The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... I spend virtually nothing on make-up! ... little on perfume....next to nothing on handbags....
Plus I own no 'designer' clothes. ...

Out of interest, what are other NP's spending 'weaknesses'?
(I promise I won't tell Martin!).

My makeup collection is a couple of 50p eye liners and a £1 mascara, they'll typically last me 5 years or so.

Perfume's usually none at all, but I did splash out on a £3 L1dl one last year that was supposed to be good. I like it, but it's so expensive... so never bothered over the years.

Designer clothes, never had any.... wouldn't actually be able to name any though, so might've, unknowingly, from a chazza at some point.

Handbags, got a few in the cupboard, bought from charity shops, in case I need one, typical cost £1. I usually use a "zipped shoulder strap beach tote", which usually contains 1-2 4ldi bags for life for any shopping I pick up. If I'm going "out" then I'll grab one of those little bags, which is typically a small pouch bag on a long strap, just big enough for cigs, lighter, purse, keys. I hate handbags that have to be held/put down/remembered... I like to have them strapped to me, so I don't forget.

My thing is my rollies

PasturesNew

I've a confession to make .... I've "decided" what house to buy next, without even viewing any .... and already mentally moved in. I've worked out where the furniture will go ... and everything, even the curtains... and what to put in each kitchen cupboard (even though I don't actually know how many there are).

Trouble is ... it might not be available by the time I sell mine... so, no other one will do. It might already have had an offer over the weekend.... and I've not.

Oh well.

Off to view it now...

ivyleaf

Wow PN, that's exciting! If it's the right one for you, it will be there when you're able to make an offer

silvercar

Looks like shoes are winning across the sexes!

My thing is my rollies

My thing is jewellery. Necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Not rings, I wear the same 3 rings every day.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

What about, instead of perfume, after-shower splash stuff and aftershave, (which some men wear even if they have a beard?)

That stuff makes my nose run, so I never wear it!

michaels

Jazee wrote: »

Garden for me too but it does look lovely, is my haven from day to day stuff all year round so worth it. I saw in the garden centre yesterday that you can now buy weatherproof miniatures to build village scenes and the like. Am pondering where I might build something like this now.

You start off with a couple of figurines and before you know it it gets out of hand and you end up with this which we visited this summer.



I have 4 pairs. of shoes, 1 x trainers worn outside when not at work, 1 x black leather lace ups worn at work, 1 x crocs worn indoors and 1 x cheap work boots from Aldi worn outside when it is muddy/slushy.

No make-up, no smelly products - I find they really irritate my throat and nose like hay fever and wish people wouldn't wear so much, the tube and train in the morning and be a real coughie, eye-watery, sneezy experience, worst in the morning when people have just sprayed. Honestly, if you are clean out of the shower and your clothes (no need for that fabric conditioner extra smell either, just clean is fine) and hair are clean there is no need to add any other 'fragrance', you will smell just fine already.

Our discretionary spend is entirely kids activities from ballet to latin via karate, clarinet and football amongst many others - it keeps them from being on the street doofing and screaming....

SingleSue

Make up - Maybe £10 a year maximum

Handbags - I have one. I usually purchase a good one which lasts me for years, the one I have now Joe bought me almost 2 years ago, £150 reduced down to £70 something in the sales...leather. Still looks and feels brand new

Perfume - £0

Designer clothes - £0

My weakness? Books. It's always been books....

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Just planted out winter pansies this weekend, slightly concerned they may grow too fast and look dangly by the time it gets cold.

Still waiting for mine to get a bigger rootball. They came as mini plug plants about a month ago and I potted them into 3" pots in the greenhouse. They are growing beautifully, indeed quite a few are flowering so it smells rather nice in there, but without decent rootballs at least reaching the bottoms of the pots I'm a bit loathe to plant them out yet.

I've got a different variety of pansy that came last week all looking comfortable with the switch from a post packet to pots but they'll want at least another month before going outside and I've just received a pack of primula plugs - that's the next job, potting those on.

The greenhouse is starting to get a tad crowded now, I put some temporary shelves in, mainly for growing things on between sowing and planting out next year but those are almost full already - what with 8 trays of pansies, 4 of onions, a couple of autumn sowing flowers for next year and 3 of primulas to go in later on. I've still got a couple of aubergines in a growbag (but at least they've started fruiting now), a couple of chillies fruiting very well and some lettuces in the buckets that will be for tomatoes or melons next year.

I hope I will still have room to get in and move around when I take in the pots of less hardy perennials in a month or so. Oh, plus the tubs of potatoes to go in early next year - I tried that this year to start them off early and it worked a treat.

Planted out a load of forget-me-nots and polyanthus (or should they be polyanthi since there's more than one?) last week too, they were sold as "garden ready" and seem to have taken happily.

I only pulled up last year's pansies last week - although they were looking straggly and flopping off the front of the planters, they were still flowering well so I wasn't inclined to pull them up until last week. When I did I found out what had happened to the perennial sweet peas I'd planted in the spring - they'd decided to climb up the pansies, but hadn't twigged that the pansies were hanging down, therefore the "up" they'd decided to follow was actually down
I've now tied them to the trellis and they are growing in the right direction now.

Out in the veggie patch, I've had most of some varieties of carrots and started on the parsnips. The brussels sprouts are now forming sprouts and the second sowing of calabrese are now growing nice heads. Oh, and my runner beans STILL haven't finished. Got yet another pound of beans off them this morning

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've a confession to make .... I've "decided" what house to buy next, without even viewing any .... and already mentally moved in. I've worked out where the furniture will go ... and everything, even the curtains... and what to put in each kitchen cupboard (even though I don't actually know how many there are).

Trouble is ... it might not be available by the time I sell mine... so, no other one will do. It might already have had an offer over the weekend.... and I've not.

Oh well.

Off to view it now...

I shouldn't worry, Pastures. You can still make an offer to show goodwill.
I was a bit like that with the house I'm in now. I spent three months looking at houses in another town, but couldn't find what I wanted in my price range.
So I started looking in another, cheaper town, and on the first day, saw the particulars for this house, right near the end of the business day, and got a very funny feeling that it was The One, then when I saw the outside, the feeling escalated, and once I'd gone round the house, that was it; hot-footed to the agent to put in an offer before they shut. (Years before mobile phones).
And I'm still here!

silvercar wrote: »

My thing is jewellery. Necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Not rings, I wear the same 3 rings every day.

Ooh! I forgot jewellery........specifically earrings. I'm naked without my earrings.... dangly ones though.
I like rings, too, but like you, wear the same ones every day, so unless I see one that has some deep significance, I don't buy any more.

SingleSue wrote: »

Make up - Maybe £10 a year maximum

Handbags - I have one. I usually purchase a good one which lasts me for years, the one I have now Joe bought me almost 2 years ago, £150 reduced down to £70 something in the sales...leather. Still looks and feels brand new

Perfume - £0

Designer clothes - £0

My weakness? Books. It's always been books....

Ooh! I forgot books too! :eek:
They tend to be reference books, though.
The last book I bought was a couple of months ago, and it was the latest edition of Chambers Crossword Dictionary. I have three others, but I like to have the latest one, as I use them all the time!:rotfl:





What are rollies?
Roll-up ciggies or roller skates?

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

You start off with a couple of figurines and before you know it it gets out of hand and you end up with this which we visited this summer.



I have 4 pairs. of shoes, 1 x trainers worn outside when not at work, 1 x black leather lace ups worn at work, 1 x crocs worn indoors and 1 x cheap work boots from Aldi worn outside when it is muddy/slushy.

No make-up, no smelly products - I find they really irritate my throat and nose like hay fever and wish people wouldn't wear so much, the tube and train in the morning and be a real coughie, eye-watery, sneezy experience, worst in the morning when people have just sprayed. Honestly, if you are clean out of the shower and your clothes (no need for that fabric conditioner extra smell either, just clean is fine) and hair are clean there is no need to add any other 'fragrance', you will smell just fine already.

Our discretionary spend is entirely kids activities from ballet to latin via karate, clarinet and football amongst many others - it keeps them from being on the street doofing and screaming....

So, instead they are on the street going Hi-yah!, pirouetting, quoting Ovid, and playing Stranger on the Shore?