personalised number plates

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DH and I both work, but don't earn a lot.
We need to budget fairly tightly, but we manage fine.

DH has been looking at the DVLA personalised number plate site, and has "chosen" our number. He says he has been thinking about it for a while, and because his DB has one, maybe it would be a good idea if we got one. I assumed he was joking and nearly laughed my pants off. He was a little upset that i didn't take him seriously.

Now, if this was something that was really, really important to him, I wouldn't stop him, but £250 goes a long long way in this household - in fact, £250 would mean a far better Christmas than we're used to.

So, WIBU to assume he was joking, and to think that personalised plates are an unnecessary luxury?

(I am prepared to give in here if the majority think IABU!)

Maisie - I did have an issue with the all - the clues in the highlighting of the word all .

As you think nothing of generalising about thousands of people who have personalised number plates - how am I to know your generalisation about the posters on this thread was a typing error.

I can only respond to posts as they are worded. I dont do second guessing - too much of it about.

I too would never have MUMMY or BIMBO on my car - though I cannot understand the hostility towards people who do have (ilk). Its just a bit of a laugh/tongue in cheek etc. a lot of the time.

I also disagree with having personalised plates illegally displayed - not spaced correctly - italics etc - but thats because theyre flouting the law that the rest of us have to follow - for one - and a possible ploy to avoid speeding tickets etc. But I dont think its fair to tarnish people who display them correctly and within the law with the same brush. Thats just another generalisation within a generalisation !

I think people with personalised plates should treat this thread as useful information, because people aren't gawping in envy as you drive past, they are thinking, 'oh how wanky'. Sorry, but that's how it is.

Cold Comfort. Maybe some people are gawping in envy. Just not your average mumsnetter . Depends who one wants to impress really!

They might think you are a very nice person, but most people still think that buying and displaying vanity plates is a wanky thing for a nice person to do. Like a middle-aged bald man wearing a baseball cap at the Notting Hill Carnival.

Yak...v nasty and if you can't afford it, utterly daft. Tell dh to get a life as they're nice on really posh cars, but horrid on run of the mill ones!

Sorry not explaining myself very well. Some people might actually be impressed but not necessarily the people worth impressing iyswim.

I don't understand why anyone would want one, whether you can afford it or not. But I also don't "get" many things currently being discussed on the "overated" thread.

I actually have one. Got bought it for my 21st but I've never used it as I don't like them. I should sell it really but not sure I can be arsed for the fiver

all down to personal choice - agree that it's definitely something men find more impressive.
My DH has one, made me a bit embarassed when he got it, not something I would have chosen, but if it makes him happy so be it, and we could afford it at the time. But as he's just sold it 5 years on for a £3k profit (it cost £300) it was that much of a pointless little luxury after all!

Who said anyone wants to impress or instill envy in someone else?

I have an announcement to make. My husband is bald. He wears hats when outside! We attend concerts. Gasp!
Life doesn't stop at a certain age.

I'm not trying to impress anyone with mine, certainly.

I feel secure enough in my knowledge of the kind of person I actually am to know that these comments are nonsense, and (contrary to apparently popular belief) am intelligent enough to know that a group of people who make such harshly negative judgements about someone based purely on something harmless they spent some money on are not a group whose opinions I would value anyway.

I'm just surprised and disappointed to find that group is apparently larger than I thought.

Ah well Suda, there you go - no biggie and no second guessing required now. Glad we cleared that up.