Christmas decorations 7.5k

[Cleo888]

Hello,

I would like a honest opinion do these pricing look fair or they are taking me for a mug. I thought we would hire a Christmas decorators to decorate our home thinking it would be practical to have a company set it up and take it down.
The final pricing remains the same whether you keep the decorations for 2 weeks or 2 months. The contract will be for 2-4 years the final price is payable every year.

Staircase garlands £1100
Outside doorway garland £550
Kitchen garland for above cupboards £550
Inside lights for glass (both areas) £1700
Living room fireplace garland £275
Inside 8ft tree , fully lit and decorated £950
Drive lights for pathway£180
Icicle lights for roofline and top windows £420
Access equipment to install lights and take them down £500
Total price £6225
Plus vat @£1245

FINISHED PRICE £7470

Absolute fucking insanity. Demonstrates the utter divide between the ultra-rich and the rest of us.
And as for the original message of Christmas - totally lost and forgotten.
I think this is disgraceful to be honest, when people are using food banks.

@Jacopo Take it easy!!!

The whole point to me is we all do it together, this squeezes out all the fun of it bur if people want to spend that much it's their money

I will not debate whether it is worth it or not, they wouldn't charge that if they couldn't have people spend it so they must be able to run the business at that price

God last year we told the guy who normally puts the lights along our roof line not to bother cause he doubled his price to £90 - maybe that wasn't so bad!

What are staircase garlands? I wind some tinsel through the banisters - costs less than a tenner and takes at most 10 minutes. I'm guessing staircase garlands must be a lot more sophisticated.

Why would you waste the company’s time like that?

If you shop at Primark and need to ask how much it costs to get Christmas decorators in then you can’t afford it.

Haha, I love Christmas and am terrible with money but my god anyone spending that has lost track of reality!

Im sure your Primark affair will be lovely @Cleo888 😄

I’ll do it for £1000. 😘

Even if the OP isn't really intending to spend £7500 on Christmas decorations- I find the notion that there really are people who think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to shocking.

It is disgusting that at a time when families are losing their homes, have to rely on food banks and just struggling to survive the rich just carry on spending on fripperies.
Why not just have an ordinary tree, and donate the remaining £7400 to the local food bank/homeless shelter/hospice insert good cause of choice it's not as if a deserving cause is difficult to find these days.

This whole post just smacks of attention seeking “humble” bragging

@caringcarer , dare I ask wtf an "adult inglenook" is..? Sounds a bit bottomy.

I think that’s a bargain. I’m paying £16,300 pounds this year. It’s gone up a lot, last year was only £15k. That’s inflation for you!

Presumably, there's a market for it, otherwise, the company wouldn't stay in business.

But seriously, in what parallel universe would any right-minded person spend 7.5k on Christmas decorations, regardless of how much disposable income they had?

Not to mention the electricity bill for all those lights...

complete waste of money.

Dobbies Garden Centre have a fantastic range of baubles.

I love a good bauble.

WTAF?!

Hang on...if it's the same price no matter how long you have them up for, just keep them up for 4 years and pay once!

Hahahhahaha who would ask this on Mumsnet???

OMG.

The average car costs 3,000 pounds per annum to run in the UK. I can't fathom that there are people who spend double this on Xmas deco?

Completely agree. I'm flabbergasted at the figures. And the irony is I bet it would end up looking tacky as hell

Sounds like a rip off to me, unless you have spare millions. Not judging if your wealthy but I would never spend that much.

For 7.5k I'd want Tom Hardy to come

I can do this for 4K and a packet of jaffa cakes.

For 7.5K I'd want Tom Hardy to make me cum.

I take back what I said about it probably looking tacky. I've just gone onto the website of the apparent leading Xmas decorating company, and it really is just the picture of taste.