Result stinginess

[slightlyfoxed]

I keep intending to write a post about how to spend less money. Every time I type it out, I think 'This makes me seem shockingly stingy and weird! And as though I sit on a crate counting the pennies I've hooked from drains, and cackling. No, I will not post it.'

But we're living in complex financial times, and danalcapone asked me to.

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[julietk]

I too abide by many of these, or attempt to.

(Having said that, I spent yesterday morning buying climbing stuff in Decathlon. But! this is so that I don't have to pay money renting it.)

Although currently I am avoiding charity shops as well, because I *have enough clothes*, dammit. And shoes (apart from the climbing shoes, & now I have enough of those too!).

I do have a Thing right now. In fact technically I have two Things: one that is real and actual (these shoes), and one that is hypothetical (if Apple ever produce a netbook). The latter is surprisingly helpful & may even never result in an actual purchase.

[aster13]

Now look what you've done.

*shoooe lust*

[julietk]

They look *so awesome*. And I have gone right off proper shoes of late (poor squished and captured toes!). Although at the moment (& probably until about September) I am living quite happily in Tivo sandals and/or SPD bike sandals; and I do find myself wondering how the Vibram things would deal with it actually being cold & wet out.

(I have gone off shoes enough that I am contemplating wearing the bike sandals with socks when it gets cold. The sandals are black! If I wear black socks no one will notice! I am thankfully not yet sufficiently lacking in shame to try this with non-cycling kit, but if you're already wearing SPD sandals it's hard to claim many style points, really, so you may as well just give up. For my next trick I intend to grow a touring-cyclist-beard.)

[aster13]

They do!

I have several pairs of Barefoot trainery things that i bought in the sale (uber cheap, yay!), and i saw they did weird sandal things - is that what you mean?

SPD - symphasis pubis disorder??

My favourite footwear is none at all, but cities and towns have become impossible with the amount of broken glass around. I've picked tiny shards out of my feet too many times, and i'm not sure if my tetanus is up to date!

When i was cycling i realised that it is basically impossible for any normal human to look cool and cycle. It's just incompatible. My friend's toddler falling about laughing at the sight of me wearing my gear did not really do much to dissuade me from this conclusion.

Depends on the location of the beard, really.

[julietk]

Barefoot trainers - Vivo Barefoot or the Masai ones? The sandals I have are Teva (apparently not Tivo, that would be the television thingy) hiking sandals which I am very very fond of. Saw me through Cambodia-Australia & back to the UK.

I would prefer to go barefoot, but yeah, not good in terms of glass. Bah.

SPD = Shimano Pedaling Dynamics (I had to look this up; had no idea what it actually stood for.) Clipless bike pedals, by which it is meant pedals that you clip into rather than using toe clips for. (You might think that there are too many uses of the word "clip" in that sentence and you would be entirely correct.) They are a very good thing.

I think cycling can look cool but then my brain has been warped by too much time spent on a bike.