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

1:12 solid silver Georgian style sauce boats, platters, soup tureens etc for my dolls house. The stuff in the butler's pantry comes to over £2K but when I open the doors and see it it gives me great joy. I am not finished collecting yet either.

I should say my DD was 10 when we went to WDW not a newborn, I realise my post reads like I took her as a baby!

The dog - cost a lot more than expected (ongoing).

A coat that was half a months wages the time, I was tipsy and chilly, a dangerous combination!
I still have the coat, it’s a timeless classic and I have no regrets. Even though it was beans on toast time for a while 😂
Other than that though I can’t think of anything. While I’m a big spender I do tend to know what’s a good idea and what isn’t!! For now anyway…

I bought a GHD rise hair styler this week.. can’t afford it but very much in my fuck it element!

enjoy your trainers :)

Oh lots!

£400 on an antique 18 ct gold diamond and sapphire snake ring )bargain actually!)

£150 on another antique ring (bargain again!)

£80 on a Georgian cut glass perfume bottle ( I like miniature antiques)

£200 on Sisley make up bits

£40 on a little bay tree

I could go on. I like treating myself

@AnnaQuayInTheUk Can I see a picture of your chairs as DH and i have been considering some special garden chairs but I am concerned about the heavy weight and durability and wonder of you have them - pm if it's easier.
Thanks.
I spent £350 on my going away outfit in 1996. After I had paid for it I was honestly wondering why I had spent that amount.
However, I still wear it for special occasions to this day and intended to wear it for DD1's graduation this year and DD2's next year.

In the early 80’s, I bought a huge Dualit toaster that cost more than a month’s rent in my new flat. Still got the toaster and it is brilliant.

Not in the same league but I spent £350 on cutlery in Heal's about 30 years ago. That must be the equivalent of about £1000 now. I don't use it THAT often, but it gives me pleasure. I've got a posh inherited dinner service too, that rarely gets used because it predates dishwashers but my everyday china is Wedgwood and it's beautiful. And dishwasher safe.

Doing up house and needed a new sofa. Saw one in a furniture store dh and I liked to browse. I was with my dm and sofa and 2 armchairs were
£2.2k in the sale. It was good quality leather. When told dh about it he nearly had a fit at spending that much on a sofa. This was mid nineties. He came and looked at it and loved it so we bought it. 30 years later it's still going strong and the design could be described as nearly Art Deco.

I did the same. Persevered for two weeks but HATED it.

I’m all in for £500k for 5 years on boarding school fees. Sometimes wonder what the hell we were thinking. Praying neither of us lose our jobs between now and then. I grew up in a country where boarding school isn’t really a thing and have woken up in a cold sweat more than once with the weight of the ever tightening noose.

On the plus side, I used to have a very expensive handbag and shoe habit.
I don’t anymore.

Had a ring remodelled. The jeweller didn’t do what I asked him to do. It took a whole year for him to make. Cost me 1k. When I saw it I could have cried.

Took it home, wore it a bit but I wasn’t happy with it as the ring wasn’t what I asked for.

Im having redone right now. The people that are doing it have talked to me every step of the way. It’s taken six weeks and I’m paying for it in scrap gold. I’m going to try it on tomorrow, it’s not totally finished they just need to make sure the size is right.

The first jeweller saw me coming….

Had a teenie, tiny bit of a midlife crisis after my husband buggered off with a much younger woman. Ended up moving back In with family and had lost almost everything.
The answer to that is obviously to buy a highly impractical, convertible classic car.

9 years later that car is still the love of my life. Even more impractical with now having 2 kids and no rear seat belts. But I still use her a lot, she's my freedom, my fun, and worth every single penny.

I’ve decided I'm going to drop around £2.5k on a designer bag this year. Either Gucci or YSL.

£20 ish/week... £10/week really, split between the two of them.

Actually £1.37 a day (each) to eat beans on toast like royalty. Totally worth it

A musical instrument I spent £2700 on. I do play it all the time, but I'm pretty certain it's no better than one that's 10 times less cost. In fact, the tuning on one note never seems to be right, in a way I've never encountered with cheaper instruments.

And then I'm currently agonising over spending £1750 on an original painting for DHs significant birthday next month. He will love the subject, but the artist, although professional, and fairly good, isn't outstanding, but then if he was, it would be £100,000s or more, which I definitely can't afford.

Definitely in the past I've felt down and then bought something I really regret. My tips for avoiding it are close the browser quickly and run away! or you can leave it for 24 hours and go back to it to see if you still like it (you probably won't), only spend what you have in your current accout, never use Klarna (or similar). I also use moneybox, so if I don't buy something I really wanted I put that money in my savings account (e.g. if I see some face cream I really want, I put the cost of that into savings). It's amazing how that builds up!

6000 pounds for a hot tub that I used about 5 times. It was all bells and whistles with flashing lights and music. I put it down to widow madness where common sense seems to fly out of the window. I got rid quite quickly and never regretted it

I bought a skirt at an international airport aboit 16 years ago. I made a mistake with the currency exchange calculation and the skirt ended up costing me about £400. I was mortified when I realised.

But, I’ve worn that skirt over and over. I always get compliments on it. It looks as gorgeous now as it did then.

So, maybe it was meant to be.
And maybe your expensive shoes will bring you much joy too OP 🙏

That is still a thousand pounds a year… for cutlery…

On a whim, I spent £750 on a handbag. We live in a small village where everyone knows everyone. Would have felt a bit ‘look at me!’ using it round here, so only ever used it when we were away somewhere. Felt guilty every time I saw it in my wardrobe.

Sold it on Vinted for £375 and used the money to take my daughter to see Sabrina Carpenter.

I’ve spent approx 2.5K on 4 handbags over the years. One I used to death, one I use less but still love and will have it for years. One I’ve used once and one I have to my mum who hardly uses it. Don’t really regret it but I do sometimes think two of them were a waste of money. As I’m getting older I’m more about spending money on holidays / experiences. I could never afford stupid money for holidays but I’m currently saving for a 6K holiday to Italy and then a 10K trip to Costa Rica which is a lot for me but when I hear what some people spend on holidays I think it isn’t too bad.

I suspected horses might come up. Went racing. Brought a racehorse.

While pregnant and hormonal bought a £3,000 armchair from Heals (a classic, which I got had them upholster in deep pink designer guild velvet).

No regrets re chair. Still my favourite thing I own 15 years later. Ended up with a few more legs of racehorses before deciding I preferred riding them.

Some Eames kitchen chairs in the same era (double income no kids!). Still as good as new and beautiful.

I balance it all out nowadays by buying my designer stuff in charity shops.

I’ve spent quite a lot on really great cutlery in the past. It lasts a lifetime and it’s heavy and beautiful.

I also got a gold plated set for 10p each in a charity shop last month.

My previous forays into high end stuff in the past has worked out well because I have a good eye now in my charity shop era!

I bought a persian kitten for 1k once. I was having a nervous breakdown (literally), and needed comfort. It helped a lot but he got run over 2 years later. Devo.

But I could ill afford him, but he would have been worth 10 times more...