NOT BUYING IT! 2015 - A consumer holiday

elaine241

Hello all great thread! I have only bought milk and bread since before Christmas! I totally refuse to near a shopping centre about a week before Christmas, buying what I need at the local shops. I am still avoiding shopping, my idea of hell!, but I am making a list of things I need to buy once the rush dies down and kids go back to school. I actually need wrapping paper, a few cards and crackers for next year. I am tempted to make my own but I know I will be too busy and end up buying them when they are expensive.

Anyway just dropping in to say great thread!!

Oh I went to school with a boy called Wayne, not funny til you add his surname Carr, think about it!! poor boy!

GreyQueen

elaine241 wrote: »

Hello all great thread! I have only bought milk and bread since before Christmas! I totally refuse to near a shopping centre about a week before Christmas, buying what I need at the local shops. I am still avoiding shopping, my idea of hell!, but I am making a list of things I need to buy once the rush dies down and kids go back to school. I actually need wrapping paper, a few cards and crackers for next year. I am tempted to make my own but I know I will be too busy and end up buying them when they are expensive.

Anyway just dropping in to say great thread!!

Oh I went to school with a boy called Wayne, not funny til you add his surname Carr, think about it!! poor boy!

We're going to be hitting the town tomoz to restock on Aldee veg and t.p. and catfood. Other than bread and milk (and some heavily-discounted mince pies and Xmas-tree shaped scourers) we've bought nowt for a week.

Not shopping is incredibly soothing and so good for the wallet as well as the composure.

Primrose

Hairdressers are a bit of an issue for me. I normally just go for a trim/reshaping but we have a couple of hairdressers locally who insist on prewashing your hair before cutting it which adds to the cost and which I can do perfectly well at home for nothing. My unisex hairdresser just does a dampening spray before trimming which works just as well and which makes for a much cheaper haircut. £30+ for a haircut and blow-dry seems outrageous to me. What do other people on here pay?

GreyQueen

Primrose wrote: »

Hairdressers are a bit of an issue for me. I normally just go for a trim/reshaping but we have a couple of hairdressers locally who insist on prewashing your hair before cutting it which adds to the cost and which I can do perfectly well at home for nothing. My unisex hairdresser just does a dampening spray before trimming which works just as well and which makes for a much cheaper haircut. £30+ for a haircut and blow-dry seems outrageous to me. What do other people on here pay?

I pay £10 for a cut-and-blow-dry at a walk-up city & guilds training salon. You don't get to choose the stylist and some cuts are only so-so and some are superb.

Being a tightwad, and loathing having my hair fussed with, I am screwing up my courage to cut it myself tomorrow (thick hair worn short in a sort-of crop). I may bottle it, but if I can master the art I shall be ahead by £120 per year.

babyboysmommy

Enjoying reading all the posts. Since Christmas we have only bought milk, bread & I did invest in a car park season ticket for a local country park as it will easily save us money over the course of the year. It also fits in with our goal of being outside more & investing in time together rather than stuff.

sjprmc01

I pay between £30-£40 for a haircut normally but I'm so lazy with my hair that I only get it done about once a year. I do my fringe myself

My last cut though was a favour to a work mate who needed a model for a (hairdressing) college assessment. It set me back all of £7 and was done in May I think

I do the kids fringes too and used to trim their hair, I still can trim my Eldests but Middle DD has really thick hair and I can't thin it out and youngest's has quite a wave in it so I can't get that right either. They tend to need 2-3 cuts per year OH pays £6-£7 every 6-8 weeks at the barbers

purpleshoes_2

My mum pays 8 quid for a dry cut, she got fed up paying over the odds for a cut and blow dry. I've not had a cut and blow dry without a color for years but I'll see what the prices are like at the local college. Otherwise I'll just trim the ends and my fringe myself.

PS my tablet is correcting words to american spellings, I mean colour. One local training salon does a cut and blow dry for 7 quid.

kacie

Primrose wrote: »

Hairdressers are a bit of an issue for me. I normally just go for a trim/reshaping but we have a couple of hairdressers locally who insist on prewashing your hair before cutting it which adds to the cost and which I can do perfectly well at home for nothing. My unisex hairdresser just does a dampening spray before trimming which works just as well and which makes for a much cheaper haircut. £30+ for a haircut and blow-dry seems outrageous to me. What do other people on here pay?

I tend to only have my hair cut about once a year! :eek: and then it's a dry cut for about a tenner! if it really needs a trim then I'll get my step dad to do it for me, which he did a few months back, and I think that may have been the only cut for the whole year!

My hair is long and I don't really do anything with it, think I may of only used the hair dryer on it twice this year, when I've been in a hurry to go, it's normally either left down, plaited or in a ponytail.

sjprmc01

Oh, have had a NSD today, been in the house all day, pottering about whilst OH worked from home. He's off tomorrow so if the weather is half decent we are going to go down the beach so youngest dd can try out her metal detector she got for christmas. We will have to go to the SM though as we need fresh stuff, and I really don't think I can avoid them. I will, however, make sure I only get what's needed

Thistle-down

My 12 and 16 yr old daughters both go to the barber down the street for haircuts and it costs £10 each. It's the same for my husband.

I am friends with a "Miss Fortune" and am very jealous of her name!!