The guilt of spending..........

[halfmist]

There is a particular high end car which I have had my eye on for a few years. I won’t say which model otherwise I will be called a twat even more than usual.
Every time I saw one I used to say to my Mrs there’s my car. My Mrs used to say no,you won’t look after it, I never have with cars and she said she would end up cleaning it all the time.
One day my Mrs said if you want one let’s go to the show room and buy a new one. When it came to heh lads heh my bottle went and I have never mentioned it since.
I just cannot justify the cost, the loss in value as I looked out of the rear view mirror as I drove it off the forecourt and the low milage I would end up doing for fear of taking it anywhere it would get damaged.

 

[Bill Walker]

There is a particular high end car which I have had my eye on for a few years. I won’t say which model otherwise I will be called a twat even more than usual.
Every time I saw one I used to say to my Mrs there’s my car. My Mrs used to say no,you won’t look after it, I never have with cars and she said she would end up cleaning it all the time.
One day my Mrs said if you want one let’s go to the show room and buy a new one. When it came to heh lads heh my bottle went and I have never mentioned it since.
I just cannot justify the cost, the loss in value as I looked out of the rear view mirror as I drove it off the forecourt and the low milage I would end up doing for fear of taking it anywhere it would get damaged.

Will this mystery car you can't name require you to have a man bun and man bag mate ?

 

[Kippaxpete]

Shirley it depends on what you spend it on. An investment for the future, something that will appreciate for the future and you'll get pleasure out of, waste it on frivolous purchases or just complete and utter piss it up the wall

...and stop calling me Shirley.

 

[Bill Walker]

My friend aged 66 retired last year. 25 years in the same job.
Got his state pension in March this year.
Got cancer in October, died after 3 weeks, pension not touched.
He's divorced so no one gets the pension now.
Changed my attitude to life.
I'm spending the fucker.
My missus got comfortably well off parents.
Might be some time but there's our safety net.
I'm spending my kids inheritance.
They don't need it and no one left me anything.

Don't rely on that, my Dad died first and later my Mum had to go into a care home as she went completely doolally and was wandering the streets at 3 am etc....so her house had to be sold to pay for it, after £700 plus a week for 5.5 years there was fuck all left.
I'm not bothered about it as long as she was comfortable and safe, but parents money can disappear.

 

[BimboBob]

In all honesty it's a weird one for me. I have money, I have savings. The Wife has the same. As I'm supposed to be dying what do I do? Spend it all? Spend some? Spend nothing? My idea all along was to leave it all to her so her life is more comfortable when I'm gone. But without me she'll be fine, savings, head teacher pension etc etc. We have no kids. No mortgage. No debts. And yet I get guilty. Not on the small stuff like records but other more expensive things I don't need. A new motorbike. Lovely. But it's money on something I don't really need plus extra paperwork for her when I'm gone.

 

[halfmist]

Will this mystery car you can't name require you to have a man bun and man bag mate ?

Absolutely not. I am well pat the age of man buns and have never been a man bag or jewellery type.
No, it’s not a car I would need to get in and out of via my hands and knees.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

In all honesty it's a weird one for me. I have money, I have savings. The Wife has the same. As I'm supposed to be dying what do I do? Spend it all? Spend some? Spend nothing? My idea all along was to leave it all to her so her life is more comfortable when I'm gone. But without me she'll be fine, savings, head teacher pension etc etc. We have no kids. No mortgage. No debts. And yet I get guilty. Not on the small stuff like records but other more expensive things I don't need. A new motorbike. Lovely. But it's money on something I don't really need plus extra paperwork for her when I'm gone.

Not really for me to speak on behalf of the BM forum @BimboBob but I'm not sure many would really agree with your take on that (and probably your Mrs if you asked her).

I can't think of a particularly good reason that you shouldn't get one mate if that's your thing...........

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Absolutely not. I am well pat the age of man buns and have never been a man bag or jewellery type.
No, it’s not a car I would need to get in and out of via my hands and knees.

It's a Delorean isn't it............ :-)

 

[Bill Walker]

In all honesty it's a weird one for me. I have money, I have savings. The Wife has the same. As I'm supposed to be dying what do I do? Spend it all? Spend some? Spend nothing? My idea all along was to leave it all to her so her life is more comfortable when I'm gone. But without me she'll be fine, savings, head teacher pension etc etc. We have no kids. No mortgage. No debts. And yet I get guilty. Not on the small stuff like records but other more expensive things I don't need. A new motorbike. Lovely. But it's money on something I don't really need plus extra paperwork for her when I'm gone.

Just buy what the fuck you want mate. If your wife is financially ok and it sounds like she is, have whatever you want.
Just don't buy any Morrissey albums :)

 

[halfmist]

It's a Delorean isn't it............ :-)

Funnily enough I used to know someone who had one of those many moons ago. It lived up to its reputation .. crap. It kept breaking down and the guy struggled to almost give it away, so no most definitely not.
He was a car dealer and also had a mini moke just like the one in The Prisoner other than with sports wheels on it.
He offered it to me for about £4k but as I didn’t have the appropriate blazer or somewhere to garage it at the time I declined the offer.