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

NGlady

Well I have quite a bad day coming tomorrow. It sounds daft, but it was a year to the day that I had my heartbroken today and tomorrow by the date. Being a week day, all of my friends are at work etc, so I think I am going to have to go shopping just to take my mind off it really

Shall do what I did last week and take only the cash I can afford to spend and put my debit card in the zip of my purse out the way for emergency such as buses go on strike and i need a taxi. Is it just me, or when you don't take a debit card out your mind works million miles an hour and you think just what if and end up needing to take it :S Im not so bad when my parents are in the UK as I can get lifts but ya know :S

I agree with Angela, it is about the feeling of the purchase.

Yep deffinatly, buy something you love even if it means you cant afford many units of this item you love oppose to lots of items you think are nice enough


I need 3 NSD's over the next fortnight, I have managed to go 30.00 over my my phone bill first time ever.

Oh dear.. I cant find my TV remote and songs of Praise has just come on :S lol.

Anglea

Hi all

NGlady - tomorrow - can't you spend the money on something like a really nice like a special cake or a bunch of flowers or something instead of clothes and the usual things - sort of break the normal habit and do something a bit different.

Re the debit card. Locally, I always have it with me because otherwise I'd forget to bring it out with me on occasions when it's necessary. I've lost count of the 'forgot I changed my bag over' dramas when I've been without money or keys.

However, whenever I've gone into the city, I only bring cash and often put some into my shoe in case of a problem. For whatever reason I have a fear of going there with my card as there are a lot of very different people around than I'm used to..

NGlady

Oh thats a point Angela, the amount of times ive lived a day on the 2 pound coin in the bottom of my handbag because i didnt swap everything over lol. Did you see those bag liners u can get, basically, you put everything in your bag into this liner and when u swap bags u just remove the bag and put it into the next bag.

I think that sounds a lovely idea to buy something else I think I might treat myself to something like a french nail polishing when i go for my eyebrows done only about £8 but i dont really do it often anymore

Souk08

NGlady, I agree with Anglea, do something different for yourself. Take charge of yourself and maybe buy a lovely dinner or magazine. Think of all the fab things you can do and go for it.

I love Clinique too ladies. Got some as a gift for my £30 and it lasted AGES. My bro has no idea what to buy me for my birthday so always gets me a Boots voucher which I use to buy their amazing foundation and lippie. I LOVE their cream cleanser too. Out of it at the mo and using a No 7 one. I'd rather go out but if it's a pressie then great!

Anglea

NGlady -the beauty treatments sound like a good idea.

I hadn't heard of the bags liners although I have made something like that myself because in one section of my bag the zip is broken and that particular bag is the most useful size I have, so I put in a cloth bag to keep my stuff in so it doesn't fall out.

But I somehow don't think that changing bags over with the liner would work for me because I keep my keys on a very long chain attached to the bag - and have my wallet also on a long chain and attached to the bag so no-one could run away with it!

NGlady

Angela, i've never thought of doing the chain to my bag thing, would be quite helpful when I go to the city :S I get that scary feeling when i go into the city with my handbag/purse etc lol.

Souk08

Ladies I'm laughing at all this, I live in the city and that would be a right fankle every time I left the house!!!

morocha

hahaha i do get paranoid aswell... souk , we are country people, we are not used to cities, lol

Souk08

Love it. A mate has asked me to his bday in the country. I wont be going! Told him we can do something nice in the city when he gets back.

Anglea

Hi all

Souk, it's bad enough when I go to the nearest city but wait until you hear about my few times in London LOL. There was a time I used to commute to London, leave home about 7 am and return midnight or later some days and loved it. But after I stopped going regularly it became very problematic.

You will laugh at this, but I went with a friend for a weekend to see a play. I don't know how she put up with me because I had a panic attack at the tube station and couldn't go down in the lift. So we had to walk down these filthy spiral stairs all glammed up and I was practically on my hands and knees as the stairs were so steep!

I think the reason for this is because the sheer contrast to the buzz of a city compared to the very slow pace of life where I live. People leave their front doors open and shopping bags outside the shops while they go inside.