Okay, frugality has gone to far in this case!
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
April 22, 2013 2:45pm CST
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bride-wears-dress-made-10-000-bread-tags-170739436--abc-news-Recipes.html
I am all for frugal and saving and all that, but I have to draw the line at this one! Of all things...10 years of collecting the bread clips before getting married...not sure if I'd a waited on that reason!
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@kukueye (1759)
• Malaysia
23 Apr 13
I think is novelity or rare example of patience and determination or devotion to a cost to made something rememberable and special . Maybe these people are people who like to recycle , i seen pictures of houses and huts being made by bottle glasses and even toys being made by recycling other toys.Nowsdays frugality can means not wasthing money and recycling , one man's rubbish can be another man's treasure.
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@AmbiePam (88834)
• United States
23 Apr 13
Wow. That's actually lovely. I don't think I could have saved that many though. I'd be like, it's five years and I can't stand this mess in my house anymore! Even if it only took up like three drawers, that is three drawers too many. I saw once a celebrity wear a dress made of Starburst wrappers. Her friend made it and she wanted to help the budding fashion designer, so she wore it to a premiere.
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@AmbiePam (88834)
• United States
25 Apr 13
The worst wedding dress I ever saw was a woman who had it made out of balloons. It was a reality show about a business who did balloon parties. They made furniture out of balloons, and stuff like that. A customer wanted a wedding dress out of balloons. So they made her one. Are you kidding? The thing will deflate before the honeymoon is over. She won't have much to keep for sentimental value.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
26 Apr 13
I just don't get why anyone would want to wear a dress all day that is not comfortable!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
I've heard of making clothes out of duct tape and gum wrappers (like Juicy Fruit kind) but that was a bit different...that was for the fun of it and silliness etc. This is a wedding, and supposed to be a special day and all that. To me, saying "I want my wedding dress to be made out of bread tags", is a huge factor in trashing the whole point of a wedding! SHe didn't even really like the dress!
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
22 Apr 13
I agree 100% with the second poster. Life goes by so fast that nobody should wait to share their life with another. You don't know when its going to be your last day. I was in the hospital in 2010 and a young woman that was there for the same reason as me didn't survive. I felt so bad for her family. She had a young child, who would grow up differently because of what happened that day.
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@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
24 Apr 13
I sure would have enjoyed wearing lace, but wore my Mother's Dress. Many people get married once and want the day to be special. I'm with you think there is more to this, as maybe they were waiting for the families to get along or having enough money.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Yeha, it just seems really odd that she'd want to wait 10 years...to save bread tags for a dress. There is so much out there that if frugality was the issue or thriftiness...there are so many other things that she could have used besides uncomfortable bread tags!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
23 Apr 13
Yeah, I think something else was in on it. I mean if your goal is to not get married until after you grad college or something like that, that is one thing, but to stall it just to collect bread tags to make a dress? that is definately another thing! And why bread tags? Why not something nice like scraps of lace or something. THis kind of makes a mockery of the wedding dress symbol! But then again, maybe she wasn't sure and needed the time to think..and used this as an excuse to see if the guy would stick around....but still....I'd still have chosen something other than bread tags!
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@maximax8 (31047)
• United Kingdom
23 Apr 13
I am amazed that Australian lady made a wedding dress out of bread clips. She met her man in a Geography lesson years ago. She did brilliantly to save up for around ten years all those bread tags. She is fashion minded due to her interest and career. I think that is taking frugality too far. Good luck to her in the marriage of frugality.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Yeah its odd. Just makes me wonder if maybe she was using it as an excuse to postpone the marriage! I mean, how do you put an amount on tags to save to make the dress?
@marguicha (219877)
• Chile
22 Apr 13
I think I would have gotten married first and start collecting whatever later on
. If you find the right guy, don`t let a couple of bread-tags missing get between you two
. Honestly, I agree that that is going too far. And that is not, as I see it a way of being frugal. That is a show-off kind of person. If I want to be frugal, I go and get married to my loved one without any sort of wedding dress or marriage expenses.
We wanted and needed to be frugal when my girls got married. When my eldest got married, we had a huge barbecue for the closest family and friends. I bought steaks 4 at a time, every time I went to the super, so as I wouldn`t notice. LOL. We all made salads and my daughters helped me sew the bride`s dress, my other daughter`s and my own. For my other daughter, we spend long hours making small sandwichs with yummy fillings I had made myself. It was a huge success.
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@xiaohongxiaohong (341)
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23 Apr 13
Doing by myself? It must be the unforgetable happy memory of all of your families! Frugal and fun wedding, huge expenditure is not the most important reason of happyness, sometimes happyness is simple, just like your eldest's wedding, familes got together and celerbrated, how wonderful it is!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
23 Apr 13
I agree marguicha..there are all kinds of ways to be frugal for a wedding! I think she just wanted an excuse to hold off on the wedding for awhile..maybe to make up her mind or something. But if I was going to be frugal with my dress.. I'd a watched thrift stores/good will and bought clothes that had lace or other fancy theme to them, and tore them apart and reconstructed my own dress using those fabrics. Or even just bought one there..I see them all the time. I think this kind of makes a mockery of the point of a wedding. Why didn't she just get a wedding dress and then save the tags to make curtains in her house or something!
@supunudayantha (32)
• Malaysia
23 Apr 13
You spend many, many hours a week on frugality. Whether it’s clipping coupons or re-working your household budget, frugality takes time. If you’re spending more time on being frugal than enjoying your family, you may want to re-evaluate the situation. Remember that your time is worth money! If you feel too busy and don’t have time to do the things that you want to do in life, you may be spending too much time on living frugally.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
You are totally correct. Frugality is only as good as the reason you are being frugal. I am the first to say that wedding dresses can be massively overly expensive for just wearing it once for a few hours! But I were going to save something for 10 years to make a wedding dress, it sure would have been something other than bread tags! 10 years is plenty of time to collect most anything to make something out of. I'd have to say the plastic bags the bread comes in is nicer, prettier, more usable and for sure, more comfortable than the bread tags! I'd a saved the bags and then crocheted them into a dress!
@peavey (16936)
• United States
22 Apr 13
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Why not? I mean, marriage doesn't mean a lot these days. Everyone lives together like they were married anyway. Maybe he went along with it so he didn't have to foot the bill for a dress or something like that. Maybe he thought if she wants to do this and wait...maybe she isn't committed to me so I'll wait and see. Or maybe it was a "oh well, what's the diff? we live together anyway, no big deal we dont' have apiece of paper to go with it". And even if it was a lark...good grief, all the things out there she could have used and she chose bread tags?
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
23 Apr 13
Well she gets my vote 10 out of 10 for creativity, imagination and patience! I am damn sure that that dress is totally exclusive and there's only one in the world. I wonder how much the wedding bill came to and whether she was frugal in all the other wedding preparations. Takes the whole meaning out of her guests giving her a toast! Maybe all the guests got for the buffet was crumbs!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
Oh yeah, it is quite creative and all that. but come on...it is her wedding dress! And if I wanted something to be one of a kind, I'd sure like it to be something I'd wear again or could pass down to someone that would want it! IF I was going to skimp on the cost of my wedding, it wouldn't be in this way! I might say I have to save $100 a year to buy the dress or something like that, but to save something for 10 years and have that be bread tags... I have more pride in myself and the sanctity of marriage than that! I'd rather have saved the money on a dress and gone on a nice honeymoon/vacation or down for a house. She wasn't even comfortable in it!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
She should have gotten herself a nice dress at the thrift store if money was the problem and then used the bread tags for decoration or something!
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
23 Apr 13
This wedding dress is unique and I think it was a interesting story on top of it! I don't think this is over the top! Maybe for other people but it seems to fit this woman who made it! I will also say the bride and groom were patiant people to wait ten years before getting married!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
25 Apr 13
I think it just trashes the whole wedding/special day theme/purpose of a wedding. But maybe that meant nothing to her. Who knows! I just think it odd that of all things to save to make a wedding dress out of it was bread tags! And I'd have to say, waiting 10 years to marry the one you love just so you can save some plastic tags...doesn't seem to me to be much of an homage to the sanctity of marriage!
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