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[slemslempike]

I went shopping this morning and bought:

some hair dye
a maternity dress (this is not an Announcement, it is pretty, has room for my belly, and was in a charity shop)
some new glasses (using my JSA voucher, and they came with a free pair of prescription sunglasses too)

What have you bought in the last week? Other than groceries, rent and bills. I am curious about your purchases though.


Tonight I am going to the campus comedy thing, and Jon Richardson is headlining. I think he is one of the funniest people currently working. Also I have been mildly obsessed with him for about three years now. In any case, I am very pleased. Andi Osho is also going to be there, apparently, and Jimmy McGhie who I've never heard of. I thought Andi Osho was good on MTW.


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[whatho.livejournal.com]

I bought mudguards for my bike, a DVD for my brother's birthday and a cardigan in a sale, then I learned I was spending money at twice the rate I was making it and pledged never to splurge on such luxuries ever again, and also to sulk.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am resolved that after next week I shall start cycling to university. Because I haven't cycled since I paid to have the bike shop look at it, which is a waste, and it is light and warm enough that I can't get away with the "winter" excuse, and my bus pass will have run out so I won't have free bus travel. Which means I am going to have to walk home from town, which I hate.

ANYWAY. What DVD did you buy? What is the cardigan like?

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I bought the sixth Harry Potter film and the cardigan is grey and has a hood.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

In the last week, I have bought sock yarn, which I bought for the name, though the colours are lovely in person - Alex is getting socks - and books - City of Saints and Madmen, Gender and the Politics of History, Captive of Sin and Into the Wilderness. A slightly schizophrenic selection and I suspect I'll read Captive of Sin first.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That is a great name! And good colours for David too. Is there a corresponding one for his brother? Gender and the Politics of History looks really interesting.

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I suspect not. The conceit is that the yarn ('Bugga') is named after bugs, so I was surprised to see the David one. But had to have it :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I was going to claim I hadn't bought anything this week other than supermarket shopping and petrol, then remembered this was a lie viz:

Uniqlo HeatTech top (supposed to make you warm without making you sweaty and smelly; we shall see)
Four birthday cards, total cost more than a tenner
And this morning I went to Lidl and bought motorcycle socks, gerbil treats and ibuprofen.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What are motorcycle socks? Socks with bikes on, or special ones for making you go faster when you are on a bike?

And aren't cards expensive nowadays! I must buy a mother's day card. And send it, once it's bought.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Hopefully, these are socks which will be comfortable under bike boots and keep my feet warm. Lidl's specials this week are motorcycle-related.

Occasionally I try making my own cards, but I always end up thinking they look ghastly and scruffy.

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

I bought yarn for baby knitting (other people's babies, if course) and Girl Scout cookies.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I wish people came door to door with cookies here. Actually, I don't, because I might not want them when they came. But I hear good things about the girl scout cookies.

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

Girl Scouts don't really come door to door anymore--safety issues. And I don't know anyone who has a kid in Scouts, so I had to go and hunt them down to get cookies this year. Luckily they do stands around town.

And the cookies are good. And disappearing at an alarming rate.

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, did I buy anything other than groceries? Only some alcohol, a reward for otherwise not spending anything. I spent the last couple of weeks conducting an experiment and being exceedingly tight with money. Seeing as I have, y'know, almost zero income. It was pretty soul-destroying by the time I brought a load of old/big/interesting books to a shop and came away with £4.50.

[jinxremoving.livejournal.com]

Of course, having said that I have immediately remembered buying a bunch of CD-Rs yesterday, which I am considering a business expense seeing as I am a superstar DJ and all that. I managed to guilt-trip the man in the shop into giving me a redundancy club discount, after admitting that I didn't actually have any student ID.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you're just reminded me that today I also bought a place on a half-day circus skills workshop. But that obviously doesn't count because it's not a physical thing and it isn't until May.

Congrats on getting the discount. I am rubbish at things like that.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I should start writing down everything I spend again. I was doing it for a while, and then got over-excited, forgetting that my status is "I will have a job" and not "I do have a job" and attendant salary. Also when I realise I've spent more than £60 in a week I somehow decide that if I've already gone over then there's no point in stopping spending. I am an idiot, basically.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

I've bought a tie and a bottle of scotch (for my dad's birthday) a box set of The Wire (for my best mate's birthday) and a pair of earrings and a bunch of flowers (for Mother's Day.)

Really, this has been most inconsiderately arranged and next year they're going to have to spread it out a bit, yes.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I delegated the Mother's Day thing to my sister. I suppose technically I also bought half a lavender tree, but I haven't paid her yet.

I think it would be find to allocate people birthdays. Their age can change whenever they want, but I think that they should get presents when it is convenient.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I share your pain. One of my brothers has a birthday on the 6th, my husband on the 7th, the other brother on the 10th, one of my closest friends on the 14th and then there's Mother's Day and people doing stuff for Sports / Comic Relief depending on the year who want sponsoring. I never have any money at all in March.

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

I bought a CD - She & Him. I bought a birthday present. Er...I think that's it. That's quite boring.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Is She & Him the title or the artist? What sort of music?

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

The band. It's actress Zooey Deschanel and a bloke, they do quite quirky stuff, very sweet. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet though.

This is one of their singles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KUOQOlt8E

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

At the weekend I bought the exhibition guide for the Henry Moore exhibition at Tate Britain. It's excellent by the way, really recommend seeing that. Then I bought 2 (very large) t-shirts and a long cardigan (which is replacing my winter coat that no longer fits) in Gap and 4 bras in John Lewis.

On Monday I bought Persephone books for my mother as a Mother's Day present and some books and a Mother's Day card in Waterstone's at lunchtime because I was having a bad day. I also bought birthday books and a birthday card for lsugaralmond.

Today I bought moisturiser, roll-on anti-perspirant, a 2010 diary (much reduced), a notebook and some pens.

That is enough though, I need to be really frugal for the rest of the month but we'll see how that works out.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I should see the Henry Moore exhibition. I often forget about Tate Britain, I much prefer Modern, but I liked looking round with you and Kate when we were staying with you.

I had a period of a few months when I was really good about not buying books, but I've been less successful at that recently.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to be really good about not buying books and reading the ones I have already bought and forgotten to read but it appears that on Monday I was having a bad enough day to over-rule that. I have been coveting the new novels from Tracy Chevalier, Penelope Lively and Salley Vickers for quite a while so I went and bought them finally. Although they were still all in hardback/softback so were expensive versions so it really was guilty pleasure book buying. I don't think it helped that I just finished a book the day before and that next on my reading list was AS Byatt's newest novel which I keep putting off because you need to focus on her books, you can't just read a few pages in the evening.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Last time I was in London I bought travel guides for Toronto and Central America, a school story about a girl who doesn't want to be in the Fourth so she tells people her brain isn't normal, a Rose Macaulay novel and something else I've forgotten. I need to be getting rid of books, not acquiring them!

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I have bought one birthday card, one Mother's Day card, one of these headbands, the third season of Heroes on DVD from eBay, a pair of small square clear stone stud earrings in a charity shop, and a new mouse. After which I discovered that my old mouse worked fine if I just plugged it in to a different USB port, so it was probably the port all along and I could have saved my money.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Interesting headband! Does it match your hair colour pretty well?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping so - I sent her some pictures of my hair and she reckons she can match them.

I think I will probably wear it further back on my head than the model, as it looks a bit itchy on the brow there. Also a bit Seventies, and really, Seventies and itchy is not a good combination.

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

I bought a mini-greenhouse. It is just two shelves with a see through plastic cover, but it should see my seedlings through the frosty mornings.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

A mini-greenhouse! You should put bonsai trees near it and pretend it's for Borrowers.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Lots of cups of tea at university cafes, and some more train tickets which are called flexipasses and ought to be more exciting than they are with a name like that. I am feeling an urge to buy something lovely and springlike but I have no idea what it should be.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

A daffodil!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

A daffodil is a good idea!

Oh, if Wednesday of last week is included in the past week, I did buy this scarf in a desperate attempt to cheer myself up after a particularly grim Wednesday.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

This week? I got a crochet jumper pattern for £1, some stick on heat pads (97p) and a bottle of potassium citrate. (£1.28).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What does potassium citrate do?

I tried some stick on heat pads once, but they neither stuck nor heated. I hope yours work better.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

Potassium citrate is for cystitis. If you buy a box of powders for this, it will cost you almost a fiver, but pot cit is the active ingredient. Way cheaper to ask for it straight at the counter.

The heat pads I use are fab - they are super sticky and last 12 hours, perfect for when I go out and can't shove a hotwater bottle down the front of my jeans...I feel the cold,

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ah! That is very useful information, I shall remember it.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I bought a secondhand Muse cd for 88p, and a local newspaper for 55p. Thrill to the spills of my exciting consumerist "lifestyle". :-)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That is very good. I should stop looking in charity shops, it isn't as though I need things, and I let the "it's for a good cause" thing overwhelm my intentions to buy less.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

TBH I didn't need the local paper as an expanded version of their events guide is available online for free but... the letters page always brings the lolz. Last week's had a mad letter obsessing about lesbians, and before that there was a batshit ukip representative without even a basic grasp of history, and hilarity ensuing about dog poo (no, rly). I can't rly resist the weekly dose of schadenfreude even though I know it's probably unhealthy, heh.

LESBIANS!! WITH SPIFFY WEBSITES WHICH PROVE THEY DON'T NEED A GRANT FROM THE LOCAL COUNCIL ZOMG!!1!!

Ahem, sorry. /oversharing

[coughingbear]

Some books may have been bought. What with the Topsy Turvy catalogue being out this morning. Only (counts) eight. And a copy of The Whicharts the other day. And two books at our local independent bookshop - St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves and a Gladys Mitchell.

Also - goodness this is a lot more than I thought -
A ticket for Satyagraha.
Four nights in a hotel in Rome.
A catnip mouse and a green velvet collar for the kitten. (Oh, maybe hano bought those. I chose them though.)
A purple wool dress on eBay that I hope is going to look brilliant with my black belt and be WARM. But it's not arrived yet.
Three cards in the Oxfam shop, two to put away and one to give because it was the perfect picture.
A new table for the kitchen, a new chair for my newly set up room at home(!!!), two floor lamps and a picture frame. All Ikea, natch.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

This week? Me personally? Um... a new notebook last Friday. A cup of tea at choir last night for 30p. I went for a coffee with a friend this morning but she paid.

I am either very poor or very boring, and also don't live near many impulse-buy shops. I will count the Whicharts although it wasn't this week.

[white_hart]

Um...three vintage skirts (for £6!). One book for me (Haroun and the Sea of Stories, for book group). One book for someone else (Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia, for my mother for Mother's Day). One copy of The Knitter. Clara Parke's The Knitter's Book of Wool (not arrived yet). And rather a lot of sock yarn.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I bought some books on Saturday (though my LibraryThing recent additions are slightly muddied by my bookswap acquisitions); two birthday presents; and a camera-lens-cleaning kit. I think that's about it.

I hope that the comedy tonight has been good!

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

I bought a soft pretzel with mustard and two dresses at Target in their new Liberty of London line. Although, technically I didn't buy the dresses because I used a giftcard from Christmas, so really I only bought a pretzel. But it was a very good pretzel.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Liberty dresses! Oh, how great. What are they like?

I do like a pretzel.