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Used to have a friend who liked to copy my clothes and household furnishings. Fortunately her husband was rather mean so when she asked where things had been bought and how much they had cost my partner used to laugh and say "you just don't want to know - you will need a second mortgage if +++++ wants to buy the same". No matter how inexpensive things were, +++++ dared not buy the same as her husband would not believe what she had paid.

It worked!

Before you buy let it be known what your going to get then buy something different after the copier has bought hers.

Was thinking a good idea for birthday or christmas is to buy her the most awful present and tell her you loved it so much you had to buy her one.

Carol :-0

Paula, I was going to suggest the temporary tattoes, they are easy to use and wash off after a few days.

I tricked my o.h. early in our relationship. I had a 50th birthday get together in our local pub and turned up with a black rose on my upper arm. Said it was my rebellion at being 50. Most of my friends knew it wasn't real, it hadn't been there the previous day and wasn't covered up or red and sore or whatever. O.h. was totally fooled tho and kept saying he thought I was brave to do it. His face when I told him later was a picture lol

Lizx

What fantastic ideas......... I love them all,

Borrow some big wall paper sample books, pick out the most garish of the lot & the soft furnishings you would never usually choose, show her these & say you are going to have someone decorate your whole house.


Sit back & wait.

Buy a plaque for the wall on which is written

Exodus chapter 20 verse 17

When she asks what it means give her some examples.-jl

Paula+ hire or Borrow a real classy car,See if you can get one on a trial basis,when they,ve copied you take it back,the expression on there faces would be brilliant.(Did that once with an ex.brother in law) think it cured him. :-D :-D

lolol

I think the tattoo is a great idea!

You can get the temporary ones, I think they last a week......... not a bit like the horrible transfers we got in lucky bags when we were kids.

Go on Paula, I dare you.......... get a bluebird of happiness on your bosom <3

Our previous next door neighbour was like that, we painted our front door mustard yellow, few weeks later they painted theirs the same, I decided I did not like colour so painted green, yes you guessed they copied. No matter how much I liked something there is no way I could copy, especially when it is there for everyone to see.

Carol

Wend, that wouldn't have been copying - it would have been nicking! LOL
Thank you for the compliment though :-D :-D

Where have you been? Have your ears been burning? ;-) :-D :-D

Disconcerting is the correct word, though I think your Momther did seem to go to the extreme. I have tried to understand why people do this, but I am at a loss with OHs sister, she is not much of a cook, but is always telling me how to cook, she is size 20, I am size 12 and is always telling me what we should and should not eat.

It is disconcerting isn't it?

I was not prepared for it at all,especially not from this person.

I had grown used to it in a slightly different way with my mother who had to be most ill at all times.

I remember going to work with a sore wrist from messing about at the weekend when I was a teenager.
My dad's job involved driving past both my work and our house several times a day.During the course of this day I had had to go to the hospital and have my wrist strapped so I showed him as he passed.

He had evidently been indoors because,by the time I came in from work,my mother had managed to burn both her hands taking something out of the oven

~~~~~~~ @ Wend

Not true Island - I would gladly have had that jacket you had on at last year's London meet off your back :-D

~~~~~~ to Paula. Good to see you back :-D

Sharron. She told me some time ago she did not like scented candles in her house, I love to lght them in the evening, We called in to see her on Monday evening. guess what? she has several scented candles on the mantleshelf. I feel so pathetic saying all of this but it is just so blatent.

Bless you AnnC. Would I have to prove it ;-)

Turn it into a private game Paula. Buy some cheap and tacky pieces, wait until she gets the same then offer her yours "as she obviously likes them so much"

No, I haven't done this - I'm just bl@ddy jealous because no-one copies my taste in clothes and furnishings LOL. Words are another matter but that's just sad.

;-) :-D :-D

I did notice that my copier wanted instant gratification in things.

They found putting in the groundwork to do or achieve anything far too tedious and wanted it NOW!

Whatever I had had been thought about and saved for before I had it.My food processor which is worked to death and the purchase of which was deliberated about for ages was one case in point. It was seen in my kitchen and a new one was bought the same week.

This person does not even cook!

tell her you're getting a tattoo - skull and crossbones on your bum - she what she says to that :-D

Phyll that's what OH tells me. I am a size 12, she is a size 20, but she still wears the same (obviously size 20. Monday evening OH told her about the new swimming bands I have recently brought for the little grandsons, she has just texted me to ask where I got them from she wants to get some for her grandchildren.