Wanky things you’re guilty of

[Pumpkittenspice]

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

These are GORGEOUS!

Oh my, yes! I only wear Wolford opaques Velvet 50 in the Winter. Nothing else compares. Yes, they're £35 but I have some pairs that are 3 years old [smug]

Can anyone recommend some stupidly priced, wanky socks (not to be confused with a wank sock) that are beautiful, zero wool content, subdued colours and patterned but not cutesy like White Stuff ones.

What's so good about the tights? I'm going to Google as I wonder if I'm missing a trick!

@joliplease ignore this ,I tagged you accidentally and it just WILL NOT let me delete your name?! I'm sorry!

@GellerYeller @Arraminta my favourite socks are London sock Company active quarter socks. They are so well made and comfortable. Totally worth it.

~ and very relevant to the thread, sittiing here in a Glenevan of Tweeddale cashmere intarsia jumper (TEN POUNDS from a charity shop 😱😍) and long alpaca wool cardigan on top. Sipping from an ¥15,500 artisan ceramic cup, handthrown in Japan)~ 😅

Falke tights are wanky.
I bought a pair last year as I am tall. They were so long I thought I could wear them as a snood too. Two for one!

I'm not doing this wellie rubbish. Mine are Dunlop like Titters and Monty.

I don't anymore, but I used to put my Aldi shop in a Sainsbury's carrier bag for show. Wankyness at its finest.

Oh my God, I’ve just thought of something that would escalate me up to the top of the Wanky Stakes…

I’ve got a load of wicker storage baskets (bog standard ones, nothing special) on my shelves in front room. Imagine stencilling the F & M Logo on each one!!! That would be hilarious 🤣

NB I DON’T plan to do this!!

There was a lady on fleebay who sold a stencil for such activities.

Loving this thread ….
I live in the ‘House of Wank’. I was putting together a long list of items ranging from Niwaki Japanese Higurashi floral scissors
to an Eames lounge chair and ottoman, the Newt in Somerset canvas bags for grocery shopping to a Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference Turntable but I think I’ve ‘nailed’ it with ….

I have a variable temperature kettle, purely because I only drink hideously expensive loose leaf teas and matcha from across the globe. I have a lot of very niche equipment to facilitate these teas.

Oh bloody hell I'm wanky, I have mate cups and straws. And I bought them in Argentina. I also have actual mate.

I have a wooden carved Ganesh bought in Bali, a mask from Verona, a table cloth from Otovalo market.

My carer is currently in Japan where he has bought me a second Damascus steel knife.

I live on a council estate FFS.

Just remembered another wanky thing - I have a hat stand with an array of hats on including a top hat, all for DS (who is 6) and when he was a toddler I used to dress him up every friday in suits and I called it Formal Fridays. Had to stop when he started nursery when he was 4 because suits aren't exactly practical for nursery or school but when I remember I dress him up at the weekend.

You could make a mint out of that stencil idea 😂

Just bought the Method cream custard surface cleaner. I heard from this thread that it’s wanky 😊

Have we covered owning a dry robe yet?

I have another one - a House of Bruar shopping bag I got in Scotland which I use to shop around my high street/village

@Pumpkittenspice The Custard Cream is nice, but I'd still favour the rhubarb. DS finds it worrying when I sniff the table after a spray.

Nowadays, I take my Method bottles to the local refill store, where they refill them (along with my hand wash, laundry detergent and shower gel) while I have a flat white and a pastry. This achieving the double whammy of both wanky and virtuous.

I wear a dry robe. I go no where near the sea or open water. I don’t swim. The water is for fishes. I love it. I am a dry robe wanker.

Links to the Anne Boleyn dog collar please! 🙏🙏🙏

My F&M hamper is a turquoise cardboard box so I use it for storing Christmas decorations. It doesn’t collect dust as much as the wicker baskets.

Diptyque glasses reused for my wanky collection of beautiful looking (not always the most functional) artisanal pens and pencils.

And in the colder months I have a tiny Japanese cast iron teapot on the wanky woodburner so that it adds an equally tiny bit of humidity back into the room.

That's a good one 😂

I do the "cast iron tea pot log burner humidity" trick too!

I have a dry robe - perfect for warming up after midwinter sea swimming. I wrap a hot water
bottle up in it for added comfort.

I have a selection of Japanese kettles on the log burner for constant hot water when I’m working from home in the winter; I also keep soup warm on it for lunch.

My favourite wanky thing is my set of beautiful art deco champagne coupes - a birthday present from a friend. I do love an art deco glass.

Did anyone see the Stacey Sleeps over episode where there was a very large naked oil painting of the lady of the house on wall of the grand staircase?

I think she might win the wankery art aspect thread if she were here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0dglr05/stacey-dooley-sleeps-over-series-1-6-landed-gentry

It's an actual thing to spot whole families in them here in cornwall usually no where near the sea. I don't own one as I would be laughed out of my town
Also Quba coats bought by wankers on holiday