Improving my life in 2011

Mags30

Spent €17.50 in a charity shop today. Got a rather nice royal blue knee length coat originally from John Rocha, Debenhams I'm assuming but even better if it's a more expensive line.

It has been worn and has a dry cleaners tag attached but it's still in excellent condition. I see it as being perfect for work, supermarket trips, etc. For €10 I don't have to worry about wrecking it or getting caught in the rain.

€5 for a pair of jeans, brand Replay. I might bring them to the dressmaker to be turned into skinny jeans. Wouldn't mind the extra cost of this because it's a fraction of what good jeans cost.

€2.50 for a bag. It's a gift with purchase bag from Estee Lauder, dusky pink with a brown trim.

I also bought LOADS more cleaning products for pennies using coupons, but this took a while as I went to different supermarkets. I'm starting to feel like I'm being sponsored by certain brands of cleaning product :rotfl: I own every product in some ranges. Will bring a few of them to my mother tomorrow.

Mags30

You won't believe todays freebie, I hardly do myself :money:

Nandos were doing some stupid "spin the bottle" promotion where people could win free things. The cardboard bottle didn't spin very far :rotfl:but a lovely girl gave me a voucher for a free lunch. I think she gave me the best voucher she had because I could choose pretty much anything. I had a double chicken breast fillet in a pitta bread plus coleslaw and peri-peri chips valued at €16.60 :cool:. I had to buy my diet-coke which cost €2.95 but still a very MSE lunch :T

BUT €19.55 for that sort of a lunch :mad:. It's no wonder they have to give away free food to make the place look busy on a Saturday afternoon. Going to nearby McDonalds or KFC you would get a similar meal for €10.

Let's not talk about diets when Nandos are giving people free food :shhh:

Lula-Hula

Hiya Mags,

nice one re the free lunch :j.

I know what you mean about Old Style, I rarely read now as it made me feel so inadequate. I do wonder if many of them have partners & don't work.

Life is very different for a single working girl, we have to pay for & arrange everything alongside working.

Don't compare your achievements to other peoples, no two situations are identical & this is the internet, it's easy to leave out or embellish a few details when posting .

xx

Mags30

Glad others feel like I do about Old Style, I do lurk there sometimes but it's just not realistic for me. I don't have a store cupboard or a huge freezer and I don't really aspire to that. Lots of what I eat comes from the chilled section in the supermarket (M+S type food but not usually from M+S). I buy almost all of it on special offer and avoid overbuying so it's rare now that I waste/bin food.

The petrol thing amuses me. £10 petrol for a month :undecided If that was all the petrol I was using I wouldn't see the point of having a car.

I've just cut the grass between showers (back garden only) and I cleaned the outside of my front door using some of my vast selection of cleaning products. I'm going to do the hoovering as well before I go to my mothers (in between cups of tea and internet)

Mags30

Skinny puss arrived for food and just as I was putting the food outside ANOTHER skinny puss (the EXACT same) minus the collar runs in the front door and towards the fridge.

It appears I have been feeding and playing with 2 different cats all along and never knew it :eek: I would not believe there were 2 of them had they not been here at the same time.

This certainly explains why skinny puss only wears his collar sometimes. Maybe they are twins but there are definitely 2 matching skinny pusses. Also explains why I use so much milk :rotfl:

Mags30

@Kerry78 that Kerry lost the All-Ireland football final to Dublin today. Still loving Paul Galvin though!

vasseur

:rotfl:at the cats. Oddly enough there are 2 identical cats that keep visiting my garden. They are black and white and when you see them together it looks quite surreal, they are that alike.

Great news about MrsB. Don't some people just amaze you?

:T for the nandos meal. Love it when things like that happen.

Kerry78

Mags30 wrote: »

@Kerry78 that Kerry lost the All-Ireland football final to Dublin today. Still loving Paul Galvin though!

Obviously I'm Kerry through and through but I'm almost happy Dub won after so long (16 years) considering Kerry win it every other year! Didn't see the game, only heard it, some Kerry people aren't too happy with the ref though. And Paul Galvin came on too early, shouldn't have brought him on till the second half. Gave people mroe time to look at him though!

LittleBoots

Great news on the free lunch and charity shop bargains
And loved the story about the cats!!! Haha, I have always suspected they can talk to each other but just wait til we're out the way!
Hear you about the OS stuff, I try to batch cook now and then and absolutely hate to waste stuff but dont think I could ever be that organised.

Souk08

Hey Mags, I rarely post on OS either as I know some of them want to chase me with a fork for being a city chick and not wanting to keep hens!!!! I AM uber frugal with food but it's only so I can party more and again I think that's alien to a lot of folk there and maybe in general. I know I'm priveledged in that my salary is better now and I have it to spend but some of the folk over there can be very sanctimonious. I DID go to an OS meet once though and had a lovley time so they're not all like that for sure! Lula is right about a lot of them not working outside the home and having time to hunt out bargains and cook from scratch too X