To spend the money for a new pushchair on a chloe bag

[narkymum]

Mwahhahaha Am I? ............God its lush!

if one can afford it why not?go get a nasty orange freebie from sainsbury if you dont approve

don't like it, don't approve don't look.

simple

bugaboo love them.worth every pound.hold resale vale well.look great

I suppose if you have an enormous household income then £300 on a bag is just pissing into the wind.

But I also think that the explosion of individuals in this country who earn enough to make major cash fritterance a financial irrelevance is the best argument I've heard yet for reinstating the 99% income tax rate.

"look great"

In the eye of the beholder surely?

Some of the new colours are HIDEOUS

Plus, being a frugal, modest sort of woman, feel the same way about parading my baby in a buggy which everyone knows costs £500 as I do about dressing up my toddler in Burberry. It's all just a tad vulgar dontcha think? A bit conspicuous in the consumption department?

Tittybangbang - do the highest earners in this country pay any tax? most arn't domiciled in the UK

Titty - I hear what you're saying (and I also know your local park, oh too well).

eekamoose - do you ever stand in the playground in Dulwich park at the weekend and piss yourself laughing at the pushy parenting going on all around? The dads aggressively egging their 4 year olds on to get to the top of that massive rope climbing frame: "Go on Mingus - hand over foot! Stay focused!" It's brilliant.

If there's anything that can reconcile you to having clumsy, uncompetitive children it's taking them for a little play there of a Saturday morning. It's completely bonkers.

My experience of that playground on a Sat morning is marvelling at just how many dads there are round here who, having obviously been told to get out of the house and spend their 1 hour a week quality time with the kids, suddenly have extremely pressing business with their blackberries. And I don't mean the kind you bake with apples in a pie.

I have a paddington from the time bc...it weighs about 20 stone. I have a Phil and Teds now..ditto
Buy a skateboard and lead and a placcy bag from m&s

"And I don't mean the kind you bake with apples in a pie"

lol....

So true.

Mind you dh bought an iphone a couple of weeks ago. He's been fondling it non-stop since.

Well 14 years ago I bought a mamas and pappas, height of chic in those days you know! Mine was navy and white spots with big wheels. Totally impractical so I ditched it for a maclaren baby buggy asap. Sold it on for a fraction of the price to a relative, and felt guilty afterwards.

I wonder if I would still have the designer handbag if I'd splashed out on one instead. Come to think of it hello and posh spice weren't invented then so no designer handbags in my world.

To be honest, I don't think the baby will fit in it for more than a couple of months, and although the brush-gold finished padlock may help keep your little one safe from pick-pockets your health visitor is unlikely to approve.

Would you consider the Mulberry Racing Clipper instead? They do it in large and should last until your DC starts carrying your shopping walking.

Nice one Shepeeteepee!

Titty or titter yee not!

p.s pissing in the wind , oh every time.

narkymum - honestly I can say, hand on heart that I am not . I do not aspire to posh handbags.

On the other hand, if you said you'd just blown thousands of £'s on a Toyota MR2 in .... say, purple.......... maybe even a coupe..... I would be
'cause I'd love a sexy, vulgar car with no room for children in the back!

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The irony of being called vulgar by someone called Tittybangbang ..... made me pms.
Love the car ,open top? May blow my hair extentions off

anyway i shall continue to do the bugaboo walk of pride with my bugaboo and luellammmm nice hold all manner of goodies

i so don't live in your world

LOL a bugaboo pram does not equte to another world.round my way cant move for them

Eeeugghhh. Rampant consumerism is sooooooo last year, dahling. I've got a wardrobe full of stuff like this form the 'old days', and it is embarassing now.

Seriously, seriously, the competition at DS's prep school now is who can have the muddiest, oldest, crappiest looking Land Rover Discovery (but we live in the country, so I guess that translates in the city to having a clapped out, washed out buggaboo). And the current mummy war conversation-wise is over camping in Cornwall versus camping in Norfolk. A Chloe bag these days is as stylish as a burberry scarf.

Buy a years' worth of weekly organic veggy deliveries instead and pontificate about your squashes loudly at the school gate. Now that is class.

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