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?

Buy dominos without using a voucher.

Not really in the spirit of the game...bit think of how many extra little food "luxuries" (chocolate bars, crisps, dried fruit, ketchup, condiments, dips etc) you could add to your weekly shop... just for the food bank.

They are on offer in Iceland £2.25 for a box of 3 such a treat they were delicious

If we could add (at least…) an extra zero?

I’d like to actually buy a cinema. Show artsy films, do children’s afternoons, days for people with SEN, maybe offer some workshops etc… That would be quite fun! Bit of a community centre.

tickets would cost just enough to keep the shenanigans afloat etc.
so I’d probably establish a foundation 🤔

A (accessible!) public woodland park would be nice as well… but… we’re talking a few extra zeros! 😁😁
(edit: I actually do think that still counts as frivolous because I’d have so much fun with it 😅 philanthropic? Yes. But also self serving…)

Brilliant. Money gone on stuff that never even enters the house, good if your spouse is starting to have their suspicions.

Get as many of your grocery items as possible from Natoora at Ocado. The reviews for most items suggest that they're nothing special, despite the claims, so a good way of spending a lot of money on unremarkable mundanity.

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At the risk of going off topic, they're sometimes a bit cheaper in Heron (always worth a browse for weird and wonderful food bargains). Also, I read a feature that said M&S did the best dupes for less money.

I don't have a DH, DP or D anything else. Does that mean I can get whatever I want? Do the neighbours have to not notice.

If moving isn't allowed, top of my list would be twice weekly massages by a therapist who comes to my home in the evenings just before bedtime!

Woodland is a good idea, don't mention that you own it and who'd ever know?

A really expensive greenhouse. I'd have to cover it with a tarpaulin to hide it from my husband.

I'm married to a farmer so I wouldn't tell him! That'd be gone on a tractor before I could blink.

I would buy a holiday apartment in Italy or Portugal

A stone coffee table
a set of v expensive cooking knives
bedroom new drapes
a new sofa
v expensive bedding + new pillows

I would buy bilberries, which are the wild version of the cultivated blueberries, and eat them at breakfast on Japanese hand-crafted porcelain to my own designs.

I’d buy a house for dc. However, if I am required to spend it on posh stuff, I don’t know what I’d buy. The Lalique salt and pepper are probably no better than my Amazon ones, plus I would be afraid to touch them! So I don’t even covet those. I don’t have anywhere to put the 125k motor home, so I might use some of that money to go somewhere and stay in nice hotels. I don’t know about the pen either. I actually like bic biros and you don’t have to worry if you lose one. It seems like this dude has perpetrated a massive fraud to get stuff that nobody even needs. I might understand if he’d used the money to pay his mortgage or pay care home fees for a parent or something. But he’s acquired useless shite. I suppose the motor home could be useful, but the cost massively outweighs the usefulness and it’s such a big bugger that he couldn’t even store it. Even the suv jag - get a Škoda enyaq instead.

Mine would all go on home improvements. I'd move out for a few months and have the house rewired and redecorated throughout, a total kitchen refit, a resin driveway, have the garden landscaped, returned and planted up. The exterior would be repainted. Then, when it was all done, I'd have a lovely holiday and buy myself a new car. Nothing too posh, though maybe a convertible. It'd have extras like heated seats and steering wheel, reversing camera, built in front and rear dashcam, satnav etc.

Maybe not mundane but just for the hell of it, I’d fly to the US and do a week’s worth of grocery shopping at Erewhon, apparently the world’s most expensive supermarket for people who have more money than sense. A shopping bag will cost you circa £106 and a bottle of bog standard milk costs circa £16. I’d fill the trolley like I was a contestant in Supermarket Sweep. 😁

Just had a look, sure a jar of soup costs $50 but they helpfully offer you the option of paying for it in instalments.

😂. I wonder if the till staff are trained not to make incredulous faces when they put the items through the till.

https://your-tonic.com/products/womens-jumper-sling-buttermilkgold

Soup on the never-never is certainly novel.

Wow. Gorgeous. What colour are you getting? Perhaps get two different ones so that they can reflect your outfit for the day?

Oh gosh yes! The subjects I didn't care about at school but would probably really love now. Definitely the sciences and I'd get that Maths too finally. Then I'd just keep going until I had a PhD in environmental sciences or something equally impressive.

A caravan, a Jag, a necklace.

Looks like Murrell was a wine nerd given by the gadgets he was collecting

https://joefattorini.substack.com/p/who-on-earth-needs-five-decanters?r=i0i9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

More intrigued by the seven kettles!

Kitchen kettle
Campervan kettle
Utility room kettle
Bedroom kettle
Guest room kettle
Outdoor kettle
Spare kettle (for when descaling a kettle)

Doesnt everyone have that many?
(We do have 4 kettles)