The Frugality #5 Weeks and months to tile a floor, we love to cosplay being poor

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Dizzy said:
I quite like a pocket on a dress (if it suits the dress) but the whole IG obsession with them is a bit weird I agree.
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yeah I can imagine on the right dress .. but influencers want pockets on all their dresses, you're right it is an obsession and weird 😂

Venuslurker said:
As a phone addict I appreciate pockets on dresses 🤣
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I would be too scared mine would fall out.. I have had many accidents just with back pockets of jeans and toilets 😬
 
I can’t cope with the state of the front of their house….surely you’d sort out the brickwork/rendering before spending £££ on getting the garden done? Given the fact any work they need to get done on it in future will mean scaffolding/builders who will give zero fucks about her artfully placed lavender. Assume they’re paying as that’s a lot of bricks that have been laid already and 1) if they were doing it themselves we’d have had at least 50 posts about it and 2) Chris would have managed about one a day at his work rate
 
louderforthecheapseats said:
I can’t cope with the state of the front of their house….surely you’d sort out the brickwork/rendering before spending £££ on getting the garden done? Given the fact any work they need to get done on it in future will mean scaffolding/builders who will give zero fucks about her artfully placed lavender. Assume they’re paying as that’s a lot of bricks that have been laid already and 1) if they were doing it themselves we’d have had at least 50 posts about it and 2) Chris would have managed about one a day at his work rate
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It would make more sense to sort the rendering/front of the house before the front, yeah. I’m glad they’ve sorted the roof though and the upstairs bedroom windows. Just downstairs windows left and the front brickwork. They’re getting through the reno pretty well, to be honest, despite impression they give of the snail-like back garden tiles and fence painting.
 
Which one is it Alex - either you trialled them for the first time as a freebie gift (“road tested”) OR have you actually ordered them as gifts in the past? Why do influencers pretend that the item they’ve been gifted & tried for the first time is definitely, absolutely their favourite thing ever?

We know you think that crappy £1 toxic Tiger candles are a chic gift so the likelihood of you gifting expensive brownies is slim to none 🤔
 

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uberoblique said:
Which one is it Alex - either you trialled them for the first time as a freebie gift (“road tested”) OR have you actually ordered them as gifts in the past? Why do influencers pretend that the item they’ve been gifted & tried for the first time is definitely, absolutely their favourite thing ever?

We know you think that crappy £1 toxic Tiger candles are a chic gift so the likelihood of you gifting expensive brownies is slim to none 🤔
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And a PR gift is an ad? MARK IT AS SUCH PLS.
 
Dresses with pockets I personally find super useful - phone, snotty tissues, stuff my toddler insists I have to look after etc. But for influencers, especially this one, I don’t get why you need them when you’re carrying so many weirdly-worn clearly empty bags around with you 😂

Been desperate to also bring up Coal Drops Yard. Why are they all obsessed with this place?! Have any of you been? It’s like a capitalism theme park - like an out of town shopping retail park dressed up as urban townscaping, tricking influencers and the influenced into thinking it’s ^chic^ because everything costs 10x more than it would at an actual retail park. Faux-stylish with pretend industrial finishes to make it look like it somehow emerged out of the old kings cross whilst being totally sanitised. Oh, and the ‘hidden secret’ photo booth they all love - it’s not hidden, it’s just that it’s not inside a shop?!
 
MeWithTheHair said:
Dresses with pockets I personally find super useful - phone, snotty tissues, stuff my toddler insists I have to look after etc. But for influencers, especially this one, I don’t get why you need them when you’re carrying so many weirdly-worn clearly empty bags around with you 😂

Been desperate to also bring up Coal Drops Yard. Why are they all obsessed with this place?! Have any of you been? It’s like a capitalism theme park - like an out of town shopping retail park dressed up as urban townscaping, tricking influencers and the influenced into thinking it’s ^chic^ because everything costs 10x more than it would at an actual retail park. Faux-stylish with pretend industrial finishes to make it look like it somehow emerged out of the old kings cross whilst being totally sanitised. Oh, and the ‘hidden secret’ photo booth they all love - it’s not hidden, it’s just that it’s not inside a shop?!
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I’ve been and I quite like it there. There are some quirky shops and it’s nice to sit outside. I also remember the area when I used to roll out of clubs at 6am a bit worse for wear 😂
 
MeWithTheHair said:
Dresses with pockets I personally find super useful - phone, snotty tissues, stuff my toddler insists I have to look after etc. But for influencers, especially this one, I don’t get why you need them when you’re carrying so many weirdly-worn clearly empty bags around with you 😂

Been desperate to also bring up Coal Drops Yard. Why are they all obsessed with this place?! Have any of you been? It’s like a capitalism theme park - like an out of town shopping retail park dressed up as urban townscaping, tricking influencers and the influenced into thinking it’s ^chic^ because everything costs 10x more than it would at an actual retail park. Faux-stylish with pretend industrial finishes to make it look like it somehow emerged out of the old kings cross whilst being totally sanitised. Oh, and the ‘hidden secret’ photo booth they all love - it’s not hidden, it’s just that it’s not inside a shop?!
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Omg the last paragraph is so well written and perfectly scathing 😂 I have nothing to add sorry but you should write books
 
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