Result stinginess

[slightlyfoxed]

I keep intending to write a post about how to spend less money. Every time I type it out, I think 'This makes me seem shockingly stingy and weird! And as though I sit on a crate counting the pennies I've hooked from drains, and cackling. No, I will not post it.'

But we're living in complex financial times, and danalcapone asked me to.

This is intended as

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[juudes]

"This makes me seem shockingly stingy and weird!" No, it makes the rest of western society seem shockingly profligate and shallow. You could possibly add: "in 40 years' time my executor, or some poor council employee, will have to move it to landfill."

[slightlyfoxed]

That's why I put 'seem' - I don't think I am Scroogish and reveling in my denial fetish. But, yes.

If I'm twisted at all, it's by my conflicted feelings about the shallow profligacy - it's horrible and I'd rather it stopped, obvs., but at the moment I do live wonderfully off the crumbs(e.g. brand new Docs in the Red Cross shop last month). I feel a bit like Augustine with the chaste/not yet.

[huskyteer]

Here's a strategy: wait until after lunch to place your order at game.co.uk, and that bargain red preowned DS will have GONE.

[slightlyfoxed]

Bravo! That's the kind of thing. If you want to buy something, let it go; if it gets bought by someone else, fair enough, and if it's still available for you, don't buy it anyway.

(Sorry.)

[huskyteer]

I fear this strategy may self-destruct and I will end up paying a tenner more at Game on the high street (where I went during lunch to see if it was the same price as online, curses).

I am making myself wait till after the weekend, though. Go me.

I do rather hate myself for setting so much store by material things.

[julietk]

I too abide by many of these, or attempt to.

(Having said that, I spent yesterday morning buying climbing stuff in Decathlon. But! this is so that I don't have to pay money renting it.)

Although currently I am avoiding charity shops as well, because I *have enough clothes*, dammit. And shoes (apart from the climbing shoes, & now I have enough of those too!).

I do have a Thing right now. In fact technically I have two Things: one that is real and actual (these shoes), and one that is hypothetical (if Apple ever produce a netbook). The latter is surprisingly helpful & may even never result in an actual purchase.

[aster13]

Now look what you've done.

*shoooe lust*

[julietk]

They look *so awesome*. And I have gone right off proper shoes of late (poor squished and captured toes!). Although at the moment (& probably until about September) I am living quite happily in Tivo sandals and/or SPD bike sandals; and I do find myself wondering how the Vibram things would deal with it actually being cold & wet out.

(I have gone off shoes enough that I am contemplating wearing the bike sandals with socks when it gets cold. The sandals are black! If I wear black socks no one will notice! I am thankfully not yet sufficiently lacking in shame to try this with non-cycling kit, but if you're already wearing SPD sandals it's hard to claim many style points, really, so you may as well just give up. For my next trick I intend to grow a touring-cyclist-beard.)

[aster13]

They do!

I have several pairs of Barefoot trainery things that i bought in the sale (uber cheap, yay!), and i saw they did weird sandal things - is that what you mean?

SPD - symphasis pubis disorder??

My favourite footwear is none at all, but cities and towns have become impossible with the amount of broken glass around. I've picked tiny shards out of my feet too many times, and i'm not sure if my tetanus is up to date!

When i was cycling i realised that it is basically impossible for any normal human to look cool and cycle. It's just incompatible. My friend's toddler falling about laughing at the sight of me wearing my gear did not really do much to dissuade me from this conclusion.

Depends on the location of the beard, really.

[aster13]

This is actually almost the same as my method. :)

Not sayin' it always works...

[nixwilliams]

It is enough that beautiful things exist in the world; they do not have to exist in my flat.

i really like this one! really the only places that this fails me are: books (they must be on my shelves) and food (it must be in my mouth/belly)