The Elite:The Good, The Bad and the Glitchy

Tinyshoes

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.

Beautiful dress redrose. :T

Proms can definitely be done on a budget, 3 times in this house. I found TK Max saved the day twice for me dresses for around £30 and DD3's was a quiz dress. It was sad this time I couldn't go and pick it with her like I did the other two. She started panicking she wouldn't have one when I was living with my mum and I couldn't get out to do it with her so had to trust DD1 to take her but again they were sensible with the money.

DD1 was the only one that went to hairdresser to have her hair put up but it was a lady who worked from home so didn't break the bank. DD3 curled DD2s hair and did her own. And think I mentioned before that old red buses took them both to proms, works out really reasonable if you can get a big group together.

And there was definitely no money for spray tans here, in fact wasn't even asked for and I don't remember seeing any of my girls groups of friends looking like they had one. Must be a new thing.

Tinyshoes

Snap-ant wrote: »

It's been weird doing non glitchy shopping, but have had our stash to live off

Things are alot brighter as we are off to Weymouth for a week on Thursday. Fourp & I are really looking forward to this

Just sitting on a bench eating chips from the Seagull Cafe & watching the boats sail past - bliss :A

We have booked a holiday let by the harbour that sleeps 10 - no more than 10 - only 10 - try telling my Father & sister this ....

My sister's daughter age 19 didn't want to come.... fine as she now lives in Swansea.
Now she wants to come, so sister says to me casually like
"Oh & daughter is coming too, Dad said he would pay extra for her, so no need for you to worry" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

:mad::mad::mad: 10 people only 10 people - insurance, beds etc = 10

Dad rings me rather sheepy .....

So I then have task of finding a B&B nearby for her & Dad was paying for it.

Found one - paid - rang sister with the news & guess what she says?

"She can't stay there on her own"

no thank you for sorting it out

I reply with "You can stay there then instead" :p:p

Family - you can't choose them like friends

I often think of you when I see deals on Groupon/Living Social for places in Weymouth. I nearly PMd you with an afternoon tea one other day as thought you may have a holiday coming up. But then I realised it was for Swanage not Weymouth.

Hope you and fourp have a lovely time with all your family. x

Dizzy_Ditzy

Asbo Annie is very cross that it's raining because she won't go out in it so she's trying very hard to get MG's attention, rubbing her face all over his hands and legs trying to plonk herself as close as she can ... She's currently upside down with all four paws in the air like a child :rotfl: :rotfl:

locarr

Good morning ALL!:D

I'm about 70 pages behind!

how is everyone?:)

Welcome back snappy x:T

elainemn

Good morning everyone. Busy morning for me so far. Tidied the kitchen, cooked a big pan of bolognaise and made pan of jam with a freezer tidy of woopsied blackberries, redcurrants , black currants my straggely strawberries. Hopefully it will set. Having a rest now then may go to Mr T for a change.

vouchercrazy

Good afternoon everyone

Just had a mooch round Mr T, oh driving me mad, we are waiting for a bed to be delivered and put together, ordered the bed 10 months ago oh must have called the bloke 7 times already this morning:eek: Think I will go and have a mooch around Mr A :rotfl::rotfl:

Mr T had some bedding sets reducded, I got 2 king size duvet sets for 17.00, used the 10.00 for 5.00 mighty deals vouchers we all got a few months back, need some quilts and pillows now

Will see you all later, oh is barking his orders :rotfl::rotfl:

altojack

Snap-ant wrote: »

Just saying Hello - been up late to catch the opening of Sun Holidays for next Easter school holiday week in Kiln Park :j:j

Hope everyone is well?

Haven't read anything here as life has been a bit erratic but calming down now

Very out of the Elite Loop :o

Very Bestest All ♥

:j :j :j Snap sweetie it's great to see you back posting. You do know that loads of people have been missing you and will be delighted to see back home where you belong x

Now we need some pictures of your bargain finds in MrT, I get real jealous of them as my local is rubbish and never ever have very low prices on reductions :mad:

Good afternoon Elite
Late start to the day for me though I did clamber out of bed at 9am, I just haven't got my 'get up and go' it gas got up and went!

Had to sort out meds this morning for the next couple of weeks then oil my knee. I've just done that job but still have no motivation to do owt else

Nice to see FC posting last night though haven't read all of her post yet, I still have my catch up to do so will booger off and do it now

See you all later x

frequent

Snap-ant wrote: »

It's been weird doing non glitchy shopping, but have had our stash to live off

Things are alot brighter as we are off to Weymouth for a week on Thursday. Fourp & I are really looking forward to this

Just sitting on a bench eating chips from the Seagull Cafe & watching the boats sail past - bliss :A

We have booked a holiday let by the harbour that sleeps 10 - no more than 10 - only 10 - try telling my Father & sister this ....

My sister's daughter age 19 didn't want to come.... fine as she now lives in Swansea.
Now she wants to come, so sister says to me casually like
"Oh & daughter is coming too, Dad said he would pay extra for her, so no need for you to worry" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

:mad::mad::mad: 10 people only 10 people - insurance, beds etc = 10

Dad rings me rather sheepy .....

So I then have task of finding a B&B nearby for her & Dad was paying for it.

Found one - paid - rang sister with the news & guess what she says?

"She can't stay there on her own"

no thank you for sorting it out

I reply with "You can stay there then instead" :p:p

Family - you can't choose them like friends

Hi Snap :wave: Regards to 4p.

For those talking about proms, I hired a limo for my daughter and her friends :cool: Only £125 :eek:

Tinyshoes

Think it cost them about tenner each but it was 2009. :eek:

It stopped off at the beach on the way and they all absolutely loved it.

Tinyshoes

Don't seem to have a pic of DD3's bus that was nice it was vintage one so it did cost a bit more but still worked out. :money: