to think that £150 is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a toaster

[lucyellensmum]

and even more unreasonable to have actually considered doing so (especially as we are a bit boracic just now).

I mean, is it REALLY going to make better toast than the £19.99 jobby from argos, or do i just want it to look pretty (very 50's retro) But seriously, does it make a difference? I remember my mother giving us quite an expensive toaster ages ago and it made shite toast, although it wasnt £150.

We have been making toast on the grill for years now because of the shite toaster but now i want a toaster and cant decide on £9.99 or saving up for an all singing all dancing toaster in primrose yellow and shiny chrome.

for £150 i would expect it to make the bread,toast it butter it and bring it up to me in bed! My dh can do that and it dosent cost me anything

awww if madame is happy and her elimination tools are of high class origin - so be it. toilet duck disposables for me tho

I have a dualit, it is one of the few remnants from my vulgar marriage. I wouldn't buy one now.

twinsetandpearls - was it the man or the dulit that was vulgar????

got a dualit toaster (£160) and an alessi kettle (£120) but I really love how they look! I reckon its better than spending my hard earned cash on gin and fags (which is where most of it went prior to having DD)

DH and I bought a dualit after getting fed up of wasting money on cheap toasters that kept breaking after a few months - it is still going strong 5 years on (a good investment IMHO)

We still haven't managed to find a kettle that will last longer than a year though...

toomanyshoes- nice choices they are modern design classics

what i could do it this - go to tesco and get a toaster for a fiver and spend the other £145 on having my hair done. NOT that i have ever really considered doing that but i do want to have my hair done as i really really need to make myself look nice, ok so it might take more than a hair do, but need a confidence boost. been nearly two years since i last had hair cut and i hated the whole experience as i felt the hairdressers were taking the piss out of me, not been back since

I have a dualit kettle but it isn't very good. Am going to get an alessi instead.

alessi rocks - modern design classics

thanks, only prob with the alessi kettle is the bird thing that goes in the spout. You have to take it out before you pour it which is pain in the arse. Still love it though! Am a totally impractical when it comes to house stuff generally, have white sofa and a 2 year old!! DH has given up saying 'do you really think that is a good idea' when I want to buy stuff!

actually, could take the remaining £140 and buy my DDs birthday present of an overpriced play house, complete with kitchen for the garden. Reckon shed love that yes, thats what im going to do - right, im off to bed now

lucyellenmum - shame u had bad time at snotty hairdresser

freebie fun is hop to the dept stores for a free make over, don't buy anything and skip off feeling glam - i should know i do this frequently check website clinique for details of make overs

ah, alessi is that ridiculously priced ridiculous stuff in the shops that i see and i think, nah, they just have that on show, no one actually buys this LEM says bitterly.

hatrick - i lust for that bloody kettle

The man and I were equally vulgar, I donlt think dualits are vulgar but it is a daft amount of money to spend on cooked bread.

I have a Dualit toaster and I think it's fab! I did have a Dualit kettle (bought at the same time) and it was rubbish, was binned a couple of years ago.

i Buy alessi....

IT has been going for 15years, although it is in a house full of people who rarely eat toast

I needed somewhere to put my loo roll and I wasn't about to start drilling holes...this was the alternative embrace shitty bristles!