Assuming you had three hundred bucks spending money, what would you spend it on? One big purchase? Say a new jacket or pair of boots? Or lots and lots of cheaper items that would most likely see you through Christmas and the fricking colder weather? * boo to cold by the way*
November 23, 2010 at 12:49 pm |
Boots. Always boots with your (and my) godforsaken winter weather.
November 23, 2010 at 1:23 pm |
Oops, that’s me. I gotta be more careful with my damn login.
November 23, 2010 at 1:11 pm |
Layers. I would spend it on layers since I do not need new boots of any kind. That said I did one year spend 100 on top of the range boots and jacket that would have cost well over 300 were they not in a great sale. I still have them in good condition seven years later. So its the quality/time/money equation.
November 23, 2010 at 1:31 pm |
I wouldn’t just buy one thing. Not in the current climate. And if the weather is as predicted one good coat won’t cut the mustard. I’d role with layers. I prefere quality and you’d get a nice coat for hundred bucks or so in the kildare outlet. They have lots of sales on. That italia shop has fabulous coats, real good quality and cut. Then you could get some nice gunas with tights or even some skinny pantalons. I usually hate them but Zara and h and m would do the job. Shoes, i wouldnt bother with, its too cold and we’re too poor to go anywhere to wear them. Also, get a woolly hat, one with a ginomo tassel.
November 23, 2010 at 1:49 pm |
Hmmmm the thing if its on one mega purchase than said item will probably last for years and you’ll know what you spent your money one. Whereas if its on lots of items then I always feel that I end up frittering some of the money away on semi-useless stuff.
November 23, 2010 at 2:24 pm |
$300 could buy a lot…I’d buy boots, a 3-season coat, and a fleece to layer under it when the REALLY cold weather hits.
November 23, 2010 at 2:29 pm |
I am DYING for a pair of new black boots. The pair I wore for ten years were so beat up that I didn’t bring them back over here.
We’ll be in Philly in January and I am so going to Head Start, my favorite shoe shop ever.
November 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm |
I know I should be sensible and buy a number of things, I do. But I REALLY like this coat. http://www.reissonline.com/eu/shop/womens/womens_new_arrivals/bally/light_fawn/
November 23, 2010 at 3:49 pm |
Nice coat, although I’m not gone on the colour, but €55 over budget….
November 23, 2010 at 3:58 pm
I know, but I just love the cut.
November 23, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Oh I know, I can see it covered in bloody slurm or cat hair. I really like it but I think I will be liking it from afar. Are you going to get black boots to replace your old ones or completely different?
* needs to reheel boots*
November 23, 2010 at 6:16 pm |
I could never have a coat so light in colour. It’d be blacked up with smudge on the first day.
November 23, 2010 at 4:00 pm |
Stupid being poor. You know if I DID have money there would be nothing I would be interested in buying.
November 23, 2010 at 4:07 pm |
Heh! But don’t you know that monetary poverty is the new emotional wealth!
I’m with you on the cut.
November 23, 2010 at 4:09 pm
Oh if only I could wear emotional wealth.
November 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Oh but you can, it’ll keep you smug all winter!
November 23, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Toasty smug eh? I may have to take it. * counts pennies*
November 23, 2010 at 4:30 pm |
Love the coat and particularly love bally. I bought a pair of brown leather boots at there shop in kildare outlet only last month, 200 bucks, there about 7 inches high and i love them. Maybe see do they have your coat. Also, you think i should feed and put that horse in stable tonight?
November 23, 2010 at 4:36 pm |
If it’s on decent enough grass just leave it be, you don’t own it. If you must do anything throw it in a few flakes of hay- about a quarter of a square bale, but soak it first.
November 23, 2010 at 4:34 pm |
Andraste, im merica we could buy lots of clothes with 300 over here we get ripped off like you wouldn’t believe.
November 23, 2010 at 4:45 pm |
I’d buy a horse and keep it in a home made stable …
November 23, 2010 at 4:52 pm |
You’ve enough to contend with, I believe Throat Ripper has grown somewhat.
November 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm
November 23, 2010 at 5:00 pm |
I wouldn’t twenty i wouldn’t say your good at making things. . . I’d say your a dab hand at breaking things though. Maybe just stick with that. And if your implying my stables are shoddy i’ll have you know they are the finest in all the land. Plus if people can live in his houses i’m pretty sure the ponies will manage and plus plus my aunt has enlisted him to build replicas for her and she is breeding horses for 30 odd years. So i guess she knows. Anywho ms cat, everyone reckons i should just ring the guy and tell him to take the horses outta there but i don’t want any agro, i just wondered did it need to be kept in. Ill do the food this evening, thanks for the advice.
November 23, 2010 at 5:01 pm |
Your aunt wants replica horses?
November 23, 2010 at 5:03 pm |
Is it shared grazing land? I am a little confused. Public or private? Does he pay to keep his horse on the land?
November 23, 2010 at 5:01 pm |
http://www.dannymorrison.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/back-fat-cat-315-264.jpg
November 23, 2010 at 5:04 pm |
Yes, that’s pretty close.
November 23, 2010 at 5:43 pm |
Cannot open linky. Ok i got my ponys on spur of the moment thinking i could give them to my aunt she’d sort them out then id find them a good home. For lots of reasons it didn’t go to plan. So my aunt kindly minded them for a while. Then i found some land close by her and both bought and rented it. I built stables, i rent 6 out whilst my little like kinda vet wannabe student cousin like minds them and stuff. My bills are paid and her like weekend alcohol dependacy escapades are like paid for. She is the aunts daughter and knows her shit. She showed the brat pony a lot, won us a few quid too. The two horses left there are on the part of the land i rent. It is not shared but apparently the guy has horses up there in a few places and im ascared if i give out it will bring trouble.
November 23, 2010 at 6:35 pm |
Barnardo’s and TK Maxx have been my lifeline… I cannot believe the prices for the stuff over here. I never thought I would say this, but god I miss Wal-Mart. Tesco’s doesn’t even come close. 5 BSP for an alarm clock that I could have gotten at the 99 cent store back home, good grief. And 45 BSP for a coat that would have been $30 at Target.
I have spent 100 BSP between Barnardo’s and TK Maxx and gotten 2 good wool warm coats, a hat, a scarf, a wooly long cardigan thingie, a nice almost-new leather jacket, an almost-new lightweight padded jacket, a pair of black wellies, and a few other things that I can’t think of right now. Mind you, I’m not big on the fashion thing, it’s more like “What Would Scully Wear?” Of course it seems that sometimes Scully gets high and takes a vacation to India and goes all hippy, but you get the general idea. Most of the stuff I buy will still be wearable 10 years from now as it will never go out of fashion, so it was 100 BSP well spent.
Did I mention I really like our local Barnardo’s?
November 24, 2010 at 9:13 am |
300 euros! I’m jigging up and down with excitement. I’d save it till January sales and go to a big department store and see if I could find a fabulous coat. BTW, the Reiss one is adorbs, you should get it, and swan around Tesco in it. I recently *sniffles* lost a great coat I only bought during the last winter (by lost, yes I mean it died in tragic circumstances) and feel I may never come across one as nice again. Seriously. That said, if you up my budget to 850 euros, there’s a black velvet fleecy one from Burberry that would help console me : )
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November 24, 2010 at 10:27 am |
850 is too rich for my blood, although I do LIKE trying on expensive stuff and indulging in some wishful thinking.