Sorry Gaby and the Express & Star but “luxury on a budget” is an oxymoron. It doesn’t make sense – either something is luxurious or it’s cheap, you can’t have both. You can have something of great quality that is cheap, sure, but the very notion of “luxury” denotes something that is inaccessible to the majority by virtue of its price.

The whole concept of trying to “blag” luxury and emulate the celebrities we so want to lick the **rses of is arguably behind the credit crunch and the country’s current economic woes – people trying to live a lifestyle they cannot afford by taking out credit that we, nor banks, can afford to finance.

You should be ashamed of yourselves, if you realise what the problem is, of course.

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