Well, they earned it so I hope they enjoy it. Especially when the baby comes. However, i do think £200 on a kitchen bin is a tad overkill…unless it disposes of the rubbish outside all by itself! 
I have been in houses where it seems so magazine perfect, and yes its lovely to look at, for sure, but I’m sorely tempted to rumple a cushion or two to make it a bit more homely 
Exactly so, LD, exactly so.
It may not necessarily be a daughter trait. It may have more to do with the influences one comes under from a certain age. My daughters are earning decent money and could both afford far better abodes than they are living in but they just don’t spend the money, well not yet, that is.
When we were, for a short period of time, needing funds to buy our current home they were able to help us rather than the other way around which is usually the case.
I remember buying our first home. We were renting a flat and when we saw a house we liked, we applied for a mortgage with a B.S. We were refused. The manager said he thought we wouldn’t be able to afford the monthly mortgage payment even though the monthly flat rental cost us more! 
So we went to another B.S. offered a mortgage no problemo and went on to buy the house. 
@Pesta
I was very lucky in that I was living with my paternal grandmother in her largest of her bungalow’s two double bedrooms and Nan allowed me to move my wife in too for the first few months while we were still saving hard. The mortgage on our first house, a 2 bed semi, although tight, was only easily arranged as we had saved well over £1k deposit on a £4.5k property.
We became an item when she was 16, engaged at 17 then married at 18 with our 1st daughter with us by 19. That daughter made our minds up, we really had to find a house PDQ before we overstayed our welcome with Nan.
Gosh you started a family very young didn’t you LD? 
I think our first house (3 bed with a conservatory) was a tad over £10K. Can’t remember if we had any deposit money.
Strangely, I found my old A-Z dating back to the 70s and at the back is a list of houses I’d earmarked to view. All ranging in the £9-10K back then.
When we became an item, she was 16 and I was 21. She was my lead singer to my band, but I first met her at 11 when her brother (a fellow guitar player and my rhythm) took me home to meet his family.
Awww, what a lovely story LD. Proper warms the cockles of the heart. 
I have 4 nieces and they are all the same. They seem to want everything just perfect. perfect house, perfect kids, perfect holidays, perfect cars and perfect jobs. Nothing less will do.
My friend told me her daughter was getting married and she gave them a massive deposit on their first house. She said they were struggling to furnish it so I gave them quite a lot of kitchen equipment and offered them (free) all our recently removed worktops which were in immaculate condition and in a plain neutral colour. The daughter came and had a look and then I heard no more. When I saw her Mum she said she really wanted marble effect worktops!!
When we started out I took literally anything people offered me.
I wonder how long it will stay perfect once the babies arrive??!!
I’d say, have what you want as you’re a long time dead!
I see no point in stashing too much money away as we never know if the next day will be our last.
Susie, Let them make the most of their good times. After all, all that will go out the window when they are paying out money for the new baby and all it needs until it leaves home.
Ooh, l just thought of all that sick on the lovely suite and carpet!! Or on the shoulders of their designer clothes! 
The Thorn agi-wash?
Those damn rollers always scared me. Get caught in those…
Always tuck everything well in before mangling 
If you haven’t seen this it is a must. Makes me feel good and sad at the same time.
I’m not a teen and if it wasn’t for the wording at the bottom of the photo, I wouldn’t know what it was…! 
My Grandmother (God rest her soul) used one until the day she passed. Even though all 8 of her children begged her to let them get her a new one.
I remember mum (or was it gran, can’t remember, no I think it was mum), had a green mangle. Nothing like that one Danny though.
I’ve never forgotten how the white cotton sheets came out stiff and thin as a board after it had been through those rollers. 
For 8 years I used an old washing machine with a wringer on the top ( high tech … . It was electric ). The machine cost me second hand £5 but the heater was broken . I used to boil pans and fill it .I’d wash the whites first but as I pulled them out they came out tangled together be cause the flipping machine washed only clockwise . Eventually as the water cooled I’d wash the colours. The wringer was a God send it squashed the nappies towels etc flat , then I’d rinse them in the sink and wring again .
When I got my first real washing machine it was an automatic , I sat in front of it for a whole hour watching it washing rinsing and spinning . By this time I’d been married 10 years
