HOW MUCH for a duvet?!!

[BruceAndNosh]

https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-the-ultimate-collection-made-to-order-icelandic-eiderdown-winter-weight-duvet/p111153356?size=superking&s_ppc=2dx_mixed_home_BAU&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20151162171&gbraid=0AAAAAD2el1z5KojK5sx0KBBS-oWBPpENt&gclid=CjwKCAiAnoXNBhAZEiwAnItcGw_EhYsj29dVk7ZMejLrr8MSMAjFYlXkHT4GYvlwsJUSzua2REf7axoCaIgQAvD_BwE

My husband would spill a mug of tea on it within a week

The number of times mine (feather, but cost me about £90) has had to go to a launderette because of the cat throwing up on it or weeing on it!

Yes, very true and add to that, Daphne Moon in Frasier, "You'd eat a worm if I gave it a fancy French name!"

As a lifelong atheist I've always thought there was so much truth in the biblical phrase "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God".

These people may not see £10,000 as a lot of money but they are fully aware of the suffering of the underprivileged and they are usually the first to proselytise and and bask in their sanctimonious piety when it comes to generalised wokery and virtue signalling.

I'd love to believe that there was some kind of divine judgement or karma but unfortunately I reckon the rich get to shove tenners up their bums and lie under hand made Icelandic eiderdown duvets whilst the poor just get screwed.

More expensive than our current car, sadly. ( thinking of old troublesome cars we now endure )

Thanks, you've made me feel better for buy a few unneccesaries this month!!

these people may not see £10,000 as a lot of money but they are fully aware of the suffering of the underprivileged

They really, really aren't. They really don't have a clue what it's like to be unable to find the miney for a prescription or the bus fare for an interview or the catastrophe of losing a fiver because it means no meal for the next two nights.

If you’re very, very rich you probably spend a lot of money on things, no surprise there. Everyone needs a duvet, and it’s unlikely people will stockpile ten of them for their own bed (just eg winter and summer). it’s biodegradable, unlike poly filled ones.

It seems a much better thing (sustainable, ethical, non conspicuous etc) to spend on than a lot of other ways to splash cash 🤷‍♀️

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you could buy 2 singles and sew them together to save yourself £245 off a superking size 🤣🤣 bargain at £9870!

Savvy!!!😅

I;m allergic to feathers and wouldn't buy it at any price.

Best duvet we've ever had is a wool one.

If I had a £10k duvet budget I wouldn’t be buying it from John Lewis 😂 it’s just a department store

I would be worried it wouldn't wash well as I would want to keep it many years and DH's skin has man greasy sweat so duvets washed each summer as I'm sure it permeates through the cover.

That's interesting. Having been to Iceland a few times I've always been a bit on the warm side at night thanks to the heating systems and I was thinking I bet nobody in Iceland uses these. I didn't think of sleeping with a window open. Now I'm wondering if we have slept under similar without even noticing.

Do you know the meaning of "investment".

A duvet is not an investment.

Oh be quiet. People can spend their money on whatever they want. You have no idea at all about the lives these people lead so stop dramatising. @CatsAreBetterThanMen

@Zonder yes same here, the house was so warm! Lovely but hard to sleep at night. The second night we opened the window and I dragged a spare duvet over my side of the bed just in case, but it wasn't needed, even with that cold.

I wondered how the waterfowl managed to survive those temperatures!

I’m lying here in my £10 asda duvet all toasty, I don’t think it’s possible to be more comfortable!

I am all for paying more for higher quality but that is just insane. People are struggling to put the heating on whilst others have spent nearly a full years pension on one duvet. The world is messed up.

There's a brilliant book called A Place of Tides by James Rebanks who spent the summer with two women on a tiny island off Norway. One of them had pretty much singlehanded revived the traditional way of harvesting eider ducks' down in their community. This involved moving to this tiny island for the season, making little houses for the ducks to nest in, watching over them when they arrived to nest (and scaring off predators) and then, when the ducks left, taking their down and starting to prepare it for market. It was an incredibly labour intensive process so I can quite believe that a duvet would be expensive. If I had that sort of money I'd love to have one!

One described it as a “splurge” 😳

The ducks aren’t plucked, that’s why it’s so expensive. The down is voluntarily left behind by wild ducks who are cared for by people living alone on remote islands. It’s as environmentally friendly as anything like this could ever be.

This wonderful book describes how the down is collected, I found it both hugely inspiring as a woman and very sad for a way of life that is dying out.

https://go.borrowbox.com/productdetails/6786/PRH6530566

It’s called “The Place of Tides” by James Rebanks if the link doesn’t work.

When I went to Iceland many years ago it was summer and the place we stayed at had heating on full blast (free geothermal heat near a volcano) and the windows were sealed shut.

Now I'm wondering what the preferred duvets are in Iceland and how much they pay for them. Anyone planning a trip please go duvet shopping and report back!

Agree. I would also point out that by dropping £10k on a Duvet they've put almost £2000 into the tax collection.

The second reviewer says they are buying another one. Wonder if they’re selling their car to arrange the finance 😂

Yes same! We need some Icelandic feedback!

The emperor size over 12k. Who is buying these things? I feel for the ducks.