To wonder why any grown woman would want to wear a Pandora bracelet?

[WellSlapMyThighAndCallMeNancy]

I loved that kind of thing when I was 5. The little beads, different colours and styles.

But they still look like childs jewellery when on an adult woman.

They cost a lot of money (in my world they cost a lot of money) but they look so cheap. Really tacky.

They're on par with the dingle dangle clowns. The only difference is its silver (or white gold?) and on the wrist.

[Dazedconfused]

Zombie thread

allowed to have different tastes is my answer to this one

[Aeroflotgirl]

Yabvvvvvvu, everyone is entitled to their own taste. And what may be yours, might not be theirs. So what if it looks childish, do we stop having fun and being silly when we turn 21!

[KittensOnAPlane]

you should try //www.cooksongold.com for sterling silver charms that look just like the pandora ones (which i personally cannot stand) for a fraction of the prices

[Viviennemary]

They've been brainwashed to pay mega money for something that is basically tatt and totally worthless.

[Sugarfreeriot]

Always felt this. They're awful.

[SoonToBeMrsB]

Wow, that's me told then!

People are entitled to an opinion but there is no need to be rude about it. I really like my Pandora, I don't think it's worthless tat and I enjoy adding new charms to it. Either put your opinion over politely or keep it to yourself - you don't need to tear someone else's likes down to validate your own thoughts.

[Fanfeckintastic]

I love mine

It would be boring if we all liked the same things!

[Viviennemary]

But they are total tat. Made of cheap material and probably cost about 2p to make. It annoys me that people are brainwashed into buying this rubbish. I sound like my Mother used to when I was young. But people are being ripped off.

[SoonToBeMrsB]

I don't wear mine because it's expensive, I wear it because DP bought it for me and each charm was bought for me to mark an occasion. I love it and don't feel "ripped off".

[seaoflove]

Everything is marked up. All jewellery, all clothes, all handbags (some more so than others). If you spend your entire life thinking about the mark up on an item, you'd never get anything done due to all the endless huffing and seething

I don't care for Pandora, personally, but would never begrudge someone else for owning one and enjoying it and finding it beautiful.

[hollyisalovelyname]

My friends bought me one with special charms they chose that signified me and the things I love.
I thought it was really special and so thoughtful.
That's why I wear mine most days.

[Pagwatch]

What a fucking weird thread to resurrect from two years ago,just to get deleted.
People are properly weird.

[abigamarone]

Not my thing, but then, very little is. I guarantee you possess and cherish jewellery/clothes/furniture I'd think was hideous. The difference is I just wouldn't make a point of letting folk know. (apart from this post obviously)

[TheCowThatLaughs]

I don't think I've ever seen one in real life! I don't tend to notice jewellery though so maybe I have

[chopinbabe]

A very difficult clasp on the necklaces: most annoying!

[HoldenCaulfield80]

I got one five years ago from my tutor group when they - and I - left the school. I'd never heard of them before and it only has four charms on it (ones they, my old Head of House and old HoD got me) but it has huge sentimental value. I'd never buy one myself though and have never been tempted to ask for extra charms for birthdays etc.

[cathpip]

My friends brought me one with a charm and they will add a charm every year on my dd's birthday till her 18th birthday, she died last year age 3.....

[KiteKit]

I don't have a pandora anything, my mum was longing for one so we bought her one a couple of years ago, a bracelet. It kept pinching her arm so she exchanged it for a different style that only holds a few charms at a time. I personally do no like the look of them at all and had no interest in them.

However my dh bought a Thomas Sabo chain bracelet for me from dd for mother's day a few years ago and together they chose a charm. I now have 5 charms on it all given to me by either dh or dd (bought by dh for her). For me, the charms are beautiful and do have meaning and I LOVE that they are like old fashioned charms (I had one as a child) but that you can clip them on and off and they can be used on other chains etc. I ended up buying my mum one for her 65th birthday and dd gets her a charm for christmas / birthday etc and my mum loves it too. Her charms are totally different to mine.

And then dh and I bought dd one for her Communion and we have added to her charms, again a totally different selection.

My charms are very expensive and the value of the whole thing at this stage is a little but it does have meaning for me, including a charm that was bought not long after the miscarriage of our very much longed for second baby recently. People can scoff that something that 'commercial' carrying such emotional meaning, but it does. Just like an engagement ring (many of which are identical, mine is not as was designed by dh and made for me) carries an emotional message for most recipients / wearers. It is silly and insulting to imply otherwise. Especially when bereaved parents have already posted to say as much. How arrogant of some posters to think they know better!

So I understand people who love their pandora's and more power to them.

I am looking forward to many more years of collecting beautiful meaningful charms for my Sabo bracelet. As are my mum and dd.

[KiteKit]

cathpip we cross posted there. So sorry to hear about your dd, I cannot even begin to imagine how you get through something like that. Same for MrsDeVere. I think that is such a thoughtful gift from your friends and what a wonderful bracelet for you to have.

[Honeybadger83]

I have a bead charm bracelet that I was given for my first anniversary (8 years ago. Holy shit!)
It's not Pandora, since we're not made of money, I think it's a Lovelinks one, augmented with a few craft shop beads.
I don't wear it much, but I still like it. Who cares if it's a bit childish? So am I

[waithorse]

*ZOMBIE ALERT/

[Mrsjayy]

The reason i don't have 1 is i look at jewellery and it breaks or i lose it I like them 1 persons tacky is another person's pretty

[thatsucks]

Yes Zombie thread BUT OP of yore, YANBU. Talk about emporer's new clothes. Cheap and not very attractive. Their strategy as far as I can tell was advertise, advertise, advertise. Pandora ads were everywhere, every mag, every paper, every poster overnight. And people bought into it.

[hollyisalovelyname]

Oh Cathpip I'm so sorry for your loss.

[JoffreyBaratheon]

I have one with quite a few Pandora charms - all got one by one by my oldest son or my husband, for birthdays, xmases, and one or two different big events in our lives. I also have some handmade glass beads on it from Tillerman beads as I am a bit of an historian and love all things Anglo-Saxon/Viking. Can't get more unique. And I have a few really cheap ones from eBay - mainly because they were things significant to me. There's no law says you have to put Pandora charms on a Pandora bracelet!

I was a kid in the 60s and longed for a charm bracelet that somehow I never got, so yes it is a total childlike thing for me. I don't have pierced ears so don't wear ear rings, and I like the sturdiness of Pandora - in the post xmas sale I even bought a leather Pandora bracelet which just has one or two charms on, for my 'everyday' wear. What I lkike about them is you can keep changing what is on it, o it never gets boring and each charm has a story.

Here's the handmade beads for anyone interested (no affiliation - just love what we do).

tillerman.co.uk/