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

GDB2222

I read books, too, but I have not bought one for ages. (Well, one recently, when I come to think about it.) I have Kindle Reader on my ipad, and there is just so much free stuff that I never get round to paying for anything. I currently carry around nearly 100 books that I have not yet read.

hjd

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....

Make up - nil (unless you count moisturiser?)
Handbags - only one at any one time, usually Kipling acquired at outlet shop or in sale
Perfume - I use some which I get family to buy for my birthday/Christmas
Designer clothes - nil

Haircuts - £50 every 6 weeks which covers me and DH. Have never coloured hair or anything else, never will
Also never used a tanning salon, had eyebrows tattooed on (friend has just spent £350 on microblading...) or anything at a beauty salon.
Keep telling DH I'm a cheap date, not sure he believes me!

My weakness is also books. Surely they are a necessity not a luxury though?

Pyxis

Moisturiser isn't make-up! You're ok, there!
Plus I use loads of handcream, as my hands feel horribly dry every time I wash my hands.
However, the cheap stuff works as well as, or even better than, more expensive stuff.

I refuse to pay loads for moisturiser, either. I think it's a rip-off. So I use the cheaper stuff, and resent paying that.
Tried making my own once, but that wasn't very successful.



I forgot about the fact that I have my hair coloured, too........ but I have had the same person come to the house for years, and she's much, much cheaper than the salons.
Before I started having my hair straightened, I used to cut it myself, but cutting straight hair yourself is fraught with problems. I do sometimes trim my fringe, though, and sometimes it does go a bit wonky.

michaels

I saw a show recently that tested moisturizers and make up. Conclusion was that although moisturizer might improve skin appearance on the day it made no difference to skin again long term - beyond any benefit if it contained sun cream. They also found the cheap ones were rated just as effective in terms of immediate hydration as the really expensive ones.

Make up they found that in subjective appearance tests cheap foundations/powders were just as good as the expensive ones but for eye make up paying more was worth it.

Jazee

I'll look up what Minecraft is later. Have decided on my spot though, the one corner of the garden the dogs don't bother with.

Pyxis

Jazee wrote: »

I'll look up what Minecraft is later. Have decided on my spot though, the one corner of the garden the dogs don't bother with.

Never done it, but as I understand it, you can build virtual settlements and towns and things.
Or something.

silvercar

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.

Our local garden centre has one of these, it's a farm. Looks like an outdoor version of a doll's house to me. Almost a nativity scene that is suitable for year round display.

silvercar

chris_m wrote: »

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

whoosh....

I went to the garden centre and bought some plants. And some soil. Through the soil onto the flower beds, gave it some water, added the plants, watered again. Job done. Plants were in soil about 5cm x 5cm x 5cm a lot of rootball showing.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Never done it, but as I understand it, you can build virtual settlements and towns and things.
Or something.

I would hazard a guess that it's Sim City (for those who remember that) on steroids

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

whoosh....
I went to the garden centre and bought some plants. And some soil. Through the soil onto the flower beds, gave it some water, added the plants, watered again. Job done. Plants were in soil about 5cm x 5cm x 5cm a lot of rootball showing.

More advanced than mine, then. I'm not worried, they'll catch up.