accessaries for debt

Unnecessary Accessories

28/2/12


All this debt everywhere …and what do I have to show for it?
some out of date baubles and enough junk to fill an acre of landfill…
when I look back at all the useless dust collecting must haves we acquired for our 2 babies I cringe with impotent regret…a green flowery pram that took 20 minutes to
fold up to get in the boot….£500 from Mamas & Papas…OMG £500!!!
The child within would have been as comfy in the pushchair I saw
In ‘Help The Aged’ the other day…perfectly functional and clean…£20!!
And I would have assisted the elderly simultaneously!!
And how damaging and foolish to compound these exorbitant acquisitions with the
inflationary measure of purchase by credit card!!...
...the already ridiculous £500 for the over elaborate pram
cost God alone knows how much more as a result of the old plastic .
And the whole point of this silliness was nothing to do whatsoever with the baby…it was so I could be accepted as a prosperous person worthy of yummy mummy friends, so I could be invited on expensive and utterly boring nights out with said crowd… so that I would ‘fit in’….how pathetic is that? Perhaps I should have put myself on a waiting list for a spine donor instead !!
These days of pay freezes and rising prices I know the ‘economy’ needs people to shop in proper shops on the high street but the harsh truth I have realised is that I personally despite my husband and I earning reasonable wages, simply cannot afford to buy all our stuff conventionally in shops...I did try recently when looking for a work blouse… I popped into Marks and Spencer…and swiftly popped straight back out again ….£40 for a blouse ? I don’t think so, that’s half the weekly shopping budget!!