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

[TwinklePants]

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?

Afterthought: y'know, if they are multi-millionaires then I probably spend at least the same percentage of our income on frivolous tat for my children. It's just that our income being distinctly average means the odd party frock from Monsoon in the sale, rather than a bulging wardrobe of bespoke clothes. Same difference.

Yanbu

Although I struggled to read past the word "gotten" in the first paragraph.

Ah well, you can't buy taste. What's with the hideous baby headbands? Awful.

I am shocked!

I'm pretty certain there are many mothers out there who'd like the opportunity to spend a small proportion of that on simply feeding their child.

I'd rather look my child in the eyes and tell her that I'd spent £30k supporting 3rd word families.

There is something very wrong here.

Sorry Festive , I know it's a typo but can't help chuckling at "3rd word families"

It's her money to spend as she likes but I think she is a mug

Nothing wrong with spending a fortune on your DC if you can afford it, they obviously can.... But it doesn't prove their love for their DD. The whole article screams tacky, they don't need to show off like that and by stating that all that crap stuff proves how much they love their baby they come across as thick which I am sure they are not.

I think you're being abit harsh. People spend money on dafter things - sports cars that devalue £30k once you drive them out of the garage for example. And I speak as someone who dresses her children in hand me downs and charity shop finds - feel smugger picking up a beautiful coat for 90p rather than paying £30 for it. That said my toddler is beautiful and would look gorgeous in a paper bag

"Nothing wrong with spending a fortune on your DC if you can afford it, they obviously can"

........ but if you're then going to do a story in the DM about how much money you've got and how much money you just HAVE to spend on your baby, you're just begging for attention I reckon & part of that attention is going to involve some judgey judgey judgeyness & catsbumface pulling on MN!

awww I think it's sweet!
I bet her sister/best friend is looking forward to the hand-me-downs.

Maybe they're hoping to turn their DD into a teeny tiny celeb. [vom emotion]

If I was her sister/best friend I'd be bloody grateful I had boys and wouldn't have to pretend to like any of it!!

If it cost a £160 I'd make my nephew wear it

But can't you all see how happy it makes the baybee?

FWIW it took me years to conceive, and in that period the importance of having brand new fancy stuff for my baby diminished in direct proportion to my misery at infertility/grief at miscarriages. I suppose I have had plenty of time to ruminate on what's important to me.

What the f* has that baby got on its head?

....not that I actually care...but...I'm seriously tempted to run a Companies search on their business, I don't for one minute think that "they" are multi millionaires, not cash millionaires anyway!

No I'm not at all bitter and twisted btw.

Why on earth is this news?

She doesn't seem to have very good taste and I think she is misguided if she believes buying tacky and overpriced outfits etc for her baby is a great way to show love, but she can do whatever she wants with her money as far as I'm concerned. The most gobsmacking thing about this IMO is that a paper sees it as newsworthy.

twinkle

I wonder what that 3rd word would be? posh, middleclass and poor ? Kind of works then I suppose...

And yes I agree that if they can afford it then why not? But they seem to have a skewed sense of love really and I hope that they come to realise that they are very lucky to have a daughter and that she will always need cuddles above £50 pairs of Uggs.

And I really hope she turns out well balanced despite them...

They live in a £150k house, yet spend 2.5k on their kid's winter wardrobe? i bet they are credit-carded up the hilt.

Dickheads.

I'm not so sure about eBay/hand me downs, it says that the clothes have the baby's name woven in

Her business, but:

1. Why go to the DM?

1. Why let them publish a photo of you with evil looking red eyes?

...and cheap looking curtains on a wonky holdback behind you

Goodness why the vitriol and speculating on their finances?! I agree it's all a bit tacksville but hardly crime of the century.

Commenting on the mothers weight and general attractiveness is just harsh and uneccesary imho. Would it therefore be okay to spend that amount of money if she was very attractive?!

are they really millionaires?? i would never have guessed it from reading the article (must have missed it if it did say) as their house doesn't seem that big and the mum doesn't look that much well presented (no offense to her she looks normal but a millionare could do better), i thought that they must have ran out of money to spend on baby clothes thats why they are selling the story to make a few more quid to splash out with