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

[MOIST]

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?

My entire life is spent in charity shops, looking at reduced rails and cutting corners

If that's true, I think it's a little foolish to spend that much money on a Christmas ornament [santa]

And Jesus looks about 4yrs.

marking place

I personally think a decent bra that cost quite a few quid would give me more joy then a nativity set, the only time you'd catch me buying a nativity set is of my son wanted one and even then I'd begrudgingly buy it as I'm not one for religion.

But my entire life is spent shopping in supermarkets and charity shops and reduced rails and cutting corners

If you do that but then go and splurge £130 on new knickers your priorities are off anyway IMO!

What would Jesus do?

We had a lot of mileage out of a cut out cardboard set for years. Oldest GC loved putting it out. Then I discovered the Playmobile sets. The first ones were lovely, very seasonal, Santa's Workshop and Santa in Snow. We ended up over time with three but then Playmobile started adding weirdly unseasonal themes, Space, Cops and Robbers for example, to the range.
There are some lovely wooden sets, if I ever need to get another it will be simple and sturdy.

Why would I make up something as pointless and inane as this? If I were making stuff up I'd have triplets. Or an island. Or both.
And I think mulberry handbags are ugly.

I do love mumsbet but it's very weird sometimes.

My entire life is spent in charity shops, looking at reduced rails and cutting corners

Seriously, no one who really has to scrimp and save would spend £150 on something as pointless as a nativity set especially one as hideous as that one

Get the nativity set and Primark pants.

"very weird"

That's quite rich coming from OP.
What's really going on in your life, MOIST, What's the real problem?

Why would I make up something as pointless and inane as this?

Why would you waste your money on an expensive carving of the product of a magical sky god who impregnated a poor peasant girl?

Oh dear. I've been away for a few hours and come back to find a somewhat unpleasant deterioration in the tone of some posts...

OP, your question was entirely reasonable and MN-worthy (IMHO). I for one, am very glad you bought the set. I'm not religious but I'm all for story-telling and occasions. And regardless of everything else, sometimes your gut just says GO FOR IT!

Niki. You wouldn't say such a thing about Allah or Buddha so why is it seen as amusing and acceptable to mock Christian belief? It's really not so please don't.

Moist I am quite aggressively atheist. It isnt just christians. It is all absolute crap. I cant suspend my disbelief that far to believe in any religion..

It's gone bonkers again.

I'm not Christian either. The OP didn't ask, do you like this nativity set, is it worth£150. She wasn't even going to say what she planned to buy until she was directly asked a number of times.

Insert luxury unessential non functional purchase costing £150 that you have been lusting over into the question, and answer. It's called imagination.

This has been eye opening. I guess I've seen them in shopping centres etc, but genuinely didn't realise that people voluntarily spent money on these.

I guess I've seen them in shopping centres etc, but genuinely didn't realise that people voluntarily spent money on these.

Did you think they were all bought at gunpoint?

Or given them by aging aunts and forced to display them every year so as not to insult anyone.

Like I said earlier.
Weird. Weirder than me at my weirdest.

Niki being aggressively atheist is as twatty as being aggressively religious. Have a belief or don't, but don't belittle others because you feel you have moral superiority.

Im an atheist

Still like a good nativity though

I just wouldn't spend £150 on a luxury item if money was tight, be it a Nativity scene or pants. I think it's a bit of an impulse buy and won't actually improve your life.

But it's done now so hope you enjoy it.

It’s lovely OP
Enjoy it!
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If you can afford to spend £130 on a few pairs of pants I'm sure £150 for a Nativity Set wont break the bank. If you are concerned you cant afford both why not buy a multi pack of big knickers from Marks or Tesco?

Another strange thread....

@MargaretCavendish No, I've never seen one in a domestic setting. No one I know owns one.