Resourcefulness: The budgeter's friend

joedenise

Another one not allowed to get ears pierced until after I left school and was earning my own money to pay for them!  She didn't want me to accuse her of "mutilating my body!"

foxgloves

I have multiple ear piercings but no others. In my 30s, I did intend to have my nose pierced & wear a tiny sparkly diamond in it, & when I mentioned this to my Mum, she announced she would 'cut me out of her will' if I went ahead with it. She wouldn't have done, but it is strange that she still had this aversion to piercings & considering them to be common. Actually, I never went through with it. I had a job promotion to another area of the county & was struck by just how very many women of all ages I came across had pierced noses - it was a community-based public sector role - that it didn't feel like an unusual, slightly radical thing to do any more, & I went off the idea. I do very occasionally still think about it though....always a little diamond, never a nose-ring. 
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badmemory

Sun_Addict said:

Your mum sounded just like mine. I wasn’t allowed to have my ears pierced because it was common. I wonder what she’d make of my navel piercing 🤣 Eating or drinking in the street was also common in her opinion - I still wouldn’t do it to this day. 

My mother said they were common too.  Then a few years later both she & my sister had their ears done.  I had to sit across at Sunday dinner looking at them & trying not to heave.  Then a girl at work had her nose done & then caught a cold.  I just can't see putting holes in yourself that you don't have to do.  But then each to his own & we are all allowed our own things.  I know I am the odd one out on this.

weenancyinAmerica

My mother was the same way - but I never started wearing make-up, still don't. One sister started wearing make-up only when she started teaching, doesn't now she is retired. The youngest who is fifteen years younger than me started wearing make-up in junior high and wearing trousers and even shorts to school. Both sisters got their ears pierced. I just don't wear jewelry. Younger has a large collection of jewelry especially bracelets. Other sister just got stuff to wear to school - especially funny pins and different earrings. 

By the way, the city told us to put left-over cat food and dog food in the composting/organic waste trash bin. It might go in your compost pile, just like human food does.

Cheery_Daff

I think the usual advice is not to put meat into home compost systems, unless you've got a special kind of hot composting thing going on. Municipal food waste collection is different though, and I know there are different schools of thought (and we don't have any meat here so I may just have not been paying attention!)

I wasn't allowed to have ears pierced til I was 16 either, although for me it was nothing to do with being common, and more because "what happens if they catch on someone's t shirt while you're doing PE and it rips your ear off??" 😱😂 My mum always was a catastrophiser 😂 I had mine done at 16, and then a few more in one ear, but I did stop after that (for now, at least 🤭)

ladyholly

I originally told my dd that she could have her ars peirced when she was 16. I relented when she had to have braces and told her she could have them when the braces came off. What I didnt foresee was that braces were put on so badly she had her cheeks ripped to pieces and she couldnt eat at all so they came off. At that point she rightly told me her braces were off so she could have them. I think she was almost 15 at the time. She later got a nose stud which my dh referred to that Bl**** nail. Neither ears or nose lasted very long and now she wears very little jewellery. I have never fancied earring as I dont like the way they look on me.

Tescodealqueen

Ears pierced at 16, when I was allowed. did have a second piercing in each ear years later but they never took and healed a couple of years later. It was higher up the earlobe and hurt which the first had never done. Some of the pierced ears I see scare me just to look at them  as I imagine they are painful. I am truly a wimp 

Humdinger1

Horror story with happy ending coming up...I had my ears pierced for my 16th birthday.   Didn't turn the butterflies as advised and one ended up being swallowed by the hole! I had to go to hospital to get it out!!  All fine now.

rtandon27

It's amazing how different families are! 

My ears were pierced when I was a baby, as my Grandma in particular was of the opinion that her female progeny would not appear to be looked after by their families if they went out of the house without gold in their earlobes, around their necks and on their wrist.  It was very much a 'what will the neighbours think of us' type of thing for her.  I now wear very small keeper hoops and a thin chain around my neck in her memory, both silver as I can't stand gold!  I do however wear lots of chunky rings, which I know she would have found to be very tacky & common 😂😂😂.

I can also remember her being displeased with my conservative high-school which would not allow us to wear any make-up or nail polish or perfume.  She believed every young lady should learn how to care for herself.  I was well past 16 before any of these became part of my daily routine!  She always 'dressed' to leave the house & made sure her make-up and hair were done.  I remember her as being very refined, stylish and careful about her appearance, even into her old age!

EssexHebridean

Just the single ear piercing here - I had mind done when I was 10 or so I think, it was horribly painful (my first real confirmation of quite how ludicrously low my pain threshold is) and then one got infected too so I had awful problems with them for ages - it definitely put me off ever getting any more! I pretty much only wear small studs now - although do occasionally put something more fancy in for a change. Anything dangly annoys me on a day-to-day basis though as it clatters against the phone at work. 

RT we weren't allowed to wear makeup at school either - although allowing that the fashion of the time included electric blue mascara that may well have been a blessing!