HOW MUCH for a duvet?!!

[BruceAndNosh]

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

I’d love to try it, just to see.
I’d pay £10k for 4 family holidays. That’s a month total, this would last years….
(I am joking)

People pay thousands for a handbag or a wristwatch. It takes all sorts, as they say. 🙂

The ducks aren't harmed.

My Norwegian grandmother was given two bags of eider down when she married my English grandfather in 1924. She had 2 traditional eiderdowns made and filled with it, and they were very much her treasured possessions, and only used on adult beds. Her children had to put up with standard down dynes (duvets) - my mother said they longed to sleep under sheets and blankets like their friends did.

@Moleculenot the point I know but this just goes to show no matter what you do for your kids they will find something to moan about as adults 😂

Wouldn't it be lovely if all rich people were so philanthropic?

Mine was £12 from Asda…!

Best duvet I own is 3.5 togs from Amazon. Had it since about 2019 and it's perfect and has held up very well.

And the film crew to authenticate the gentle duck tickling required to extract ethical down.

For that price I'd want Charlie Hunnam to tuck me in every night and read me a bedtime story!!

I’ve visited an icelandic eiderdown farm, and they certainly deserve every penny. The ducks are completely wild and everything is done by hand. The care for the ducks and other wildlife, the ethics and the amount of physical effort is truly inspiring.

Having said that, no I wouldn’t buy it!

Would you be happy with a Skoda or would you prefer an Aston Martin?

Which car - the Lamborghini Gallardo or the Bugatti Veyron?

Honestly? I'd rather have the Skoda. Easier to fix, cheaper to insure, better fuel economy, less likely to be a target of crime, and I'd be much less worried about scratching it. Probably more boot space too and frankly kids and a dog would ruin the Aston within about 30 seconds.

I'm sure an Aston would be more fun, sure. But they'd both get me from A to B.

As with all things, there does come a point at which you're paying for nothing more than prestige rather than any tangible benefit. I was watching a programme where a hotel was £30k+ per night. And I can't help but wonder how that's justified, even if you had two 24 hour staff dedicated just to you. Surely a £5k hotel room is going to be just as extremely luxurious. What's the extra £25k for?

12.5 grand for Emperor size. (Which presumably you'd have to be in order to afford it...)

"Oh do be quiet!"

Er, nope, I don't think I will but thank you for your helpful advice and let me reciprocate. Oh do stop spitting your feathers everywhere, they cost ten thousand a pop to stuff in that duvet! Who am I kidding, you spit those feathers all over the place, think of all those poor unfortunate souls that would be lacking gainful employment and be unable to feed their children without that benevolent indignation.

With respect, I do believe this is an internet forum designed for the purpose of unconnected people forwarding their opinion on miscellaneous subjects, so I reserve the right to forward my opinion on random posts, just as I'm sure you'll reserve the right to tell me to shut up.

Think you got the wrong person there pet ;)

JL must be very impressed at the number of people looking at this item today, I wonder when they will twig that it's only the MN effect!

Slightly missing the large dollop of sarcasm
that was served with that post 🙄

Judgement isn't always a bad thing, it's a way we, as a society, set moral standards to live by, so ReleaseTheDucksOfWar judge away when you see injustice, moral bankruptcy or anything else that you find ethically or logically fraudulent. OhDear111 frame it as jealousy if that makes you feel better.

As for the argument that the benevolent rich single handedly keep all the charities going, I don't doubt it, reciprocal altruism is very good business for the wallet and the ego.

I won't get started on charity as a very lucrative industry or I could type for hours, suffice to say that over 270 CEO's of charities in the UK have a higher annual salary than the Prime Minister.

Let's not mention the sexual exploitation scandals that have dogged OXFAM since 2005 or the child abuse and sexual exploitation of vulnerable women that has been proven to have taken place since 1987 by UNICEF officials - google Peter Newell, UNICEF - Or the paedophile scandals at LGBT Youth Scotland and Surrey Pride.

Wouldn't it be nice if the rich people tried to create a more equitable society were the poorest and most vulnerable weren't reliant on the charity of their so called betters.

What's it made from? Belly button fluff from the Royal Family?

@Zonder I can tell you who is not philanthropic - the poor. For good reason, we do see lots of others giving and others give quietly! No fuss. If they have used their money for good, I don’t begrudge them this duvet!

I'm sure you don't mean to come across like this, but it's almost as if you're saying all the rich people are charitable and philanthropic while none of the poor are.

That would be a very odd opinion to hold, whatever duvet anyone uses.

I think that poster has a few issues of understanding!

But honestly, it seems a shame that the thread's gone this way. Romantic it may be, but I like the idea of people -choosing- to hand gather outworn eider down left behind by ducklings for their own duvets.

This gave me a good laugh. Us poor folk eat our young and kick our dogs and are generally unwashed, uneducated misanthropic louts. I can see you have studied the working classes long and hard to arrive at this conclusion.

I'm beginning to feel that the rich are only ever a couple of invites away from an Epstien party.

In fairness to you, having lived my entire life amongst and as one of the great unwashed plebeian, there is nearly as much savagery of sentiment amongst the poor as the rich, the poor just do it in deprivation and powerlessness whilst the rich manage it with a degree of self indulgence the poor can only dream of.