I bought one of the home bleaching kits from ebay for about 6 quid. They are the same as the dentists ones (that is some fucking markup).
Are you sure they're the same thing? (The stuff they're trying to sell me is from these people (http://www.smile-studio.co.uk/), if that helps.)
I'd only waste the money on clothes/books/dvd's/something else otherwise - why should I rate my appearance as any less important?
Thinking about it, I guess I do actually feel it's less of a "waste" to spend money on books/CDs/DVDs which will give me interesting things to think about, & things to talk about with other people -- rather than spending money on my appearance, which hopefully won't be a topic for conversation at all and certainly won't make me think anything more interesting.
Also, the money I spend on clothes/books/DVDs is a totally different order of magnitude -- I tend to buy all those things from charity shops. I made new years' resolutions not to buy any more clothes until May, not to buy any CDs for more than £4.99 for the same time-period, and not to buy any more books until I'd got rid of some of the ones I meant to sell. I can justify spending a little bit of my "spare cash" on things that make me happier and keep me thinking, but I really don't have the money to spend hundreds of pounds on something that's basically useless.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:12 pm (UTC)Are you sure they're the same thing? (The stuff they're trying to sell me is from these people (http://www.smile-studio.co.uk/), if that helps.)
I'd only waste the money on clothes/books/dvd's/something else otherwise - why should I rate my appearance as any less important?
Thinking about it, I guess I do actually feel it's less of a "waste" to spend money on books/CDs/DVDs which will give me interesting things to think about, & things to talk about with other people -- rather than spending money on my appearance, which hopefully won't be a topic for conversation at all and certainly won't make me think anything more interesting.
Also, the money I spend on clothes/books/DVDs is a totally different order of magnitude -- I tend to buy all those things from charity shops. I made new years' resolutions not to buy any more clothes until May, not to buy any CDs for more than £4.99 for the same time-period, and not to buy any more books until I'd got rid of some of the ones I meant to sell. I can justify spending a little bit of my "spare cash" on things that make me happier and keep me thinking, but I really don't have the money to spend hundreds of pounds on something that's basically useless.