omg getting wired looks from my neighbour..for being os...

maypole

Dolly day dream hit the nail on the head. Those who are at the top are usually the ones with the good manners, there will be exceptions of course. The ones who aspire to being at the top, tend to think that by being snobbish, they will be better than those they THINK are beneath them. When in fact they are just ignorant. Don't let it get to you. You can be poor and have real class and you can be rich and just be a !!!!!!.;)

luxor4t

My nana was a very wise woman with many true sayings. The one that sprang to mind here was:
'Handsome is as handsome does., and that was just plain ugly'.
AND she would have agreed with Hester!
Ignore him!

maypole

Another one to add to Luxor4t, an old lady I knew would say " the weight of their a.r.s.e. will bring them down to earth!" iIthink they would need to be a chubby snob for that one:p

Lucie_2

Make sure you're extra nice & sickly sweet to him next time he comes in when you're working, then over charge him accidentally of course :A

D&DD

Oh Sammy I'm so sorry you had such a rotten experience..when you see him next just think what Hester said ,and try keeping a straight face !!
Hope you're feeling better now D XX

csarina

Sammy.........you are miles above him, you are trying to live within your means, he is in all probability up to his ears in debt..........forget it........the man is a prat of the first order.....................

MrsTinks

What a pillock

Whilst we're not debt free we are not poor (although I'd love to be debt free lol) and occasionally I'll be in Tesco buying "treats" and I look at my shopping next to someone shopping like I usually shop (ie frugally) and I wonder what they might think of my "wasteful" basket and feel quite embarressed...
I wonder if maybe he's realising just how wasteful he is and is doing what many do when confronted with their own faults and lashing out at those who are what he knows he should be? Or maybe he himself used to have to be very frugal and is trying to distance himself from his past by sneering at it? (Knew I should have gone and done that psycology degree.... :rotfl:)
Either way - You know that he's just being a dipstick and everyone here would have done exactly the same as you and shopped yellow stickers! I mean it's money in your pocket and not the supermarkets right?
If he wants to add to their profits by paying full price then let him!

Gingham_Ribbon

Sammi, I have seen this kind of problem a few times on here, so I found an older thread to merge your post to. I hope reading through will help cheer you up a little. It's not us that have the problem, it's people who think they're better than those of us who prefer to spend our money wisely, however little or much of it there is to go round!

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TKP wrote: »

How can anyone say disposable nappies are in ANY way green??? :eek:
They are one of the biggest contributers to landfill, and one of the biggest problems for recycling :eek:
Unhygenic? Have these people never heard of washing as an option?
Toweling nappies have been around for many many years... and all those millions of babies have managed to survive and grow up...me included
Some people are so narrow minded.

Well I still have about 3 or 4 of my childrens terry nappies left in my cleaning cupboard.I had a dozen Harringtons given to me when my eldest was born in 1967 and it did both her and her sister (Circa 1969)They are the best cleaning clothes ,apart from microcloths that I know of .If I ever see any at a boot fair I would snap them up.They are great for cleaning window,dusting,almost any cleaning chore as they can be boiled to snowy whiteness very easily.I did get a strange look from a neighbour once when I hung them on the line as I am an O.A.P and well past my 'baby days':D Who cares what neighbours think, they are the ones with saddo lives and too much time on their hands.I have been frugal for most of my life and see no point in wasting anything. I live debt-free and have no mortgage and owe no one a penny so who's the smart one me, or the other person who wastes food and resourses.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
BTW when I had small children I lived in a cold-water flat with every bit of water boiled up on the gas .I had a bucket with Nappisan for the wet nappies, and every day I had a HUGE old black pot that went on the stove to boil the nappies up in. I had no washing machine or spin dryer and our clothes all had to be washed by hand I owned a glass scrubbing board (cost 2/6) that I did my late husbands shirts on with a scrubbing brush and some 'Tide' or 'OMO' This was from 1966 until 1972 when I finally moved into our own house where I had a twintub washing machine ,second-hand from a friend for a fiver.All of the washing was hung out on the line to dry, and in the winter on a wooden clothes airer which I still have in the cupboard under the stairs .My youngest DD 'borrows ' it sometimes in the winter as she has five children and lives in a town house and puts some of their school uniforms on the airer on one of the landings of her house to air off.I never chuck anything out if I can help it or it can be re-used or re-cycled.Even my ironing board I have had for 35 years and got it from collecting Green Shield stamps.I am definitely Frau Frugal

patchwork_cat

Harrington squares Jackie O - I remember them. My Grandma used to use our old ones for cleaning, too.Would they be muslin squares now?
I can't use muslin squares for cleaning because my 2 used them for comfort blankets and they had to go to the mussy fairy when my eldest was about 8. HE still rembers them and if I brought them down from the loft we would get chapter and verse about them! I wonder if I was mean , but an 8 year old boy wandering around with a mussy - I could see him going off to college with it! That is anoother thread, though!