to spend £300 on a garden chair.

[FiftyShadesOfBunting]

i am i know but.......

It is a very very beautiful chair which would probably last a long time.

Also i am completely fed up with always getting the cheaper crapper option. Whether jeans or beams i prefer the more expensive one but sensibly get tje matalan£10 ones. Or the smart price ones. Every time. Every bloody time.

So this beauteous chair.

Should i? I could whack it on the credit card and work some extras.

Or i could work some extras and then plan a weekend away. Maybe.

It is seriously comfortable.

I almost cried when i tried it.

YABU - it looks like you would rock straight into the lake

Buy it. Backache is bloody horrible.

John Lewis have that for £159.20

Well it doesn't have the cushion but the rest looks the same. I really want one too.

Get it if you like it. Yanbu to have the thing you like most once in a while.

"Incredibly comfortable. I have a very knackered back."

"I just can't justify such a vast sum."

Well, how much use, over an average year, would you get from it? Work it out on a cost per use basis. If you only sit on it 3 days a year that's £100/use. Every day for a month is £10/use. Daily for 3 months is about £3/use. And that's just considering payback over a year. If you expect to use it daily for 3 months per year, for the next 10 years, you're down to 30p/use. So - be realistic about how much use you would actually get out of an item. If you'll get a lot of use out of it, it could be worth it. In contrast, buying a chair for £10 that you find uncomfortable and so use only once is a waste of £10.

"Im just hacked off with the continual compromising and never getting the thing i actually want."

I completely get this. I learned a long time ago to do without until I could afford to buy the version of whatever (chair, hairdryer, jacket) that I really wanted. I blame my mother . She went by the old Scots maxim of "buy cheap, buy dear" - i.e. if you base your choices on buying the cheapest it costs you more in the long run, as you have to replace it more often because the quality's poorer/you just can't stand the damn thing. But get the money together for it BEFORE you buy it. Never get into debt for a possession, if you can avoid it.

It's lovely - get it. Does the deck and wine come with it too?

The john lewis one doesn't have the lower back curve.

Maybe i'll do some saving first.

Msybe i'll just say fuckit i wsnt it

Maybe i'll ditch my poang and have it in the living room.

"As someone who's recently spent £650 on a fridge and a thousand pounds on an oven and hob, not to mention £40 on what are effectively canvas shoes, I say go for it."

But cost per use for those items will make them far better value for money. How often is the OP actually going to be able to use the chair?

I also won £2.70 on the eurolottery last night.

Sod common sense. Sod the logical arguments.

For every pair of cheapo jeans,
For every time you ever gazed at shoes that you just couldn't justify,
For every "value" loo roll,
For every time you yearned to buy the dry-clean only,
For every wistful gaze into the posh salon before you traipse in nextdoor for a quick trim,
And for every one of us who are doing the same as you...

You need to buy that chair.

:o Though please be sure you can get the extra shifts first.

Enjoy!

What does everyone else get to sit on Fifty? £4.99 picnic chairs from Wilkos?

The chair looks lush, I see the temptation! But then again, my DH has to remind me daily that "it's not how bad you want it, it's how much spare cash you have in the bank" (rarely much)

Personally I wouldn't get into debt to buy a chair. That's ludicrous to me.

Could you buy the John Lewis one and an ergonomic back cushion for about £20.00. I have one for my armchair and it's fab.

Nope - I certainly wouldn't put that on the credit card.
T=That chair will soon be old news and you'll be wanting something else.

It's a very lovely chair! BUT...£300, on credit is a pretty big price to pay.

No not if you have to put it on a credit card :/

She just said she'd have to work extras for it.

Anyway it's up to you it's your money your life, just if it was me I wouldn't.

If I was going to get myself i debt it would be for something more worthwhile than a garden chair that our weather won't let her use much

It's raining. If you live in the UK, you'll probably only get to use it for about two hours a year.