If you had a 'spare' £400k, which lavish but mundane items would you buy?

[noblegiraffe]

I've got the £100 pencil sharpener and the £2000 salt and pepper shakers and I'm eying up the gold plated toilet brush holder for £1480

https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/zodiac-cylinder-gold-plated-toilet-brush-holder-000000000001590094

But I've still got quite a lot of money left over. What should I get?

A duck house for your moat?

Oh yes, excellent idea. Although I'd need to also get a moat dug and I think my husband might notice that one.

An old mg car. Probably wouldn’t enjoy driving it in reality - prefer an auto, they’re low to the ground etc, but I can just see myself driving along country lanes, to a riverside location with a traditional picnic hamper, wearing a headscarf, manifesting my inner Audrey Hepburn.

A Porsche and a Ferrari, because I'm not sure which one would go with my handbag 😜

A very posh designer orangery by David Salisbury, those ones you see in the Sunday Times colour mag.

it would put paid to at least £150,000 of your £400,000

Q: is there a condition on the purchase that your DH can't notice you've spent the money @noblegiraffe ? 🤭

A decent sofa!

im putting off getting one until our dogs die! They’re currently 5 years old 😭

Perfect. Which just inspired me to spend £5000 on a picnic hamper.

https://www.connollyengland.com/products/picnic-basket-green?aw_affid=78888&awc=21697_1779782611_b990f4f60dfd733e9ac02267abf64662

Yes please. He's fairly oblivious but he'd probably notice really large purchases. Although I could stash them at my mum's I suppose.

A very good air fryer

a fancy new sofa with the speakers built in etc

new tv

a ninja slushie maker

some expensive plants for the garden

a whole new wardrobe full of clothes

oh and also probably a new house which is double the size of our current one 🤣

I reckon that’s most of my 400k gone!

£1500 for a candle that smells of tobacco? https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/marchanta-mini-portoro-candle-60g-000000000007847906

I could buy a new house - but I think DH would notice that.

Education is never wasted. I think I'd sign up to do gcse Biology.

I'd buy some Magnum ice-creams, which are now so bloody expensive they're out of my budget range.

Mine is dull but I would have a lovely new driveway and buy some trees for my garden. And maybe some sort of giant rainwater storage tank so I can water my garden guilt free. If I had any left I would pay someone else to paint the inside and outside of my house. And replace the hideous 90's internal doors.

I like fancy pens, one of these would be nice. To many of the other things I'd like DH would notice.

www.montblanc.com/en-gb/montblanc-maria-callas-special-edition-rollerball-MB133402.html

I’d buy…

a set of those extraordinarily expensive Japanese cooking knives.

top of the range headphones

weekly Sessions with a personal trainer

a water feature for the garden and a proper greenhouse

Here in Spain new sofas. Current ones are buggered and came with the flat. I can't find any decent ones for less than €3000 each and I want 2 at least.
In England I'd love to have my garden sorted out. It's really small and boring. Mi do have a dog so would like raised beds

Probably the most boring and mundane response, but I'd get my house in order; new driveway, hedging, redecorate, etc., what I call 'lost money' then overpay the mortgage up to the overpay limit. Get the DC sorted with deposits and dump the rest in a cheap buy-to-let for a recurring income. Then plan a date to retire within 5 years!

Oh education is an excellent idea and now so expensive, I've always wanted to do a masters, not 100% sure what in but maybe environmental sciences.

I really need the Lego Titanic, some of the book nooks, and the modular buildings etc.

Plus decent display shelves.

A house, DH wouldn't notice unless he'd come back to haunt me.

If I cant use it to buy a new house( because it's got to bec frivolous) i would get an architect to come and design a super extension for us then id have it built. I'd get a new roof and the house rewired and a new bathroom. I'd ge the new patio i want snd some diamond stud earrings.

I’m sure I saw someone post a ridiculously expensive duvet on here over winter. £10K from John Lewis I think

I always feel extremely lavish if I buy a Magnum, but you have £400k to burn so can think even bigger than a Magnum.

How about this $1500 ice cream? https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/44902076

Yes! That's the exact sort of bizarrely expensive mundanity I'm after.