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Pollycat

Ilona wrote: »

No worries, Pollycat. What did you say :think: oh never mind, already forgotten. After all the sarky comments written about me on newspaper articles and Facebook pages, I don't give a stuff.
Ilona

Really? Some silly people about, isn't there.

I enjoyed the interview with you that was televised (nationally, as I now know - I think I caught it on Good Morning Britain or something like that).

Ilona

Pollycat wrote: »

Really? Some silly people about, isn't there.

I enjoyed the interview with you that was televised (nationally, as I now know - I think I caught it on Good Morning Britain or something like that).

Really. The Daily Mail was the worst, and the Facebook pages of the radio stations I did interviews for. A magazine in Australia ran the story, which was passed on through their Facebook page to a forum out there. Not very nice comments.

There are a lot of people out there who don't know how to budget their personal finances so when someone comes along who is getting on just fine living on a pension, they feel it's ok to ridicule them. Same with people who have plenty of money. They can't understand why anyone should either choose to, or have to, live a frugal lifestyle. It doesn't happen on here because everyone is in the same boat, we are all trying hard to keep our heads above water.

Ilona

pigpen

Pollycat wrote: »

Really? Some silly people about, isn't there.

Not silly.. just disagreeing and living their lives differently with different priorities, abilities and opportunities.

I'd rather not wear pants at all than wear mens undies.. I've had some of my undies years.. because I dont buy cheap crap..


I cant shop at the time Ilona does and different shops reduce items at different times.

It costs the same to fill a bowl of water to clean 1 pan as it does to clean 1 pan 20 plates and 5 mugs with associated cutlery.. eating out of a pan is in my opinion utterly disgusting.. the very poor families here used to eat out of a washing up bowl... 10 children, a spoon each and swap saliva.. vulgarity and poverty at its best!

Each to their own but different isnt necessarily wrong. So long as we all do our bit who cares? Just don't try to convince me one persons way is the way for us all!

Pollycat

pigpen wrote: »

Not silly.. just disagreeing and living their lives differently with different priorities, abilities and opportunities.

I'd rather not wear pants at all than wear mens undies.. I've had some of my undies years.. because I dont buy cheap crap..


I cant shop at the time Ilona does and different shops reduce items at different times.

It costs the same to fill a bowl of water to clean 1 pan as it does to clean 1 pan 20 plates and 5 mugs with associated cutlery.. eating out of a pan is in my opinion utterly disgusting.. the very poor families here used to eat out of a washing up bowl... 10 children, a spoon each and swap saliva.. vulgarity and poverty at its best!

Each to their own but different isnt necessarily wrong. So long as we all do our bit who cares? Just don't try to convince me one persons way is the way for us all!

I have nothing against someone having a different viewpoint to me.
Nor do I have a problem with them expressing that opinion.
But I do think they are silly if they resort to posting 'sarky comments' and belittling people because their opinion is different.

Hence my 'silly' comment - I was actually being kind.

I'm not trying to convince you (or anyone else) of anything and I doubt Ilona is either.

Nargleblast

Each to their own, indeed. Moneysaving presents a different kind of challenge to the person living alone on a pension, compared with a couple in a house with a tribe of kids. Both situations call for focussing on different priorities, but the end objective is the same - to get the most out of the money you have available to spend, and have some quality of life doing so. I find every suggestion on these forums worth a thought, because they might not suit me personally but someone else will take those ideas and use them in their own lives. I find it annoying when the media tries to make someone look a fool just to get a good story to fill column inches or airtime.

GreyQueen

I really like Ilona's blog and I think she'd be a fascinating person to go on a walk with, unlike La Feltz, who has always struck me as a rather silly, talentless individual. Mind you, these so-called presenters are mostly people devoid of any discernable merit, imo.

There's a huge disaparity in wealth in developed nations like the UK, and the chattering classes can't really get their head around the wily thrifters like Ilona and probably all of us here on MSE. In their world view, everyone's either middle class and comfortable, or arris-out-yer-trousers underclassy and living like pigs and having worthy Guardian articles written about them.

The person who remakes jumbly clothes to fit, who crafts from other people's cast-offs, who knows a thousand tricks to live their kind of life on a lot less money than it should cost, really doesn't compute with them. They literally cannot comprehend it.

So they mock. And stuff 'em. I credit Ilona's example with giving me the bottle to start cutting my own hair 14 months ago. It's never looked better, I get plenty of compliments, much more so than before, I avoid the hated hairdresser and save time and shedloads of money.

:T Ilona rocks!

Caterina

I am a great fan of Ilona and really admire her lifestyle.

I would eat out of a saucepan and in the past i remember one occasion when all my knickers were in the wash and DH lent me a pair of his y-fronts, no problem there, knickers are knickers.

I would generally not eat out of a saucepan when in the company of my family and I tend to wear coordinated bra and pants these days, but if I needed to I would do both. Nothing intrinsically wrong with either!

LadyDee

I think Ilona sounds just the sort of person I would like to be and certainly I would love to meet her, she sounds brilliant - who couldn't admire a woman who drove a truck? Not to mention putting up with being interviewed by the Feltz woman.

fuddle

pigpen wrote: »

Not silly.. just disagreeing and living their lives differently with different priorities, abilities and opportunities.

I'd rather not wear pants at all than wear mens undies.. I've had some of my undies years.. because I dont buy cheap crap..


I cant shop at the time Ilona does and different shops reduce items at different times.

It costs the same to fill a bowl of water to clean 1 pan as it does to clean 1 pan 20 plates and 5 mugs with associated cutlery.. eating out of a pan is in my opinion utterly disgusting.. the very poor families here used to eat out of a washing up bowl... 10 children, a spoon each and swap saliva.. vulgarity and poverty at its best!

Each to their own but different isnt necessarily wrong. So long as we all do our bit who cares? Just don't try to convince me one persons way is the way for us all!

It's the language used in order to disagree that is the problem for me. I have no problem with people disagreeing with my views but when there's an air of 'holier than thou' or negativity mixed with digs for being different then I have a problem. I like reading other people's way of living. I can get inspired or I can read that it isn't for me and move on.

Callie22

fuddle wrote: »

It's the language used in order to disagree that is the problem for me. I have no problem with people disagreeing with my views but when there's an air of 'holier than thou' or negativity mixed with digs for being different then I have a problem. I like reading other people's way of living. I can get inspired or I can read that it isn't for me and move on.

To be fair, that happens on both sides of the frugal debate. I read quite a few 'frugal living' blogs and there are some I just don't bother with because (to me) the writers are just so sanctimonious and judgmental about what they see as 'non-frugal' lifestyles, they are just as bad as the people who lambaste others for living a frugal lifestyle. Being frugal means different things to different people, it's such a broad church and it's just pointless to criticise a life that you're not living, whatever kind of life that is (ok, within reason but you get my point ...)