Girl Maths

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March 25, 2024 3:09 pm

(@fembecky)

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Over the weekend I received an email from the small but lovely nail and waxing salon that my wife and I use. It was basically about their impending price rise, but it contained the following paragraph:

“We will also be reinstating the option to pay in advance in full when you make the appointment. We know a lot of you like this option to manage your finances (girl math; if you pay before your appointment then it’s technically free 🤔 )”

FREE WAXING 😀 😀 - I now totally endorse girl maths and am keen to discover any other ways I could benefit from such algirlithms. Any suggestions gratefully received 😉

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March 25, 2024 3:42 pm

My ex used to come home from an afternoon's shopping saying 'I saved £200 today'. The problem was that she'd had to spend £300 in order to do that.

Ellie x

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March 25, 2024 4:03 pm

@ellyd22 Mmmmmm ... yes I know someone like that; I might take a leaf out of her book 🤗

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March 26, 2024 4:26 am

@ellyd22 Yeah, I once realised that I had spent £20 on extra ingredients for a meal in order to use up about 15 pence worth of lettuce 😊

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March 25, 2024 4:31 pm

Ahh yes! I now pay for my brow treatment in packages. Buy six and 'save'!

/EA

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March 25, 2024 5:07 pm

By algirlithmic extrapolation, any girly thing that makes you happy should theoretically extend your life (happy girls live longer) and thereby provide tangible benefits that justify their expense. However, the finite limit of girl math is quickly reached when the inverse relationship between purchasing and solvency is maximized, until such time that additional variables are inserted into the equation, and thereby extending the finite limit to infinity. Of course, this may introduce a new limit to girl math - incarceration!

As you can see, girl math is best deployed in a closed system where adequate dampening can be applied to the inevitable feedback loops.

/EA

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March 27, 2024 7:21 am

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Emily, not sure the following breaks the feedback loop, but in the girl math universe it might provide a route to infinite free income 😏 .

My wife buys dresses and shoes; LOTS of them. She is, after all, a girl so it's perfectly natural isn't it. Pays for them (from our joint account 🤔 ) so that is now a sunk cost and is discounted in our asset balance. But, inevitably, the fickle female mind decides not everything suits her after all, so I am tasked with handling the 'return for a refund' process when we next go into the shop. Herein lies the fun bit ... the refund is in effect free income 😀 .

Of all the alternative universes we might inhabit, I am sure the girl one (couple with girl math) must be the most rewarding one in EVERY sense.

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March 27, 2024 7:56 am

@fembecky 😁 Made me laugh out loud.

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March 27, 2024 8:14 am

@fembecky Yep, I'm in total accord with that! Any PayPal balance I get through returns on eBay etc. is automatically available for purchase of girlie items, even if the original purchase was car parts 😇

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March 27, 2024 8:28 am

Yours is definitely a closed system that should moderate the worst fluctuations. Lucky girl!

I will be the first to agree about living in a 'girl' universe. Definitely the most rewarding. Body and mind on the same page. Priceless!

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March 28, 2024 9:32 am

Emily Alt

@emilyalt Minor variation on a theme: Yesterday my wife bought a couple of dresses. Today I got an email from the store to say there will be 15% off all new dresses for the next few days. I had a word with the store and they have agreed that tomorrow I can take the dresses back for a refund and they will immediately resell them to me 15% cheaper 👍 .

So the girl math tells me that I will be getting money for nothing tomorrow 😀 😀 😀 .

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March 28, 2024 12:42 pm

@fembecky It appears you've found a way to milk the system Rebecca!

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March 25, 2024 3:29 pm

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Girl maths, it's girl logic and I love it. My sister was a great exponent of it and I know many girls who do this.

If you see something in a sale, a bargain, an offer or anything that sells for a lot cheaper than retail then it is bought. If there is more than one item then why not, you could have a whole basket full. The rationale is not about the amount spent or even if the tags are ever removed, it's about how much you have saved not whether you can afford it. Yes I have spent a small fortune but look how much I have saved, and that is what is clung too as reasoning and logic.

This is why my wardrobes are so full.

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March 25, 2024 3:32 pm

@ab123 Wardrobes - how many ??? 😊

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March 25, 2024 3:37 pm

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1 huge double, two small and overflow in boxes in the loft. Then drawers , underbed drawers, quite normal for a girl...

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March 25, 2024 3:44 pm

@ab123

I just have the two wardrobes, the two huge chests of drawers and the underbed storage ... so now I feel I need to expand 🙂

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March 25, 2024 4:20 pm

@ellyd22 @ab123

I did a poll some time ago on closet and storage space, and came to the conclusion that we ALL suffer from retail psychosis.

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March 25, 2024 5:01 pm

@ellyd22 Well if you expand You'll have to buy loads more clothes...or didn't I understand what you meant...

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March 25, 2024 4:00 pm