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[ilovecherries]

New thread

Thank you @ilovecherries for the new thread. It’s so lovely to read it all and everybody on it sounds great. 😀

Hi there everyone,

long time Toastie but with a name change… I would like to sell two gorgeous Toast linen dresses (swingy kind from 2020). They’ve been very well loved but my daughter has announced today that I cannot wear them anymore!! I’ll be honest, I have thought the same recently- I’ve lost quite a bit of weight and they drown me a bit.

before I put them on eBay would anyone like one or both? I don’t really need the money and I need to pass them on quickly as we are moving abroad next week!

I have two size small dresses in orange and navy. I will find the old link/picture.

It’s this dress and I have both the orange and navy blue in size small (perfectly roomy for a size 10-12 I’d say).

Also this one:

I’m vacillating which is why I haven’t ordered!

@DaysofHoney I’d love the orange linen dress in a small ☺️

Feel free to DM me and I’ll post x

@DaysofHoney is the checked one also size small??

It’s an 8

@DaysofHoney it's lovely of you to offer it but I'd struggle to get one arm in!! Thank you anyway!

Can anyone share how they budget? I can’t do it coz of the sale :(

Those ecrue trousers are saved in my wishlist and there's a note saying they're due back September 1st!

I'm curious too @snowy To know how others budget. For me, I don't have a set amount as such for shopping, but i give myself a small portion of my wage each month. For the two main sales i exorcist then to take up 2 to 4 months of that allowance each. But the last sale went massively over 😳

Thought I'd post my wishlist. I think for once it's a pleasing collection of items.

I mean they go together as opposed to being a group of seperate things!

Oh, lovely. Potential for loads of outfits there.

@dudsville they look like a lovely collection you could mix and match.

I have the sideline shearling vest from last year but that black is so lovely @Snowyowl78 . I love the check lining. I agreed the sizing is small in them.

Awful weather back here , I know some people love Autumn but I don’t, I really like summer. Fingers crossed it comes back once schools start .

You don’t have to answer this, I’d had many wines before midnight haha

anyway, I actually can’t budget because I seem to spend about £1k+ each sale!!

@Countmeout ooh lovely do you wear it much? It’s so small! I am a 12-14 and large is their biggest size. Bit sizeist!

Hi all, thanks for the new-ish thread @ilovecherries! I am just catching up after my northern trek - back home for 36 hours and now in storm-swept Cornwall! We got here last night after driving through terrible rain and wind!

I stopped at SM - not a lot in and practically no homeware. There was a huge shoe mountain, but due to my foot problems I didn’t investigate. I bought a seat cushion - it’s nice but goes with nothing in the house - probably bought it just to justify the side trip to my OH.

There were some nice things, but nothing right for me🙃

@Snowyowl78 I have a monthly amount to spend on anything once I’ve paid for/saved etc. it’s a pretty generous amount so any clothes/boots/makeup I want come out of that. My issue is that I could easily spend £500-1000 a month - not on quantity but on quality, I just love beautiful things. So I really need to focus - I have a running wish list on my phone which works well. Firstly because it helps me make sense of everything I want to buy and helps fill wardrobe gaps (in the loosest sense of the word, there are very few real gaps 🙄) and secondly when I buy something I tick it off the list so I can see just how much I’ve bought and that’s sobering.

I also keep a list of everything I buy each year, when and the cost. Again, sobering.

I buy everything using a credit card and clear the balance each month. So no debt and no shopping ‘hangovers’.

one of my issues is not being sure that I will like what’s offered in a particular season, so sometimes that means I buy more than I want to when I see lovely things. Last winter for example I bought very little because I couldn’t find anything I wanted.

I’ve just bought the wide sleeve denim jacket, and like it a lot, I think it suits me. But…

the front facings are quite narrow for me, and seem to fold over whilst I’m just looking at it the mirror. I can also see the edge of the facings poking up through the collar. Is this going to drive me mad.

the button holes could be finished better, but I could sort out myself.

it doesn’t really go with many things in my wardrobe. I’m surprised, I thought it would. Looks good with my work trousers. I thought it would look nice with my new new Hush green dress, but only ok

I’ve ordered the black crinkle skirt. I’m so pleased with the two skirts I’ve bought this season I thought this might be good. But I’ve gone down to a small. IT’s elasticated so there should be some room. My striped one is a M and I kind of wish I’d got a small

It’s lovely to have you here 😀

@dudsville Your wish list looks lovely, posting it like that is a clever way of seeing how things work together.

@Noodle421 Have your suki trousers arrived? I’m a high street 12 but went against the advice on here and ordered the M as I currently have a big problem with anything that feels tight across my stomach. I think that size is ok for me, quite a lot of extra fabric but as it’s soft it hangs quite well. I shall have a proper try on later with other pieces from my wardrobe and make a decision then.

@Snowyowl78 no haven’t worn it much so far 😳 but after trying on with dresses this year it seems much more versatile than I thought so hoping to change that.