To spend £150 on something I don't need but want very much?

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I need new underwear. I have £130 worth of pants and 2 bras in my shiopping basket. My current underwear is all a bit mingling and stretchy.

ANd then I found the most beautiful perfect thing i have been looking for for ever. Something I really really really want. I dont need it though. It's not practical, it doesn't do anything, but I want it.

So which should I buy?

I don't like the nativity set but I'm not religious.

I recently bought part of a nativity set - it's a pizza oven that lights up. Obviously now I've got the essentials sorted I can gradually move on to the rest.

Wow, that Willow Tree set that Isadora linked to is £360 on Amazon! £150 seems pretty reasonable. I'd love a wooden Nativity set too OP. I'm not fussy about underwear, I once had a bra that was £2 from ASDA and it was very comfortable.

That reminds me of Lewis chess pieces

Oops, didn't see you'd already bought it when I posted - good choice! It's a lovely one - very classy and will last. I'm still using my grandma's one from the 1950s.

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I think you used to be able to buy it in bits

I may have made that up

I wondered if anyone would link the Willow Tree one, Isadora ... I absolute love them, but my goodness the prices!!!

It worries me a bit that they're not made from wood either, but are cast resin models produced in China

Buy the nativity set, you'll think about it forever if you don't. Make do with skanky underwear for a while and save up for Sloggis again, An alternative nativity set or make-do Tesco pants are both false economies.

I got a nice set of nativity russian dolls from John Lewis last year. We're atheists but they're really nice. I'm sad now though that it doesn't include a pizza oven.

Blimey they are only Sloggies; not Agent Provocateur or Victoria Secret. Can you get them cheaper from Amazon or E bay? I thought you were going to say a nice designer dress or handbag, but Sloggies😮

We have this nativitynset, it was a Tesco bargain years ago. We're atheists, but we loved the cheese factor. Over the years the stable has had many visitors. The year the daleks and River Song had a face-off with the Magi in the way was a little tense.

That's not our set, ours is in the bucket of doom upstairs. Google for the win.

Floralnomad, sadly it was listed on eBay last Christmas and I missed out. Gave up around the fifty quid mark and it finally went for around £200, iirc. Never been able to find one since.

Is that the real set @MOIST?

Or are you making it up?

Where did you buy it?

It's at times like these I know I have to come off mumsnet.com

I now desperately need a nativity set. This website costs me a fortune.

It's what Jesus would have wanted, £150 nativity sets.

AlternativeTentacle my thoughts exactly.

If that IS the genuine set the OP posted (and not a random pic off google like I suspect,) the set is fugly as sin anyway.

I wouldn't give someone 150 pence for it, let alone 150 quid!

I would have the Nativity set, on the grounds that more people will see my Nativity set than my pants

incywincy I have that set too! I bought it reduced in January so I think it cost me something like £2... I have so much affection for it and particularly for what we know as 'egg jesus'

Greyhound Please link to that nativity set.

I need a nativity set now too. OP, yours is lacking in colour, character and animals, but I'm glad you love it.

So the op is making it up?

Shame on you, lady

Hang on. £150 on a nativity set???? Bonkers

It's not even useful in a way that underwear is.

I jest, I mean spend money on whatever floats your ark.

Go for it.
Also, please post the link to the perfect nativity. I've decided I can buy one expensive Christmas thing that will last for years so I can turn into one of those people who have legendary decorations.
I buy M&S knicks, if it makes a difference.