I know what you mean about spending that much, but now I'm long past my student days and I still do have all the (very few) things that I splurged on back when I was ridiculously broke, and they mean a lot to me — not so much in the "it's fancy, yay!" way but definitely in a "this was my first grown-up purchase,…

Yes. I don't understand the random "dress up as anything" tradition… surely Hallowe'en is when you dress scary, and fancy-dress parties are when you dress as anything you like?

I LOVE BABA YAGA!

Yeah, when I was first in America for Halloween I was really, really confused by the random not-scary costumes.

My mum had a student named Marvellous Victory, which is my favourite name of all time.

Oh, I quite like that!

I was a teenager when the IRA broke their ceasefire with the Docklands bomb and everything in the house shook, and I was with my friend babysitting her zillion baby siblings and we were so freaked out; we just put the news on and waited to find out what it was. After that I worked in a big shopping centre and had all…

Very true. We were very slack about bomb threats where I worked, because there were so many and we were all trying not to let ourselves become constant nervous wrecks.

Yep, that was the part that stunned me.

I know. That's what people found so unusual about it. (I'm not saying that no one in England has named their child Pretty, but it would be just as unusual as people apparently found that person's choice to name her child Linda.)

I was very interested in TEFL when I was younger, but I was totally put off it by the other people I met who were also interested in it.

All my Australian friends and acquaintances! I apparently have great taste in people.

I feel that way about 90% of the celebrity items on this site, but not this one!

That's how I feel about 90% of Dirt Bag items! This one I totally understood.

THANK YOU. I shoot a lot in hotels and helpful people always start turning on all the lights and I have to try to politely ask them to turn them all off again and just open the bloody curtains.

You can totally tap dance. It's really, really, really fun (even though I haven't done it for a million years, I am absolutely sure it's definitely still true). I actually really want to start doing it again, but I have a horror of "adult dance classes" because I remember being all young and seeing people's mums come…

It's been long enough since I took tap dancing lessons that I've now got it into my head that I was quite good at it. I like the safe distance of age.

Boo, we don't have that. We have a game. But I like the (presumably) American one better; it's very pretty.

I can't imagine what it must be like in the US. I lived there for ages and it sounds incredibly expensive. Here in the UK the government loan we could take out at the time doesn't need to be paid back if your income never reaches a high enough level, and when your income is high enough the repayments are taken as an…

YES. My husband moved to my city seven months ago and hasn't found a job yet and it's making me cry a ton, which I can't stand in myself. I try not to talk to him about it at all because he feels like a failure and hates that he's not earning yet. I'm doing a job and a half and paying for everything and freaking out.