What's your non OS guilty secret?

Burp_2

At the moment we are still pretty basic with our luxuries as it's our first house and most of our furniture is hand me downs and we can't afford anything like plasma TV's, SKY or anything else new!

Altho we do have 5 cars and there are only 2 of us ... 2 of them are classic cars and worth over £30k combined so those are our savings on wheels lol ... we couldn't part with them tho as they are our hobby and a big part of our lives

We have a combination microwave (moving in present from family) rather than a standard one as I love crispy jacket potatoes and it is quicker and cheaper in there than the oven!

We also bought a huge gas BBQ last year in the sale in hope of a good summer this year ... we would live off BBQ's in the summer if we could! But i know its not a necessity

I do have a slow cooker, bread maker and deep fat fryer which I know aren't necessities but they do help make life easier

Burp x

lessonlearned

Coats and jackets, all colours, styles and fabrics. I have lots of them, but then I reason in our climate we wear them for about nine months of the year so I like variety. To be fair I either buy them in the sales or make my own and I do look after them well - some of them are years old . (One of them I wore for my wedding 26 years ago - is this a record).

Kitchen gadgets - I've kept the most successful like the slow cooker etc and got rid of the one's I didn't like. My poor old food processor finally died (about 30 years old) and needs replacing. Like other posters I love my TD and DW and wouldn't like to be without them.

tattoed_bum

oh now we have 42 in plasma tv,my TD although it is A rated
my DW a gift from the in-laws
and my luxury is a large gas cooker it has 6 burners and a huge oven .
and i will hang my head in shame to this we have 2 pc's and 2 laptops

ascot64

Nespresso coffee capsules and Green & Blacks chocolate.

heavenleigh

I love my OS ways, and try my best the majority of the time to stick to it.
I am a single parent with 4 children ranging from 11 to 1, i receive income support and child tax credits but still have a mortgage and bills to pay.
I manage quite comfortably and am taking night classes to get myself back into work when i can.
I go for weeks sticking to the 'value' items in supermarkets and batch cooking meals like cottage pie etc with the minimal of ingredients (all value of course)
But........
Some women have clothes, some have shoes, some even collect men!
Me I love my cook books :eek: Every birthday and christmas i get given them and i can't help buying them myself too
I have the basic ones but i also have around 5 Jamie's a couple of Gordon's and plenty of Delia's just as examples!
My collection....i've just counted consists of 74 :eek: (mostly presents)

So the whole point of this thread is the fact that i CAN budget weekly and have a cottage pie from 'How to feed your whole family' for next to nothing but i much prefer a cottage pie by Gordon Ramsay that costs 3x as much!

I do try to only cook a recipe from the more expensive collections once in a while but it is my big OS downfall!

Has anyone else anything they feel the same about?

Leigh xx

nodwah

SOME of my worst failings are- buying cookbooks -
- (I have to walk past M&S on the way to Asda) M&S veggie lasagne
- buying plants (veg or flowers but I'm not buying any this year!)

thriftlady_2

Same as you Heavenleigh. I even photographed my cookbook collection here

Pitlanepiglet

I've set myself a challenge not to buy any books new, I buy from charity shops, borrow from my library (you can order cook books in usually), buy at car boots etc.

I have bought two in the 8 months or so that I started this - Mary Berry's baking bible which is fantastic, I got it from the Library first to see how good it was and then bought it with some christmas money and then Michael Roux's Pastry book which is a think of beauty!

kinkyjinks

I have the same weakness for cook books. I rarely buy them new unless I REALLY need it (like Hairy Bikers) and get them from charity shops and car boot sales too.

My whole family groan whenever I buy another book and they can't understand why I buy so many because I'm a trained chef. I think cook books are a major part of OS life. I grudgingly put back a Delia collection book on Monday at a local charity shop but after thinking about it for 2 days I'll have to go back and see if it's still there

midnightraven3

:o:o

I stopped counting how many cook books i have years ago

sitting here i cant see them, but i can see my herbs/&their uses books
& there is 27 of them, there must be 6 times that in cookbooks:o

a huge percentage of those are charity shop finds though,some are very old
(never quite got round to trying the recipes for brains etc though)

I love books, i havehuge files on my lappy of recipes i have collected/tried/want to try
but its not the same as a book to me, at all