Crazy money spent by you or someone you know

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I'm talking spending £10k on dinner for 2 or £30k on 3 bottles of wine (not investments just to drink) etc?

Anyone got any good stories of shocking amounts of money they (or people in their company) have spent? Houses and cars don't count.

I've only ever seen this on tv shows with one exception.

I don't think I'd ever have so much money I could drop £1,000 on a yoga mat etc

£2k on a painting. I love it.

@Pinkiii 😮😮😮

£4,535 on a sapphire ring for myself. I was meant to be buying a diamond one but never found one I liked. I wear it every day so I like to think the cost is reducing on a daily basis, it's nearly down to less than £4 per day!

The worst I can think of was 20 years ago and we spent £300 on a day trip from St Lucia where we were on holiday to the Grenadines.

Good high spend = £1050 on a watch, but I have worn I practically every day for 15 years and can’t see me ever needing or wanting another, so that’s possibly 50+ years of watch wear by the time I croak.

Bad high spend = designer leather lap top bag to celebrate new job, around £300 if I remember rightly. I had visions of using it for years to get my monies worth. First weekend I had it a bottle of forgotten orange juice fermented and exploded in it. The smell was horrific, the leather and lining ruined so I binned it. (Along with new work laptop, external hard drive, work phone and leather bound notebook). that was an expensive bottle of juice..

A few of us from work signed up to do the London to Brighton bike ride. Colleague spent nearly £2k on a super fancy carbon fibre racing bike, plus another few hundred on all the gear. Did no training, barely made it to Brighton, then never sat on the bike again.

Lol at £10k at Center Parcs .

If you've got kids i'm not sure you're in the best position to comment on what other people choose to spend their money on 💁‍♀️

wontletmelogin

Chanel I presume.

I’ve spent/spend quite a bit on shoes & bags but have never regretted. Plus when I’ve sold on bags they’ve held their value.

DH spent £200 on 2 x gin & tonics, I didn’t even want mine! Had a £300 dinner once where we had barely any alcohol & the cheapest main on the menu.

I’m assuming the christmas cards involved a family potrait? Or gold leaf?

I've just remembered some gems from my time at an insurance company.
(Insurance was for doctors, dentists, vets etc not open to everybody).
Bikes for £12,000-£15,000
Tvs at nearly £15,000
Some kind of speaker system for £24,000
And my all time favourite, a £35,000 bronze? Garden sculpture of..... themselves

A company my hubby used to work for had a massive budget to design a robot to ride a camel in camel races for a rich Sheikh, it used to be child jockeys but apparently that's frowned upon now

12k on husbands 45th Birthday several years ago
1400 on handbag & 350 on matching purse
I use the purse everyday the handbag never 😂 it’s to heavy and awkward to carry
2500 on one of our puppies

I am tight fisted as hell but my boss from years ago once spent £2k kitting himself out for a 5 day shooting holiday. Gaiters, tweed breeks, tweed cap, jacket etc.

Nearly £300 on a mauviel copper frying pan. I’ve used it twice...

£1.5k on a coffee machine. I love it! Makes my coffee exactly how I like it; I now rarely buy coffee when out.

DP has been know to spend hundreds in a oner in the bookies, I think any money spent on gambling is a complete waste, I can't even bring myself to do the lottery.

hundredmilesanhour

I've eaten at Gordon Ramsay Royal hospital road, it's nowhere near that much. I think the a la carte dinner menu was £90 when I went (for three of us, I think we ended up spending £400+ after service charge and drinks). I wonder if it really was £1000 pp 20 years ago?!

@magicstar1 ooh which island? We've also stayed on an expensive island off the great barrier reef.

£45k on one of my watches.

MadBengalmum i recognise your name from the engagement ring threads haha.

Pls tell, Patek Philippe ? Franck Muller?

@kiwiblue it was Lizard Island. About 10 years ago, and it was amazing.

For several years dd was trashing a pair of pointe shoes about every 10 days. At £55 a pair.

@magicstar1 right! We stayed on Wilson Island about 10 years ago too, I think it cost about AUD1000 per night.

@norrismcwhirtersfridgemagnet as a non wine drinker, this is my potential nightmare as I get bottles as thank you’s which I swiftly cook with.... thankfully most people I know are loath to spend more than a tenner on a bottle of wine.

Mine are probably courtesy of DH.., he brought me an IPL machine ten years ago It cost him £499 and I got a lot of Boots points. I’m still hairy.

He brought me the Dyson hairdryer two Christmases ago and the airwrap last Christmas Love them both.

When my pet catfish (he cost £3.50) outgrew his tank, I spent £1000 on a new tank (including extra filter and other equipment) just for him.

It took me a year to pay for it, in interest free monthly payments, but he's gorgeous and he's worth it.

This thread is making me feel a bit nauseous tbh.