ using new stuff immediately. Then I give everything its turn:)

That's really impressive:)

salesaddict wrote: »

I think they will go out of business this year, just like principles did. I bought so much principles stuff when Debenhams stopped having them as a concession and were selling off all the stuff some time last year:o

I thought Coast was really popular particularly for wedding outfits.

Principles is back redesigned by Ben de Lisi (spelling??). I haven't seen it just heard it advertised somewhere.

NGlady

Oh I brought some beautiful bargains when they stopped having principles. On the whole it was slightly too old for me, but they had some beautiful peices too and i loved the Jewellery I remember seeing a skirt that was down from £125 to 5 :O
I agree to be honest, a top i nthe coast sale is on the whole 25.00 with a few exceptions that ive managed to pick up, thats the price of one full price in a lot of other shops. So they are pricing themselves out of the market a lot. I dont think there far out, but maybe drop a tenner on a top, 20 on a dress and maybe 15 on a bag?
I heard somewhere that the entire of the group are in trouble, oasis warehouse and coast. Now whilst that will save me money, itll be bad as there the only places i really shop lol.