To have spent £180 on a diary

[MissRabbitsOtherJob]

Early finish and drinks after work (Pitcher and Piano on Cornhill in London if it makes any difference).

Stumbled out of there well oiled, spotted Smythsons over the road at Royal Exchange and remembered I'd been asked by the missus for a diary for Xmas.

I went to pay and they wanted £180. That's £2 per day!

It's a nice diary but the price is still a bit toppy.

Just hope she like it

I'm looking forward to the concluding Xmas day AIBU thread once the missus has opened it .........

Ha hahahahaha love it

Ignore the grinchs

If you can afford to & your dp appreciates it, then it's ok.

Grinches? Perhaps the fact that some of us could barely afford £180 for the whole of Xmas put together and the OP is on flashing his cash about

Lovely gift

I would be dead chuffed with that. Something you use every day, elegant looking.

www.smythson.com/black-2014-portobello-diary.html

There's an £180 diary, although it looks suspiciously like every other diary some of which cost a lot less. Maybe you should scrawl "this cost £180" on the front to maximise the effect.

I'd be furious. But your wife may be a bonehead, in which case you're home and dry.

I read this as dairy and was going to reply 'no, you can never have too much cheese'.

I stand by that.

Never too much cheese.

By the way, I would be mightily pissed off if that's all my DP had bought me for Christmas! It's expensive, but it's a diary. Hardly very exciting ;)

Bah humbug to you all.

I'd love a gift like that. Some gifts are meant to be frivolous.

It's the op's cash to flash however they want

Hope she loves it, it must be pretty special?! I think it's worth more than my car

I wouldn't spend that but I don't think you are totally unreasonable. Hope your DW loves it.

I'm not impressed, did you also get the £320 ballpoint pen?

Ok, I've RTFT, I've clicked the link...nice tonal ribbons, lambskin, featherweight pages. What's the other £150 for??

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You didn't get the 340 quid pen to go with?? We will have to tell her to LTB!

Blimey, I've spent about £150 on Christmas in total, and that includes all gifts, food, cards and postage. Even if you can afford it, £180 is still an obscene amount of money for a diary. I've never heard of Smythson, why are they so expensive

I would be delighted with that as a gift.

Hmmmmmm...I bought my exh2 an ostrich skin filofax from there in the 90's after he lost the first one I bought him from Selfridges... 'Big mistake. HUGE!!' cos he was so not worth it!

Should have added... as long as your Dw is worth it; YANBU

Twat Take it back tomorrow, buy her something actually worth £180 that's for her, not a 'oh this'll do'.

I've never heard of them.

50p per day, but it's still a ridiculous amount of cash.

It's not my fault, they don't put prices on things and it's not the sort of place where you ask. To be fair it's stunning in the detail and quality but even so, it was only supposed to be a stocking filler.

And to those who think this is a boast about how rich I am, if that is what I was trying to do I'd mention her main present which is a peacock made out of fois gras, studded with blood diamonds and coated in working class people's benefit cheques and a solid gold copy of the daily mail. FFS

OP - I recently spent £60 on a washing up bowl also pissed so on that basis then yanbu

Hope she likes it!