Coutts - what is the proportion of GN members who

I wonder if VS was being ironic?

No, I have approximately 78p in savings

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

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.

Foxygloves

I wonder if VS was being ironic?

You don't say!

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!!

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.

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.

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

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

😃

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.

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.

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 😄

Oh dear! Honestly ?

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

Diamonds are in the ice cubes, thought that was normal?

I hide diamonds in my hollowed out removable heels.

I think we're giving burglars too many pointers here.

Why would I want a Coutts account it’s pure snob value, all banks are crooks, they make their own rules and change them when it suits them. Currently they put loan rates up and hardly change savings rates, don’t trust them

My sock drawer is where I keep my Rolex watches