Wanky things you’re guilty of

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

I think the really wanky thing to do is to throw away your f and m hamper WITHOUT repurposing.

I use mine to store old gift bags and ribbons in then buy new ones every time 😂😂

Have Botox-tick
Use Moulton Brown soap-tick
Have a Mulberry handbag that too heavy for everyday use-tick
Use old Jo Malone boxes to store stuff in cupboards (can’t be seen by anyone but still a bit wanky)-tick

I do this with Aesop hand wash. Love the bottle (wanky) and I am waaay too poor to pay £25 for a hand wash so carex it is.

I make my own cleaning spray and store in a brown glass bottle
I use blackboard paint and white chalk pens to label my large Kilmer storage jars 'rice' 'pasta' etc when it's blatantly obvious what's in them.
Make my own table decs at Christmas with foraged stuff

Mine's decorative but also functional? Keep fire logs in it 😃

I read this out of curiosity thinking it wouldn’t apply to me but actually I have my emergency sewing stuff in an F&M biscuits for cheese tin, my stamps and loose coins in an F&M pâtés de fruits tin and some bits and bobs in one of the lovely little F&M Turkish delight boxes 😳

DH's grandparents receive a F&M hamper every year (as a gift from F&M) and I have a couple in which I store Christmas books. I lined them with velvet and put them on display in December.

If you'd seen how filthy my house was when we moved in, you'd 100% have thrown the hamper out without repurposing too.

I'm not posh enough for f&m but I do a lot of crafts

I bought loads of emma bridgewater tins to store it all in and keep them on display rather than biscuit tins like my mother

Molton Brown or Jo Malone soap and hand cream in the guest wc at all times.
Jo Malone candles in the living rooms, dining room and hallway. White company in kitchen and guest bedroom.
Cake plates and cake forks in regular use.
Handmade wreaths and table decor, if there’s an overpriced workshop sign me up.
Gym/pilates 4/5 times a week in sweaty betty middle class mum attire followed by mandatory coffee.

Im embarrassed to write it down, what a wanker I am.

I've never had a F&M hamper. I feel deprived now.

My le creuset kettle lives in the hob although I'm not sure where else a kettle is supposed to live. Plus it's too minging and battered to be wanky. And not in a shabby chic way.

Oh but I do have special Christmas bunting and at Christmas I change some of our pictures for Christmas ones.

I refuse to use tinsel and decorate the house for Chrostmas with homemade decorations and holly and ivy gathered from the garden and local woods.

Which is a bit wanky.

I also have strict Christmas decoration rules - it goes up the last Saturday before Christmas day and comes down on twelfth night.

@Lwrenn my library is definitely not that pretty 😄. I really wish it was.

I don't even have time to read, let alone sit in the library so it's a pointless room really ☹️

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/hampers-category

A London thing, and I used to get my Grandma gifts from there, she loved wanky stuff, she used to use a Harrods carrier back to go shopping.

In my wanky defence my entire le cruest collection lives in the pantry and cupboards. Well except for the utensil holder salt pig.

Same. And the body wash.

Bought a very expensive bottle of handsoap once for our downstairs toilet. Fill it up monthly with Lidls own. Been going a couple of years now 😂

And me 😂😂😂

Im embarrassed to write it down, what a wanker I am

😂

Thanks for the thread. It's rare for MN to make me chuckle these days!

I make my own gyoza.

In my defence, I do have a tiny mini mould (like a mini cornish pasty crimper, so no hand folded authenticity) that I bought as part of a set that was reduced to about 50 p in Sainsburys).

My main motivation is that I'm too tight to pay £££s for ready made ones so I get the frozen skins and also buy reduced chicken mince if I see it and make a load for the freezer.

We also make our tea in a teapot at home that some people seem to think is wanky.

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

Me too, It's in the corner of a room with an assortment of blankets and throws rolled up. Just for show, no one is allowed to actually use them 😆 we do have other throws on the sofas which I'm happy for everyone to use. Just don't touch the F & M hamper.

Guilty of the le Creuset and I have literally dozens of hampers, not all of them F&M, piled up in a cupboard, storing Christmas decorations, pagan stuff, my papier-mâché masks, camping stuff, etc.

I recently bought some coloured glass pump dispensers for liquid soap and actually waste my time decanting the stuff.
(If anyone has any tips for decanting hand cream, please share, as it could take the rest of my life to decant that)

I didn't realise a teapot was wanky…No, no, it isn't. Proper tea is important.
I will admit that my tea cosies might be a bit wanky, though

Tea pots are not wanky. I'm sat here right now with a big pot of tea. It is great for longer weekend breakfasts as you have a supply of hot tea refills on tap.

Me too!