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

Definitely need a picture of this please!!

That’s how I interpreted it. Genius idea! Did they all have the same name?

Oh I did just spend £250 on a stags head made out of dried flowers.

I love it so

Do you mean she replaced one grey horse with another and her husband didn’t realise? Or am I reading that wrong 😄

What have you done to me?! I need this in my life 😬

I bought a hideous Louis Vuitton bag in the 90s with a credit card £700 I think . Took over a year to pay it off . Funnily enough I dug it out today , it needs repaired by both d rings which I’m considering whether a shoe shop would be able to do, before I brave Vinted with it !
enjoy your shoes OP !

@Blankscreen Remind her of this when she wants a car.

@edwinbear Fair play to you unwrapping your cutlery on a Sunday night for a load of nosey Parkers. It looks lovely cutlery

Only thing recently is a Kate loxton bag (was only £30) I brought on holiday loving it got it home and it just isn't nice!
Nothing compared to some of these I could afford it but who can afford to waste money 😆

I’ve just spent £250 on theatre tickets! It’s a lot of money but I can afford it (I save) and it’s a treat for DH. No regrets

You should see if you can get them re-soled!

€1,500 on a Versace skirt that's still in my wardrobe with the tags on. I absolutely love it but have nowhere to wear it.

Also many many pairs of €100/€200 shoes that I've never worn as they are too uncomfortable. I have now admitted I cannot wear heals at all so have stopped buying more.

About 10 years ago I spent £4k on a guitar I couldn't afford, so I bought it on credit. I made the repayments for two years before selling the guitar for half of what it cost, which just about paid off the loan. I had so much guilt associated with that guitar, even though it was wonderful I couldn't enjoy it. What a lesson that was. I have my eye on a vintage model now, but won't buy anything until I have the cash in my hand to pay for it.

When i first met my husband he bought me a beautiful full set of Bobby Brown makeup brushes. When I worked out how much they cost I couldn't bring myself to use them, I don't wear lots of makeup
so didn't want to spoil them. They are still sat in my drawer and make me smile every time I see them. We've been married nearly 20 years !!!!!

You're my people.

I found a hardback of Exploits in a secondhand bookshop on my birthday this year. Reasonable price for a reprint with a dust jacket.... but I already have it in hardback. I paid £25 for a dust jacket.

£500 having a print framed. I’d wanted the print itself since 1999 when I saw it in a gallery in Birmingham New Street Station. I finally tracked one down 300 miles away and happily paid what they wanted, but the original frame had to be broken to get it into the car.

I once spent £200 that I didn't really have on a pair of gold-coloured Dior fabric sneakers. There was short-term financial pain, but I wore them almost every day for a couple of years until there were holes in the soles (the uppers held up better), and my feet were very happy in them. I would do it again, but maybe I'm silly that way!

Also op if you happen to be a uk 4 you can have my Italian handmade boots too so that you don’t have to feel so bad about the shoes.

I drunkenly bought not one, but two horses! It wasn’t even at the same time. Like I got drunk and bought a horse on more than one occasion. (This is not completely stupid, I am a horsey person, but I am time poor and having a horse is probably not the most sensible decision I ever made, I have sold one now but I still have the other and he’s lovely). I gave up drinking though! 😂

Oh you are not alone £8k horse, spent over £10k vets bills in 3 years......Colic surgery (that was fun), a £500 splinter (which the vet decided was fine left in situ) and a pulled back muscle (from being a twat in the field). Once he was fit and well it became he has all talent and athletic ability of a baked potato....
I absolutely adore him and he's the best money I've ever spent. 😂🤦

Sooooo this post is very therapeutic as I’ve just blown £5.5k on business class flights. Doesn’t include a hotel…literally just flights….eeeek.

I swing from being super excited to live the life god meant me to live 🤣🤣 to super WTF have I done!!!!!

I’ve spent hundreds on a pair of boots because Kate moss had a pair. They didn’t have my size. I convinced myself that the size that they did have would be fine. Absolutely agony to wear. A size too small at least. I wore maybe twice. I still have them because they were so expensive. I’d happily offer as a prize to a deserving stranger come to think of it.

op I think it depends. If you love the shoes you shouldn’t feel bad. You’re allowed nice things. If they are going to make you feel down can you return them?

And regarding cutlery- I have very expensive cutlery too. Not thousands but hundreds. I love it and am happy to have it. The biggest issue is that I bought it before children and they do things like take forks to school and lose them. That’s the biggest problem with it.

but I’m a big believer in buying nice things if you can. They bring me joy. I just stick to trainers for foot wear though. Too old and fat now

You sound like a wonderful mother.

A charcoal drawing of DS by a really good artist. It cost £3.5k plus £250 for the frame.

Absolutely worth every penny. It looks incredible, is so life like and a truly beautiful piece of art. I justify the cost by saying we’ll have it on our walls until we die probably the wall of the room in our care home and then hopefully DS will keep it, and his DC if he has any.

I had a very, very cheap wedding dress, no proper honeymoon, did my own wedding cake and most of the flowers, so that’s how I justified it. No regrets at all.

@HappyHunting101 I will say I got incredible use out of my Lumea but it just stopped working, way out of warranty and I am trying hard not to think about how much it cost me.

wear your shoes and enjoy them, OP x

Condolences for your loss.

Wow, I'm not usually fussy about cutlery but I really don't like those at all! Those gaps would do my head in. You'd throw them in the sink (although actually I guess maybe you wouldn't, your servants would discreetly carry them away to be hand-polished) and they'd come out with bits of pasta stuck through the holes.