Is Old Style a Rose Tinted World?

Austin_Allegro

I agree completely that the real rose tinted spec people are the ones that try to live the Footballers' Wives lifestyle (what I would call 'Cheshire Posh') on an average salary.

It is difficult with friends though. Last weekend I went to stay with a pal who I know is having money troubles, and he spent £55 on his weekly shop! I chipped in a tenner but still felt obliged to mention MSE.

Rage_in_Eden

good grief austin where's he shopping? I know what you mean though - there is such pressure on people to live a certain way (just look at the latest M&S ad and how it sells it's food as "it's not just....").

Loadsabob

Rage_in_Eden wrote:

good grief austin where's he shopping? I know what you mean though - there is such pressure on people to live a certain way (just look at the latest M&S ad and how it sells it's food as "it's not just....").

Ah, WELL, my Macaroni cheese is not just macaroni cheese - it's a hearty dish made of macaroni from organic Italian wholewheat, with a handmade organic cheddar sauce coating organic spanish onion and brown cap mushrooms lightly sauted in a little butter. The dish is topped with breadcrumbs from organic homemade seeded bread, and organic cherry tomatoes, seasoned with freshly ground black pepper, sea salt, paprika and freshly grated nutmeg, oven-baked and served with crispy bacon.

And it STILL only costs me pence!!!!!!!!! Sort of!...

Thank goodness I've just had lunch, I'd be making myself quite peckish! Beats M&S, I tell you!

Rage_in_Eden

Loadsabob- LOL :rotfl:

oh get you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beachbeth

I love this website and this oldstyle forum is where I spend most time, even if I don't post a lot.

My mum is an excellent cook (I mean professional standard, even though she had no training!). She really missed her vocation. Therefore, when I was growing up most of what we ate was homemade, eg sauces from scratch. So, since I married (Im now in my 40's) I rarely use ready made sauces from a jar and make most things for myself (not bread though) and it always surprises me when people buy packets or jars of things like parsley sauce or cheese sauce. I think these things taste awful too! Im not the brilliant cook that my mum is but I don't do too bad. Im known in my family for producing delicious fairy cakes!

When my eldest daughter, now 18, was a baby I always used terry nappies. I can remember soaking them in milton and washing them, which was horrible, but they also looked lovely on the washing line, all pearly and white! I once bought some disposables to use while we were on holiday and they brought her out in a red raw rash!

I can't understand anyone not wanting to wear second hand clothes really. Ive recently bought quite a few items from Ebay and they've all been lovely and clean and fresh. One particular jumper which was originally from Next was like brand new and it smelt out of this world! I don't know what fabric conditioner the previous owner used but it was lovely! Ive got a load of new clothes for next to nothing in this way. My sister-in-law bought some new shorts from a charity shop recently and they were from Principals and really nice material. They looked like they'd never been worn. I feel sorry for people who refuse to buy second hand. They are really missing out!

Loadsabob

beachbeth wrote:

I feel sorry for people who refuse to buy second hand. They are really missing out!

I've often found that second hand is the only way to find the clothes I want. I don't follow fashion, and I couldn't bring myself to wear what "everyone" is wearing. Even if I like a particular style, as soon as it becomes the "In-thing", I give it a rest for a little while. In charity shops though, I've found some brilliant little dresses, just the right style for wearing over my flared jeans, or cords. And they're just not IN the shops right now.

However, my boyfriend is much better at finding bargains than I am! Having just decided between two pairs of new Clarks shoes, at £40 each, he popped into a charity shop in another town a week later (we LOVE charity shops! Me for books, him for records), and found the other pair, unworn (honestly, soles gleaming and unscratched!) for £4.99!!!!!!!!!! He'd bought the others during an offer period, so I think it worked out he'd ended up with both pairs for under £40!!! Excellent! Things like that don't happen to me!

Rage_in_Eden

I agree Loadsa - charity shops are sooo fab and I have found some absolute bargains - much to the amazement of my colleagues at work one of which just simply won't even go in a charity shop (!). OH though gets the "best buy award" even though I spotted it. A handmade suit for £12 in Cancer Research. Made in the 1970s in classic style out of green/brown tweed type material. Suits him (sir) and fits like it was made for him!!! Actually I may have a trawl around our charity shop emporium (I pass 4 on the way home and could go to another 3 if I went in the opposite direction first).......

Bargain hunting - yey :j

ambersmita

I Love old style, I am happy with my bicarbonate of soda deodrant! My succulent and free home grown strawberries and gooseberrys. And what's more I love each and every one of you who loves old style two (no matter which tip or how many tips you have taken into your lives!) I love the planet and am sick of the waste we create! you only have to take a trip to my local tip to realise that people have gone mad and no longer value anything or repair anything - consumerism sucks, Greed sucks the future from each and every living creature on this planet (including, most disturbingly the future of your children). Old Style or what ever you call it is common sense and thank goodness that you all have it! I am truly uplifted when I think I am not the only one who has lead an old style life. I was bullied at school because my clothes were second hand, and hand on heart It never got to me because I loved my mum and dad and knew that they were working hard for the money they earnt, I enjoyed going the the Jumble sales with my Mum, it was fun! I really think that those kids who bullied me because they could afford expensive new clothes were the loosers!! Thanks to your posts I feel that I share a special knowlege with you guys and I dont feel isolated - just a shame the internet wasnt around when I was 10!!!

Money savers I salute you, save your money and save the planet!!

crana999

Loadsabob wrote:

Ah, WELL, my Macaroni cheese is not just macaroni cheese - it's a hearty dish made of macaroni from organic Italian wholewheat, with a handmade organic cheddar sauce coating organic spanish onion and brown cap mushrooms lightly sauted in a little butter. The dish is topped with breadcrumbs from organic homemade seeded bread, and organic cherry tomatoes, seasoned with freshly ground black pepper, sea salt, paprika and freshly grated nutmeg, oven-baked and served with crispy bacon.

And it STILL only costs me pence!!!!!!!!! Sort of!...

Thank goodness I've just had lunch, I'd be making myself quite peckish! Beats M&S, I tell you!

Unfortunately, my microwaved jacket with beans and cheese is just that.