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?

An umbrella!
That's apparently 1 of the weird expensive items that Nicola Sturgeon's STBXH bought.

Which they're guaranteed to refuse to use.

You could also get some large indoor pot plants from a fancy garden centre, they'll happily use those and kick litter all over the rug.

I'd start at Harrods. This takes my fancy and only £7,705.
Lladró Porcelain Gondola of Love Ornament | Harrods UK

But then there's this:
Lalique Sitting Tiger Ornament | Harrods UK Mine for only £4,850.

However as I have £400k I don't have to choose. I can have both!!

(eta - isn't it amazing what some people would rather have than money!)

It wasnae the other woMAN...😉

Oh that Lalique tiger matches the salt and pepper shakers.

I'm genuinely struggling to understand who buys this sort of thing. Wouldn't you be embarrassed to brush your teeth with a diamond tooth brush?

I once got caught in an absolutely torrential rainstorm with the kids and summer outfits and popped into the nearest shop to see if they sold umbrellas. They did, and when I got to the till it was £50 but by that point I was already mid-sale so I bought the damn £50 umbrella and every time I use it now I think about how much it cost.

@noblegiraffe But I've still got quite a lot of money left over. What should I get?

A fool and their money are easily parted.

What about a fool and other people's money?

A basement extension with a home gym and a pool and a personal trainer to come and train me and make me NOT FAT. There’s a fancy gym in London called ultimate performance that does makeovers and keeps advertising to me on Facebook, but they don’t have prices on their website, so maybe £400k wouldn’t be enough? I doubt I’d be able to afford the week in centre parks after to show off my new body!

Should you fail to find an unexpected £400k lying about the office, a dehydrator is much cheaper than a freeze dryer and does very much the same job on both raspberries and apple slices.

I would keep buying more and more expensive coffee machines.
I am sure no one else in the house would notice .

Send ne a chq to finish off my mortgage lol

A Rolls-Royce Cullinan. It's the most ridiculously over the top car in the world. You'd get a handful of change out of £400k.

The BBC have mentioned the £3.50 tube of superglue he purchased twice now in their coverage

I think that particular item is possibly not the main issue.🤔

I'd buy:
A huge FO fence between us and our VERY annoying neighbours, all the way down the front garden.
An arrangement of garden 'sails' high in the air in the back garden, so the same neighbours can no longer see into our garden from their ridiculous extension which looks over our garden.
Air con for the whole house.

Just give it all to me. It's what I would do 😁

Wouldn't a solid gold toothbrush be uncomfortably heavy?

Glad to see they have replaceable heads, though - it's important to consider the environment when spending £14,000 on a toothbrush.

I’d spend £1k on a leather hippopotamus to use as a footstool or doorstop.

An endless supply of Stripe and Stare knickers.

I did have some, but then I went on MJ and now they fall down, but I can’t afford new ones.

Only twelve hours burn time.......! That for a candle smelling of ANYTHING.

If a 4 bedroom house with a garden isn't allowed I'd take the DC to Iceland for a holiday (and I don't mean the supermarket). I'd also have a "can buy anything I want" trip to Joe Brown's at our nearest shopping centre.

Why not buy two? Don't want to have to decide between propping your feet up or propping your door open.

A holiday to Iceland is an excellent idea because everything is expensive so you get through money really quickly and due to the exchange rate, you unless you're really careful, you don't notice how much anything costs. I thought I had a handle on it, but at one point came quite close to unintentionally spending £60 on some salt.

Thankfully, I had another think about the conversion and put it back. I went on to buy something very similar in Lanzarote for 8 euro - flavoured salt, hand dried by artisans in natural sunlight, so no wonder it was so much more expensive in Iceland than Lanzarote.

Might I suggest that for next year's trip, you go to Norway. Perhaps Switzerland the year after?

Don't bother with Nectar/Clubcards and if anything is on 3 for 2, don't get the third one. Instantly increase the cost of your shopping by at least 50%.

Buy those bags of chocolates at the airport that are about £12 for something mundane like M&Ms.

Ooh, great idea. And go to the cinema and buy a big bag of their pic'n'mix instead of bringing your own snacks in.