£50 bottles of perfumes for teachers!

[MsGameandWatch]

Who can afford or even feels inclined to this? Honestly I am . A child handed one over to her teacher at our school this morning. Have just googled it and the cost for this perfume varies up £90, if you get the larger bottle.

I honestly can't get my head round it.

[Stormwhale]

that is bonkers. Perhaps it was a regift? Even so though, that's madness.

[Gowgirl]

Meh I chucked a fiver in the voucher collection...

[TeaBelle]

Fake!! Or an unwanted gift, perhaps a parent works somewhere withwith a hefty discount?

[LittleBoat]

Maybe the mum got it as a gift and doesn't like it so re-gifting.

Otherwise, no, that is crazy.

[TapDancingPimp]

Is it Miss Dior by any chance?

I've been eyeing it up for years but it's £££

[MsGameandWatch]

Was in a little gift bag with the name of the perfume on it and she opened it and handed her the actual bottle.

[MsGameandWatch]

I had best not say or will be recognisable. Not Miss Dior though.

[SparklyGlitterPants]

That's pure madness. I'm €1.50 boxes of chocolate from dealz and thats it. I have to buy for 8 ffs and i just don't have the money to spend 40 quid on them collectively never mind individually.

[SparklyGlitterPants]

I'm buying*

[aretheyhavingalaff]

Very bad taste IMO

[Daisyfrumps]

Maybe the girls parents don't actually know about it?

[TealGiraffe]

I work in the wrong school....

I was chuffed with my ferrero rocher and multiple chocolate oranges i wont need to buy chocolate for a week months

[Proudmummytodc2]

That is crazy, my kids teacher and the teaching assistant of the class cost me about £12 in total for Christmas this year no way i would spend £50 on a bottle of perfume.

[BizzyFizzy]

I got a couple of £40 perfumes from my students.

[IamNotDarling]

Bizzy do you think any less of the children who don't get you anything?

[iklboodolphRedNoseReindeer]

Maybe Dad will be wondering where the hell he got that perfume he bought for mum has gone...

[iklboodolphRedNoseReindeer]

Sigh. Where the hell that perfume he got mum has gone.

[MaximumVolume]

My friend used to work in a private school & was given a Tiffany bracelet one Christmas!

[Newtssuitcase]

My DC are at a private school. Gifts range from the cheap (plant) to the ridiculously expensive and downright weird (dress)

[Lottapianos]

My sister used to work in a primary school in a fairly affluent area in Ireland. She used to get bottles of perfume, bottles of wine, 100euro vouchers for the local large shopping centre, Bobbi Brown make up palettes - it was jaw dropping. Extremely generous and kind of the parents but jeez.

[BarbaraofSeville]

Maybe they got it duty free? I don't buy perfume but get a lot of my gin from Gibraltar where bottles that sell for £20-30 here are £5-10 there. Maybe perfume is the same price? Does one of the parents travel a lot?

[llhj]

IamNotDarling
Yes of course Bizzy thinks less of the children who don't purchase £50 gifts. In fact she may not even teach them next term.
Honestly that's a daft question. How does anyone think less of a child for not buying an expensive gift?

[expatinscotland]

I give tubs of Celebrations.

[Cherrysoup]

Mad. I once got high end perfume/body lotion set and went to check its management that it was ok to accept such an expensive gift. It was. This year, I was given a bottle of really good perfume, the child says her mum works for them so gets lots for free! Several of her teachers got the same thing. It was very nice of her! Other children got me chocolates, one got me a little leather wallet with different sized post it notes, top present!!

[Onthewingofaswift]

It's not just school teachers. My friend who is a lecturer turned up at a wedding with a lulu Guinness bag. Present from a student. She also has received jewellery, perfume and v expensive perfumes.