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ZTD

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Anyone else have conversations like this with their friends/family?

Friend: "We really need to sort our finances out...*sigh*...OH and I had a long discussion about it the other day, so now we're being really good, and not spending unless we really have to"

Me: "Well, I'm doing that too - we can encourage each other. By - by the way, have you seen that MSE website? I find it a complete Godsend"

It's usually about this point where they're saying "Oh yes, that site tells you about loads of stuff that's on special offer."

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Friend: "Oh, yes, I've seen that. So, do you have plans tomorrow - I thought we could go to the shops"

*Pause for Nora to choke on tea and roll eyes*

Me: "Ummm, well I really don't need anything and don't want to be tempted to spend. I'd planned just to cozy up on the sofa and do some knitting. Why don't you come over? I can throw a couple of spuds in the oven and we'll have a nice NSD".

Friend: "Ooo, yes, that sound lovely. And maybe after lunch we can walk over to that nice garden centre near you for a look around, and a coffee".

*Nora bashes head on wall*

When the out-of-town shopping centres started opening up and the Sunday trading laws started to be relaxed, someone compared it to being the new religion. Except that people didn't go to Church twice just because it was a bank holiday...

I don't think I'd go quite that far, but shopping is a major pastime.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

I have a lot of conversations with friends and family that go along these lines. Another friend yesterday was moaning about how everything is so expensive these days, and then went on to tell me how far she's got with the extreme wedding she's planning, and followed it up by emailing me a piccie of the brand new winter coat she's just bought from from a very expensive ladieswear store....

I'm not moaning (well, I am, but I don't mean to - afterall, each to their own), but other people routinely baffle me....

Of course, it also makes me appreciate my LBM,

But the difference between them and you is what makes a LBM.

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

and being part of the MSE-verse all the more which is a lovely up side - you should all take a moment to accept my thanks *curtsies to the crowd*, and pat yourselves on the back for being wonderful company.

And you need to pat yourself on the back too, as you're now part of us. Like the Borg...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Ooooooooooooooooo - I've gained a star! How did that happen?

Too much gassing...

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Oh, and I'm not a newbie anymore! Um....please still be especially nice to me though...pretty please...

We're nice to everyone.

(just about, trolls and spammers need not apply...)

clippy_girl

hello! just thought i'd pop in an say hi! also big well done on clearing over £45k in less than 5 years! :beer:

Knitting_Nora

Hello to you both!

Thanks clippy_girl - I keep forgetting to look back and check what I've already managed to do!

Mags_cat

I saw one of your posts on Moo's thread and decided to mosey on over here....

You aren't helping my mahoosive "Threads wot I have subscribed to and really need another two hours in the day to read" issue, you know...:D

Looking forward to reading more about the exploits :T

freebyfifty

Just wanted to say "Hi" :wave: and to say I love your diary so far, it made me lol

I too have a diary which is nowhere near as entertaining as yours but it really helps to help me say things that I wouldn't actually say out loud face to face with someone, unless I'd forgotten to take my medication

I shall endeavour to keep you company on the long long long (into infinity) road ahead. :T

Knitting_Nora

Evening All

Thanks to Mags_cat and Freebyfifty for their lovely posts - welcome to the madness! (Or is that the Collective - doin' it borg-style in honour of ZTD).

I'd plan to settle down this evening in front of the tv and catch up on some recorded silliness...but the soft and inviting blue light on my BT vision box has turned to an evil 'nothing good can come of this' red colour, so while it sorts itself out I thought I'd post some inner musings....

So this evening I've been thinking of chips. Not the bung in the oven ones, but real chip shop chips and the power they hold over us. Having checked the freezer (see previous posts), I was quite content that I didn't need to hit the shops again before payday - plenty of food in the house. Even a decent amount of chocolate (obviously, the term 'plenty' doesn't apply here - you can never truly have enough, let along 'plenty' - that's just daft), and then earlier in the week I was reading of Shower of Roses being kidnapped by the chip shop, and the subject of chips has been rattling around my brain ever since....you know the drill...that little voice in your head which says things like "chips be my precious..preciousness is the chippity chips...they be good for you..."

So this evening, despite having firm plans for some lovely soup and warm rolls, I finally gave in and got up off the sofa, put boots on, trekked out in the cold to the car, drove the 4 miles to my nearest chippy and got a portion (plus the bottle of coke to go with it - because coke is my version of cigarettes...oooo, that didn't sound good did it?! Erm, I meant the drink rather than the white stuff (though the white stuff would explain the state of my SOA better than the drink does...anyway, I digress). Drove home, narrowly missing the stag wandering across the road (if beasties can be taught, then why not teach 'em the green cross code?..that's all I'm saying), and realised that I wasn't even hungry for the chips themselves! I'd just been seduced by the idea of them - which is really annoying seeing as I've actually got a pretty small appetite (albeit hips which don't represent it well), and I've never finished a portion in my life.

So if you've succumbed to the preciousness of chippity chips recently, join the club - and don't beat yourself up too badly; afterall, if they can motivate me to get off the sofa and leave my nice warm house, then clearly they're the food of the chap downstairs (you know, with the flames and the pointy bits)...'cos even with my growing MSE-ness, I'm really still just a little sloth masquerading as a couch potato, and it takes a heck of an effort and influence to get me to move once I'm settled!

Nora.

BEAT_THE_DEBT

Hi and welcome! I know the call of the chippity chip all to well! I am loving your diary! I will be here with you hands over my ears so i cant here the call.....................
x btdxx

freshair_2

Mags_cat wrote: »

I saw one of your posts on Moo's thread and decided to mosey on over here....

You aren't helping my mahoosive "Threads wot I have subscribed to and really need another two hours in the day to read" issue, you know...:D

Looking forward to reading more about the exploits :T

whoops appear to have hit subscribe as well :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:happy debt busting

ZTD

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

So if you've succumbed to the preciousness of chippity chips recently, join the club - and don't beat yourself up too badly; afterall, if they can motivate me to get off the sofa and leave my nice warm house, then clearly they're the food of the chap downstairs (you know, with the flames and the pointy bits)...'cos even with my growing MSE-ness, I'm really still just a little sloth masquerading as a couch potato, and it takes a heck of an effort and influence to get me to move once I'm settled!

Well...and don't shoot me for this...there is the explanation/excuse/reason/rationalisation that potatoes and tobacco are distant relatives of the same family, and they both contain nicotine. So if you're a ex-smoker, then a craving for chips can just mean you're self-medicating with nicotine. But that does depend on you being an ex-smoker.

I had chips today, and I've never smoked in my life - so that's my excuse gone... :whistle:

dealwithdebtdot

I've never finished a bag of chips from the chippy either. You are doing good lady!:money: