Category: Shopping
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Shopping, Friendship and Embracing Your New Middle Aged Body
I am usually a lone shopper. I take my shopping habit very seriously and can quite easily waste an entire Saturday trying out new styles that I would never actually buy in a million years. I enjoy the beauty and creativity behind beautiful clothes, fabrics and home accessories – I like looking at them, touching…
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I Don’t Want To Be So Middle-Aged, I Have To Manage My Money
I’m certain that the old man and I can’t be the only middle-aged couple in the universe to argue about money. The question of what to spend your money on can put pressure on the strongest relationships at this stage of your life, when you have no idea how long you’re budgeting for, when you…
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What Do You Buy For Your Partner For Christmas?
I’ve been thinking about the agreement the old man agreed to about Christmas presents a while ago, and am now questioning if we made the right decision. Sometimes I think it might be romantic for him to surprise me with a gift on Christmas morning… and then I remember the patterned towel set and the…
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How Much Is Too Much At Christmas?
There’s been a lot of talk in the media this week about how much we should spend on our kids at Christmas, after a women in the UK made headline news for ‘pressie-bragging’. Decorated Christmas tree on white background It’s a tricky topic and one that is bound to make those of us who indulge…
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The Annual Torture Of Buying Swimwear When You’re Middle-Aged
We’re approaching summer here in Sydney and my annual fear of publicly outing the middle-aged, cuddly bod, to a beach full of unsuspecting and judgmental sunbathers already has me reeling with fear. I moved to Australia for the temperate climate but as much as I love the water, the idea of posing in swimmers and…
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Fashion For Middle Aged Women: I FINALLY Found MY Shop!
It took me a long time to find ‘my shop’ after I’d turned thirty, procreated and owned the muffin top to prove it. You know what ‘your shop’ is, as a woman. It’s that shop that always designs the styles that work for your body and where they use the right fabric and a colour…
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What Do You Buy For Your Best Friend’s 50th Birthday?
I never really got the hang of how to be a good girl friend. Found on everylastdetailblog.com I’m not trying to make excuses, but what a lot of my girl friends don’t realize is that I’m actually a male in the guise of a woman and I have a very black and white approach to…
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Compression and Putting Your Children First At Christmas
Photo by Maria Mandanas at http://www.flickr.com The definition of compression is the action or state of being squished down or made smaller or more pressed together. When a pile of material is squished together and made smaller and more dense,, this is an example of compression. Compression is when you reach fifty and realise that…
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Blowing The Budget At Christmas
The biggest bonus about doing your Christmas shopping online is being able to sneak in extra personal purchases, so when you’re being tortured by the in-house financial Gestapo about over-spending, you can fob them off as presents. stock-photo-close-up-woman-s-hands-holding-a-credit-card-and-using-computer-keyboard-for-online-shopping-140850265 As you are aware, I am unfortunately married to Tightus Pocketus, and so during our VERY LONG…
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Forgive Me, Lord, For I Have Bought White Slacks
Don’t judge me, but this week I succumbed to my first pair of comfortable white slacks, complete with elasticated waistband for reassuring, yet gentle muffin top control, airy bagginess in the thigh area and tapered bottoms – which are obviously just a feeble attempt by the designer to make them look slightly less ‘Nana’. A…
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There’s Equality and Then There’s Doing Stuff Together…
What I really want to do is shout from the rooftops with Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, completely over-the-top enthusiasm about Emma Watson’s recent speech for the UN, on inequality. Did you know that there are women out there declaring that they aren’t feminists because we already have equality? HELLO????? Now I know I shouldn’t…
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Pulling Off The Beach-Babe Look In Middle Age
Photos sourced from Pinterest.com.au Very few of us can pull off even a full-piece like Pamela Anderson. And ladies, unfortunately, it’s getting closer to that time of year. As the temperatures finally begins to rise and the Uggs and winter coats are discarded, (along with those binge-eating excuses of ‘because it’s cold’), it’s almost time…
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