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.

[MechanicalTheatre]

I really don't get why they're so expensive. No problem with people liking them, but I don't get why they would spend £50 on something that you could get for £3 somewhere else.

I love cheap and cheerful stuff, no way would I spend that money on a bracelet.

[bedmonster]

I quite like that cardi custardo!!

[flowery]

This is the type of thread that I really don't like about MN.

Why do people feel the need to spend so much time mocking other people's taste and choices in life?

Do people feel very insecure about their own choices and do it to validate them/make themselves feel better/superior?

I don't have one of these bracelets and don't particularly have an opinion on them either way.

But I hate the thought that anyone reading MN might feel uncomfortable about their jewellery/clothes/home decor/baby names because they'd seen them villified on here.

Clearly many people love their bracelets and why on earth should they be mocked for that and be made to feel they must defend them?

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

Hear hear flowery. Absolutely no need for some of the nasty comments here except to make others feel small.

[bedmonster]

flowery I don't think anyone does feel uncomfortable about it. Most people that have said they have them have said they loved them for one reason or another and I doubt they'd give anyone else's opinion a second thought. I certainly don't give a flying Fuck what anyone thinks about any of my choices in shoes, bags, whatever, even though I know things I like might not be things that everyone else likes.

I dunno, I think some read too much into these threads.
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[Fakebook]

Waterfall cardigans are good for covering frontal flubber. I wore one during pregnancy and still do sometimes. What's wrong with them?

[flowery]

bedmonster you have the right attitude but I don't think everyone is so robust and confident. Lots of people worry about what other people think of them.

See MsVestibule's comment earlier: "The OP is perfectly entitled to her opinion, but when I leave my house wearing my Uggs, waterfall cardigan, tunic and leggings, bag packed with Greggs snacks and a fruit shoot, having just dusted my twigs and pebbles, I don't feel quite as good as I would have done before I joined MN :( "

I think there are probably lots more reading rather than posting who feel the same way.

[LtEveDallas]

Meh, what a load of fuss and sneering. I have a pandora style bracelet watch that DH bought me for my birthday a couple of years ago. I have charms that are DD and DH initials, one covered in paw prints for MuttDog and a dog collar for RottDog. A love heart from DH, DDs birthstone, my birthstone, a giraffe (my fave animal) and a fairy from DSD (she was our wedding fairy). All charms that mean something to me, have a story and make me smile when I wear it. I think the appeal is the individuality - it is highly unlikely that anyone else will have the same combination of charms as you.

I have just inherited my mums 1970s charm bracelet - I'll never wear it as it is big and heavy (and expensive) but I know the story behind each and every charm, including the one that my now dead brother teethed on and the story behind the bikini clad lady inside a video camera . I love the 'noise' it makes that reminds me of every Saturday night when I was a child.

Charm bracelets (no matter the manufacturer) can mean a lot to the wearer so sneering at them is rather tacky in itself.

[cantpooinpeace]

Not a fan of them, every man & his dog has one. Usually the type of women who also tick the 'centre parks' break box .

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

And there we are, another one. Two birds with one stone eh cantpoo?

[seeker]

I get cross about them because I hate seeing people being ripped off by marketing departments........

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

You can say that about anything though. Everything we buy, watch, eat, do, all marketing.

[seeker]

Absolutely. I rant about that too. But when people are being sold mass produced 7 quid beds for £70 because they are "unique" and special, then my hackles rise particularly.

[seeker]

Beads, obviously

[Inertia]

MiL has one. She likes it because it was bought by her children, and they and the grandchildren can add charms to it. The children enjoy choosing a charm for her when it's her birthday .

I don't want one myself - not really a wearer of bracelets, they get in the way. And if someone wants to buy me a present I would rather have a book or cd or something I know I'll wear.

[GirlOutNumbered]

Yet again MN excels itself with a good old bitchy, judgemental thread.

[Imaginethat]

I'm with you OP. the owners flaunt them so proud of how much the charms cost and all I can think is omg you fool

[Imaginethat]

But then I feel the same way about awful hair extensions, tattoos and tarty shoes.

[theodorakisses]

I can't understand what the problem is. As long as you don't go the whole hog and have eyelashes over your twee girlymobile's headlights and pink fluffy dice, if you like them, what the hell?
Not so keen on the Tiffany silver stuff though, you can either afford Tiffany or you can't, a bit like Burberry.

[Roopoo]

I have one which I love but am feeling a bit after this thread
I also wear waterfall cardi's and fake ugg boots.......and have been known to eat Greggs..

[Birthdaychocolate]

Yabu, but never actually seen anyone wearing one, maybe just haven't noticed.

[theodorakisses]

I do agree that ANY gift has sentimental value and I wish I could delete my previous post, the nature of Pandora means, I guess that people who really love you add to the charms over the years. Most people don't live forever and I am sorry that i have probably dissed all sorts of reallly precious things. I am not in a position to judge what means what to who. Sorry.

[MidnightMasquerader]

Not my taste. Over-priced, bandwagon stuff that people rush, en masse, to buy into.

I guess it's more that there are a zillion and one different jewellers out there, making a myriad different styles for every taste and then some under the sun... And yet people are rushing to buy the same old mass-produced, unimaginative stuff as everyone else. I think it will definitely date.

Each to their own though, it would undeed be a boring place if we all liked the same thing. No irony intended.

[binger]

I love mine, goes beautifully with my 5 tattoos and piercing.

[theodorakisses]

Fake Uggs wear better than the real ones in my experience.