People moaning about being skint when they're clearly not

[prettymuchapixiegirl]

Got a text from my friend this morning moaning about how skint she is after Xmas. Aren't we all?

With this particular friend, she constantly moans about how she is "brassic" or "skint". Everytime I see or hear from her she will make some reference to the fact that she has no money or that she has had to borrow money off her father to buy food. However in the past year she has:

Has a boob job
Had hair extensions regularly
Been clothes shopping most weekends
Had a Venture photography session for her and her 2 children, and bought a massive canvas that was £800 (she told me how much it was when she invited me round to see it)
Had 2 holidays abroad, one of which was to Florida.

Now, perhaps she's skint because she's bought all these things, but it's really starting to grate on me that she is constantly going on and on about her lack of money yet is always buying expensive things. And BTW I don't ask about these things, she will usually text/phone me and tell me about them, then in the next breath say that she's bought no food for 2 weeks and they're living off tinned beans and tomatoes from the cupboard.

Would you really define yourself as skint if you were buying luxuries like that? I think I need to give her a wide berth as she is really starting to annoy me.

My mother loves to tell us kids how broke they are - yet she and my father go on a couple of cruises a year, always buy brand new cars (every two years or so), and she'll buy complete new bedding sets (king size plus all the poncey trimmings of cushions and comforters etc..) x 2 for each of the spare bedrooms in their unnecessarily large house every year or so, hair done every week, etc.....

In the next breath she'll look all at my face cream (Oil of Olay, for God's sake) and say "All right for some, I can only afford Nivea!"

..... and breathe....

I am constantly hearing people talk about how tough times are and then, the next week, they've booked a lovely holiday for the family or bought a new car. I think our idea of 'broke' has changed very much from our parents' day (or our own childhood) when being short of money meant struggling to put food on the table or dressing the kids in hand me downs. Holidays and new cars wouldn't have even come into it.