Coutts - what is the proportion of GN members who

Oooh you are awful! But I like you! 🤪🤪🤪

Waves at urmston, good to see you posting and a cracker. It’s the northern no nonsense approach and so good to see it’s still with you x

VioletSky

Does anyone else keep their diamonds in their pillow case and keep forgetting to take them out before a wash?

Goodness no! 😲
Mine are in my sock drawer.

Does anyone else keep their diamonds in their pillow case and keep forgetting to take them out before a wash?

Oh dear Urmston ... really?

that was in the 19C hardly anything we can boast about- but using the name reminded me of reading it in a book.

Baroness Coutts in the mid 19C was so impressed with my OH's grandfather's art work, that she gave him a grant to study art in London. He became quite famous, thanks to her sponsorship

I think the purpose of the thread by FP was to find a space in a ‘relevant topic’ to shoehorn in this little boast.

Oh dear! Honestly ?

Ailidh

I first heard of Coutts (founded 1692) in a Georgette Heyer novel.

I am more likely to tool my high-perch phaeton down St. James's than to have an account with them. 🙂

Being a Georgette Heyer reader that cracked me up 😄

Fleurpepper

biglouis

I assumed the OP was simply being ironic in a lighthearted way when they opened this thread. High street banks are good enough for me.

Of course I was BL- thanks. How anyone could have taken this thread seriously and thought I was actually asking about banking details- is just beyond belief, lol.

Mmmmm 🤔 I don’t think so. Why didn’t you say at the beginning that it was lighthearted?
Everything in the OP and subsequent posts indicate that it was a serious question.

Joseann

I have to disagree here. By bringing your own financial situation into the opening post,
I imagine you have to be pretty rich. We certainly would have never fitted their client profile,
it sounded as though you were asking if others were in the same boat, and would therefore like to feel aghast with you. We know you weren't asking for our banking details, but you were either wanting to have a dig at those who do hold a Coutts account or more likely wanting to bring up the Nigel Farage topic again.

Neither.

😃

I have several gold bullion in the back of the freezer and I keep my Faberge egg under a teacosy

So, what is the proportion of GN members who have a Fabergé egg?
Someone might have.

I have to disagree here. By bringing your own financial situation into the opening post,
I imagine you have to be pretty rich. We certainly would have never fitted their client profile,
it sounded as though you were asking if others were in the same boat, and would therefore like to feel aghast with you. We know you weren't asking for our banking details, but you were either wanting to have a dig at those who do hold a Coutts account or more likely wanting to bring up the Nigel Farage topic again.

biglouis

I assumed the OP was simply being ironic in a lighthearted way when they opened this thread. High street banks are good enough for me.

Of course I was BL- thanks. How anyone could have taken this thread seriously and thought I was actually asking about banking details- is just beyond belief, lol.

As I suspect I am more aligned to Nigel Farage’s way of thinking than Coutts, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t touch me with the proverbial, even if I did have the requisite few million to invest!!

Foxygloves

I wonder if VS was being ironic?

You don't say!

HappyLife

Approx 20 years ago my DH sold something to someone who lived in a little terraced house on the wrong side of town. The lady wrote him a Coutts cheque for about £300. We just couldn't get our heads around it. We didn't know whether to cash it or frame it!

That would be the little old lady who everybody thought hadn’t got two pennies to rub together and then dies and leaves millions as she was a shrewd investor. 😉
PS. The money usually goes to an animal charity or local cause, then they name a road after her.

VioletSky

I have 17 accounts with them

Do they know you're on Gransnet? 😲

See my post Callistemon21 Sun 30-Jul-23 11:43:41

No, I have approximately 78p in savings

I wonder if VS was being ironic?

Really? I thought there was a limit to the number of accounts Coutts allows you to have in any one currency?

I have 17 accounts with them

I agree Foxygloves. I do think Farage is making a meal of it and will use it to his advantage. (He does have a point, but most Coutts' members are usually more discreet. 😉)

As I have said before I have no sympathy on any front with Nigel Farage but Coutts chose the wrong victim.
The fact that they have now presented him with a “cause” and a platform for his toxic philosophies is totally regrettable.
I would have preferred to see him sink without trace.