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

saverholic

NGlady, I don't read back to front. I tend to jump straight to the 'I slept with my husband's second cousin twice removed who turned out to be his long lost twin brother' before reading the rest of the mag.

(and I cannot believe I just admitted that)

Anglea

NGlady, I know what you mean, I also do it with non-fiction books.

Souk, you were good only buying one outfit.

Morocha - well done on your purchases. If you don't like handbags do you mean you have shoulder bags - or no bags at all? I've been looking at a brown bag for weeks now and stopping myself from buying it because I haven't got any clothes that would look right

I'm amazed that men manage without bags. Where do they put everything? I know, give it to their wives.

Souk08

OOh I love a handbag. I have carried the same one every day for 2 years for work though. It's real leather, fake Balenciaga and I got it in the Grand Souk in Istanbul for about £30. Have LOADS of others though and love a clutch for evening. I don't travel light, even for work so I need one for all my bits!

Anglea

saverholic wrote: »

NGlady, I don't read back to front. I tend to jump straight to the 'I slept with my husband's second cousin twice removed who turned out to be his long lost twin brother' before reading the rest of the mag.

(and I cannot believe I just admitted that)

That's funny. :rotfl: Have you noticed that this week there were two tv documentaries on those types of magazines articles? I didn't watch them.

saverholic

Didn't see the shows, semi wish I had. I find stories/shows like those like a car crash, I know I shouldn't but part of me can't look away.

The only upside is, I don't buy the magazines. My housemate does. It is all her fault :rotfl:

NGlady

Angela, I buy magazines based on how seedy and wrong the front story is - wrong of me huh :S lol.

Mags30

velocity.girl wrote: »

also saving up for a trip to Dublin, never been anywhere where i've needed a passport...do you know they are £77 now:eek::eek::mad: typical! Anyway i'm 30 on the 30th dec so trying to arrange a few night just me and bloke...he's 31 on the 1st Jan so that time of year is mental...new years in Dublin should be awesome!!! Mags are you from that way? we should meet up to put the world to rights lol!:rotfl:

Not from Dublin, Cork (in the South) but I have spent lots of time in Dublin so any questions just ask or pm:) The dates you mention remind me, I was supposed to go to Dublin after Christmas last year but the snow, cold spell, icy roads made it impossible to get there.

CompletelyLost wrote: »

Also mighty p*ssed off that something I bought online totally wasn't what I expected AND had a hole in it.

CompletelyLost wrote: »

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I can't return the item as I bought it on ebay, I'll just have to resell it.

I understand the problem but how can you resell something that has a hole in it? You could get bad feedback.

MrsTinks

CompletelyLost wrote: »

I know, 'too good to resist'... I should write a book and call it that! Story of my life
I can't return the item as I bought it on ebay, I'll just have to resell it.

Yes you can return it if the hole wasn't described in the original listing - it's called "not as described" - you need to start a dispute ASAP. If you need any help with it head down the Ebay board further down the MSE boards

Mags30

NGlady wrote: »

Angela, I buy magazines based on how seedy and wrong the front story is - wrong of me huh :S lol.

I buy magazine for beauty freebies as in Glamour and Marie Claire this month.

Anglea

There are some magazines with such terrible headlines that I wonder what on earth children must make of them as they are displayed at their eyeline in the supermarket- often I feel sick as they are stomach churning.

I'm not talking about the 'I married a man with 2 heads' type but the extremely violent things that happen to some people. There was one headline I don't think I'll ever forget (and won't repeat) and it still gives me nightmares.

What made me laugh one day was when I got to the magazines, someone had turned a lot of them over, so the backs were on display, to avoid other people looking at the ghastly headlines I had presumed. But I bet they never stopped to look at the backs before they walked off - some of them were even worse than the fronts - especially the lads mags!

I used to buy them for freebies too - I'd get free craft kits, journals, diaries, calendars, craft accessories and bags. I'd also send away for the free things offered for the readers, I'm not talking about the freebie pages but where everything is free and you just pay postage. At one point I stocked most of my garden from those offers.

I've stopped buying mags now as it got right out of hand.