buying 'stuff' for a place you havent got yet? madness or moneysaving?

sazza42

My grandmother was a big fan of jumble sales and used to buy the odd thing for my 'bottom drawer'. A really nice thought, except she had the very traditional view that it was for when you set up home 'properly' i.e. married... I kept having to point out that I could use the stuff there and then even though I was only renting a room in a shared flat - I still needed tea towels etc! She just couldn't wrap her head round it. I'm still using one of the salad bowls she found for me more than 15 years later.

I shared a flat with a girl once who moved in with just a potato peeler in the way of 'home stuff' (she hadn't just left home, she was in her early 30s...) She had hours of fun with the Argos catalogue when she moved out into her own flat.