What do you do to keep up appearances?

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My example is an odd one, but I bought a bottle of the Fairy Max Power washing up lid (the one with the amazing lid). Once empty, I filled up that same bottle with a cheaper alternative.

It’s much better in terms of practicality, but the bottle also looks nicer. 😁

Does anyone else do something like this? Or am I just crazy?

What are stunt dishcloths/tea towels?

I refill hand wash from a 5l container in the garage. Bought to reduce plastic/cheaper. Does that count?

So not the point of the thread but people re filling soap and shower gel freaks me out.
My son is anaphylactic to dairy and we've drilled in to him to always check ingredients of soap before using it, particularly when out and at other people's houses.

If someone re fills a soap containing milk protein into a fancy container, he'd have no idea :/
(Palmolive milk and honey contains real milk, so this is a legitimate fear with soaps).

I thought my Nan was the height of sophistication for having REAL Weetabix until I was old enough to read best before dates and track the box never changed between visits!

I'm another one using an illy tin, think it's been in use for around 20 years now! Just such a great tin and better closure than any of the coffee canisters on sale.

That's not what they are doing.

@PeggyMitchellsCameo how lovely for your mum, what a gem the staff were to do that for her. What class she had. I'm sorry you have lost her 💐

Sly dig @Doppe . I'd rather be mates with you than them.

Not sure if it's the same but... when I have people over, I'll clean the house then artfully leave around a little 'clutter'. So could be a book that I've 'just put down' or a few scattered baby toys to give a 'lived in' look whilst still looking clean and tidy. Ridiculous I know!

Items not to be used, just there for show!

Your mum must have so lovely 💝

I once bumped into a local woman in Aldi, she was horrified and very obviously tried to give me a story as an excuse for being there. I just looked at her puzzled and said that I shop there regularly. She looked perplexed.
very odd, why do people care.

I laughed so much at that! That’s something my Mother would do🤣🤣 The Irish artist ray Hurley does prints as per below. Every time I see a Brown Thomas bag I just think in my head pure notions 🤣🤣

No no, Jane Norman 🤣

I genuinely couldn't give a shit about 'appearances'

Me too! I’m not fussy on brands except for fairy washing up liquid. That’s the one compromise I won’t make!

Decant my aldi dishwasher tablets into a nice glass jar

My Fortnums peppermint tea canister (a gift) is always refilled with Aldi equivalent. I really like the tin because it has a double lid - an interior lid with a little button and the main lid.
As Peter Griffin would say 'it pleases me'.

Or Chelsea Girl.

"the frisson"

It was Jane Norman in the 2000's haha

Bugger all here 😂 I don’t care what other people think. But everyone says I am posh - must be an aura I give off as I am usually dressed rather tattily and drive a fairly crappy car. I have no high opinions of myself but equally I assume no-one else gives two hoots about my life.

I did grow up in a very privileged way, and still benefit from family money quite a bit (for example we live in an old family property worth a lot of money, and have jolly nice holidays, ponies etc), but in reality I married a local chap and we don’t have bags of money ourselves. We’re very happy though. I do notice my DH worries about what other people think, but in silly ways that would never even occur to me, and we have a bit of a joke about that.

I learned during chemotherapy when I was as bald as a copy, that actually very few people even notice what’s going on with others, let alone judge them. Everyone is too concerned with thinking about themselves to notice what other folk are up to and what shopping bags they are carrying!

The cringe of picking up my pe kit from the office, that I'd forgotten and DM had helpfully dropped of, then discovering it was in a kwiksave bag.

My Jute reusable shopping bag is from Fortnum's 😂. Same price as my M&S one.

I also like buying high-end clothes from charity shops' Designer rails.

Wow! People actually do things like that! It wouldn’t even occur to me. Would it be so bad for your neighbours to know you use own brand washing up liquid?