Friends Are Expensive

Bella73

We regularly meet with friends and have games nights with board games, they are brilliant fun, we all take our drinks (both alcoholic or soft drinks)

If we organise a big party we all pay say £5 each and then one of friends gets all the food together, works well for us.

(We are all in our 30's and 40's)

Muppet81

short_bird wrote: »

Fantastic hobby but that's not exactly cheap these days; from my observations, the price of vintage anything has gone through the roof:D

You are totally right there. That said the vinatge clothes once you get them are a joy to own. Buy something from a normal shop and you tend to feel you can't wear it over and over with the same friends. Not so with vintage ... the fabrics feel gorgeous and in the 40s they had few clothes and wore them repeatedly and looked after them with great care ... and they lasted.

My vintage wardrobe is a joy. I go out in normal clothes and am not noticed. I wear my 40s vintage and people comment. To receive comments, from people you pass in the street, of "you look fabulous/gorgeous" when you are 56, is great and real boost to the confidence. Give me 40s fashion evertime. I have received kisses from older gentlemen who say seeing my clothes bring back so many happy memories. I actually think I spend less in a year on clothes than I would on modern stuff.

On the same theme, going off on a bit of a tangent, our Christmas Day is spent in 40s mode with wartime recipes and decorations. Now THAT does save money! Mock Goose compare with a turkey. Big savings.

When our gang go out en mass people tend to thing we are in a play or filming for something. When we tell them this is just how we like to dress they are fascinated.

Muppet81

Bella73 wrote: »

We regularly meet with friends and have games nights with board games, they are brilliant fun, we all take our drinks (both alcoholic or soft drinks)

If we organise a big party we all pay say £5 each and then one of friends gets all the food together, works well for us.

(We are all in our 30's and 40's)

Lots of you seem to enjoy games evenings and it sounds a great idea. However, I can't see our crowd stopping nattering long enough to play games. Might try it though

Muppet81

Deeerrrr!

I am sitting here reading back through all the posts including my own. Here I am saying on one hand that entertaining is so expensive and on the other telling you about my love of the 40s (music/clothes and attitudes ... definitely not emulating the 40s as a time I would want to go back to ... the hell of a world war .... just think the Home Front was totally amazing during that period).

Perhaps I need to tie the two together and utilise wartime recipes for entertaining. I do it occasionally but not all the time as I feel the need to impress. As so many of you have said though ..... it is not all about the food .... but the company.

Think I am answering my own question here but have only managed to do it by speaking to you all. :j