Wanky things you’re guilty of

[Pumpkittenspice]

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

Me and dh have wanky names (first and surname

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Just adding to my list:

Lounge is painted in F&B.
I regularly wear a Barbour waxed jacket, despite living in the city.
We have (and regularly use) a ceramic teapot.
There’s a stunt tea towel in the kitchen, and DP has been trained not to use it.

Cut the tube at the end stand it up in a funnel overnight, it will slowly fill the fancy dispenser.

I do both of those because it’s about quality, I didn’t think it was wanky! Neither are hard, expensive or fiddly to do! 😭

I call my patio a ‘sun terrace ‘ though and that IS wanky, but I almost get away with it as it looks out on to a nice marina full of boats I could never afford.

@Bohomovies What are you recommendations for fresh wreaths at other times of year? I always do a Christmas one and I would love to have others but I can never think what will last well enough to make the effort worthwhile!

What’s wrong with Ugg boots?

I leave the extra virgin olive oil on display and hide the sunflower/vegetable oil in the cupboard.

Wanky= slightly pretentious or knowingly affected. Something you do because it makes you feel good even though you know it's unnecessary or, even, because you feel like it asserts some element of superiority over others.

Wanky operates at all levels of class. It can be financial, a matter of taste or intellectual wankery.

I keep trying to insist at work that ¨today we shall only speak in French' but sadly no one else will go for it I did switch to French when I answered the phone to a telemarketer the other day so they'd give up trying to sell me a newspaper subscription.

Note: I barely speak any French, but I live in Finland where almost nobody learns French in school so my smattering of French will be far more than anything they can manage so they don't need to know how little I know My boss lived in France for a while though so I can't try it with him

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We had a hamper given to us. We emptied it and I took the hamper to the tip.

Prosecco is for swilling out the drains. If you can't afford to Champagne but want fizz buy Cremant.

My LeCreuset collection is on show on one of those wanky rustic pine side tables with a slatted base but we do use it regularly.

I have a lovely lambswool Melin Tregwynt throw that I am the only one allowed to touch. I keep it out of the sun. I've never admitted to my DM how much I paid for it. I once caught my dyspraxic sister, snuggling into it with a half pint mug of tea....I had to kindly but firmly substitute an inferior blanket immediately!

https://melintregwynt.co.uk/

I'm very proud of my oil fired cast iron Stanley and refuse to have a normal electric cooker installed even though it would make life a lot easier.

I also bought a set of vintage Christmas decs last year. I had thought they were mid century French but on closer inspection, they were from East Germany in the 1970s. We now call them the 'Brezhnev baubles'. I could have got something very similar new from Next for half the price and no trouble.

We call our shed 'the barn' because it's very large and we live in the country. But it's not used in any agricultural way at all. It's just a big shed.

I use my Waitrose bag for life to go shopping in Lidl and carefully smooth it out and make sure it's on display in my trolley.

To me wanky isn't something that makes you look rich, wanky is something that makes you look a bit of a dickhead

Yet this thread is listing things that they think makes them look rich and wealthy

Personalised number plates are usually what makes you a wanker without money because people can't often afford proper personalised ones and the nearest they get is using all the numbers to vaguely make a word because it's cheaper

Ugg boots don't scream posh or wealth, neither does getting your nails done or botox

They have F&M branding

Both!

Hi Araminta, I hope Hugo and the rest of the Cholmondeley family are well? 😂😂

I use brown oak leaves, collected up from under an oak tree - the ones which are still attached to small flexible branches. They last really well.
I’ve also made them using wheat, collected from the edge of a field near me. They last pretty well, too.

Oh no! I use Waitrose bags for life too. And Windsor Farm shop bags, Rick Stein too. But I don't smooth them out for display. Does that make me less of a wanker?

Mrs Wankella Wankbury-Wanklin

i might have to get my le Creuset out
<<wanker aspirations>>

Waitrose bags very popular round here, i have lots

@Noseyoldcow mines a Chatsworth sisal.

Inherited one of my parents' giant F+M baskets (Dad would get a massive hamper each Christmas from where he worked). It's in the attic storing Xmas decs and Xmas things.

Xmas decs - very old, handmade wooden tree ornaments - again, inherited from my parents.

When I was a kid, someone bought me a gold plated cutlery (including egg spoon, cake fork, fish eater etc!!). I used to use them for special occasions. I've kept the set and DC used them when they were little.

My jewellery (which I hardly wear - I should change that really): some was bought for me, most was inherited from my mother, grandmother and great grandmother (etc etc).

Other (but non-inherited) wanky things? See below:

-Thermomix
-Dry Robe type thing (but from Regatta)
-a hot/cold water dispenser with filter. Not one that is built in to kitchen sink/tap or my fridge freezer. A stand-alone unit, that I have to remember to bloody refill each time it runs low. Quite why I didn't think buying a kettle (when old one died) and using the cold water tap in my kitchen would suffice, I really don't know. Total wanker!!!

In my dreams, I've won the lottery, and live in a large old house, in a rural setting. My house has a dining room, more than one bathroom, spacious rooms, lovely views of countryside, plenty of land, a kitchen garden, conservatory/orangery/whatever the hell they're called, a snug (WTF is a snug?! It sounds good though!). Perfect but probably wanky decor. Everything is spotless clean and tidy. I don't need to work, but choose to do a couple of shifts each week. Other than that, I float around, cooking all day, tending to garden, planting stuff that doesn't die, hanging out with my cats, seeing friends/family and reading A LOT!!