Should I have sold my husbands bling?

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THIS IS NOT ME BTW!!!! I just read this on the Martin Lewis Moneysaver email/website and wondered what your opinions where.

Money Moral Dilemma: Should I have flogged my husband's bling?

I was clearing out the loft and found a chunky gold necklace of my husband's, which, to be honest, I always thought was hideous. It had been up there 10 years and he'd totally forgotten about it, but I was worried he'd start wearing it again if he saw it. So I flogged it to (MSE's top) gold buying site for £200 and put the money in our joint account - handy as we're a bit strapped for cash at the moment. But now I feel a tad guilty; was I wrong to melt his bling without telling him?

I think a gold chain bunged in the loft for 10 years is well and truly forgotten and not treasured at all, do you?

Good luck to her !

Sometimes though, people are just hoarders and will elect to keep something even though they don't really want it. I think that getting rid of something that a person doesn't really value is not comparable to getting rid of something that you know your partner genuinely wants to keep.

That said, I'd not sell my DH's property without asking him although sometimes I fantasise about all the space I'd have in the house if we divorced and I could legitimately get rid of all his junk

Karma, you and I are sister souls... I agree with every word you say, and I'm having to put up with the biggest magpie ever...

To a magpie, even the most worthless, pointless tat means something, even if its never looked at, commented on or is mostly unremembered.

Yes but what was my DH going to do with that toilet seat...?

I looked for www.webuyanytoiletseat.com, but I couldn't find one!

I didn't know he was a hoarder until we got our own place, then he started. It causes me considerable stress as it's the antithesis of my behaviour (anal) I just can't do hoarding boxes and not knowing what's in them. Separate thread though!

Binfull, you have my sympathies, DH is a real hoarder and it drives me mad!

I am really ruthless about chucking out stuff, so living with someone who insists on keeping the Star Trek fancy dress headpiece he wore 15 years ago and is broken because "I just want to keep it" drives me up the wall! The most annoying thing is that he can be ruthless with my stuff when we are having a clear out!

The necklace was never in the loft and the money never went into a joint account. He stuck it in a drawer for a couple of months and she flogged it for Take That tickets. Fact.

Hope she had a great night out! In fact we know she bloody well did!