The Elite:The Good, The Bad and the Glitchy

TrulyMadly

redrose1414 wrote: »

Woah, £550 on a prom dress��
My DD had her prom the other week, she goes to an all girls grammar school with quite a few affluent families in attendance and as a student with a disabled husband I was worried about affording it so I did a booty with some of my stash and gave her a budget of £100 for the whole outfit. She came in under budget and this is the fabulous dress she got,

http://www.quizclothing.co.uk/clothes/00100004983.html

I even used my student discount. Proms on a budget can be done even if you have 2 DDs to kit out.
A lot of the dresses the girls wore were similar in style. She teamed up with 3 friends and got the parent with the nicest car to take them Definately not me)!
So don't worry to much if you can't afford the price of a second hand car for 1 party!
Oh and she got some French manicure nails from primary for £1, they looked fab, really professional, she did get her hair curled and plaited at a hairdressers though as I'm not great with her hair as its soooo long.

Good for you:T:T

How the children whose parents can't afford the posh frocks etcmust feel....I have no idea. Peer pressure, hormones, boyfriends...or lack of....not a good combination. And if parents lack our skills, they too must feel overwhelmed by all this prom nonsense.
Such an unfair first step for most children from school to the real world:o:(

hornetgirl

That's a lovely dress redrose, I bet your daughter looked beautiful.

tweets

Nannylala wrote: »

I am with you on this tweets...considering his age he is a very sensible young man :Aand has the likeable factor.I started off liking Nick until he got tangled up with Harry:eek:I wonder why the final is on Thurs instead of Fri:(

Joel is very sensible with a wicked streak

His mum and dad are also nice and if I am not mistaken the only parents to appear on Bit On The Side.

Its time for me to go cya all laters bye

Enterprise_1701C

I was VERY lucky with my DDs prom, I made the dress, and her best friend's dress. There is no way I could have afforded to buy one similar. She looked absolutely fabulous in it

As for her best friend's dress, her parents were so impressed they thought I should set up in business, but that would take the joy out of making something so beautiful.

hornetgirl

Think someone was looking for Bio Oil the other day? I've just seen this on the APG facebook group, thanks to Caz Aunty.

Bio Oil is reduced from £19.99 to £9.99 at the Co op Pharmacy at the moment, but there are some coupons for £2 off a £10 spend if you can find them so if you buy a 35p lolly or a little box of paracetamol you can get the Bio oil for £8.

elliemoo

Good morning all, happy Sunday.

mhoc

morning all

My only womble yesterday did not produce anything

1x Ambrosia Devon Custard (400G) £0.50 £0.99
1x ASDA Chosen by You 2 Tiramisu (2X100G) £1.00 £1.44
0.17x Loose Banana (PER KG) £0.12 £0.11
1x Domestos Zero Limescale Toilet Limescale Remover (750ML) £1.50 £1.00
0.33x Butcher's Selection Lamb Shanks Joints (Typically 0.5 kg) (PER KG) £2.46 N/A
1x Asda SmartPrice ASDA Pears (500G) £0.78 £0.79
1x Lenor Cotton Flowers Fabric Conditioner 44 Washes (1.1LTR) £2.00 £2.00
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Honeydew Melon (EACH) £0.87 £1.50
Comparison total (compared products only) £6.77 £7.83
cheaper +£1.06

Anon

Tinyshoes wrote: »

Proof! :rotfl:

You know how much we all like towering pyramids of boxes.

When did we turn into HUKD .

I was going to post a generic photo as I have farmed out a number of my boxes (end of term party in school ) but stumbled across Walkers Q&A .

I admit I didn't know this ... Walkers is owned by PepsiCo.
https://www.walkers.co.uk/faq/about-walkers-business

And here was me thinking they were a solid UK company ... do we own nothing anymore?

Anon

lesliejack

Glad to be able to 'give' something back to the Elite, you guys have done really well for me over the past few years.

The Walkers promo was good fun, and I am glad you enjoyed it, I certainly had my fair share of vouchers. Called in my JF 5.30pm yesterday, they still had at least 14 boxes.

Now stop all these accolades, you are making me blush!! xx:o:o:o

Busylizzie

My DD1 struggled through school. In fact most of the time she hated it. When it came to prom she decided not to go and asked if she could have £100 to spend on everyday clothes instead.
Don't get me wrong she is very sociable and had lots of friends at school but decided she would rather go out with them on other occasions and have clothes she could wear more than once. She still went with her friends for the spray tan though! I think she just couldn't bear anything associated with school any more. College suited her so much better