To think that "wanting the best" for your child doesn't necessarily mean spending the most money? (aka CallaLilli's brass-necked colleague rides again!)

[CallaLilli]

So Ms Brass Neck started speaking to me again today, purely to tell me she'd just purchased a £400 high chair for her yet-to-be-born child. I said "oh really?" and she asked me what I did when DD was weaned. I told her I spent a tenner on a second-hand chair from Gumtree, to which her response was to wrinkle her nose and say "Second-hand? Well I only want the best for my child" and walked off! She's the gift that keeps on giving, isn't she?

I guess I'm still being "punished" for refusing to bring back almost the entire contents of a French parapharmacie for her next month. Oh well, I'm sure I'll survive, although since when did buying second-hand mean you weren't "wanting the best" for your child?

That website is .

If she asks about furniture at any point (and if she doesn't, see if you can drag the conversation round there), say you're getting your LilBubz this

Your colleague must surely be a Billina No Mates..the type that sends people scurrying for cover on sight of her approaching with her pearls of boredom ready to send people into comatose state. Why do you even talk to her or let her talk down to you, is what Im wondering? A colleague like this wouldn't get the time of day from me, I remember working with a similar woman years ago Id just casually walk off at her approach or if she spoke to me I deliberately wouldn't reply Id nonchalantly be busying myself with something else. Her standard saying for anyone who bothered to listen was:"I don't keep friends, friends keep me" whatever that means

Mind you, it is interesting reading the nonsense your colleague comes out with

We got a fancypants highchair for my DS. Nothing's too good for my firstborn...

He was in an Antilop within 3 weeks, I'd say.

The main - no, the only - criteria for anyone choosing a high chair should be: is there anywhere for vomit/shit/pureed pear to hide? If the answer is yes, you are a fool.

Its got to be one of these

www.google.co.uk/search?q=baby+high+chair&start=80&client=ms-android-hms-tef-gb&sa=N&biw=320&bih=346&noj=1&tbs=mr:1,vrs:$40.0~40.0$60.0~60.0$100.0~100.0$150.0~150.0$,cat:559,pdtr0:707762%7C707763,price:1,ppr_min:150,vw:g&tbm=shop&srpd=17375919875393578650&prds=num:1,of:1,epd:17624195039707573223,cid:116096747101210723&ved=0ahUKEwjg7pqdjp3LAhVIPhQKHfYCC884UBCCNgiGAzAB&ei=7kvUVuC_Ocj8UPaFrPgM

I agree that she will have been fully aware that you made the second hand for a tenner comment to wind her up and act superior.

She asked me, I answered truthfully. As simple as that.

Oh and as I was leaving the office for lunch I had to walk past her desk and she called out to ask me if I was going to Tesco as she wanted some crisps. I told her it was a lovely day for her to walk to the supermarket and kept going. So back to Coventry I go!

You buy your lunch from Tesco? Bit extravagant. I wish I could afford to do that. I have to bring lentils from home. Seems like a waste of money to me...

She sounds delightful. As I had each subsquent child, I bought less and less. Mostly second hand. Dc4 had very little, as lets face it you really don't need a lot.

I think you're missing the point fluffypenguin, the lunch thing is connected to the previous thread.

I think fluffy was channeling Monty Python (coal to eat? Luxury!)

fluffy the op never said she was going tesco for lunch

My kids are 17 and 10. I can't remember what cots, peaks or highchairs they had although I can vaguely remember the cots were cot beds so they could be used til they were 5, both prams were second hand and I think high chairs were from argos.

But I will say, don't go mad on baby stuff. They use it for such a short time, chuck food on it and generally wreck it and by the time you are forking out £300 for a full uniform and pe kit for school you will yearn for the money you effectively threw away on useless baby stuff they don't mainly need.

If you can get away with £12 on this ikea thing, then go for it.

And just nod at your colleague op. And say yes, I only want the best too. Which is why I'm putting the money away to pay for school trips, swimming lessons and all the other stuff that's more life enriching than a bloody high chair.

I'm glad Mr Python wasn't completely wasted.

"Pampers nappies are foul, fullmof plastic and bring most babies out in a rash. All the new mummy earth mummies will look down on her at the first nct coffee morning, mark my words"

Agree. To anyone who mentions "the best" and "Pampers" in the same sentence doesn't know a thing. Bambo or Beaming Baby are the best, surely? Or are there even more expensive ones out there?

Quite the opposite. Teaching your child that they can have expensive things by default and that new and £££ = good quality is a bad lesson. Ends in entitled arseholes who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

a fool and their money are soon parted.