i'm such a spendthrift!

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Registered: 10-12-2003
i'm such a spendthrift!
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Sun, 09-26-2004 - 10:59pm
you guys are totally gonna laugh at me, but i'm having serious buyer's remorse here. no, it's not over a new car or even living room furniture, it's over shampoo. i bought 5.99$ shampoo today!! and conditioner! 12 dollars on shampoo and conditioner?!? EEEKKK! i've never bought anything more expensive than Pantene which is a huge splurge at 3.99 for the 2-in-one. i usually stick with the 99 cent suave or VO5, i've NEVER spent 12$ dollars on hair products, lol.

i have a reason though!! since the flooding here they've waaay over-chlorinated the water and it's doing horrible things to my naturally brownish-red hair. it's turned it into this dried out mop of red straw, and i hate it! it's too fried to dye and i don't have the cash to get it fixed at a salon, hence the splurge.

i still wouldn't have done it except dh made me, lol. we were in walmart today and i had 50$ of spending money that of course got completely eaten up by pullups, shavers, deoderant, and the stinking spiderman costume for tristan. i looked at the shampoo but didn't get it as i didn't think i had enough money. so as we go to ring up dh looks in the cart and says "i gave you 50$ to spend on YOURSELF, why is everything in here for me or the kids? go get something for you!" so i ran back and got it =D

i know i probably sound really cheap, but i'm scottish, what can i say? there's some stuff i just don't spend money on, and my hair happens to be one of them! if there's a generic to be found i buy it, it's just how i was raised and how i am.

it's really good shampoo (john freida brilliant brunette) and my hair feels like hair again for the first time in a while so i think i'm gonna keep it, just need ya'll to laugh at me a little so i'll stop feeling guilty!

does anyone else have trouble spending money on themselves? when i have spending money i always end up spending it on the family instead of me, i always feel guilty for money spent on just me. except for clothes, i can buy clothes any day of the week and never feel guilty, guess i have selective guilt! lol.

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Registered: 11-13-2003
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 2:36am
OK, I will laugh with you, not at you. !!!!

I am so very much the same. I can't spend money on me. It's either tucked away, or spent on dd. My dh is always trying to get me to spend $$ on clothes for me, or getting my hair done, ect. I just can't justify it!!! I can go to a salon and spend $125.00 easily, on JUST a hair color & cut. That dosen't include the products! I can't do it.

This Saturday that just passed, was my best friends wedding, and I was the matron of honor, I felt I "splurged" by getting my eyebrows waxed...(hasn't been done in 2 years, I do pluck the odd time though!)

I agree with the cheap shampoo and conditioner. It's what I buy. Now my dh has started getting me the big 1 litre jugs of salon shampoo, and one of conditioner for Christmas's and such, because he knows I will NEVER spend money on that. Jeeze, another reson why I love him!!!

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Registered: 05-08-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 7:35am

Guilty as charged! lol Like you and Lesely I just can not spend money on myself! My Dh is really generous with me. He LIKES me to spend money on myself and I just cant! I don't know how many times he has given me money to get my hair done at one of the nicer salons, and I will instead go spend it on the kids or Dh. Only one time did I actually follow thru with it.


I feel horribly guilty just buying myself some 1.99 lip gloss!

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 8:09am
Like everyone else, I don't spend money on myself.
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Registered: 10-12-2003
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 12:17pm
oh i feel sooo much better now, lol. ya'll are the best, it's good to know i'm not alone! congrats on the wax job leslymag, i've never gotten them done professionally but i'm determined to get up the nerve one of these days, unless i get onto a huge spendthrift streak and get electrolosis like i really want to. until then i'll just spend 30 mins a week plucking so i don't look like groucho marx, lol.

mombeetx, what is wrong with us? my dh could care less what i spend on myself as well, I'M the one who's anal about it. we should really start a 'cheapskates annonymous' support group and learn how to waste at least 20 bucks a paycheck on ourselves. dammit, we deserve it!! my kids both have waaaaay too much crap, they've got toys coming out their ears and enough clothes to outfit a small european country, but when i get mad money i always spend it on them. what is wrong with us?!?

istlmom, i WISH my husband's gay streak came out as a passion for shopping, unfortunately it manifests itself as a secret affection for baths! i wish it was something *I* benefited from, lol.

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:28pm
Does he have his own bath sponge and foamy soap?
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Registered: 10-12-2003
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:49pm
no, he just steals mine!!! butthead! i swear it's just like on Friends where chandler gets addicted and every time monica goes to take a bath he's in there first, lol. one time i actually caught him on his belly 'swimming!' oh god, if he ever reads this he'll KILL me, lol. i swear to god he's straight, he's only a little faggoty in the bathtub roflol!

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Registered: 05-08-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 1:54pm

Roflmao! Clarity, people would pay good money to see your Dh do that! LOL Hey there is a home business idea for us...:)

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Registered: 01-09-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 5:12pm
Welcome to the dark side!hahha just kidding I too use Brilliant Brunette! I LUV that shampoo, granted I go back and forth between it and pantene b/c of the baby but OH I love BB. Please don't feel bad, you hair should reflect your inner self, you should look at it and go, YES im Darn Sexy and MY DH knows it! so :P lol. I am a shopaholic for everyone else, but I do shop for me too, I feel you remourse since I still have it from going to Hobby Lobby and spending 58.00 there! ahh! but DH was like "don't feel bad, you have been wanting to go forever" but I still do b/c I could of used it on a bill, you know? well I hope you don't feel to bad it just helps you enjoy the shower a little more (esp. since that stuff makes you hair Feel so good!)
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Mon, 09-27-2004 - 8:06pm
doesn't it feel great though? and besides the feel it LOOKS great, the glimpses of my hair that i catch in the mirror as i'm cajoling tristan to "just pee honey, can't you just pee for mommy?" are spectacular, roflol.

i don't care if it should have gone to something better, this time it went to me!

thanks for helping me get over the stingy gene, lol

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Registered: 01-06-2004
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 8:34pm
Clarity....
I just wanted to say that I love your new sig, very cute :)


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