Do people ever think you're 'odd' for being old style?

jeanniebeanie_2

mishmash wrote: »

we save where we can so we can spend where we want

Love it!! I never know quite how to say it as I am lucky in that my economies do go towards affording luxuries like holidays etc

GreyQueen

sonastin wrote: »

To turn the question around, does anyone else find themselves thinking people who aren't living their lives "old style" are a bit odd?!

I look at them and wonder why they would throw their money away like that. And then I remind myself that its their money to spend and what else would the spend it on if not that. It entirely their choice. But still, why??! I'm sure its a bit odd

I was raised OS by parents who were OS (Mum was raised by foster-parents who were 50 years older than she and born when Victoria still had several years left to reign). Country people, seriously OS living; ploughing with horses, no running water, privvies, chickens, tin baths, the whole nine yards.

I just thought it was normal to live this way and didn't know that there was something called OS until I found Martin's book of OS tips in the library, and later wandered across from the main MSE site, thinking What's a forum? Got baffled by all the choices, found OS and realised it was where the book had come from and joined the next minute. These are my people!

jeanniebeanie wrote: »

I love libraries too! My point was that while she was being so snooty about my charity shop books saying "you don't know where they have been" she completely didn't get that her library books have probably "been" in far more places!:rotfl:

I pay a big chunk of my small income in council tax but having the central library 10 mins walk from home makes it worthwhile.

I've been reading/ using/ wearing 2nd hand stuff my whole life. Yes, it's washed/ cleaned but I have never caught anything and indeed am rarely ill. I wonder if the people who buy new clothes and shoes consider how many sweaty shoppers have tried them on before they buy them?:rotfl:

Today I was chatting on the phone whilst sewing a button back onto a pj top that came from the c.s. the other year (unworn 80p) and mending something else with a bit of salvage from the ragbag. Been making a number sign for the lottie from scrap timber and cutting up old envelopes etc for scratch pads to use at the office. Can't be having brand new paper being wasted.

Have made candles from melted down old ones an can make a few random ingredients s-t-r-e-t-c-h into another meal or three. And my thrifting has allowed me to take longhaul holidays around the planet. I don't give a damn about having new clothes but I am very pleased that I skydived over Lake Taupo and did many other fabulous things.

My cousin carped about that particular trip to our mutual grandmother, who has rarely in her 90 years said anything sharp in anyone's hearing. As in how could I, who doesn't have a proper (she meant full-time) job afford to go to New Zealand for 6 weeks? Nan told cousin She doesn't smoke or drink! And my cousin has incinerated and p'd away more money than I ever had, but she doesn't see it like that, of course.

This week I'm eating tuna and cucumber sarnies at work for my lunch. Shopbought. 10p a pack on Sunday yellow label then frozen. I couldn't make them for that. Yeah, maybe the same kind of sarnie 4 days in a row is a bit boring, but so what? Most of humanity would love the luxury of being bored like that.

If people think I'm odd (and I've had a few comments over the years) good luck to them. I'm so not interested in their opinions.