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to think spending 30k on their baby's 'lifestyle' makes this couple nuts?

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TwinklePants · 07/12/2010 13:51

My first IABU post so please be kind!

I am very bored today so have been looking through a few news sites. I know it serves me right for looking on the Daily Nazi website but...

AIBU for thinking that spending 30k on a designer 'lifestyle' for a young baby (who lets face it probably would be as happy with furniture from Ikea and clothes from Primarni)is utter madness?

Or perhaps I should just get over it and try to think that its their business how they spend their own money? Xmas Smile

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DanZZZenAroundTheTreeAgain · 07/12/2010 14:11

They don't look to me as if they have that much money and the nursery seems small, so I think it is an intial big splurge but I don't reallythink they have the income to continue spending in the same way really.

I see they havea holidayhome in Florida but generally I think their budget doesn't rund to thousands and thousands each year to spend on their child. May be wrong but looks that way to me and a year from now, most of the stuff they have bought the baby will no longer need, including the baby furniture. Seems a waste of money to me, but it is their money.

Alouiseg · 07/12/2010 14:12

She's fat and cant buy nice clothes for herself so she's overcompensating.

DanZZZenAroundTheTreeAgain · 07/12/2010 14:12

they are multi-millionaires ziggy?! Really? I would never have thoght so.

Shows how little I know about money!lol

TattytinsellooksDevine · 07/12/2010 14:13

Why can't she buy nice clothes for herself Alouisereg? She could have them tailor made with that kind of money.

What an odd thing to say.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 07/12/2010 14:14

Why oh why do people put those ghastly bands on baby girl's heads? Vile.

KnittingisbetterthanTherapy · 07/12/2010 14:17

I did Hmm at this comment: "'All of my family like to put effort into our appearance and make sure we look nice so we want the children to look nice too" as that doesn't seem to be the case, but I thought that was being a bit bitchy!! Grin

ilovecrisps · 07/12/2010 14:17

Did they earn it?
It says they have a property empire?

I'd love to see the figures, did they flog a house to buy the nursery stuff? Do they MEW? Is it interest only/liar loans?

How does this work is it on credit cards? Do they pay themselves in dividends and therefore only pay about 1/2 the tax that those who get up and go out to work do?

(Just planning my next business model)

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TwinklePants · 07/12/2010 14:17

ziggyf good point! They haven't just spent 30k on their baby's 'lifestyle' (I hate that term applied to a baby btw), but they have also contacted a national, albeit shit, newspaper to brag about it.

Well bloody done you. I can only imagine how parents who are struggling to put presents under the tree and a dinner on the table this Christmas feel about this.

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TattytinsellooksDevine · 07/12/2010 14:17

It seems rather churlish to be cruel about someone's weight when they've just had a baby and had problems with their piturary gland.

I agree she's tacky, but I fail to see what her weight or medical problems have to do with any of it.

BeerTricksPotter · 07/12/2010 14:18

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BoffinMum · 07/12/2010 14:18

My initial thought was that both mother and baby seem to me to be comparatively unattractive in the conventional sense, and that all the expense appeared to be making little difference to their ability to appear looking healthy and happy in photographs. The mother looks chubby, tired and a little fraught, and the baby looks rather dazed and distant from her mother physically.

Whether this represents how they appear in real life I do not know, but I question the wisdom of buying this much bling when they could be investing it in a better family home with a larger nursery, for example, which would be an appreciating asset rather than a drain on finances. But then I am old fashioned like that.

BeerTricksPotter · 07/12/2010 14:20

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anonacfr · 07/12/2010 14:20

I'm sorry but that is so effing obscene.

She thinks it's great to spoil a baby. I do too. But you spoil a baby by cuddling and loving them, not by dressing them in designer outfits. They don't know the difference- designer baby outfits are the parents' benefit, not the baby.

If you really want the best for your child, you open her a bank account and you make sure she'll be set for uni/house/life.
You don't dress her in overpriced outfits that will be worn for a few weeks and thrown out. Angry

ilovecrisps · 07/12/2010 14:22

I'm sure they'll be ebaying the outfits Grin

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TwinklePants · 07/12/2010 14:22

I just wonder whether she'll have burnt out by the time and if she has a second child. I wonder if she'll just think 'meh' by then and stick it in Primarni? Surely she has to learn some sense fritter away all her money soon?

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propercrimbo · 07/12/2010 14:23

well said anon

furrybootsnotjandals · 07/12/2010 14:24

Hopefully for her the reality of having a child/toddler doesn't spoil this dream she has been hanging onto for years-seems to me she has put this child on a bit of a pedestal and when reality comes crashing in I worry for the pressure she may put on her child to be perfect.
Having said that, she is loaded so if she's had enough she can always bring in the aupair Grin

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TwinklePants · 07/12/2010 14:24

crips, put me down for all those stretchy headband things. Seem all the rage in our local paper's Beautiful Chavvy Baby contest. Meow!

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olderandwider · 07/12/2010 14:25

Well

mamatomany · 07/12/2010 14:26

Another mummy playing dressy up dolls with her daughter, in for a shock when the cherub wants to join the school rugby team no doubt or can't get a boyfriend that'll put up with her or is deemed worthy for Daddy's Princess Hmm

JebusBuiltMyCoolSled · 07/12/2010 14:28

That child will grow up to be a pink-lace hating goff...mark my words.

Bue · 07/12/2010 14:29

PMSL at a baby having a "lifestyle".

mugggletoeandwine · 07/12/2010 14:29

The only people I know who spend lots and lots on designer clothes for babies/small children are those who can least afford it.

LivinInThe80s · 07/12/2010 14:30

Furryboots - my thoughts exactly!

Ephiny · 07/12/2010 14:31

It's their money and their business, but seems very odd and wasteful to me -it's not as though a baby cares about designer labels! I agree better to put aside the money for their daughter's future.

Or if they're really so wealthy they can easily afford to spend that much, maybe make a donation to medical/fertility research, or to a charity that helps poorer women and couples access IVF?

Not nice to comment on her weight though, especially as excessive weight gain is actually a symptom of Cushing's disease which is what she had/has...