On what things don't you spend a lot of money?

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On what things don't you spend a lot of money? I spend very little on pyjamas. Actually I don't buy'em. I prefer to use old t-shirts.

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

notebooks. i race thru them and often lose them so the $1.39 stenos are what i use.

― anthonyeaston, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chopped tomatoes! Baked beans! NUM economy brands. Bedsheets which is very poor of me. I splashed out when recently buying more pillows for my BOUDOIR - I previously had MERELY TWO (3.95 for 2) pillows but this time UPGRADED and splashed out £8 for two SWANKY pillows. Ah, Argos catalogue. Also, I bought the cheapest kettle and toaster that I could. If you could see our kitchen, you'd know why I didn't spend a lot of money on them.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

lentils and chick peas, as my boyfriend's father insists on furnishing us with as much as we can carry whenever we visit. result!

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crack whores.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clothing, especially shoes, to the regular consternation of Mother and lovers.

― chris, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bed = nakedness. Oddly this appears to have caused some consternation with people when I tell 'em.

― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would have to say dishes. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alcohol.

― james, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

can i just say helen that the grammatical accuracy with which you have phrased the question is admirable. i thank you.

― katie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd answer but I'm still trying to get my head around Petes whole nakedness in bed thing. Quite literally, how do you sleep at night?

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

movies. i'm the sort of girl who's most likely to see a film if it's free.

― maura, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought loads of people slept naked. I do if it's warm enough. (Not if there's somebody else in the room though, Isabel aside. I always assumed the consternation came from Pete's doing this with other people there, not the nakedness itself).

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok I say this having rarely slept naked but surely there are issues of comfort and exposure not to mention risks of injury while turning in the night. also say you want to go and eat in the middle of the night or you wake up and need a drink or a cigarette or something. You have to put on clothes. If you go to the toilet even would you just walk there naked? I really am missing out by living with my parents amn't I?

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I too am a bed nudist. I have a bathroom all to myself and the neighbors can't see in thanks to hedges and trees, so why not?

I don't do much in the way of clothes shopping -- usually every Christmas an amount is set aside for me as a gift to pick up a variety of new selections.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

risks of injury while turning in the night

???!!!

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I spend little on clothes, food, shoes and art gallery openings.I have not been able to buy a cd for about 6 months but I want to assure you all that I have not let personal hygeine slip.

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok ok discomfort not injury.

In the same way your leg might brush off the duvet say. Other far more sensitive areas also could er brush. Causing discomfort? Am I that weird in saying this? It seems so logical to me.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

INJURIES?? Ronan I am not a fakir out of Tintin sleeping on a bed of nails!

Bathroom/Drink - yeah this is a problem at Isabel's (not at mine cos I live alone) but thats what dressing gowns are for.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"brush off the duvet"?? My duvet covers are made out of cloth, not sandpaper? I am still baffled.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clothes, actually. Lots of people move in and out of this block of flats and people have taken to hanging clothes on the spikes of the iron fences downstairs if they don't want them. I have found in the past few weeks: camel-coloured military-style jacket, long fake fur coat which looks a bit 'wolfy', Astro Boy holographic handbag, weird double-breasted dark denim coat.

Also art books, novels and records are all sent to me due to job.

― suzy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(fakir in tintin of course injured by sitting on cushions)

― mark s, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok put it this way. Are you telling me you've never been walking or running or something and had your genitalia move into an uncomfortable position. or had a particular pair of boxer shorts on which, though not made of nails, can twist in uncomfortable ways at times. Like sometimes I'll be on the bus for a night out and remember I've worn one of these offending pairs and be all pissed off. Er disturbing window into Ronans life here but anyway, if this has never happened you I would be surprised, surely it can also happen with duvets.

Maybe I just have abnormally lar...no lets not go down that road, er issues of age and god I wish I'd never said anything. Noone understands me, I'm going to write crap poetry about why I sleep partially clothed. perhaps not.

Injuries was too strong a word I concede.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ronan of course as a man I am familiar with Boxer Attack.

But, um, this is why I sleep naked. A duvet is a considerably different beast to a pair of boxers - it is more passive and its preferred way of making mischief is to seek floor not arse crack.

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you, fakir, off!

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was merely throwing the idea out there, that would be my main fear. But like I say I don't have the experience to pass a judgement so it is a pretty irrational fear. You've no idea how carefully I crafted that last posting. Or how quickly I flicked to another window when my friend came over to distract me from the "work" I'm doing.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Naked sleeping is the best. I just bought some nice leopard-print, soft flannel sheets which are particularly nice for cuddling up naked in during cold weather.

I don't spend money on anything really. Harry Potter was the first movie I've been to see in over a year. I never buy CDs. Hmm, where *does* all my money go?

― Samantha, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what i don't spend on:

food

clothes

rent

utilities

accrued debt

prescriptions

general health maitenence

women

office supplies

laundry

what i do:

CDS

BOOZE.

i am a sad saddo.

― jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You forgot your bananas.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also art books, novels and records are all sent to me due to job.

You are more than welcome to send anything you don't want to me, of course. Especially records, as I don't have enough. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

>> what i do: >> CDS >> BOOZE. >> i am a sad saddo.

Only if 95% of the people on this board are saddos too. Oh, hang on...

― alext, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Loo roll. It annoys me that people waste money on this. I mean, think about what it's used for and where it ends up. Why bother? I'm not entirely at the lifting bog roll from public conveniences method but I cannot see why I shouldn't. If possible I try to steal as much as I can. Especially at the end of the student loan. Also that Charmin advert is disgusting. What on earth are those animals using the stuff for? It certainly doesn't seem to be arse wiping. Proctor and Gamble are bestial perverts.

― alix, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why not nudity, Ned? Earthquakes, that's why. Although that doesn't stop me in the summertime.

I don't spend a lot of money on magazines these days, thanks to Barnes & Noble and the Internet.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm working on an income of maybe $50 a month, depending on how much babysitting I get and if my mom gives me money for food and such. I don't spend a lot on food or rent or pajamas. Once in a while I'll buy clothes or books or, quite rarely, makeup. I spend most of my money on CDs, but this month it's going to Christmas presents.

― Maria, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Um. I don't spend ANY money on rent or pajamas, in fact. Or tuition.

― Maria, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why not nudity, Ned? Earthquakes, that's why.

Your first worry should be staying alive rather than wondering what your neighbors will think of your hairy buttcheeks (assuming you have hairy buttcheeks).

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Suzy
I just payed 250 bucks for 4 art books. I am mad jelous about this free book crap . Really you could send some across the pond.

― anthonyeaston, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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