2024 Fashion On The Ration Challenge

PipneyJane

Good morning All

The village hall doesn’t look too bad after all the partying.  Thank you to whomever tidied up in the wee small hours.  I’ll just give it a quick sweep and put the kettle on.

boultdj said:

Can I join please?
And I buy men's t-shirts, thermal vest because they are longer and keep more of my back warm, so do I pay their price for them?

Welcome @boultdj We’ll assume you’re buying boys’ sizes, so pay the boys’ cost.  (Men being so much larger.)

- Pip

boultdj

Thank you @PipneyJane, size of me, men's then, downside of Lipodemia means a lot bigger legs.
Talking of legs, I have to have medical wraps because of the Lipodemia, how do I count them?
And happy New Year everyone.

PipneyJane

boultdj said:

Thank you @PipneyJane, size of me, men's then, downside of Lipodemia means a lot bigger legs.
Talking of legs, I have to have medical wraps because of the Lipodemia, how do I count them?
And happy New Year everyone.

they are a medical device, so coupon free.  The assumption is the hospital is giving them to you on prescription.

- Pip

Liverpool_Anne

Hi all, lovely to see everyone here again and welcome to newbies. I have finally tested negative although feeling like I have been hit by a bus, so I am going to the footy today and will probably spend tomorrow sleeping to recover
This year I really must sort through my clothes and get rid of what I don't like or doesn't for or is in the enormous section called 'decorating' clothes as they are not fit to be worn outside of the house
@thriftwizard I don't think you would have to account for rope, if it's available . I am intrigued how you make these. Do you wrap the scraps of fabric around the rope then sew it together? I will have to google this
Off to get something to eat
Happy New Year everyone

flamingo747

I'm wondering whether to try to rein in my excessive charity shop clothing purchases by counting coupons at half value for them. I am not really in the habit of buying brand new because financially I haven't been able to afford it. But I am prone to buying too much/unsuitable/repeated CS items (I think I have 10prs of CS jeans in different sizes, none of which I wear as too small and prefer leggings!)

retiredinfrance

@flamingo747-Thats me to a T . I now try to buy less at the CS as a 3 euro blouse is really costing 9-12 , given the number of items that wend their way back. I have given up buying jeans/ trousers in CS -and in MandSssss as nothing really seems to fit me well and they all go back. I now buy a classy brand - they fit and will probably cost less in the long run. I might follow your example of half coupon on CS clothes to use my carryover from 2023. 

PipneyJane

@retiredinfrance please tell me, what are the main charity shop chains in France?  To my knowledge, I have never seen a CS there, but I rarely get the chance to potter around. (And I have only been in France once since COVID arrived.)

- Pip 

retiredinfrance

Emmaus, in most biggish towns. Croix Rouge( Red Cross, again most biggish towns , though the ones near us are in smaller towns. I think it depends on whether there is a ready supply of volunteers. Secours Catholique (Catholic Help) , SecoursPopulaire( Popular Help) - a secular version of Catholic Help. The main difference is that the whole scene is totally different. Chains - not as we know them - not on high streets, not in towns where one might expect them, not well known about locally . The result of this is that if in a strange town , asking about CS whereabouts is often met with a blank look. Opening hours may be 2 hours one afternoon or two afternoons a week. Maybe the very big cities might have longer hours. The problem there is that I’m rarely in a very big city and finding them can be difficult. The irony locally is that there are British- run CS , again we generally hear of them by word of mouth and they tend to fund raise for animals . The French ones are all for helping people. French law might play a role here. Donations - money- to causes that help either people or patrimoines  - heritage sites attract tax relief but not for animals. Illness  - related don’t have shops but attract tax relief donations, a lot is donated in wills. When we donated to Ukraine we got tax relief. 

Hope that helps. 

PollyWollyDoodle

Interesting, but maybe the French aren’t so much into fast fashion. 

I’ve had to stop buying in charity shops ‘just because’, I realised I was just buying too many clothes even if they were bargains. Now I use my old method of ‘three things it will go with, three places I will wear it’ before I buy something new, and I try to operate a one in/one out policy. It’s time for a wardrobe overhaul, and to acknowledge that I’m not going to lose any more weight this year.  🙄

boultdj

PipneyJane said:

boultdj said:

Thank you @PipneyJane, size of me, men's then, downside of Lipodemia means a lot bigger legs.
Talking of legs, I have to have medical wraps because of the Lipodemia, how do I count them?
And happy New Year everyone.

they are a medical device, so coupon free.  The assumption is the hospital is giving them to you on prescription.

- Pip

Yes they are, and I have to go for a fitting later this year for new one's, as a plus each one comes with a pair of stockings, 4 pieces per leg so 8 pairs of stocking, very sexy thick gray nylon ones. lol