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?

Completely frivolous / unnecessary?

I‘d pre book myself (bi-)weekly flower deliveries. For the office and at home.

and perfumes! There are so many lovely and underrated perfumes out there. And my wishlist is long…! Quite a few from papillon perfumery and carthusia would be mine (well, pretty much everything that I don’t already own…)😅

What else? Well, I would go absolutely crazy buying designer fabrics. And bringing them to my preferred tailor. Might be generous and let my DH order a suit as well 😉

a muffin tin that makes 16 or 20 large muffins (instead of the standard 12)!!bAn adjustable cake lever, a few rotating cake stands, frosting knives…

and a bunch of cast iron and stainless steel pans. I‘d probably need a new kitchen to store all my new items!

(I would actually use the money as a downpayment for a house with a ridiculously large and lovely yard btw.)

This is going to sound very boring but I would do up the outside of my house. I would love a copper veranda and a herringbone brick driveway. I have a separate dog garden where I would raise the fences to six feet and put brick built raised beds around it to make it look prettier. I would go back to uni and take a fine art degree just for fun and treat myself to a load of Valentino shoes.

Made to measure shoes!
Ditto: clothes.
First class train tickets always.
A new bathroom: ours is really knackered.
A Japanese loo.
Excellent and posh lined curtains and blinds made to measure.
Replacement excellent flooring and carpets throughout. Top quality.
An OTT plant or two in the garden that copes with climate change: think Gardeners' World OTT.
A professional de-cluttering person.

Big swag van to carry off all the loot in.

A ramp at the back that comes down like that one on Knight Rider for your Porsche to drive into.

Come to think of it, why did they always drive the car up the ramp ? Like on the Italian job. You could just stop the van and drive up it would be much easier and only take seconds extra. And you could have more space in the van then for consoles and pepper pots.

My Lego wish list is over £1k at the moment so that and get my cellar renovated to be a display room for my collection.

And a family trip to Antarctica

A tiara which I would wear everywhere. https://www.bentley-skinner.co.uk/tiaras/59229-a-diamond-set-tiara-made-by-bentley-skinner/

This would be my work tiara www.bentley-skinner.co.uk/tiaras/59622-a-turn-of-the-20th-century-diamond-set-fringe-tiara/

Same. One day I WILL treat myself to an MGB GT in green, with chrome bumpers and wheels.

I’d buy a holiday lodge in a beautiful place and invent a job that needed a few nights travel every month.
And I wouldn’t entertain a moment of guilt.

I think tiaras are long overdue a comeback

I’ve been thinking about some new crockery. This’ll do: https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/wedgwood-bone-china-silver-tonquin-plate-27cm-000000000007882100

That said, I’m glad we’re focusing on the sheer mundanity of this whole thing. Coffee machine, salt & pepper grinders, SOAP ffs. What happened to the good old days of MPs buying coke in sex dungeons?

Especially in Sainsbury’s and walking the dog.

This thread has reminded me that we need a new paper shredding machine.

Not if it was hidden behind a large Motorhome 😉

Yup. Got the teeshirt.

My (now ex) HB bought me an mgbgt once. It was a nightmare, constantly breaking down,, and I couldn't reach the pedals. I broke down here there and everywhere, whilst pregnant with twins. And split pubic symphysis (soz if sp wrong). He now. 20 - years on- insinuates that he bouhght it for his own benefit, it was HIS car. But he made me fucking drive it.

Twat. Fucking twat.

I cant decide between a fancy pencil sharpner...

Or this £360 pencil

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graf-Faber-Castell-Perfect-Pencil-Platinum/dp/B000WE50WM/ref=asc_df_B000WE50WM?mcid=d08ee218ce9a3101a3631204962b476f&th=1&psc=1&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697246028779&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9474936234405845141&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9221517&hvtargid=pla-350100399735&psc=1&hvocijid=9474936234405845141-B000WE50WM-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

I’d buy a small but nice flat with air con in every room. Then decamp there with a book in the summer when needed. I would have a nice balcony too!

I would buy a single Raspberry & Pistachio Whoppalossus biscuit for £29.95 from Fortnum & Mason to go with my cup of tea.

But I think the most important aspect of buying it would be me saying, "I'm the woman with the money," at the counter.

If I have it 'spare' I want this https://thesculpturepark.com/sculpture-for-sale/subject/figurative/basking-in-the-sun-by-timothy-rukodzi/ or https://thesculpturepark.com/sculpture-for-sale/subject/figurative/pair-of-monumental-hippos-by-timothy-rukodzi/
DH wouldn't notice if I hide them in the garden!

That’s less expensive than I expected, considering that a bricks and mortar extension on a semi is often the best part of 100k these days.

I got an ad for this today, a silver ice cream cone

www.delfinadelettrez.com/en-gb/products/ice-cream-cone?srsltid=AfmBOoppgpCAhaZwgOaPpeTbm2eQLfzkXQASKCdivcfoVvOB8WMXa0S4

I’m always musing over whether I’d buy an antique tiara or get one commissioned. Decisions, decisions.

What on earth is wrong with a waffle cone when you want something a bit 'extra'?

I am a bit worried about what my ads are going to look like after a day on this thread.

That is way better than the ostrich.

I get ads for Coutts even though I earn minimum wage 😆 I live well on what I have, so much so that the algorithm thinks I’m HNWI

A warren of Polish Rabbits and a State of the Art Rabbit House ,

They are like tiny hares not Netherland , but about a kilogram in weight . A decent set up for them would cost £££