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 PENCIL!

What amused me about that pencil is that the picture in the advert which has been drawn with the 300 quid pencil is absolutely rubbish. I could draw better than that with a pencil stolen from Ikea.

A house you can rent out?

I love the MeliMeli Dahlia Grande dusky pink sofa at £3k-£4k. Just pennies really if I have a spare £400k knocking around. I dream of having that sofa when I downsize and get to decorate just for me.

Oh no, there’s only one left, hurry!

Ok, maybe I should upgrade to a new Cobra, although that’s half the budget blown.

ac.cars/ac-cobra-gt-roadster/

Love this

https://www.agriframes.co.uk/products/round-arch

This garden arch instead of the £10 one from Argos please

How did we miss that?!

I have always wanted that Caran d'ache pencil sharpener and a posh Jura coffee machine, although I think I could manage with just one, not sure I'd need three. DH thinks the £550 model helicopter is perfectly reasonable - "You could play with it" - while I think my bus trip to work could only be improved with the travelling tea set (Smythson £3k).

Hmm, maybe I'd go for this ornate garden rotating sphere, we'd be the talk of the street

www.johnlewis.com/ornate-garden-rotating-sphere-8-seater-garden-pod/p231124973?s_share=jlappdroid

@NearlyNewNonnygot there first. I’ll up the lurpak to president butter in largest size they do and REAL Ribena and because that won’t make a dint in the funds, maybe some ludicrous glassware and butter knives

Oh and an expensive hat

Oh a very posh Motorhome for my dirty weekends with my special gangbang of man friends who may or may not be called Wee Jimmy and Hairy Hamish but ssshhh, its a secret.

Yours etc,

Stinky Pete

I would spend the change on a really top quality lock pick.

I've got loads of things I could do with 400k, and regularly 'spend' more than that everytime I buy a lottery ticket. But the caveat that DH won't notice makes it a lot more difficult.

Even my DH would notice if we moved house, or suddenly sprouted an extension complete with a heated positive flow swimming pool.

I also presume we are not allowed to do sensible things like buying kids houses or investing wisely.

Replacing my jewellery and clothing with similar but higher quality would completely pass him by.

Sadly he'd notice a livery yard and a few horses, but a lovely bengal kitten could probably 'follow me home'. The garden would have loads of lovely plants that were inexplicably reduced to within my normal budget.

I'd rather shop in Waitrose, or Marks, but I could not deprive him of the joy of Aldi middle aisle.

OOOHH! I could 'win' a holiday home, in a competition I forgot I went in for. Perfect.

An Alitex greenhouse. That's 40 grand dealt with and I can pretend I live on a country estate.

This handbag costs about £24. I have a bag that many blokes would say is identical - "basket with a bit of leather".

It's nothing like it of course and mine cost €600 (it was a gift, I don't have a spare £400k to spend on handbags!).

So you could "hide" the lovely stuff by saying it cost buttons on Amazon.

(Oh, and mine is a different colour and actually does match my car!)

One of those Easter eggs that's got real gold leaf on it? It's not Easter so probably have to have it specially made but what the hell.

These . A bargain at £850 . Which I could wear on my Space journey on Jeff's rocket . Maybe Katy could come to .

Where I live I could get a really nice little house, get it decorated and furnished exactly how I would like and still have money over for a couple of holidays. Now that would be luxury to me, to live somewhere nice, not to worry about house repairs and replacing broken things. I am very intrigued by the £100 pencil sharpener, does it work by voice command?

I'd have our garden completely bulldozed and start again, using one of those Chelsea designers, demolish our conservatory and build one on the opposite end of the house.

A super swanky Lacanche cooker, in stainless steel with brass knobs and handles, with a brass pot filling tap above it. I don’t even cook, I just love how they look.

It would go perfectly in my super swanky kitchen extension with my DeVol units, which would swallow up a large chunk of my £400K.

I’d also buy my mum the Louis Vuitton luggage she lusts after and buys lottery tickets for.

You need to buy a camper van and leave it on your mother‘s drive so that your wife doesn’t know you bought it.

I have a cat so one of those crazy expensive litter trays.

Oh yes one of those garden shepherds huts like David Cameron had

https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/david-camerons-shepherds-hut