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Original poster

to consider spending £525 on a watch for myself for xmas??

285 replies

smeeinit · 28/10/2007 20:51

am i???
ive fell in love with a gucci watch and think im going to have to have it!
trouble is i was going to buy myself a personalised number plate for xmas and dont want to dissapoint myself by not getting it?!!
so do i just buy myself both or is that very unreasonable?

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singledadofthree · 28/10/2007 21:58

wouldnt bother with personal plates - you can get stickers to go across your screen for a couple of quid - like back in the seventies - is just as chavvy.

as for the watch - i would get a well made one thats going to last for that much - altho my phone has the time on it so dont even wear one - sorry.

SpookyDooooo · 28/10/2007 21:58

Sorry i don't like it either but each to there own if you love it go for it, have you looked around you may find something you like more?

PirateoftheScarybeing · 28/10/2007 21:59

i'm goig to read the squabble bit in a min, but off the cuff (geddit ?), I think i I were in a position that I had earnt that sort of money nd wanted treat myself then I would.

ESP as in my case I wouldn't have someone to buy someting for, me, so I'd givemyslef a bloody big pat onthe back, and say feck it.

I assume you can afford to do this, so go and do it. If it were me, I'd go for a ring tho, and buy it from my dc to me.

ScottishMummy · 28/10/2007 22:00

what about this personalised name plate

gucci choo choo"

Original poster
smeeinit · 28/10/2007 22:02

oh how funny are them personalised plates for buggys!!
my ds's are a little too big for buggys though!!

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ScottishMummy · 28/10/2007 22:03

sell well in lewisham too

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smeeinit · 28/10/2007 22:03

youve got a thing about lewisham avent ya????!!

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PirateoftheScarybeing · 28/10/2007 22:04

scottishmother, I used to live near lewisham with ex, bought our first flat in Brockley, but in devon now!

good times had there.

ScottishMummy · 28/10/2007 22:04

centre o the civillised world and home to maggies mad mad cafe..chips anyone

ScottishMummy · 28/10/2007 22:05

lived in lewisham town centre for 3 years, it rocks

Original poster
smeeinit · 28/10/2007 22:07

my head hurts! im off to bed so i can be nice and fresh in the morning ready to earn some pennies so i can buy myself what the fcuk i want!

nite ladies

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persephonesnape · 28/10/2007 23:00

if a watch and personalised plates mean that much to you then i hope you enjoy them, yes you have earned the money, spend it how you like, but please give a thought to other people who are, I'm sure, working equally as hard as you have but who haven't had the 'breaks'.

I'm in a similar situation to you, working full time, missing some of the good bits of my childrens early years and not getting any support from anyone else. I work very hard to keep a roof over our heads and the wolf from the door. i doubt very much that I could ever afford to buy myself anything other than a book every other month or get my shoes from the salvation army store

which is a long winded way of saying i agree with catsmum. you're coming across as a bit boastful - when i'm sure, in reality you're a lovely person who loves her children dearly, gives to charity and helps little old ladies with their groceries.

nutcracker · 28/10/2007 23:02

My watch limit is £5. By the time they break I am fed up of them anyway and fancy a change so i'm not fussed.

I do have a slightly more expensive one from my brother, but wouldn't have paid what he did for it, if i'd been buying it.

Heathcliffscathy · 28/10/2007 23:03

personalised number plates....yeuuuchhh.

Tortington · 28/10/2007 23:04

i think its obscene to pay that much for a watch.

not necessarily to spend that much per se

i just do not think a watch in any form is worth that much money.

if you said you wanted to spend £500 on a laptop - my response would be different i think.

ta daaa.

BecauseImWereWolfit · 28/10/2007 23:13

I'm not sure about what some of you have said on this thread. I think I agree that specifying the amount of money is perhaps a bit insensitive. But then it is also absolutely anyone's right to spend their own money how they see fit.

But I also feel there is a tendency on MN to tiptoe round those of us who are less fortunate.

I wanted to post a question about my holiday (week in Barbados) and I hesitated about the posting in case it would offend those who couldn't afford this kind of holiday.

Frankly this seems silly to me. I had a genuine question (which I never did post) but felt I couldn't post it for fear of offending others. But I'm a MNetter too and have just as much right to post my own questions, even if I am more fortunate than others.

And my answer to the OP is yes, you go ahead and spend your own money on what will make you happy. As long as it's your money and you're not getting into debt for what are, after all, relatively trivial purchases.

jezzemx · 28/10/2007 23:34

fwoarrrr If you've got it, flaunt it. Go for both if you can afford it but I have to add what a jammy bugga. This christmas I'll be getting a dvd. Ha Ha
grin]
p.s don't be offended about specifying amount.
I don't have a pot to piss in (as they say) but it's nice to see how the other half live (so to speak)
You've earned it, go get it girl

overthehill · 28/10/2007 23:47

I'm afraid I'm in the camp who regard it as obscene, & if I were you I'd feel far too guilty to do it, not being able to help thinking of all the people who won't have a roof over their heads or food to eat this Christmas, & for whom that amount of money would be the entire family's budget for several weeks/months. I'd also worry about it getting lost or stolen, & that people might think I was shallow for spending so much on myself. As a matter of interest & apologies if the question seems cheeky, but what are your loved ones getting for Christmas?

themoon66 · 28/10/2007 23:49

It's your money to do with as you wish, obviously, but.........

Spending on a watch? Well an expensive time piece won't improve the quality of your day or give you 25 hours instead of 24.

And personalised number plate.... don't coz it's naff.

TheEvilDediderata · 29/10/2007 00:11

You know what? You could spend £50K on a watch, and I still wouldn't notice.

ninedragons · 29/10/2007 00:29

Spot on, Because...

It's not my style, but that's entirely irrelevant. If it would make you happy every time you looked at it, you're sure you wouldn't ever get sick of it AND you can afford it, by all means treat yourself. You don't have a partner to give you the occasional treat so I see absolutely no reason that you (and all single people) shouldn't take on that important job themselves.

Unless by posting on here you were hoping to be talked out of it by the "I feed a family of 12 on two pounds seventy-six a week/that would buy 500 polio vaccines for children in Malawi yada yada yada" crowd.

Do you know anyone who's going on holiday soon? Perhaps they could get it for you duty-free.

seeker · 29/10/2007 05:44

Does anyone think that smeeinit and Xenia are twins separated at birth?

squimlet · 29/10/2007 07:25

quite frankly as I said its your money you should spend it as you see fit.
Its totally up to you. You earned it and why shouldnt you spend it on whatever you want. Some people think nothing of spending that kind of money on the latest fashions which will be by definition ' out of fashion' next season, so why not buy something which means something personal to you and signifies a time in your life where you worked hard for something and achieved it. It will last so much longer than a jumper or pair of trousers.
Everyone is different and just cuse some peeps dont like the watch or think the numberplate is naff so what? if you love them then thats all that matters.

Go for it and do what makes you happy

monstermash · 29/10/2007 07:35

Yes, go for it. But only if you're sure it's worth the price. You say you've worked hard for it - wouldn't you be better off getting something a little more dependable? A good Swiss watch like a Longines or a Baume & Mercier.

But hey, whatever turns your crank.

VoodooLULUmama · 29/10/2007 07:47

i find it unreasonable that people use the 'people are homeless/ other children are without warm clothes/ people are starving argument to tell the OP she should not spend £525 on a watch.

if she can afford it, but working hard, and putting money away, and she is not spending the mortgage money, then why not?

she has already says she gives to charity?

do all of you who say spend half as much and give the rest to charity do the same yourself?

yes it is a lot of money to some, but loose change to others

people should be 'allowed' nice things, that they have worked for and can afford, without being given a guilt trip, IMO