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Did the MNers who weren't going to buy anything in 2010 succeed?

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 12:34

For various reasons I haven't been online much in 2010 - but I do remember around the time I went 'offline' there was a big thread about not buying any more new stuff (other than essentials/ underwear etc) in 2010.

Does anyone remember this - and did anyone succeed?

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Cyb · 28/12/2010 12:35

Wasnt it the Wise and Avid lot?

Have you sen their threads recently? Grin

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 12:37

I think the thread / camp split into two - those who were persisiting with not buying and those who would only make 'wise and avid' purchases. Latter seemed eminently more sensible to me - but I haven't been on MN for ages so have lost track a bit. :)

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Cyb · 28/12/2010 12:39

Well for Wise and Avid read 'Wildly Expensive'- that thread makes my eyes boggle

I think its a hysical impossibility to NOT buy clothes though

Its inhumane

OrangeCountyStrip · 28/12/2010 12:44

Ha

I was on that thread, the W&A bunch split off early on as they couldn't stop talking about the clothes they had bought despite, erm, not being allowed to buy anything.

They went mad and several hundred threads later are still going.

I did buy things. I realised that I need things to come in as well as going out, in order to maintain a degree of interest in life/clothes/everything.

But I bought far less than I used to in previous years. Much, much less and always with what I already had firmly in mind.

So it sort of worked. I wonder if anyone else made it without buying anything?

cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 12:45

yes the wild and avid links are pure style porn

cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 12:46

iI thought I hadn't see you for ages Mrsseanbean

sarah293 · 28/12/2010 12:47

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Cyb · 28/12/2010 12:52

Riven , I take my (newly purchased) hat off to you

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 12:54

I'm a bit like you Orange - I was going to buy 'investment' items only, so fewer items overall - and no impulse buys on the high street. Apart from a bit of early madness in the sales last January, I've stuck to the plan reasonably well.

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 12:55

No, I feel like a newbie, didn't expect anyone to remember me but nice that do cornsilk! :)

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Cyb · 28/12/2010 12:57

Of course we remember you!

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 12:57

Yes well done Riven. You didn't succumb to Harvey Nichols then?! :)

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cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 12:59

nice to see another familiar face - I feel like a newbie myself sometimes. Everyone's namechanged or buggered orf to twitter

sarah293 · 28/12/2010 12:59

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vinvinoveritas · 28/12/2010 13:00

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MrsSeanBean · 28/12/2010 13:00

I've never mastered Twitter.

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cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 13:01

It can be quite funny but I always forget to go there

Cyb · 28/12/2010 13:06

oh corny you're never alone in S and B

cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 13:07

I know - it's my favourite internet hideout Grin

cornsilkcornedbeefhash · 28/12/2010 13:08

did you get any sale bargains yet cyb? I've ordered some stuff from Isabella Oliver but the coat I really wanted hardly reduced at all

Cyb · 28/12/2010 15:20

I bought a few bits online from Dotty P's pre Xmas!

Some really nice tapered zip bottomed trews

a sequinned cardi

A bet Lynch leopard print top

and a black cord mini skirt

I know that their bottoms fit me so I can buy online without fear of reprisals

tulpe · 28/12/2010 17:50

To answer Mrs SB (hello Mrs SB :o ) erm.......no!!

I joined that thread too. I honestly don't think I have spent anywhere near as much as usual......but I did end up buying replacement shoes and knitwear etc as an inordinate amount of these got chewed by my viszla pup....

I had a tummy tuck in the summer which meant that I was so swollen for 3 months that I barely broke out of maxi dress/tunic mode (and already had abundance of these items).

Occasionally dipped into the W&A thread but never really got totally caught up in it. They post too avidly for me to keep abreast!

Will not bother generally with the sales but I do need to replace my beloved Paul Smith winter coat (which is now 4 winters old and just about had it :( )

LetThemEatCake · 28/12/2010 17:58

what's nice about the W&A thread is that it is as much about life and trivia and experience and friendship as it is about - sorry, what was it? - 'pure style porn'

Perhaps we will rename it "Wise, Avid and just plain nice" in the new year.

Of course you are all welcome to join us. I buy most of my stuff from charity shops and the high street, personally. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference. We are just mostly quite nice, albeit clothes-mad, mums. Smile

cocolepew · 28/12/2010 18:01

I lasted 8 days . This years motto is buy little, but well. Got a nice skirt in (whispers) Laura Ashley today.

higgle · 28/12/2010 18:29

I bought fewer but more expensive things this year. I found it strangely worrying and oppressive that I had so many clothes and never wore 3/4 of them, so I flogged half off on ebay and gave the rest to the charity shop and now feel loads better ( and have nicer clothes) for someone who works full time and probably only goes out about once a month there is a limit to how many clothes you actually need.