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.

I think people who genuinely don't 'get' why people might like differen things or be able to cherish items (even shock-horror- mass produced ones) must be, well, a bit thick

Do they walk around with a permanent look of bafflement on their faces, scratching their heads and pointing at cars and machinery and shoes saying "ug"?

I have just purchased a Cambridge satchel, like a child's school bag. Maybe I like it because it reminds me of being a little girl. Not that keen on Pandora bracelets or tattoos for that matter. But I like to see different styles and tastes, to each their own.

Imagine a world where we all dressed the same, wore the same jewellery, drove the same car (not a German one). Had the same colour skin. I can just imagine them in droves walking into the same shop to buy their daily mail.

I'm serious! Several people on here say they have one and don't wear it/use it, maybe they want to sell?

I have one, have hardly worn it. Might be willing to part. Bracelet that is, not my cardy.

I'd never buy jewellery off Ebay, ever.

Why not expat? Would you be worried about it being fake?

I ask because I sold some Tiffany stuff on there recently and I did wonder about that.

There are many things I would not want to own, and many styles I would not want to copy, but I don't feel the need to be downright mean and bitchy if someone does not share my opinion.
Would you really say to someone in real life, that you think their bracelet looks gaudy, nasty, tacky or any of the other charming superlatives that have been used on this thread?
Is this really how a lot of you are setting an example to tomorrow's adults, being sneery and judgy about others in order to feel better about yourselves? Lord help the society of tomorrow.

Discretion is the better part of valour....

Sydlexhic- when you say "imagine a world where we all wore the same jewellery..." etc, I completely agree with you. But this is why I, personally, don't like Pandora jewellery.
Everybody nowadays seems to have it, and it's all much the same.

There's nothing wrong with following the crowd, per se. I'm wearing a pair of Topshop Baxter jeans right now, as I suspect about eight zillion other Mumsnetters are.

But then I don't ascribe emotional significance to my jeans as I do to my jewellery. I'd rather my "special" jewellery- not my everyday Accessorize earrings- was more personal.

I don't own a Pandora bracelet but woild love one....if only to create a bracelet that was personal to me.

Given the price of them and the charms though its never going to happen.

I would love to know where we can get something unique made for the same price as a charm!!!

Well I've gone to put mine on to go out and I can't find it, along with my watch and eternity ring so there you are. One less of the ugly things to offend you.

my name is step and I love waterfall cardis too.
pandora bracelets are not for me but really they are just a modern take on the charm bracelet I had as a child and that my mum has, I love the fact that they / it can be personalised and added to over time and that it can mean something special to the wearer. DS bought his GF one but I refused to pay the price for a pandora charm and got her a couple of lovely sparkly ones from amazon for xmas that she loved. In years to come she will say my DP's mum got me these and and have a fond i hope memory of me. what a boring world it would be if we all liked everything the same and actually although similar because of the style no bracelet will be the same just as old style charm bracelets were never the same.

oh GwendolineMaryLacey have you been burglarized or just mislaid them?

Blimey I had no idea that other people's choice of bracelet, of all things, could demand such a bitchfest! I don't mind them they can look quite pretty but if someone wears something that has special meaning to them, whatever it is, I think that's really lovely. Doesn't matter what it is I don't see why anyone would have such strong feelings over someone else liking something different to them really. I find that a bit odd.

Mislaid but have turned the house upside down :(

They're not my cup of tea, but each to their own.

I can't say I've ever given other people's jewellery choices much thought, or even really noticed something around a random woman's wrist

I have a charm bracelet that my DH gave me on our wedding day, over the years he's given me other charms that are significant to us - my girls' handprints, etc. I've never given what other people think of it a second thought

Nothing wrong with a good flattering waterfall card - a badly shaped on looks hideous and too boxy but a good one is flattering.

People do talk utter nonsense on MN sometimes!

They're just charm bracelets aren't they? Clever bit of marketing because, as many people have pointed out, they are quite pricey for what they are.

Jeepers, I don't know what a Pandora bracelet is or a waterfall cardi!! Off to google now!

What is the anti waterfall cardigan stance based on?

I don't own a pandora bracelet (mainly because I know if dh bought one it would be a 'sorry for being a twat' gift and he is a cheapskate) but I am really astonished by the people being so snarky about ascribing an emotional attachment to jewellery.

Surely that is what it's for. I wear my godmother's wedding ring and engagement ring every day not because they are valuable but because they remind me of her and every time I look down I remember her.

I have a silver charm bracelet old stylee that I don't wear, but my dd loves it, and I am planning to give it to her for her 10th birthday. Stuff has emotional connections for me: my grans tea set, a vase from my other gran, a locket that belonged to my great great gran.

If you choose to have charms that remind you of events or people that are important to you then lovely. Live and let live.

I guess it's because it seems, um contrived, to have a sentimental attachment to something that's mass produced, and that everyone else has.

It makes sense to be sentimentally attached to personal pieces of jewellery, God knows I am.

It's like the person up-thread who said - in defence of them, ironically - 'imagine a world where we all dressed the same, wore the same jewellery, drove the same car (not a German one). Had the same colour skin. I can just imagine them in droves walking into the same shop to buy their daily mail'.

Well, this is what's going on when everyone's buying into the same fad...

I feel bad that people feel bad as a result of this thread. That's the problem with discussion forums - people feel able to ask questions and talk about things they'd never raise in real life - and of course, the diversity of opinion is far greater than your normal circle of friends! It doesn't matter if random people don't like them; if you do, then so what?