Put away your purse & become debt-averse

Onebrokelady

:rotfl:Omg,I have done the same thing,I did need some shoes for my daughters graduation so the need was there but I saw this pair and I had to have them,I have size 4 feet and these were a 3.5 now in fairness to myself I can sometimes get away with this size in one particular shop,but not this shop and not these shoes,I bought them and spent the day of the graduation in agony becasue they were just too tight,I used the logic that they would stretch but of course that didn't happen .........guess where they ended up:rotfl:

foxgloves

Lol, glad it's not just me, then! Oh & that's reminded me......I bought an expensive pair of blue shoes for my graduation. I don't like blue (apart from denim) & they had such high heels that once I'd tottered across the stage to collect my degree, I barely wore them again. Can remember a fellow student (who was ridiculously sensible with money) asking me why anybody would buy shoes too uncomfortable to walk in & I just looked at her like she'd lost the plot. Another classic waste of money on my part though......& another win for the charity shop! I'm so different now, despite still loving boots, etc.

foxgloves

Soup-making planned for today. Aiming to use up various bits from the freezer too, to make room for a useful stash of 'free' soup, seeing as how I've either grown the veg or have the ingredients in stock already. Will report back later.
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foxgloves

Oooh well that was a useful morning. I'd picked a whole basket of lovely big juicy tomatoes & a busy session in the kitchen today has turned them into 6 portions of Carluccio's pasta sauce & 7 portions of Cranks tomato soup (love that old book...mine has fallen apart). I also defrosted some home made ham stock from & got a batch of golden lentil soup going in the slow cooker. Enjoyed the cooking, but not so much the freezer tetris trying to get all my containers in there!
Kept some tomato soup back for tonight's meal. Will use up last of the sourdough for cheese on toast to go with it.
Plenty more produce to deal with, but that's it for today.
Haven't been out, so haven't spent a single penny.
Off to do the veg watering now & fetch the laundry in. Am truly ready for some proper rain now.....it's probably waiting till we go camping!
Cheers,
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Toni'sfriend

That sounds like my idea of heaven. I love making soup and sauce - all that chopping and stirring is so therapeutic. haven't heard of Cranks. I'm off to look that up.
Sympathise with trying to get it all in the freezer though.

Sayschezza

At 74 you would think I had more sense than to dither over a coat in the JS sale that's only available in xs when I am a L but ......

I haven't ordered it.

crazy_cat_lady

Once I bought size 5 DMs because I wanted blue but they didn’t have them in a 6. They were fairly quickly handed down to my smaller sister...

foxgloves

Oh it sounds like lots of us have been at it! Buying shoes in the wrong size, I mean. I'd never do it again, that's for sure!
Sayschezza - well done for not ordering that coat in the wrong size. I bought a new winter coat 2 years ago (planned & budgeted for). I bought the correct size then - a 16 - but my weight has crept up to an 18 during those 2 years & I have only worn that lovely coat twice because it's too tight. This year, my goal is to be able to wear it....comfortably.buttoned up.....by the time the cold weather arrives. It's a waste of money if it spends another winter languishing away in my wardrobe.

Toni'sFriend - I love the Cranks book. I bought it in the 1980s when it first came out in paperback. I've never been a vegetarian but I do eat lots of meat-free meals. There are recipes in there I've been cooking for years. Cranks used to have a few London restaurants. I once visited the one in Covent Garden......it was wholesome tasty filling stuff & nice cakes!
I could do with replacing my pbk copy as it is in several pieces & falls apart when I pick it up.
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angela110660

Thumbs up here also for Cranks paperback but mine is a bit of a wreck too these days! But still very useable. Sadly never got to one of their restaurants though.

foxgloves

It's got some recipes in I've used for decades, Angela: the chickpea croquettes, which arw falafel in all but name, the lovely tomato soup, spiced bread pudding (my Dad's absolute favourute right up to when he died last year), the cheesy lentil wedges, country biscuits, macro-rice, lemon cake, date slices, etc. My copy is in bits, the cover is off & it's scribbled all over with my notes.
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