2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

maddiemay

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@maddiemay, what a time of it you are having, a family funeral and wedding... do take time to look after yourself in amongst it all. 

We drove down to the south coast last Friday and stayed overnight with my new Mother-in-law, which went fairly well, and then our next trip will be north to stay overnight with Mr Elsewhere's new in-laws! 

I've just made a batch of very chocolatey brownies if anyone wants to test them. Mr E likes them, I loathe them, so it's my ideal kind of baking...! 

Yes, interesting times, our beautiful Border Collie has also gone to pastures new for good dogs, we are extremely sad and low, but on the plus side OH should become a GGDad any day, and I am due to become a GAunt again before C*****mas, and so the world turns even when we are struggling to keep perched upon it.

Pleased the visit to your new MIL went well, do your folks still live in the Bonnie lands, so missed visiting there since Covid, hope to make it to The Borders in September, but a full scale visit North of the Border may hopefully be next year.

Chocolate brownies sound good, although I can only eat tiny portions, I am notorious for looking longingly for something savoury amongst laden tables of cake and biscuits

Laura_Elsewhere

@maddiemay, in that case, do pop in to the Village Hall tomorrow when I plan to make Cheese Crispie biscuits!  

QueenJess

Laura_Elsewhere said:

Fizz2015 said:

@PipneyJane I have bought far too many clothes, I'm embarrassed to list them all, which is why I stayed away from this thread. I think I need to list them and take accountability. 

@Fizz2015 - my first year I used all my coupons by about April, my second year by midsummer...!  It takes practice - you're smashing the insidious habits that the throwaway society has pushed and pushed at you from infancy, after all  

I like to think of the wartime "Squanderbug" adverts and if I want to buy something I try (don't always manage it but at least I do try!) to think of whether it's really worth my coupons and whether I really do want it, or is it the Squanderbug whispering in my ear wickedly?!

Look.... see? "Shoppers' Disease" at the bottom...! 

  Love it!

dreamyd

maddiemay said:

Laura_Elsewhere said:

@maddiemay, what a time of it you are having, a family funeral and wedding... do take time to look after yourself in amongst it all. 

We drove down to the south coast last Friday and stayed overnight with my new Mother-in-law, which went fairly well, and then our next trip will be north to stay overnight with Mr Elsewhere's new in-laws! 

I've just made a batch of very chocolatey brownies if anyone wants to test them. Mr E likes them, I loathe them, so it's my ideal kind of baking...! 

Yes, interesting times, our beautiful Border Collie has also gone to pastures new for good dogs, we are extremely sad and low, but on the plus side OH should become a GGDad any day, and I am due to become a GAunt again before C*****mas, and so the world turns even when we are struggling to keep perched upon it.

Pleased the visit to your new MIL went well, do your folks still live in the Bonnie lands, so missed visiting there since Covid, hope to make it to The Borders in September, but a full scale visit North of the Border may hopefully be next year.

Chocolate brownies sound good, although I can only eat tiny portions, I am notorious for looking longingly for something savoury amongst laden tables of cake and biscuits

 Sorry for your loss -  we lost our tiny tiger  Feline Commander at the beginning of the month, and the house doesn't feel like a home any more (gives us more reason to plan  a permanent escape north)

PipneyJane

Big hugs to you @maddiemay and @dreamyd.  Pets are family.  Give yourselves time to grieve.

- Pip (personally, I reckon I was raised by the Labrador)

Wraithlady

Sorry to hear of your losses, @maddiemay and @dreamyd. 

Another spend to confess to - 2 coupons on a pair of leggings. If I've got to exercise, might as well wear something appropriate.

(Wonder if I declared the 3m of blue plush for the dressing gown I still haven't made)

2Scratters

MY Oh my the topper is absolutely stunning - well done all involved @keepcalmandcraft.
Is it cheating if I do not deduct any vouchers at this time. I am getting into the ethos of how it works. I am definitely thinking even more before I make a purchase. I have been looking at WANTING a dress or 2 more, I have made the decision of a particular brand I like then am starting to do more searching for what fits what I am prepared to pay. I am a CS shopper without any shame I am looking forward to some decent weekends and getting to a car boot or 2 also. I would like to purchase a few more linen items as I can always top up the colour with re dying them. 

2Scratters xx

Laura_Elsewhere

Wraithlady said:

(Wonder if I declared the 3m of blue plush for the dressing gown I still haven't made)

Dunno, but I bought the 5m of shell-pink very heavy upholstery satin for the dressing gown I still haven't made so long ago that I wasn't even in the challenge back then... 

I think it was cut out 4 or 5 years ago... got partly made, dismantled, re-started, dismantled.... ummm... 

Fizz2015

I wrote a post declaring my spends and lost it. Total coupons is 116 year to date. I have listed all my purchases and will list tomorrow. Certainly eye opening.

Cherryfudge

@maddiemay and @dreamyd, I'm so sorry to hear of your losses. Sending hugs...

@Fizz2015, 116 is less than two years' coupons, isn't it? That means you are into 1944. Well, my work colleague tells me she's in 2022!!! So you have a long way to go to catch up with such wanton profligacy.  

I wonder if you might get a few coupons back should you chose to donate any not-as-loved-as-you-expected items to the war effort? Admittedly, I've never heard of anyone succeeding in this, but there's a first time for everything.