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

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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.

Each to their own!

As friend bought me a wee charm bracelet for my 30th birthday and for that reason it's very special. It wasn't expensive nor did it need to be.

If everyone has the same taste imagine how boring life would be!

I do think that these sorts of threads are ill concealed sneering tho...(hides lol)

Why are harping on about them being expensive? The charms start at about £15 and the beads start at £30, which aren't that expensive when they are mainly being bought as presents IMO!

One single bead for 30 quid is a pretty crap present though, isn't it? When you consider what else you can get for £30...?

I don't think so Midnight, TBH.

And there aren't many for 30 quid

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Agree florwery, and that's just what the OP intended. It says a great deal about her. Sad really but there it is.

They are not to my taste but I feel it must be hard for people who have attached great sentimental value to the individual charms (present from a husband, present from a child, reminder of a birth etc.) to hear them being slated so much.

However, I do feel uneasy that people are investing such meaning into something so cravenly commercial. They are over-priced and once you have bought your "gateway" bracelet then you are destined for YEARS of Pandora charms as presents. It's a brilliant idea from a business point of view.

I personally love the friendship bracelet woven from 2 strands of nylon wool that my DD gave me for my birthday and wear that with pride. I haven't lined the coffers of some huge corporate beast with my sentimentality on this occasion! I'll admit to the sentimentality though but couldn't care less if it didn't meet with the approval of an anonymous poster on a parenting forum

I get beads from all over the place. I have my eye on a Cornish tin one which I shall purchase when I'm down there in the spring. A Pandora bracelet doesn't mean you're tied to Pandora beads. I have those too and they're lovely, so knickers to the nay sayers.

OP?

Care to respond?

*And there aren't many for 30 quid

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On the John Greed website, they have 86 glass beads and 70 are £30, 1 is £25!

My mum bought one for me after the birth of our first son, since then i have had another son, a new house and got married. Each bead represents each one of those events.

Whilst I would not have chosen them myself, it does hold sentimental value and it really sucks reading crap like this. Should I just throw them away now?

I think people are taking this way too personally. It's just stuff.

I agree with carablanche. Why place all this emotional investment on a thing?

I'm not a fan of them, but that's because I am not remotely sentimental and they just seem very expensive for what they are. (that's not a criticism by the way, I often wish I were more sentimental about things like that, it must be nice to look at a piece of jewellery or a picture and think about someone but I just don't. I have only just started an art box for DS1's ropey beautiful pictures after much shock and horror from friends that i didn't have one and he is 3.5). When I first saw pandora beads I thought they were just pretty bead bracelets and I couldn't believe when I saw the price of individual beads.

I don't think this thread has been particularly bad compared to some of the ones I've seen on here, but I do think people get a lot more upset on MN when it is their loved one's taste (particularly DC) potentially being criticised than their own. I doubt anyone who bought their own bracelet and beads simply because they liked them would care.

At least pandora beads are being criticised for being too expensive - I have had people look askance at my diamond engagement ring for being too cheap

I don't like them myself, but then I'm pretty sure I wear plenty of things others don't like and can't imagine why I would spend that amount of money on (wedge trainers, anyone?)

As far as I'm aware Pandora bracelets aren't made by children in sweatshops or funding a drug cartel, so live and let live, I say.

Why place all this emotional investment on a thing?

Human nature, are you really that naive?

Another one here who is sentimentally attached to my pandora bracelet. As others have said each bead represents something/someone special and means a lot to me.
People who don't like them don't have to wear them, people who do like them wear them with pride!
Everyone's different......

Personally I much prefer a proper old fashioned silver charm bracelet rather than a bead-charm bracelet.

Wow, Gwendoline. I don't think my comment was worthy of that level of scathing.

I have no emotional attachment to anything. Stuff is stuff, is it really human nature to attach emotional meanings to things? I'm not sure it is.

We all have opinions about things, that's natural. There are things other people wear that are not to my taste, and I'm sure many would think the same about me. Lots of people would probably think my jewellery is very boring.

Holding a private opinion is one thing, but starting a thread to basically laugh and point is using the anonymity of the Internet to behave in a way that most people would not dream of doing in real life.

Should I just throw them away now?
Well GirlOutnumbered, yes, if you don't like it, throw it out. If you do like it, wear it. Not sure where your dilemma is? A bunch of strangers you don't know happen not to like a particular piece of jewellery. So based on that, you'd throw yours away? No. Of course not. This is where common sense comes into play and people use their own minds to decide what is and isn't to their own personal taste.

I have a bracelet. but can't bring myself to open 'pandora's box'
mil gives me charms at every occasion. I like them. and would wear them if I could get that darn box open

I had never heard of Pandora bracelets, so just googled it.
They do look quite like children's jewellery, I agree, in that they are pretty, sparkly and unsophisticated. But I rather like them and think they would look nice on a young person. Would probably look a bit silly on me though (I'm about 30 years too old, I think!).