Oh lol
Cost of sons school uniform
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Lol you guys crack me up. lol
Caporegime
I knew that... But then I thought HK was pointing out that Merj missed the joke, but he actually meant it in sarcasm...
Soldato
Joking aside, I am shocked (really) at how cheap all this stuff is these days (Relatively speaking).
No wonder society is so wasteful nowadays. We are almost at the point where it is cheaper to throw away and buy new rather than clean and re-use!
(I call this "Reachernomics" from the Lee Child's series of stories, Jack Reacher, of course, is a special case and his case made sense. But it is utterly insane for the rest of us to go that way, really it is! )
Back in the dark ages, my Grandmother knitted my School pulleys and when I outgrew them, she unravelled the old ones, added in an extra ball of wool and recycled it into the next size up!
I doubt if anybody does this anymore!
No wonder society is so wasteful nowadays. We are almost at the point where it is cheaper to throw away and buy new rather than clean and re-use!
(I call this "Reachernomics" from the Lee Child's series of stories, Jack Reacher, of course, is a special case and his case made sense. But it is utterly insane for the rest of us to go that way, really it is!
)Back in the dark ages, my Grandmother knitted my School pulleys and when I outgrew them, she unravelled the old ones, added in an extra ball of wool and recycled it into the next size up!
I doubt if anybody does this anymore!
Joking aside, I am shocked (really) at how cheap all this stuff is these days (Relatively speaking).
No wonder society is so wasteful nowadays. We are almost at the point where it is cheaper to throw away and buy new rather than clean and re-use!
(I call this "Reachernomics" from the Lee Child's series of stories, Jack Reacher, of course, is a special case and his case made sense. But it is utterly insane for the rest of us to go that way, really it is!
Back in the dark ages, my Grandmother knitted my School pulleys and when I outgrew them, she unravelled the old ones, added in an extra ball of wool and recycled it into the next size up!
I doubt if anybody does this anymore!
its cheap for a reason.
some parents can barely afford it.
School jumper............Alexander Mcqueen...£98
School polo shirt ........Ralph Lauren.............£89
Black school trousers..Hugo Boss................£59
School shoes..............Alberto Guardiani......£129
School hoodie.............Good grief no..................!
Riding-Polo top............Gucci........................£49
Plus -Fours.................Harrods......................£99
Rugby Boots...............Harrods......................£139
Pe shorts.....hand made silk woven by blind Tibetan Nuns....Donation to Monestary given
Pe socks......As above
Pe hoodie.....See School hoodie
Trainers.......Two personal trainers @£45 x2 per Hour
Football boots...Not required
Private car hire to Boarding School..................£55
Hovis lunch for journey.....................................£11 (includes crust trim )
Bucket for his tears...........................................£7
Eight weeks in Mauritius for two until half term.......................£12,750
In all seriousness I can't remember but there was a child allowance benefit of about £1000 a year which went towards things like uniform.
School polo shirt ........Ralph Lauren.............£89
Black school trousers..Hugo Boss................£59
School shoes..............Alberto Guardiani......£129
School hoodie.............Good grief no..................!
Riding-Polo top............Gucci........................£49
Plus -Fours.................Harrods......................£99
Rugby Boots...............Harrods......................£139
Pe shorts.....hand made silk woven by blind Tibetan Nuns....Donation to Monestary given
Pe socks......As above
Pe hoodie.....See School hoodie
Trainers.......Two personal trainers @£45 x2 per Hour
Football boots...Not required
Private car hire to Boarding School..................£55
Hovis lunch for journey.....................................£11 (includes crust trim )
Bucket for his tears...........................................£7
Eight weeks in Mauritius for two until half term.......................£12,750
In all seriousness I can't remember but there was a child allowance benefit of about £1000 a year which went towards things like uniform.
Caporegime
I knew that... But then I thought HK was pointing out that Merj missed the joke, but he actually meant it in sarcasm...
Lol. Fwoosh?
My Parents couldn't afford it either, which was why my Grandmother made it.
And remember, the cheap clothing you now get from Primark (or whatever) is only cheap because you (Yes YOU) (Well not necessarily you personally Diagro, but you know what I am getting at) are actually perfectly happy to accept slave labour just as long as it is occurring on the other side of the planet!
Caporegime
Soldato
Yay for slave labour.
Nowadays it's the opposite from when we were at school. The more bin dipper your clothes look the cooler you are.
Soldato
Mines off tomorrow - she got into the Royal ballet school in London
Gonna cost me a fortune.....
Gonna cost me a fortune.....
Haha a friend whos a nurse in the filapines said they had they were inspected all the time so she used to spray her shoes white (dad owened a car repair shop) instead of cleaning them
Everybody has to start with a first post!
Caporegime
That sounds a lot more difficult and inconvenient than just cleaning them?
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