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 wouldn't buy anything that had anything to do with contributing to the wealth of the Cameron family, therefore, YABU.

FutTheShukUp, I can prove I'm not female with pictures but unfortunately my phone doesn't have a zoom lens. Sorry

You could've bought a new fucking fridge for that you stupid cunt!"

Thanks cranberry I just very nearly choked on a prawn cocktail Pringle there.

That's exactly what I'd say

Bloody hell, Kato, I bought a beautiful leather Saddler purse 10 years ago for £20, somewhere in Scotland and it's still just as beautiful - and still has that lovely proper leather smell. It's one of those items that gives me great pleasure to touch and is perfectly designed for the right amount of cards, coins and notes.

Egusta I could look after the piano for you, sort of like free childminding I would get it tuned on a regular basis thus increasing its value. You could then ebay it in a few decades down the line at your leisure.

Definitely a woman. What man would admit to needing the zoom lens?

Provided the prospective recipient uses a paper diary it will probably be a great present. The cost/ use will be very low! And a pound land diary is in now way equivalent.

I am a stationery geek but also like my gadgets so a diary would be useless - I charity shopped my beloved filofax in the summer as I haven't used it for at least 3 years and no one wanted it.

(Confession: I recently had a v. important job interview. I spent a lot of money on a "special" notebook to write my pre-interview reading notes in. I got the job and I'm allowing my expensive notebook to take all the credit).

I am disappointed, I wanted this to be a dairy...

I want some cows.

YANBU reasonable for buying your partner the present they requested.

YABU going on about it after the event.

"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"

Arf!!! OP, you're my new favourite poster!

For what it's worth, I had a browse at the Smythson bits in the Royal Exchange on my last trip back to London - I've been after their travel document case for a while!

Am sure your wife will love it and if not, feel free to send it to me - I'll even pay p&p!

Reverse? Got to be.

SourSweets, what's a reverse?

Oh it's getting late. It thought the OP had spent £180 on a dairy and I thought that was quite good value if they threw in a few cows.

Apparently Smythson is very good to shoplift in. Very easy stuff to nick and can be sold on for a huge profit.

And apparently because their mark up is so huge they're not that hot on security either. I am told this by a police officer, not a shoplifter BTW.

Was it the Portobello? Depends what colour. Purple is fab- the pale blue less so.

A reverse is, you're really the wife posting from the pov of the husband.

Non reverse:
"I only asked for a little diary as a stocking filler and the sod's got pissed and bought me a £180 one! AIBU to be think he's a plonker with more money than sense?!"

I almost started a similar thread the other day about calendars - why anyone would pay £14.99 etc for one when a £1 shop ones does the same thing and you can get some quite nice ones too.

£180 diary is quite ridiculous IMO, though I do treat myself once a year (obviously! but in the autumn as I use an academic one) to an A5 spiral bound one costing about £8-10. Our family routine would go to pieces without my diary - absolutely everything gets written in there

I promise I'm not a reverse.

I am drunk though

Oh op ignore those jealous grinch es on here, it's beautiful, and if you can afford it, why not! What is wrong with a having money , so your only allowed to say about how poor you are, if your well ff your sneered at!

May I suggest this for your next drunken purchase?

I like this thread. You should go over to the Jo Malone candle one where you could buy an equally lufferly present for £260 which sends everyone into complete meltdown at the temerity of spending your hard earned on something lovely like a Smythsons diary or Diptique candle.

People not getting the difference between a £1 diary and a £100 do need to go and take a look though - of course there is a massive difference.

It's a bit boring looking for a diary but I expect it feels nice. I don't think its hard to spend that amount on purses and wallets and a dairy isn't that different.
I am a bit surprised anyone uses a diary anymore . I am pretty ancient but I no longer use watches, pens or diaries.

I hope you bought one that was a nice colour.

Belize, some people will always have more money than others, doesn't make us worse, doesn't make us better.

This post really wasn't about showing off for being rich (which I'm not). I'm sorry if you didn't understand