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?

I would kit out the new campervan that has just appeared.

Brilliant! You could change the toilet seat every day 😃

I'm going to be really boring and buy a house for dd and her partner. She's developed a strong yearning for a garden, and you can't do much gardening in a 2nd floor flat without a balcony, can you?

New kitchen, new bathroom, attic conversion including whole new roof, garden makeover and new double glazing….. maybe if I do it all in stages then DH won’t notice?…

I think this is probably the way to go. Men are usually quite oblivious to the jobs that need doing, so if you take it steady he won't have a clue.

I’d get that set of pots and pans that Gordan Ramsey is advertising.

OR

You could buy one of those toilets that washes your bum for you.

https://www.livinghouse.co.uk/acatalog/bi-colour-voice-activated-smart-woilet.html#SID=1828

£1680 and it's voice activated.

Oh and some pillows i am craving that are 120 quid each

I think I would need elocution lessons to soften my hectoring voice before the toilet understood me.

I once saw a side table made out of a piece of meteoric rock in the Harrod’s furniture halls. That might be a good addition to your living room and it was only about £65k and will probably outlive anything else you own.

I'd get a Maserati, not the tat that PM bought.

Seriously though, how can NS claim that she had no idea? Where did she think he was getting the money for all this stuff from? A motor home? A new Jaguar? a £2k Lalique salt and pepper set? Does she think we all came down with the last shower of rain? I mean, if you're very wealthy, then fine, I guess you wouldn't question every £100k or so spent, but surely they weren't on the kind of salaries that would've enabled that kind of spending?

Some spouses notice nothing.

A bunch of camping equipment hahaha. Even if i had money i would still go camping love sitting outside a tent on a warm summers evening

or just a nice holiday but in reality for that much it would be a house or at least a deposit

I take it he's also your boss but happily signs off all the financial stuff without checking and takes your word that it's all properly accounted for? So that's all fine then.

You've probably already bought this - Caran d'Ache pencil sharpener (£110). You could add a Faber-Castell : Round Eraser, Platinum-plated to go with it. Absolute snip at £110.50.

I think they just identified as rich.

DH bought some the other day, text me from the shop about it. I was very excited! The next day I found them NEXT TO the freezer. He had been distracted and they never made it RIP. We don’t have magnums next to the freezer kind of money 😅

With £400k, I’d probably put it towards a new house. I actually think my DH and Nicola Sturgeon share the not noticing money gene. If you told him I had 4K in savings he’d say “sounds about right”; if you told him I have 4 million in savings, he’s day “sounds about right.”

First class rail travel and taxis

£2,400 on salt grinders! could buy a couple and have loads left!

My luxury purchase would be to never have to wash a pair of tight again so have an endless supply of brand new ones that I then just throw away.

Well I would need to replace my husband's ancient pants, that his mother bought him decades ago.

No plain cotton - only luxury silk would do. He wouldn't notice the difference of course.

He's a keen gamer so the newest Grand theft auto and in fact all the new games so that he was so absorbed he wouldn't notice what was happening around him - not even the massive Motorhome turning up.

Do you think many people faced with a £2k salt and pepper grinder would actually guess it cost more than £50?

Just realised why you chose the figure £400k…

Well you took a bit of a gamble to obtain the £400K, so I think this would suit you nicely https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/product/dunhill-century-despatch-leather-poker-set_R04536614/#colour=GREY

Took me a moment as well!

A motorhome.

https://www.premiummotorhomes.com/motorhomes-for-sale/2023-morelo-empire-liner-93-lb

This one isn’t even new!