Things people do to show that more money than sense

[Gcol]

I’ll start
. People who spend 40-70p on a carrier bag then use it for rubbish.
. People who buy those number plates which have multi colours, lettering has glitter on them. Not road legal

Probably fake

Cleaned? Who gets their oven cleaned? I just buy a new one.

I've got to say i do that with appliances.. but I find it's a hassle to get someone to even come out to look at the broken washing machine/dryer in the first place, then if it's fixable it costs nearly the same as a new one anyway. It's easier to just order a new one to come the next day

A judgey post from someone complaining about judgey posts. Now I’ve seen it all!

Im happy to join I in lol. And I’ve just been reminded of an infamous article in one of the newspaper magazines on a family’s ‘struggles’ over whether or not to buy a second pony!

<clutches pearls>

Dyson is another example of the emperor's new clothes. It's become the status symbol for those with more money than sense.

Designer anything - what an utter waste of money while people starve on the other side of the globe.

Yes. This is me also. I'd cleaned out my car prior to it's MOT and the reusable bags hadn't made it back in there. I spent 40p on a bag and reused it for a bin liner because i wasn't going to reuse it as a bag. Buying a roll of bin liners in the shop when I needed a bag for groceries would not have made any sense.

I get that. I spent all of my pocket money going to Woolworths to buy white socks. My DM was terrible at laundry.

What do you bother working for if not to treat yourself?
I buy expensive coffee. Do I need it? No (well yes I love it). It’s frivolous but it’s my damn money.

That reminds me of my friend's boss. My friend is PA to a very rich woman. Once a year this woman's daughter hosts a BBQ at her house. Afterwards, she chucks the BBQ out because she can't be bothered to clean it, then buys a new one the next year.

I agree ,i absolutely cannot see the point in very expensive watches .
Same with certain designer bags ie Birkin - emperors new clothes !

I’ve got an oven in every room.

I follow this woman on you tube and she does videos about ridiculous extravagance and fashions (she hates Balenciaga). This is proper high end stupidness, not extravagant to most people stuff. Now if you bought that and used it to empty the crap out of your car, that would be nuts.https://youtube.com/shorts/AvqzSrn7nQY?si=ZwS02UDzJyAb6gbD

I worked in a posh school where in the party bags were Tiffany bracelets, for 8 year olds.

I reached peak WTF that day

Kitchen roll. I just don't understand it!😂

99% of the time DH has far, far more money than sense yet refuses outright to pay for Business Class when we fly, and we fly a lot.

Then he never fails to moan about lack of leg room, crap food etc. It drives me up the wall.

Lol I don’t think most people could afford to fly first class just by not buying the latest gadgets, cars and coffees 🤣

New EVs cost twenty thirty forty thousand pounds. I assure you that flights are much cheaper than that.

New macs and iphones can be thousands each. Apple seem to be doing ok so someone is buying them. Fancy home entertainment systems, all the kitchen gadgets etc...Not to mention children, which cost a bomb.

All those things add up to a lot of money that I choose not to spend + my other thriftiness = affordable flights.

Don't we all 🤣👏

How do people NOT buy kitchen roll?
how do you clean up a spill,
wipe you mouth/fingers while eating?
wipe around the lids of jars when something drips on them? Etc etc…

Someone recently told me they'd spent £50 on a water bottle (a Yeti) for their 13yo son.

Keeping my face neutral and not showing the judgement was HARD.

But sushi is so easy to make and cheap ! Why not just teach rhem to make it at home ?

I use a cloth for spills that I can rewash and reuse.
I don't generally need to, I'd probably just actually wash my hands/face.
I don't know what lid I would need to wipe, but I'd just use a clean cloth anyway.

So, kitchen roll is pretty much useless to me.🙂

Like someone else said it’s subjective. And if it makes you happy and you can afford it, you have the right to spend your money on what you want to. We are all different and we all like different things.

It is fascinating how people spend their money and what signals they like to give out. We all make such choices.
I wouldn’t wear a heavily logoed designer brand item even if it was free which is illogical. I just wouldn’t want to be judged for it.
A friend’s daughter has started seeing a man who is 25 years older than her. In a photo he was wearing a designer t shirt that is £400+. So he either spends that on a t shirt or buys fakes to look like he does. Yes I’m judgy. We all are. Just different judgements.