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What over-the-top non-essential did you buy?
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I've just seen in Location x3 a couple who bought a house that needed everything doing to it, rewire, replaster, new kitchens and bathrooms, swirly carpets etc.......so the first thing they bought was a 74" telly 
Did you buy anything totally unneccessary/expensive/just total bling, just for the sake of it, when you moved house?
We too bought a telly....but downsized it as our 42" would not fit where we wanted it so we had to buy a 32" Our son was deighted as he was the recipient of the larger telly.
Did you buy anything totally unneccessary/expensive/just total bling, just for the sake of it, when you moved house?
We too bought a telly....but downsized it as our 42" would not fit where we wanted it so we had to buy a 32"
Our son was deighted as he was the recipient of the larger telly. (AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton
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We bought a brabantia bin 12 years ago was about £100 but to be totally honest it's as good now as it was then and I would buy another.0
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Similar [STRIKE]moneypit[/STRIKE] house needing everything here. Our first purchase was a pair of original Art Nouveau dining chairs for £1000. There's only the two of us at home and we already had plenty of chairs.
Two years on we've barely scratched the surface of the restoration work that needs doing......oh and we sold the chairs
Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
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I bought a £10k wreck of a house in Brixton in 1975... (weirdly worth £1m now... albeit well blinged up by sucessive gentrifiers).
It had a leaky roof... no C/H... dodgy electrics...
And while I was waiting for the "Home improvement grant" (wow - amyone remember them?)... I blew 50 quid on a secondhand Citroen 2CV...
My wife bought a wicker "Peacock Chair" as featured in the 1974 soft !!!!!! film "Emmanuelle" because she fancied that she looked like its star, Sylvia Cristel (google it!)
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I bought a £10k wreck of a house in Brixton in 1975... (weirdly worth £1m now... albeit well blinged up by sucessive gentrifiers).
It had a leaky roof... no C/H... dodgy electrics...
And while I was waiting for the "Home improvement grant" (wow - amyone remember them?)... I blew 50 quid on a secondhand Citroen 2CV...
My wife bought a wicker "Peacock Chair" as featured in the 1974 soft !!!!!! film "Emmanuelle" because she fancied that she looked like its star, Sylvia Cristel (google it!)
Everything is relative
We too had a Home Improvement Grant on our 3k wreck of a house in 1976 We bought a Victorian Chaise Longue to sit on the earth floor in the dining room
We only sold that house at the end of 2015 Got rid of the chaise longue decades ago.
(I remember both Emmanuelle and Silvia Cristel).(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Gaggia Coffee Machine - manual one before pods came out. Turned out to be a real faff to clean, so only used a handful of times - OH loves telling people that he estimates each cup of coffee has averaged 25 quid!0
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We bought a brabantia bin 12 years ago was about £100 but to be totally honest it's as good now as it was then and I would buy another.
what do you put in it? most rubbish is recycled?
If you put food waste in it, it would stink
after a week.
???“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
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When I bought my first house I was sorely tempted to buy an old pinball machine for £500+, but I resisted in the end!0
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Haha I saw that last night, is it just me or are the people on that show really irritating?! ( not Phil & Kirsty)
We tried to focus on essentials but of course hubby had to have a bigger TV!0
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