Wanky things you’re guilty of

[Pumpkittenspice]

For me, it’s using a Fortnum and Mason hamper basket as a piece of decor…

Ooh, I forgot my F&M Biscuit Tin - I'll have to dig it out and display! Repurposed for overseas coins (when we traveled) now, odds and ends sewing stuff and button storage. My friend had her cards cut up after ordering an F&M Christmas Cake.

Bugger me, I've just realised I call the front door entry way 'the Foyer' - I'm a serious, self proclaimed wanky doodle dandy.

Clearly! You won’t be a total wanker unless you get one 😇

This must be the reason why I fancy and am I'm hinting for a wicker basket for Christmas.

I would like to add I will be making piccalilli later and paella, made in a paella pan, for dinner. I'm in the upper echelons of wankery.

Foyer - that's the word I've been trying to remember for ages! Couldn't remember how to describe the entrance bit of a building (a public one, not my house, because I'm not that wanky ) but could only think of lobby which didn't seem right.

I think you may just be American 😂. The correct word is 'hallway', wanky might be 'entrance hall' or even 'vestibule'.

Planning my mid-life tattoo, emailing artists but always having an excuse not to book it.

@TroysMammy To be truly wanky you'd be making it for SUPPER

I do so many of these things. Just thought they made life a little nicer, but I guess wankery is a definite possibility.

In our snug, we have an F and M hamper for storing the ‘cosy blankies’
We have an ancient Aga which requires about as much attention as our kids
Oxo cubes go in a Paxton and Whitfield Stilton pot.
So, so much more.

We are acquainted with several excellent dogs who communicate, through their rarity, a definite wankish tendency in their owners. I mean, who wants a Labrador or Spaniel when you can have an Otterhound or Wirehaired Griffin Pointer?

Cosy blankies in the snug?

Yes, sorry you have crossed the W line 🤣🤣

I bought a £1000 bottle of wine just for my consumption. I haven’t dared to open it yet

You win

Shudder at the word. I could never be that wanky, I do have certain standards and a degree of being common. "Whispers" in real life I really call that meal tea but for the purpose of fitting in to the Mumsnet ideal I called it dinner 😀.

I gave mine away wishing I hadn’t now!

I don't get this

Which bit is wanky?

What else would you do with a forts hamper though? I have three.... one has sewing stuff, one books and one Lego! 😂

None to add, but a cracking thread OP🤣

gel nails and gels on my toes

lots of leopard print scarves and a few tops

Books on the shelf that I have not read or even tried to read but like to think make me look more intelligent than I am with the odd easy read so I do not look like a book snob

By ‘wanky’ I’d assume pretentious and gel nails are anything but. No-one with delusions of grandeur would be seen dead with gel nails.

Absolutely Daaarling. 😂😂😂😂

Aim to please 😇

I'm sorry but gel nails are neutral.
Mary Berry has them !
Nude and red that's it. No sparkle.

Clarins gold facials are wankey because once you have the glow, that's it. No fillers, no machines just a very expensive 90 minutes.
It allows you to bask in the smugness.
I can spot the look a mile off (I do work in beauty but not for Clarins).

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I insist that when we have visitors for a cuppa we use the Emma bridgewater mugs.
I get so pissed off i discover that my husband has used common mustang his mum comes round!

I got one from an antique shop for £12. Which is never used...

@cookiebee , love your slipper devotion 😅.
I have Russell & Bromley ones I chose as a present from DH. The most uncomfortable leisurely footware I've ever known.
They cost a packet, so I begrudgingly wear them whilst hoping they disintegrate soon.

@OnlyFrench , I got a glass dispenser from tkmaxx and decant my fairy liquid into it.

Also decant my Method sprays into Waitrose limited edition bottles.

Got the different sized Oxo scoops for all my decanted dry food. They are such a faff but cant go back now, sometimes I get them out of the way and just tip the contents out.

I have carafes on the bedside tables.

"Can't sleep properly" without a mattress topper, protector, bottom sheet, top sheet and duvet all in high thread count cotton.

My wealthy boss displays her massive F&M basket in her massive bootroom of her massive country pile. Makes me chuckle.
I keep my small one under a bench in the kitchen, so you can't actually see the branding. No space anywhere else.

Think the definition depends on how one was raised/brought up, so one person's W is another's normal.

Why do people feel the need to police light hearted threads, or any for that matter.

My younger self would give me a pat on the back for some of the things I do but would also call me a capital W for the above.