baby_123: Buy what you can afford. You work hard for your money. Instead of using your money to buy insanely expensive and worthless things that add no value to you, except to the seller. Invest and grow that extra money wisely. Nothing wrong with being wise and prudent with money. If you have a good sense of style and shape, you will look good in the cheapest items. I have seen people in couture that look a mighty mess. Save your money girl, all you are buying is the name. If mummy wants to see you in expensive things let her top the money up. Cut your coat under your size and use the money for solid projects. The richest people never flaunt all these expensive brand names, its the wannabees.

Omo Daddy354:
Thanx so much 4 dat... Bt all d money i get is always frm mum nd dad n so many tyms i hav 2 buy wat mum wants bt i feel it no point buying expensive ones as all dt matters is how well it fits one.

seedord247: Stop buying okrika or fearly used (tokunbo)... Do you know what they call gucci and marykay?

ferhyntorlah: OmoDaddy354,

No! You're not stingy but being prudent and conservative, which for me is a good thing.

I think your mom believes anything of good quality must be expensive, which is not always so. You're just someone who believes money must be spent wisely and judiciously.

Please don't bother yourself too much; you're okay the way you are. It shows you're someone not carried away with extravagance and showy things.

PS: Your moniker is a far cry from your traits(if you know what I mean ).

greatgod2012: Better to be prudent than being extravagant, even, if the money dey too much, its better to save it for dry season, (hope u understand me) than to waste money on expensive thing and there will not be any money in save.

Omo Daddy354: Am d last in my family nd also a dad's pet,dou had a humble background bt God has really changed d story.... I dnt lyk buying expensive wear,esp wrappers,d max i've eva spent was 3k,unless if my mum buys dem... Recently she tld me never 2 buy any wrapper less dan 3k or 2.5k as it makes me look stingy nd classless. I'm i rilly stingy nd classless 4 going 4 cheaper bt fine things?

Omo Daddy354:
I sense sarcasm,bt den mum has bought marykay 4 me once bt ended up giving my sis, i feel it nt reasonable spending money on such tins dt dnt last nd while odas struggle 2 survive nd its nt as if d cloths i wear look cheap or dnt fit,infact pple appreciate dem.

Omo Daddy354:
Thanx sis 4 d advice, i appreciate.. Bt dnt get wat ur last paragraph means o,can u pls elucidate??

debrief08: So when you are in a tight spot and need liquid cash how much can you sell those "expensive" wrappers for? Isn't that what mothers should be teaching their kids? How to prudently manage resources, how to invest wisely in assets that appreciate with time not worthless wrappers that you wear twice and its done.
Sometimes I tell people I buy second hand clothes and they feel like shooting me, they see something nice and ask me where I bought it and how much "foolish" me will say the truth and they get angry and tell me off that "at my level, for my class I should be shopping only abroad and buying brand names".
Na wa oh. Most times na women wey no dey even work oh. Me wey go dey sweat under AC, travel state to state sabi how clean money dey hard. I don't add a kobo over my expenses, I don't steal office money, I have a limit of what I can spend on clothes and shoes, I have kids whose future I have to properly plan for, Hubby and I are both stydying, there are children in my village and his who will go to school for a year with the cost of a silly "expensive" dress that I won't wear more than 3 times, there are people in the Hospital who will need my designer dress money just to stay alive for one more week.
Priorities differ sha.

debrief08: So when you are in a tight spot and need liquid cash how much can you sell those "expensive" wrappers for? Isn't that what mothers should be teaching their kids? How to prudently manage resources, how to invest wisely in assets that appreciate with time not worthless wrappers that you wear twice and its done.
Sometimes I tell people I buy second hand clothes and they feel like shooting me, they see something nice and ask me where I bought it and how much "foolish" me will say the truth and they get angry and tell me off that "at my level, for my class I should be shopping only abroad and buying brand names".
Na wa oh. Most times na women wey no dey even work oh. Me wey go dey sweat under AC, travel state to state sabi how clean money dey hard. I don't add a kobo over my expenses, I don't steal office money, I have a limit of what I can spend on clothes and shoes, I have kids whose future I have to properly plan for, Hubby and I are both stydying, there are children in my village and his who will go to school for a year with the cost of a silly "expensive" dress that I won't wear more than 3 times, there are people in the Hospital who will need my designer dress money just to stay alive for one more week.
Priorities differ sha.

ferhyntorlah:

Your moniker "OmoDaddy" means daddy's pet and daddy's pet could at time be seen as spoilt and over-pampered but in your case, it's quite the opposite IMO.

Isn't that what mothers should be teaching their kids? How to prudently manage resources, how to invest wisely in assets that appreciate with time not worthless wrappers that you wear twice and its done.

At my level, for my class I should be shopping only abroad and buying brand names.

I have kids whose future I have to properly plan for, Hubby and I are both studying, there are children in my village and his who will go to school for a year with the cost of a silly "expensive" dress that I won't wear more than 3 times.

There are people in the Hospital who will need my designer dress money just to stay alive for one more week.
Priorities differ sha.

Omo Daddy354:
U won't bliv dat I hardly do any house chores bt den I choose nt b spoilt.

Kobogunje:
If you have the choice to purchase either a wrapper at N3000 but looks like 20-year-old material after 10 washes, and a second wrapper that costs about N10,000 and retains it's quality even after 100 washes, which would you purchase? Many people will say the one that cost N3000 because it is cheaper, and they might convince themselves that they have a trick on how to make the N3000 material look like new even longer than 10 washes. Well, more times than not, they are wrong, and find the N3000 not as useful as had initially hoped for.

Omo Daddy354:
I use pears baby lotion whch is 250 nd my skin looks gud sum of my frnds ask me 'what cream do u use' thinking its one expensive tin nd i just decided 2 change 2 a anoda cream a bit expensive dan dat a month ago only 2 have it almost wrecking damage on my skin....

ferhyntorlah:

Talking about skin, can you use oil on your skin or you are okay with using only lotion? If yes to the first question, try using shea butter. It's so gooooood on the skin.