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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to think spending 600 on a new phone that is only slightly better than current working one is vulgar

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dhdjdbrjrkbr · 31/01/2015 15:32

Dp and I can afford it, but I just find it quite wastful and is actually a huge amount of disposable income.

Aibu to veto this until the current one brakes?

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londonrach · 31/01/2015 17:38

Happy with my £15 phone pay as you go phone. Just learnt it a smart phone and i can do things with it. Not sure what things but someone on the train recently told me incan connect it to the internet. She then showed ne. Slightly scared at moment to do it. (Does it cost money?) Its a nokia 360 and its got a camera. . A good camera. (Reason i got it and it being pretty in green). Personally i wouldnt spend 600 on a phone when a 15 one does amazing job. But each to their own..... If you want to spend 600 on a phone and can afford it why not?

ouryve · 31/01/2015 17:39

I can think of things I'd rather spend £600 on, but "vulgar" is rather a strong term to us in this context.

londonrach · 31/01/2015 17:39

Ne mean me.....

Ohmygrood · 31/01/2015 17:42

The new phone may have better access to a thesaurus. That would help.

violetwellies · 31/01/2015 17:47

Yes of course it's vulgar, but not as vulgar as a thousand pound handbag (unless it's an old Hermes and you don't have another) or even worse driving a new BMW.

PickleSarnie · 31/01/2015 17:50

Chuck all the phones in the bin. Those waves are bad for you. David Icke says so and he is extremely reasoned, sensible and not at all bonkers. www.davidicke.com/headlines/neuroscientist-exposes-dangers-of-electromagnetic-fields/

hiddenhome · 31/01/2015 17:54

No, no, you've got it all wrong.

It's not vulgar to have an iPhone 6, the vulgar part is the luminous pink, crystal encrusted cover that goes on it

FringeDivision · 31/01/2015 18:00

People who use the word vulgar to describe other people's choices are displaying the very trait they are moaning about and therefore have no business bandying that word around.

Dawndonnaagain · 31/01/2015 18:02

Typical MN a typo due to my dyslexia and not giving w fuck on my spelling on here gets the most comment
Typical MN, but you only joined today.

Dyslexia, and yet your user name...

magpieginglebells · 31/01/2015 18:05

Surely you can't veto what a grown adult buys?

ilovesooty · 31/01/2015 18:05

Dawn she began one of her other threads saying she'd name changed.
I'm sure she was pretty aggressive under her last name too - I remember some of her posts rather than remembering exactly what her name was.

dalekanium · 31/01/2015 18:05

Oh wow. Thanks for the link. The Stop Smartmeters one is brill.

I'm off to get me tinfoil hat.

Altinkum · 31/01/2015 18:07

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Latara · 31/01/2015 18:08

hiddenhome you've just described my phone cover!

elQuintoConyo · 31/01/2015 18:08

I'd say no, not vulgar.

Using new £600 phone to take photos of your minge and putting them on Tumblr, yes vulgar.

bonhomme · 31/01/2015 18:08

Wouldn't describe it as vulgar .. stupid maybe?

elQuintoConyo · 31/01/2015 18:13

Or is Tumblr a bit 2014?

Maybe Snatch-chat?

It's hard to keep up with the young things today.

MNHQ

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 31/01/2015 18:16

Ahem

Dawndonnaagain · 31/01/2015 18:16

Thanks Sooty.

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dhdjdbrjrkbr · 31/01/2015 21:38

Altinkum

I don't think its vulgar, what I do find vulgar is belittling someone's spelling.

Crass, it also says more about the person doing the correcting than the OP.

Here here

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wobblyweebles · 01/02/2015 12:58

Oh the irony :-)

sliceofsoup · 01/02/2015 13:04

I agree with you OP. Its the done thing nowadays, and of course its peoples choice, but I am genuinely baffled by the need to spend a lot of money on a new version of something that isn't much different to the last one.

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 01/02/2015 13:09

Since it's your hh then I think you are not being unreasonable. £600 is a lot to come out of a family income for a phone, when you already have perfectly good phones. And when it affects you, you absolutely do get a say.

I think that it's different to say, you saying that other people (not of your household) should not get a phone if they already have one. If you were saying that, then I'd say that if a person wants it and can afford it it's really not anyone else's place to say whether they should or should not have it. You can't tell someone how they may spend their money.

But since you are talking about your own household, I'd say this particular instance, yanbu to feel that household money would be better spent elsewhere.

EveDallasRetd · 01/02/2015 13:20

My shiny new iPhone didn't cost me £600. It cost me another 24 months contract for the same payment as before

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dhdjdbrjrkbr · 01/02/2015 18:17

liceofsoup

Thanks :) vulgar is the word I used as many people go to bed hungry and these devices are manufactured often with poor working conditions. I do understand they are kind of essential these days, but just for things to all be a bit better than current device im all very bla about. Its shared finances so of course I have a say.

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