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To spend £1,900 on a rug?

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Theyalwaysknewbest · 04/05/2025 21:33

I love it so much.
I've been looking at it for over 1 year and I love it as much now as I did when I first saw it.
I've spent a year looking at rugs and haven't found any I particularly like.
This one, I love!
It's 3 metres x 2 metres.
Am I mad to spend this on a rug?
It would fill the floor space in our lounge.
Would sit on top of a wooden floor.
For context, I bring home £1,500 per month.
We are going camping in England for our family summer holiday.
We are not well off! At all!
But I love this rug and there is an option to pay it off monthly at zero % interest.....
I feel like it's wrong to spend this much on a rug but equally I really wish to have it!!

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YehRight · 04/05/2025 22:02

It sounds like a lot for a non-rich person to spend on a rug, but I'd not have blinked an eye if you'd said it was for a piano or some other hobby so why not if that's what floats your boat.

Chungai · 04/05/2025 22:03

Acc0untant · 04/05/2025 21:41

I think you'd be mad to spend on a rug an amount that would take you almost 4 years to save

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I have to agree. I'm all for living in the now but sometimes we have to accept we can't have everything we want. It sounds like you don't have savings.

CarpetKnees · 04/05/2025 22:04

Theyalwaysknewbest · 04/05/2025 21:39

I have managed to save up £500 towards it.
I don't have much money left at the end of each month.
It's taken me a year to save £500.

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If your budget is such that it takes a whole year to save £500, then YWBVU to spend 4 years worth of savings on a rug, yes.

Particularly as it is going to get trodden on and have things spilled on it.
YOu can get very nice rugs for far less.

justasking111 · 04/05/2025 22:04

Kids had grown up I finally got my dream rug. Wool. Had been returned because of a flaw. Got 75% off. Then we got a Labrador puppy who ate away at it. Went to the tip. Replacement is £1k but I just can't face worrying about another rug.

Ilovemycatalot · 04/05/2025 22:05

I’ve a similar income to you and I say why not? It’s depressing enough when your money just goes on bills and I’ve recently started treating myself a lot more after years of putting myself last. You have already saved £500 so not to bad and if you do the monthly payments it’s doable.
if you never treat yourself to nice things it can feel like Groundhog Day everyday and you feel like your living just to pay bills and food.

harijes · 04/05/2025 22:05

Go with @FloatingSquirrel one for sure. Good find.

soupyspoon · 04/05/2025 22:06

I would find something similar for the 500 quid you have saved. You will find something probably almost identical such is the market for homewares.

GoodOldTrayBake · 04/05/2025 22:06

Theyalwaysknewbest · 04/05/2025 21:38

I don't want to post a picture because we all have very different, individual taste.
I don't want to read posts of people saying "I don't like it"! which inevitably will happen!
Plus it's too outing because all my mum friends use this forum! So theyd recognise it! And IF I were to buy it, I wouldn't want people to know how much it cost!
But it's wool.
3 x 2 metres.
John Lewis.

hmmm by giving this info you obviously wanted people to look for it….. Interesting posts….

starsinthegutter · 04/05/2025 22:06

Is it ever on sale OP? Maybe keep saving but don't get into debt for it, you never know what's around the corner. If it's the one up thread it's beautiful 😍

twigtree · 04/05/2025 22:07

I prefer this for another £50:

https://www.johnlewis.com/gooch-oriental-loribaft-rug-green-l248-x-w176-cm/p112910210

RedAdmirals · 04/05/2025 22:10

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Better still hang the rug on your wall !😆

Netcam · 04/05/2025 22:10

Having once had moths in our house that invaded the expensive wool carpets that were only 3 years old and all had to be pulled up and thrown out, I would never buy any type of wool floor covering again.

GotToWearShades · 04/05/2025 22:11

In the 90s we bought a room sized rug and a 2 seater sofa costing £1000 each. Both are only just needing replacing. That's why you spend that much

ThatRoseBear · 04/05/2025 22:11

minnienono · 04/05/2025 21:55

Before you buy it research second hand rugs eg Persian etc. also look at the cost of importing directly eg we bought from the manufacturer in India and carried it in - even with fares and duties it would be cheaper than John Lewis but they despatch by mail too. (The place I bought from supplies Liberty)

Where did you buy from in India please?

RedAdmirals · 04/05/2025 22:13

Is this it or similar OP?

https://www.johnlewis.com/gooch-luxury-justica-floral-wool-rug-multi/p110947024

MrsJoanDanvers · 04/05/2025 22:14

https://www.westelm.co.uk/indra-rug-t5058

https://www.westelm.co.uk/gabi-reversible-persian-rug-t7307

https://www.westelm.co.uk/azura-rug-t4906

Here are some from west Elm which are decent and much less.

BigHeadBertha · 04/05/2025 22:15

If you want it that much and you can swing it, get it. You only live once! :)

Newnamesameme · 04/05/2025 22:15

If it's taken you a year to save 500 then you actually can't afford the repayments

SnorElla · 04/05/2025 22:16

If you want to get it then I think you should earn the rest of the money. Sell on Vinted. Do surveys. Can you make £14? Just do that 100 times for the rest

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Theyalwaysknewbest · 04/05/2025 22:20

These rugs you're all linking to are all made of polyester! And they're all thin, with no thick pile to them!
The rug I love is wool and is luxurious and thick.
I'm not getting a polyester rug.

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DreamTheMoors · 04/05/2025 22:20

You only live once, @Theyalwaysknewbest
Yuu’ll regret it forever if you don’t get it and there’s nothing worse than thinking to yourself in 5, 10, 20 years - I wonder what it…
I hate it when that happens.

ManchesterGirl2 · 04/05/2025 22:21

I'm sorry, because I'd love to say yes, but it sounds like it's just not affordable in your financial situation. I think it's not sensible to go into debt for something non essential, particularly something that's hard to keep pristine and whose secondhand resale value will be much lower than what you paid. On your current trend it would take around three more years to pay it off. What happens if an unexpected and costly problem hits the family while you're still paying off the rug? In my view it's just not worth it.

godmum56 · 04/05/2025 22:22

We did this with a similar priced rug but were more able to afford it. It ended up in an unused room because it was just not suitable for family life. Honestly OP unless you are going to tiptoe around it in clean bare feet and never ever have anything but water in the room, don't do it. Also, as has been said, moths!

JollyLilacBee · 04/05/2025 22:22

I wouldn’t, but last time I bought a new rug (nowhere near that price) it lasted a week. Ds came walking through the lounge to get his phone, Thai takeaway in his hand, tripped and tipped it all over my new rug. I scrubbed and scrubbed it, bought all kinds of carpet cleaner, eventually power washed it and hung it over the line for a month, and it STILL stunk of fish sauce….