Old style MSE treat for £3

freyasmum

I really like this thread. It has been good for focussing my mind.

I have said previously that I find myself stuck between wanting to eschew shops and materialism and then almost coveting some things - which, interestingly, I find myself loving for the first little while after I buy them and then the pleasure of the items tails off quickly. I have far too much stuff in my life (mostly from gifts) and hate that there is too much in the house. I also hate fact that marketing makes people want to buy stuff.

I've never found any treasures like you all seem to find in a charity shop though! It's not somewhere I tend to visit with habit rather just popping in on the offchance (which is probably where I'm going wrong), but I've never found anything I liked

Also, funny you should mention hygge (possibly in another thread :think:) as the book that I read (3 for £5 in the works) on holiday (which, while it can't quite be considered MSE in some people's views, we still saved £700 by flying from a different airport which covered our travel to the other airport and spending money) was centred right around the concept, having not heard it for a while!

Actually, now that I think about it, our plants have given great pleasure and have cost less than £3 each. I think I got trays of 6 plants from a local nursery for around £2.50 and they have given us a beautiful display since April/May. Also our tomato plants and strawberries were £1 or less each and gave us lots of pleasure (even if it was giggling at our baby sneaking and scoffing the green strawberries!) especially the strawberries with their runners! My OH and daughter built a planter with the spare wood from the decking that we built (ourselves), she and I painted it and we all planted it up with berries.

And if you managed to get through that, well done! It was rather more rambly than intended!

freyasmum

Actually my treat used to be a magazine and a bath, though magazines are expensive and I don't often get time for a nice long bath these days!

So I sign up for the 3 for £3/5 for £5 offers from time to time.

LameWolf

candygirl wrote: »

Aww bless Think I'm gonna send the terrible twins down to you, for a month :rotfl:

They'd be very welcome as far as I'm concerned - as you know, I love Staffies. :o

GlasweJen

Spendless wrote: »

I once bought my DD a pair of jazz shoes, good brand in a dance shop sale for £3 for her to wear at her drama classes. Though big then they were ok for use due to the fitted style so still fit now a couple of years on. Jazz shoes normally cost in excess of £20/£25, so am really precious about them as know how much they would be to replace. Downside is they're brown so eventually I did have to pay full whack for black ones for a production.

We used to buy white jazz shoes for exams. Come show time we'd use masking tape to make them brown for the stage. We didn't have the money to have 2 separate pairs. It was so common in our dance school that mums had rolls of tape and bottles of nail polish remover (to get the sticky marks off) in our dance bags.

candygirl

LameWolf wrote: »

They'd be very welcome as far as I'm concerned - as you know, I love Staffies. :o

As long as you don't mind a bit of bin diving, n remote stealing 😅

[Deleted User]

Best £3 I've spent lately was £3 x twice for two tickets on a Ferris wheel ride for my Zebra child and myself, Oh the fun, Oh the waving to Mummy Oh the look of absolute delight on his little face when he said' Oma we can see to the end of the world' as we stopped at the very top, priceless but at £3 each rather worth buying the tickets!

WeeMidgie

Today - three fresh figs from Lidl. Mmmmm.
Treats I like that don't cost a lot - a bath; the stroll every Sunday morning with three friends, finishing with a cuppa in a cafe; being retired is a treat in itself, even with the delayed state pension age. Free or low cost books (I never pay more than a max of £1.99, often free) on my Kindle are a real treat, as is being able to change the font design and size to suit. Using Messenger, free to chat with my daughter down under, that's a great treat, it used to cost such a lot to phone the Antipodes that it was kept for birthdays and Christmas. Yes also to charity shop and library books, and reduced price flowers!

Spendless

Years ago, I had a boyfriend who'd won some money, in token form on a fruit machine in his local (maybe £20ish). He'd won this money before I knew him, but when he'd tried to cash it behind the bar, had been told he couldn't exchange for cash or buy beer with it, he could only put it back in the machine.

He told me this story and one night when we were skint, boyfriend just took the tokens out. He played the fruit machine with them and cashed in every small amount he won, till we had enough for a round. Then he played more for another drink and so on. The pub served food and did a £1 special of Yorkshire pudding, sausage and gravy (this would be back in 89/90) so boyfriend won more and we ordered a plate each.

We ended the night, having not spent a penny, and quite pleased that we'd managed to get something from the pub.

I think I have fonder memories of that night (a story I've told my husband) than I have of the actual boyfriend, who eventually dumped me to date and marry the barmaid of a pub even closer to his home. :rotfl:

candygirl

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Best £3 I've spent lately was £3 x twice for two tickets on a Ferris wheel ride for my Zebra child and myself, Oh the fun, Oh the waving to Mummy Oh the look of absolute delight on his little face when he said' Oma we can see to the end of the world' as we stopped at the very top, priceless but at £3 each rather worth buying the tickets!

That's sooo cute ❤❤

Gem-gem

£1.34 pack of Tunnocks caramel wafers from Lidl.
Or...a secondhand book £3 eg John Grisham in hardback or Dan Brown's.
Or... sharing a bag of chips with my husband £2
Or... doing a jigsaw puzzle with hubby
Or... going on a walk with hubby/family - picking sloes and blackberries