2022 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

MrsCD

Lovely hot water bottle covers, @Gem-gem

Sorry about your cardi, @PipneyJane
Could it have fallen out and gone under the car in the dark? Hope you find it soon.

[Deleted User]

Hope you don't mind me joining you half way through the year.  This challenge sounds like fun so here I am joining for the rest of the year. 

 As it is June, i decided that 33 coupons could be considered OK as it would be half the normal coupons for a year and since I have not brought anything since May it works out well.

Let the challenge begin.

MarthaB x 

PipneyJane

Deleted_User said:

Hope you don't mind me joining you half way through the year.  This challenge sounds like fun so here I am joining for the rest of the year. 

 As it is June, i decided that 33 coupons could be considered OK as it would be half the normal coupons for a year and since I have not brought anything since May it works out well.

Let the challenge begin.

MarthaB x 

Hi Martha (@goingforanewlife)

Welcome to 1942 and Much Mending on the Borrow.  We hope you'll be very happy in our little village.  Everyone's out on the village hall's veranda, enjoying the sunshine.  It overlooks the cricket pitch, where the cricket team are trying to explain the rules to the airmen from the American Air Base.  Very entertaining. Please come and join us.  Glass of PIMS?  Here, have this seat and tell us about yourself: do you sew, knit or crochet?

Whoever gave you your coupon book has diddled you.  We're in June, so 5/12ths of the way through the year.  You should have 39 coupons.  (Well, 38.5 but we'll round it up to 39.)

- Pip  (Can someone catch that dog, please?! Before he tries to fetch the cricket ball!)

Liverpool_Anne

@Cherryfudge, thanks for the ljnks, lots to look at
@PipneyJane, hope the cardigan turns up. I once lost a lovely scarf off the coat hanger in my hall. No idea what happened to it but I was upset for weeks.
Take care everyone

PipneyJane

MrsCD said:

Lovely hot water bottle covers, @Gem-gem

Sorry about your cardi, @PipneyJane
Could it have fallen out and gone under the car in the dark? Hope you find it soon.

Sadly not, @MrsCD.  Or, if it did, it will have happened outside the church, which is miles away.  It never made it home. DH has offered to buy me a replacement, if it isn't found.  I think that'll be my Christmas present. 

Beautiful crochet, Gem-gem.  Love the hearts.  

- Pip

Wraithlady

PipneyJane said:

Wraithlady said:

(On a separate note, one of the purveyors of second hand clothing wanted £20 for a very ordinary shirt! Profiteering or what?)

Are you sure you weren’t shopping at Flash Harry’s?  He is our local Spiv, after all.  (The cheek, @Wraithlady!  How on earth can you justify £20 for a second-hand shirt?)

Well, probably some chump will buy it, but it was extracting the Michael. Quite happy with the £3.50 I paid, thank you very much!

TwibbleDee

I have not purchased anything new, but have been on the hunt for new shorts to wear underneath my ever-present sleeveless wool dresses.  I haven't yet found any that I like better than what I have currently.  I need to see if certain items can be seen if I carry them in my shorts pockets; if they conceal well enough and stay in place, I think I'll just stick to this kind and hope I can order more.

2Scratters

Evening Peeps,
keep the updates coming, I am reading during the day too when I need to leave to sunshine. I did visit a couple of car boots over the weekend and have not been to one for over 3years. I do love a good route. I went to a local one on Sunday where there was not many stall holders. Not a problem it prevented me from spending more money again. I did manage to purchase 2 Linen dresses at £1 each. 1 perfect for this lovely weather and another will be perfect for the autumn. This one needs either a garment to be worn under it or I am thinking of saving some space and stitching some poppers to be able to have a change of "under garment" show. It is the style of the dress not me

2 Scratters xx

skogar

Scratters - Sounds like a good result - 2 linen dresses. Well done. I have been searching this year but have not found quite what I would like....

Cherryfudge

Slip - 4 coupons
bra - 1.5 coupons

I'm glad makeup comes coupon-free!

Also glad that the small print says clothes for children under four are coupon-free, because I've just bought DGD two skirts!