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 once saw some £150 pillows in a shop, and was astonished.

But I desperately need a new sofa and chairs, ours are years old and worn out, and mismatched.

I could buy a house, and furnish it here in the North, which would also be lovely.

I'd definitely get a lovely watch, maybe a Rolex lady datejust or perhaps a Patek Phillipe. Dh would notice that but he's assume my dad bought it for me.

Then I would replace my gold plated Ermoleve clover jewellery with real Van Cleef. He would never notice that.

A couple of handbags, Loewe maybe - I could tell him it was from Vinted. We would get the drive done (it badly needs it). And replace the falling down summer house with a very fancy shed.

Then I would buy LOTS of theatre and concert tickets in the best seating areas.

I was expecting a fireside set…of pokers, so that was a colourful surprise. I had to enlarge the picture 🤣🤣

The disappointing thing is that £400k over 12 years is less than £700 a week. And I think it'd be pretty easy to upgrade one's weekly spending by that amount without too much bother...and without many people noticing. Clothes are an obvious one, and simply upgrading one's champagne from Bollinger to Krug is £500 a week if you have a couple of glasses most days!!

If you take out the near £200k spent on cars and camper vans (why...surely easier to just expense flights and hotels and call them business trips...?!?!?) then you're looking at frittering a few hundred pounds a week. That would barely cover some lovely toiletries a few times a year, a coffee machine here, a pepper grinder there, the odd delivery from F&M, … ;)

Well, no. I mean, how much can a salt and pepper grinder cost, right? Two bloody grand and change???

But the motor home? The Jaguar? You don't get those for £50.

Very true! I think my DH would wince at £50!

That's only the mini candle though, are you some sort of puritan! Go big or go home.

What would the reasoning be for a Jag I wonder. How could NS buy that reason

Lurpak.

simply upgrading one's champagne from Bollinger to Krug is £500 a week

This is true, buying the next brand up on everyday purchases could definitely build up quickly.

OMG yes. No more Norpak for me.

Decent underwear

A catio for my cats, although based on past experience I would probably buy it and then they would refuse to use it

Thank you!

😂😂😂

I've always wanted a turret. With a gym on the ground floor, and an orangery extension for plants, a fabulous bathroom on the second floor and an art studio on the top floor. I even know where it would fit on our house. It would look utterly preposterous but I don't care.

Also an underground sauna, dug into the slope.

I would also quite like deer fencing around my entire garden so that my roses would have a chance.

Finally I would like a freeze-drying machine so I could make those wonderful freeze-dried raspberries and also apple slices from my own produce.

I think the £400k (and some) is all gone.

I love that about 50% on this thread have no idea what you are talking about.
TBH I’d just shop at Borough Kitchen. I think this would inspire me to talk to the press about my troubled marriage:
https://www.boroughkitchen.com/products/masamoto-nakiri-knife?variant=56089556713858

I could get the matching reed diffuser I suppose, for £1550.

https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/marchanta-black-marchanta-tinaja-diffuser-2l-000000000007847924

I like that it is categorised under 'gifts - stocking fillers'.

Or I could get this diffuser for £3000 but it doesn't smell of tobacco and I want my house to smell like an ashtray. https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/marchanta-blue-larimar-tinaja-diffuser-2l-000000000007847928

Now I've seen all these lovely things I think I could easily get through £400k!
I'd start with a day in Bond Street and buy a Birkin and something from Chanel.
Would love a new car too.
I wonder much I could get through before DH noticed. Quite a lot I suspect....

OTOH I think I'd rumble DH pretty quickly 😅

The great thing about buying something like those knives with someone else's credit card is that you can happily chuck them in the dishwasher, then when they get ruined just buy some new ones with the magic credit card :)

I would hire a professional garden designer.

We needed new saucepans.

£1.9k????

https://www.johnlewis.com/hestan-nanobond-stainless-steel-pan-set-6-piece/p6335833

Oooh I was you until a few weeks back when I discovered Lidls dark choc and raspberry magnum type ice creams.
I wouldn't go back to Magnum now even if I had 400 million.

https://maxitrak.com/locomotive-item/5-inch-planet

Basically a battery powered miniature train I can ride behind

That and a battery to go with my solar panels, new woodshed, DW wants a new bathroom and some garden work

Not mundane, but some air con.
Definitely not the things this man bought with all that money.

This 😍
https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/royal-selangor-camelot-chess-set-000000000007700968