[Closed] Women eh ? You paid HOW MUCH !!!!!

Aren't a pair of Addidas trainers around £50? Doesn't seem excessive to me? Apologies if I am missing the point that it isn't expensive and it is just the fact that there is £50 less available to Oldfart to buy unnecessary bike bling.

Shoes AND a bag!!!... I'd say you got off lightly there!!!

That's cheap

YOu mrs has cheap tastes.

$680 list price Manolo Blahnik
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Shoes and a bag for £50! And she makes a big deal out of how expensive they were! I think your having the wool pulled over your eyes here, youd best go looking for the missing zero from the price tag.

...........my guess is they were more expensive and she got them in the sale for £50.

I really can't see what you are complaining about - were you feeling grumpy already?!

Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Dont you love it when the old folk rant.....

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EDIT: Oldfart earlier

yep got off real light,

i spent £150 on 2- 180mm x 18mm grade 2 Ti billets yesterday and my misses never said a word, proof that if you let her have what she wants
you can get away with murder, she's even excited about the impending arrival of my blue bfe !! 😛

got off very lightly i think. My misses got a lovely pair of Jimmy Choo's for her 21st whilst in New York. Lets just say that those Manolo Blahnik's were cheap in comparison!!

YOu mrs has cheap tastes.

$680 list price Manolo Blahnik

LOL

My Sister (thank God she's my sister, she's gonna make someone a VERY poor man one day though) has a pair of those Christian Louboutin heels, all black but red leather soles, that whatshername the swimmer that won 2 golds at the last Olympics said she was gonna treat herself too...

Don't think there was much, if any, change from £500!

She also has an £800 handbag!

Both items she uses/wears pretty much all the time too, so at least I suppose she's getting some milage out of them...

Oldfart, I'd say you got off VERY lightly... Besides, my Winter MTB boots were £120, my trainers £60, my Merrell Hiking boots were £85, and my Camelbak was £60... Mind you though, each of these items gets used a hell of a lot too...

Andy didn't think it would take long !How be on young 'un !

I get the shoes thing .Practical but how many bags does a woman need for blinkin' flips sake !!!!
Before anyone mentions how many bikes does a bloke need thats different ! 😀

From personal experience (wife could be a professional shopper) around 100 pairs of shoes and 4 large stacker boxes filled with handbags, plus her regular work, daytime, night-time, going out, shopping & weekend bags is about the norm 😆

oldfart - Member

I get the shoes thing .Practical but how many bags does a woman need for blinkin' flips sake !!!!
Before anyone mentions how many bikes does a bloke need thats different !

I think the theoretical formula is the same for bicycles...

n+1 = Correct number of bicycles a man should own!!!

my mate's girlfriend goes on trips to edinburgh, milan and paris with her wealthy parent's card. He said she spent more in a day than he had in his bank account, including overdraft. Eek.

£50 for shoes and a bag? - count your blessings!

50 quid is nowt.
Women seem to think nothing of dropping "100 its for a special event" quids once a month at least.

They still look shite covered in slush in the big market so why bother. I don't get it.

Just wait till your missus starts buying boots average £120 & thats cheap, my mrs has about 7 pairs, think I deserve some new 5 10s and waterproof trousers!

I checked with my Mrs. Apparently shoes start at £100. No idea what you Mrs bought. Socks?

My last pair of shoes cost nearly the same as my new bike

That sounds like a bargain to me.
My missus cant seem to find lunch for £50

Here s a quote from a colleague

Once I realised he'd spent £4000 on a bike then I felt that it was fine to spend that on shoes

My good lady has 5 Mulberry bags I don't want to know exactly how much but I reckon more than my bike.

I believe that those Uggs that all the kids are wearing cost over £100. I think £50 for shoes alone would be about average.

Let's hope the women of Britain will buy our way out of recession!

Bloody cheap Mrs last week cost me £ 220 for a pair of
shoes and a hand bag.

Um, would anyone like a wife? I own one handbag which I got from a charity shop, my most expensive (non-biking) footwear was £99 for a pair of dog-walking boots (warm and waterproof - I NEED them - really). I haven't got an "other half" but if I did I wouldn't dream of expecting him to pay for my stuff. Dear STW collective, what am I doing wrong?

£50 is ridiculously cheap. Was in a horrible birds' shoes shop with my mrs, she was spending an obscene amount on shoes (well, about the same as I spent on my Easton Attack TT bars. That's fair enough on bike stuff, but shoes...??!)
Anyway, when I buy shoes, the person at the till asks if I want spare laces, or dubbin to go with them. This one asked her if she wanted any handbags to go with her shoes. Quick glance across at my reaction answered that one...

Um, would anyone like a wife? I own one handbag which I got from a charity shop, my most expensive (non-biking) footwear was £99 for a pair of dog-walking boots (warm and waterproof - I NEED them - really). I haven't got an "other half" but if I did I wouldn't dream of expecting him to pay for my stuff. Dear STW collective, what am I doing wrong?

Oldfart - think yourself lucky, not only do I have 3 bikes but many handbags (the Mulberry one was the price of a bike frame). Two expensive hobbies 😉

Checked with my mrs. At least 100 -150 for a pair of shoes. I did buy her a pair of overshoes this week though for the mud, and they were less than that.

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Says it all....

"I believe that those Uggs that all the kids are wearing cost over £100"

mrs mattp has bought two pairs of those manky old boots and they're £200 a time. i know because she used my card!!!!

5th Elephant

Checking my underpants:

Just a few tired old moths, but wait! here's a note! oh, it's in Latin . .

LOL

I have a Ragley
My wife has a selection of; [url= http://www.radley.co.uk/Catalogue/Category_970_HandBags_New_Arrivals.aspx ]radley[/url]

Just as a matter of interest, what do you think would be a reasonable price for shoes and a bag?

£150 for a pair of Five Tens and a Timbuc 2 bag.

£25 for a pair of 'going out shoes' and something to put the beer money in 😉

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I bought a nice pair of Red or Dead boots just before Christmas. £120. Mrs. Coyote just got some Fly boots for £150 and very nice they are too. Good footwear ain't cheap. If the good Captain happens upon this thread he will probably make your eyes water with his recommendations.

£50 for shoes and a bag? That's not expensive dude, thats below ballpark.

Even I've spent a lot more than that on shoes. My wedding suit cost twice as much as the wifes dress. But I have worn it a few times since.
And Karin if I wasn't half a world away and already married...

£50 for shoes and bag? What is from a charity shop?
You have no idea how lucky you are.

Most of the girls I know don't batter an eyelid at £500+ for a pair of shoes.

You got off lightly with £50 for shoes and a bag. My gf buys about 4-5 pairs of shoes/boots a year, and 1-2 handbags; usually Mulberry or Radley IIR. Then there are jackets and all the other clothes, accessories, blah, blah.

Seems to be a "hobby" of hers.

You wait til she finds a store selling jimmy choos!

Hmm I'm thinking there are many parallels with biking gear here do you really need those triple compound nobby nic evo xxx gt tyres, that xtr yumeya kit, that second bike etc. I know it's not the same magnitude of money wasteage but it's all to easy to be a hypocritical bike tart.

I think we're all missing the point here:
She [b]told[/b] him the shoes and bag cost £50. That's very different to them [b]actually costing[/b] £50.
I'm waiting for a thread in a few days time when he checks the credit card statement and finds his wife has missed a zero off the end of the quoted price... 😉

I bought some entry level hiking boots for £90 reduced from £120.

Thought I was being careful but wanted waterproof and snow hiking etc.

What Crazy-legs said!

Obviously a cheap wife, looks like you are right together.

Steady on b r.

I bet Chunnky told his wife it was the same bike but new paintwork and cleaned gears...

Doh!

Mr MC posting;

seeing it from your other half's perspective, she could (supposedly 😆 ) get a pair of shoes and a handbag for the price of a boring chain and cog that will get manky and wear out?

And how much were your cycling shoes+camelbak?

MC has the best of both worlds; pimpy bike stuff [i]and[/i] Radley bags.. 🙄

I go on the premise that my wife gets her hair cut at least once a month, at about 50 notes on average, more sometimes if it has to have a colour. As I am losing mine faster than its growing and now only get charged for a kids cut with my son, say 7 quid! That's 43 pound a month to spend on bike gear in my dreams!

Where is this olde world that you live?

I'd have to be one legged to start thinking about buying footwear for £50.