jessamyn19: every thing is just a little crappier in england.

Jessamyn (

jessamyn19) wrote,
@ 2008-03-25 18:57:00

Current mood:

WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE...

every thing is just a little crappier in england.
so I was looking online for sheets. cheep sheets, cause I'm poor, see? so i was looking on argos. one sheet set option (a couple colors, but all the same really)

argos: double bed sheet set
50% cotton, 50% polyester
14.99 pounds (which is about $29.98 in the U.S.)

was annoyed with this option, so just to give myself a head ache I looked at the walmart website to see what I could get in America for the same money. I of course found many options.

walmart:
250 thread count %100 cotton
$24.88

300 thread count %100 egyptian cotton twill
with pleated hem detailing on pillowcases and flat sheet
$26.89

400 thread count %100 pima cotton (don't even know what that is)
$30.00 ....which is equal to the cost of the substandard, no thread count, only half cotton british sheets that I still wont buy cause I really don't have the money.

I could totally live like a king on the little money I have in greensboro, instead I live here. why was that again?

on a more serous note, what should I do? it's a real pain to ship ever thing. I'll just live with the one set of sheets I have and go with out sheet when I have to wash them and wait for them to dry cause we don't have a drier. and that is just the sheets problem. there are a million little luxury things I miss about home that I can't afford here. the real problem is that you can't live in two places. if I'm going to live here, I have to have british money, if I'm going to have shitty American money, I need to at lest live in America. I am such a drain on my family and I feel so constantly guilty but I want two sets of sheets, and a blender, and a frying pan (cause fred killed mine and it was the only one), and face wash (instead if just soap), and snack food, and a hair cut i didn't do myself in the shower (even if i do an ok job), and spices, and take away food every once in a while with out mark having to pay, and clothes I didn't have to wait to go to america to buy, and silly over the counter medicines, and impulse shopping instead of walking in the a store to stare at the shelves, compare all the prices, just to ultimately decide that I wont buy any thing cause food next week would be better.

really it is totally a life of my own making. I should get a job, be an adult, earn anything, and then I would have things which I earned instead of my own life being the total indulgences that my family gives me.

WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE, WHINE.........

it's totally my mood right now. sorry. I totally just started this post to talk about how products in england are over priced and poorly made... don't know where that came from... sorry.

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alliso24
2008-03-26 01:12 am UTC (link)

aw, how depressing. but hey, at least think that you won't be living like this forever. i mean, when you graduate, you'll either have to get a job soon or come on back home. so the living off your family will be over. i would send you some spices and stuff.. but it's incredibly expensive to ship things there, yes? just come home in may with an extra suitcase. or pay the extra charge for an additional bag. it's probably worth it. then stuff it full of sheets and blenders and spices and snax!!

miss you....

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	jessamyn19 2008-03-26 11:01 am UTC (link)
	hehe, yes, i guess that is the plan. for may, i'm only coming home for two weeks, i think i can get away with only a backback. that leave me two free bags to bring back here. may isn't that far away. (Reply to this)(Parent)

c7h5n3o6
2008-03-26 10:24 am UTC (link)

Tell me about it. In Hawaii milk is about $7 a gallon. Unless you go somewhere like Wallmart that is using it as a loss leader.

On an economic note, expect the US $ to stay weak for at least a year very likely longer. (The Fed claims they support a strong $ but actions speak louder than words).

In my dreams I think about writing a book "Economics for Art Majors: Why you can't get funding."

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	jessamyn19 2008-03-26 10:58 am UTC (link)
	no, i don't expect the american dollar to get better any time soon. I have been coming back and forth to england for four years know, and that whole time i have watched the value of the dollar do nothing but drop. saddness. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	i'm with you!!! alabasterbeach 2008-03-26 01:49 pm UTC (link)
	whine whine whine whine whine!!!! (Reply to this)

	you get a job argon_boy 2008-03-29 05:46 am UTC (link)
	YOU GET A JOB SELLING YOUR ART!!!! (its like a plan you see, as if its the real reason you over there in the first place, that being the art and then living off of it) (Reply to this)

	suetekh 2008-04-15 12:24 pm UTC (link)
	try Mtalan...bought 200 thread count Egyptian cotton king size duvet for £22...but otherwise, right there with you for 'rip off Britain' ranting (Reply to this)

	suetekh 2008-04-15 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	..oh, and I have a spare blender... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jessamyn19 2008-04-15 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	oh really? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tubewhore 2008-04-15 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	yup ...schizophrenically signed in as TW ...if you lived closer I coupld pop it round, but could bring it up next time. it's a bit heavy to mail... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jessamyn19 2008-04-15 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	that would be super awesome and you would be my new hero! i do still really want to get to your part of the world some time, just don't know when right now as i have so much school stuff and am going home for a bit. maybe summer-ish. hugs (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tubewhore 2008-04-15 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	well if you get down here, before I get up there, you can take it home with you... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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