bad, selfish, clothes-obsessed mummy?

[LetThemEatCake]

So my mum used to keep 50 cent pieces when I was a kid... when she had $20 worth, into the bank they'd go. It was one of her ways of making saving into kind of a game and into making doing it almost unnoticeable

fast forward to now and I am squirreling away £2 coins .. not 'allowed' to spend them, the game goes. DH will double whatever I have saved by the time dc3 is born and I will buy myself a 'target' item of clothing (to get the baby weight off pronto!!)

so the kids & I were just up the road while I got my soy cappuccino (necessary if I am to remain human for rest of day) and dc1 asks for a smoothie. They are £2.50. I look in my wallet and the only way of making up the amount is by using a £2 coin. So I say no ... and then we come home and make smoothies here instead.

Should I feel bad? I kind of do!!!

not at all
but then I would never spend £2.50 on a drink for my dc anyway lol

I agree home meade smothies are the best and £2.50 is far too much to spend on a kid's drink.
Don't know why you are so desperate to get the baby weight off though. Something I've never really 'got' tbh.

Your home-made smoothies were much healthier than the shop one. You should feel smug (and give them a big helping to make up for having to wait).

Not at all, one of the best dressed women around here I noticed takes her little girl sandwiches into the local coffee shop, I figure that's how she affords the jeans/shoes/hair etc lol

great - thanks, I feel better. And it was a pretty good smoothie that I made, tbh.

Nickytwotimes - not desperate, just keen. I have a wardrobe full of gorgeous clothes that I love and would hate to never wear them again. And while I can see that it benefits my unborn child to have me gain weight in pregnancy, I see no benefit to that child, or my other children, or to myself, in keeping that weight on forever.

I would have bought the smoothie to be honest. I couldn't have sat there with a coffee for myself and not bought dd something she'd asked for. What did your child have to drink? I might have turned dd down on the grounds of something being overpriced, and offered an alternative, but not on the grounds that I need the £2 in my purse to buy myself new clothes.

But then I'm not that motivated by getting new clothes, so I should probably sod off the thread .

If you were sat in the coffee shop - yes, it was mean. If you took your coffee home, then no problem.

no, no - it was a takeaway coffee!! Good lord, I would not have sat in a coffee shop sipping coffee while my children went without, clothes or no clothes!!!!

And she had fun helping me to make the smoothie. She sliced the bananas and blobbed in the yoghurt and drizzled the honey. I did the milk and the pineapple juice. DS flicked the switch on the blender.

Was thinking you were a bit harsh

Fair enough cakey.