tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post5572941400302237814..comments2024-03-28T12:12:43.078-07:00Comments on Codlinsandcream2: Instant Gratification vs. Looking Forward to Something.Bovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-15660111602144061782009-09-28T23:46:30.583-07:002009-09-28T23:46:30.583-07:00I will confess, I only ever use my credit card on ...I will confess, I only ever use my credit card on line. I don't actually know its verification number to use it in a shop. That way, there is NO temptation . . . except on Amazon and the lure of the one-click. Now I know I have no money to pay a bill at the end of the month, I don't even use it on-line - well, only for £5 worth of DVD this past week, and I can cope with that. The children are the ones who run my credit card bill up, using it to purchase travel tickets, or pay for something they want. They give me the money, but it's usually in cash, and by the time the bill comes round, the cash has been used for fuel, groceries etc. . .<br /><br />Ann - gosh, there's a challenge. We are moving stuff from the back room at present in order to put two pine cupboards in auction today, so I dare say something may turn up . . . The better wool shop is in the new Carmarthen Market. The sewing/art shop in Darkgate has but a very limited supply of wool. If you are in the area, best go to Llandeilo, where there is a fabulous wool/sewing shop at the bottom end of the town (park near the church, shop is in the little street which leads off from the back edge of the churchyard. Face Peppercorn, and turn right.)<br /><br />Angie - keeping a check of every penny spent is what I have been doing these past few weeks. We knew where it was going, but now it is rewarding to see we have halved our outgoings. Because we live in the middle of nowhere, fuel is a big chunk, but we try just to go out a couple of times a week now (and because of doing the car boot sales, the 2nd time is an essential bound up with that).<br /><br />Al - your granny was a very wise woman . . .<br /><br />MM - Fabric. Well, they really shouldn't have put some tempting pieces right on the counter where I was waiting to pay for my wool. I only bought one fat quarter, and it is to go with some of the beautiful material you sent me, and to become a cushion cover for our sitting room. £2.70 well spent! I agree, being thrifty does become a way of life, and I have never been one of those people for whom belongings must be brand new and perfect - with my china, I don't mind a little crack. It can be displayed good side out and still be decorative.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-19379643840950086742009-09-28T18:18:37.607-07:002009-09-28T18:18:37.607-07:00"Yankee Thrift" was a way of life for so..."Yankee Thrift" was a way of life for so many in New England where I grew up. Most folks in our family and in our larger circle were careful with money.<br />Finding great stuff at second hand stores, rummage sales, flea markets was a necessity most of the while we were raising our children. Although it gets dreary not to have the occasional spare funds [been there!] for the most part my daughter and I delight in finding clothing or household goods at a fantastic bargin--it becomes recreational.<br />I confess to buying a few nice clothes in the past few years from my favorite on-line catalog--Eddie Bauer--but only after they've been marked down as far as I think they will go. <br />Books are a necessity of life! Second hand most of them, and again, part of the joy is in the searching. Fabric--hmmm--a downfall. Good chocolate--hoarded as one of life's indulgences.Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-41131287777865577012009-09-28T17:47:38.419-07:002009-09-28T17:47:38.419-07:00Hi BB,
Aye. Mea culpa and still paying for it all...Hi BB,<br /><br />Aye. Mea culpa and still paying for it all years later. Still, its such a pleasure to take a pair of scissors to a paid off card. Why isn't there a sanity test as part of the application form for those bloomin things.<br />Granny was a great believer in saving up until you had enough for whatever. She always said that if you could do without it for all that time you very rarely needed it anyway.<br /><br />wish I had listened.......<br /><br />regards...Al.Alistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-32271837658173878122009-09-28T14:46:27.292-07:002009-09-28T14:46:27.292-07:00What a thought provoking post. Interestingly it is...What a thought provoking post. Interestingly it is the instant gratification by credit cards, that has now forced me to go full circle and think what I do with every penny, as I did when I was a first a mother and my Mum did when I was young.<br />I never knew money was tight as a child, as I always seemed to have what was needed and lived in a nice house but when I was sifting through boxes and boxes of bits and peices, after Mum died,I found a note book where she had itemized and given reasons for spending even the smallest amounts, in the late fifties... maybe that would be a good discipline now a days. <br />I loved the album story as it is so true that what we think we need now is often not what we want later.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12177505346903016669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-31913896325735350512009-09-28T13:21:53.124-07:002009-09-28T13:21:53.124-07:00I wish I had known there was a wool shop in Carmar...I wish I had known there was a wool shop in Carmarthen when we visited last month, for I love to buy a bit of inexpensive yarn or fabric and meld it into something wherever we go; not necessarily straight away, but eventually .... Not being able to get what you visualise but having to make do with what there is has become a kind of challenge for me. So here's a challenge for all who are financially hard pressed at present; take some item that you really hate and make it into something that someone else may love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com