My Mum likes to buy me stuff that I would baulk at buying for myself because I have trouble overcoming the Scottish genes and stumping up the money! So she usually gives me some money to go and buy some expensive running shoes (well more expensive than I would *like* to afford but I really love them).

This year I'd already bought running shoes when I got them cheaply in Hawaii on holidays (shoes are SO expensive in Oz and so much cheaper in the USA). So she gave me money towards a second pair of the Specialized Rbx knicks I really love but find it a bit hard to swallow the price tag of! Thanks Mum. Beats perfume any day!