talk to me if you stupidly bought something £££ you couldnt really afford

I couldn’t bear the not knowing!

£400 on Dubarry boots, i have difficulty getting them on and off and they arn’t all that comfortable. I have worn them 4 times.

My daughters prom dress & all the added extras - one night cost me 5k….. I couldn’t really afford it but she’s worth it 😜

These are STUNNING. I think I’d have been very tempted too. So unusual! I truly hope you enjoy wearing them. They are gorgeous.

(My spend confession: £400 on a gong and, erm, another £495 on a crystal singing bowl. In my defence I do wee sound healing videos to share and I find it relaxing to play and listen and share with others who enjoy it. But the bowl does terrify me a little every time I lift it out of its case…)

I bought a Kate Spade dress for around £500 last year and wore it once during a holiday. I was at a fancy restaurant, went to the loo, saw myself in the mirror and thought I looked shit in it. I had it on for around 3 hours in total
I should put it on Vinted or something

At least the cutlery can be handed down through the generations and used and will keep their value ( I think cutlery keeps its value ?)
Dh likes a modest holiday once a year, but he always thinks it’s a waste of money. I can see his point of view really , at least spending thousands on things like pets or a lovely chair or whatever you can see every day and not just a few old photos you can’t even show people that well anymore because they are all stored on a phone or a gadget.

At least the shoes were a one off cost. Unlike my broken pony who's going to cost me the same as a fully working pony for probably another 10+ years....😬

£1000 on my ginger boy was 50% of the best money I ever spent…his sister accounting for the other 50%

They are an ongoing expense compared to previous moggie though so not a recommended impulsive purchase if you might subsequently struggle with keeping them in fancy cat food and exorbitant insurance

This thread has made me feel so much better. I am recently bereaved and have bought in the last few weeks (no idea why) a Nintendo Switch which I thought I would pass the time but have no idea how to use it but the man in the shop said it was easy, maybe for a 6 year old. A walking machine, used it twice in 4 weeks.
Expensive watch which I do like and 2 pairs of shoes costing far more than I usually spend plus a river cruise and a couple of long weekends away.
Nothing to do with my late husband not spending money just me wanting to spend it. It's weird.
I have had and given away Le Creuset pan sets (2) and Denby pottery which I used to collect but have no interest in now and would have bought the cutlery if I liked it.

Presumably you give every spare penny you have to charity and are never frivolous with your money ever.

Well I think it's amazing that you have never and will never buy anything that you don't need. That you never go on holiday or buy new clothes. That you don't buy make up or get haircuts. That you sleep on a mattress on the floor. Unless you give ALL of your superfluous cash to charity then I don't really think you have a leg to stand on. You also don't know that the cutlery splurgers haven't also donated twice as much to charity already. Or would that still not be enough. No one is allowed anything nice?

I do have blue and white ceramics I don't use but I like looking at. £200 plates! Ditto shoes as I now wear sketchers.
My painting I mentioned up thread is a copy of a Titian. The face of the lady glows like an angel.

Pardon?

Would you heck as like.

I spent £2,600 on Taylor Swift tickets. Worth it just for how happy it made my daughter.

Some v amusing stories on here 😁

Seems some “mad” and expensive purchases turn out to be worthwhile, some not so much.

If I had 20k to burn on cutlery, I wouldn’t, I’d donate it somewhere where it was needed, instead of wasting it: that’s all I meant.

thats me

Yes and all of the suffering in the world would end immediately if folk stopped buying expensive cutlery.

Doing much better but still a way to go! We are booking holidays like they are going out of fashion on the basis you need to squeeze every drop of fun out of life whilst you can!

Well then don't ever ask for fish knives as a gift. You do you...that's ok. You know you don't need negatively comment on something that brought someone else joy.

I bought some Off White trainers at Christmas. I am 46 and too old for this shit, but I loved them.

I also have very expensive cutlery, but mine was like, £285 expensive (though half price in the sale). And I love it, and no one dare lose the teaspoons - they are only used for desserts, not actual tea, and they are counted in and out.

My Le Creuset shallow casserole/frying pan thing was a ridiculously expensive replacement to a supermarket non-stick frying pan, but I love it.

I thought you were being a tad casual!!

🤣

How is your DH doing now?

If I could look down like that and see my nether regions, I'd be thrilled regardless of what hair was and wasn't there!!

Are you blonde by any chance?

I used to get a whole lot waxed off, I prefer it, but I'm too old and too fat to want to put myself through that situation with a new person waxing (very very sadly the lovely woman that used to do it died🥲.). But age is taking care of it anyway it gets sparser every year!!

Another way of looking at the £20k cutlery is to think… if you had £20k and you didn’t need to spend it on something sensible / didn’t want to spend it on an experience like a holiday for whatever reason… what WOULD you spend it on? Because I would spend £20k on a really good quality capsule wardrobe in a heartbeat.

Once you get into those crazy shops like Aspreys it doesn't take long to get into a huge spend. Full of stuff you don't need (believe you don't).