Britain's Secret Spending

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Anyone watching this?

I've already spotted someone I bet is a MNetter! Step up and reveal yourself!

I also wonder if radley mum has life insurance (seen as she was so obsessed with dying tomorrow).

Also since when did radley bags become high-end...imo they are so naff!! If she thew her radley bag on my table I would just throw my mulberry on top of it.....lol (not a boast)

anotheronebitthedust hubby and I said the exact same thing about her mortgage comment!!! She obviously has nooooo idea how it works!!

Radley is a high end bag to someone used to getting bags for a fiver or a tenner, wait , as I'm sure you were aware a long time ago, before you realised you could afford a Mulberry.

hope I actually never considered them high end to be honest. Just overpriced with a scotty dog charm!!

I don't think they're high end at all, they're high street and just have the Scottie dog tag.
Anyway, it's neither here nor there, she was a total snob about a bag that's ten a penny, nothing special and (this will make me sound like a twat but...) chavvy due to the huge number of fakes.

Yet she was parading it around as some hugely defining status symbol.

Rather than paying off her mortgage because she could be dead tomorrow.

Radley is not a 'high end' bag. It is a way of extracting money from idiots.

I can see that s bag made by craftsman which will last donkeys years and look great is something you would use disposable income for.

But Radley bags are not that. They are high street middle market brands.

You could say that about most brands ubik

How many times do you see people saying they will only use Heinz beans or ketchup, or hellmanns mayo, or Andrex toilet paper.

But I am convinced that if they underwent genuine blind tasting most people wouldn't be able to identify 'their' brand or even if they could, few would consider that the branded product was genuinely worth the extra money.

I felt uncomfortable at AR announcing in the middle of the fast fashion shop that the fast fashion woman was on benefits. I think they used someone who obviously had a real problem with obsessively buying and hoarding because they had an agenda. ie. Look at this woman on benefits frittering away her money on clothes she never wears so she ends up being evicted. Just the usual way the Daily Mail likes to portray all people on benefits!

I quite like my Radley bags and they have been hardwearing. I wouldn't bother paying £100s for a bag but these were reasonably priced but I agree they are not top end of the market.

Lots of people critising the sneering lady on this thread for sneering however those same people are sneering at Radley bags. Bit of pot and Kettle going on here.

More sneering at the stupidity of someone paying a ridiculous amount of money for something that you buy for a fraction and serve the same purpose. It wasn't about the physical bag, but aspiring to be viewed as someone with too much money to spend on high end goods for the sake of it. The only thing her daughters will inherit from her is a misguided sense of entitlement and a fuck load of debt. Presumably that will make her as happy as that bag did.

Radley bag woman was awful. As was her elder daughter. Radley isn't high end, I can buy one on my scuzzy local high street.
Their income is also much the same as ours. Mortgage is fairly low. They will be using a lot of credit. Silly idiots.

I have a Radley bag so I'm not sneering at them. I think some of them are very dull but I saw one I liked. People have different tastes anyway so even if someone liked a bag I thought dull that's fine. I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't like my Radley bag.

What I object to is her being a twunt saying when she puts her Radley on the table people will think differently of her. Its such a shallow attitude. That and saying that if she had a £10 bag it wouldn't come out her wardrobe. Its a terrible attitude. If she really wants to impress someone with a £100 handbag then that's up to her. But I'm not sure I'd be bothered about people whose opinions are swayed by what handbag someone has.

And I agree that Radley isn't high end at all. Girls at work have £500 handbags and think nothing of it. My current favourite handbag did actually cost me £10 from Skipton Market and I love it!

Sorry, maybe I came across as sneering, that wasn't my intention, I have one of those blasted bags with dog tag (and it doesn't leave my wardrobe unlike my favourite much cheaper accessorize one!), it's just that she was putting so much emphasis on it being the holy grail of expensive handbags and they aren't.

Don't think I came across well there ^

What I object to is her being a twunt saying when she puts her Radley on the table people will think differently of her. Its such a shallow attitude.

Putting your handbag on a table is totally shit etiquette regardless of it's brand. Handbags go on the floor.

Proof that money really can't buy you class...

Btw, my handbag was £8.99. One of those oilcloth affairs. Turquoise with flowers. Excellent shape and size and numerous pockets. I really like it.

Yes, putting a handbag on a table smacks of shoving it in someone's face screaming "look at my bag, look at my bag". Especially if you think it's such a high end bag which will impress people.

Ive never put a bag on a table in my life I don't think.

just think of the germs!

totally with you there KingofJeff, I think that moremoneythansense mum showed her lack of etiquette by stating that she would put her handbag on the table. Now, sorry, but if this was a meeting and she came into the room and put her bag on the table, I would assume that she was planning on taking something out, but intending to put it on to the floor. Alternatively, she would put the bag onto her lap, remove the necessary item/s (files, laptop, etc) then place it on the floor.

Her bag should not be the focus of the meeting, her brain content should be. Her statement just goes to prove that equality in the boardroom and office will be further off than expected if women think that a man will look at a handbag and think, "Cor, she knows her stuff, better give her a promotion".

A rude and arrogant lady with no real class, no common sense financially and no understanding of what makes children happy. I feel bad for her. Her idea of making her children happy is buying them expensive things. Although tbh I think the £190 sunglasses were just showing off for the cameras.

The saver lady was very dignified, I agree. I'd have told the Radley lady exactly eh as t I thought of her false pretence and parenting skills. I also thought she was quite unhappy with her husbands spending and the lifestyle they've created by market shopping.

There was deffinately something more going on with radley woman. Maybe a close family member had died suddenly or her parents were tight and refused to buy stuff. It was the buzz of spending she got off on. Her teenage DD's attitude that was awful too, basically laughing with her mum at the poor folk who didn't have expensive tat. She has been brought up with no concept of earning/saving.

The thing that baffled me though was that their house was just small and very, very ordinary. No posh decor, no shiny new kitchen etc which makes me wonder how can they afford the spending sprees.

I have a radley purse somewhere amongst the crap in my 10 year old matalan handbag. Does that make me posh now?

I noticed that the Radley family's house was a lot smaller than saver woman's, but wasn't sure whether than was down to the area they lived in or their profligate spending.

The dullness of their house just proved that they get off on 'spending' rather than owning stuff.

A normal person would feel joy from a really lovely kitchen or an expensive but classic coat. They'd feel nothing. They was lots of tat at £200 a pop so they get a quick buzz.

I did like the billionaire but he mentioned his charity work about four times which I definitely did not like! You're not supposed to tell people about it specially not on TV, he came across as really bothered about his self image. As I said though apart from that he did seem a nice guy.

Re: handbags, I don't really understand them, particularly expensive ones.....I often/ prefer to use plastic bags nice sturdy ones! But nonetheless, plastic e.g. if I'm just popping out to the cinema - purse, phone, book. I've used the same one for about six months now and it's just a bit faded that's all. I did have a Herschel backpack for ages tho. Herschel as a brand is hugely overpriced & they didn't have the specific one I wanted in the UK so I paid import costs as well. Maybe I'm a bit disingenuous then in saying I don't get people who spend loads on Chanel bags.

really like Anne Robinson :)

John Caudwell (the billionaire) is not single. He has quite a chequered romantic history, actually. Google him!