What do you consider a treat?

@coulditbeme2323 Is there a minimum price for you in order to consider it a treat? If yes, I think you're poor.

Yea, yet you keep replying.

Asserting your dominance, as well as your stupid thread topics?

A spa day would be a treat. Something I would do for a birthday.

Buying new clothes would be a treat as I do it so rarely and would prioritise doing something nice rather than having nice and my budget doesn’t stretch to both.

Im really short of cash at the moment and I would like my hair cut and coloured and my eyebrows and eyelashes tinted but there is no way I can stretch to that at the moment so that would be a treat.

I am going to yoga before work tomorrow, which I consider something nice but not really a treat as I do pay gym membership monthly so go to lots of classes.

So in conclusion I usually look a wreck but do nice things as my budget means it’s one or the other!

I don’t buy coffees out. I find it annoying walking around with them. I know you can sit down but I just don’t.

I meet friends for lunch sometimes. I would consider that a treat.

A meal out: every time! Someone else does all the work and I enjoy
Coffee: small treat. I rarely buy them out
Chopping board: depends if I'm upgrading! I have boring plastic ones (not a treat) and an olive one that no one is allowed to chop on because I'm an idiot and want it for displaying things because it was a treat!

Anything that reduces drudgery is a treat!

For me, a treat is something that is not a daily occurrence, which brings me pleasure, and isn't necessary for my health and wellbeing. The cost isn't relevant. And what this definition means has definitely changed at each stage of my life. When my kids were little a cup of coffee in a cafe by myself would have been a huge treat. These days that's not such a big deal for me. But a drink in a bar with my grown daughter is now a really big treat!

Nowadays it could be a day at the beach, a glass of wine with a bowl of crisps, a chocolate bar or dessert, a meal in a nice restaurant, sitting in the shade on a beautiful day... So many things would count as a treat for me, but it's very individual.

@coulditbeme2323 , I ‘m genuinely interested to know why you’re making these posts.
If what you portray about yourself is true, I’ve noticed that women who define themselves by their husband’s wealth act as though they feel an inner emptiness and purposelessness, as everything about them is defined by someone else and they’re seeking for their own self worth.
Is this what’s motivating these status-affirming posts?

Yea, you are.

Weird, trolling posts and replies.

Time to myself to read a book in peace and quiet, and nothing else to do.

Hardly ever happens.

Time to myself in a quiet house.

Go get a life.

Innit. I think I posted on another of the threads that i think CIBM2323 is on the wind up.

She writes like this bloke i used to know who created an alter ego of a little old lady to troll the local message boards.

A Rigby and Peller bra.

I’ll have a look for these. 🙂

I built and own my own home.

I own a mini Cooper.

I play tennis as a hobby and compeditively, and am quite good at it.

I visit tennis tournaments around the world, which is quite expensive. Yes, I've been to Wimbledon.

I've travelled the world from living in a hill tribe in Northern Thailand to cruising on the Nile in Egypt, to hiking up a volcano in Iceland.

I speak a couple of languages. I have 3 degrees.

If you start one more thread about "treats" and your shock at spending money that you don't seem to have (another thread started by yourself), and your awful replies with no context, ill fly over and take the phone off you.

Get a life!

There are big treats and small treats, surely?

Christmas spent with my best friend in Australia was a big treat. Getting a good cappuccino from the cafe at the gym after tennis is a small treat.

But big treats don’t have to be the expensive ones.

My ‘biggest’ treat was when on VSO in Tanzania, when someone would be going into town and I’d get a lift in the back of the Jeep to buy an ice cream. It was the best treat ever 🙂

Aw thank you, she is great for helping us with this! It’s lovely to have it as a weekly routine, and as well as it being a “night off” for us, she absolutely loves it too 🥰

Once a week I go into work an hour late and go to my local coffee place for a caramel cappuccino whilst my daughter is at pre school. I do regularly buy coffee out but I treat myself with time to just stop for a moment.

I define treat probably in two ways.

I do treat myself to the big stuff like the handbag but I also treat myself to say something I probably shouldn't be eating for the calories etc.

Yes! For me, it's the labour - it's a treat that I've not had to use my energy and time to make it and clean up after it. That's the treat.

For me a treat would be something like a McDonalds takeaway rather than a meal out. I tend to eat out a lot but McDs I would only do once or twice a year. So for me the rareity is the treat rather than the monetary value. But I am of the view if it makes you happy go with it and nevermind anyone else.

Also getting my makeup done professionally another great treat. 😁😁

You missed out the one where she wanted to pay for her sister's family to go to DL Florida but didn't know how to broach the subject.

Or the one where she was complaining about tourists "who couldn't afford to live where she lives" coming down for the day and not clearing up after themselves. I'm not defending people who don't respect the countryside BTW but I found it telling that she felt the need to identify these people as being poor (or at least poorer than her) as if that somehow compounded their crimes.

Someone else doing something for me because they want to.

I've been a single parent for the past 16 years, and for most of that time if I wanted a drink or even a biscuit I had to go and get it myself.

If a room needed painting I did it myself, the rubbish putting out was down to me and so on.

My son now sometimes cooks, or offers me a drink, or puts the bin out etc.., but even though it's become more common as he has got older it still feels like a treat every single time.

I have the money to buy pretty much anything I want and I'm not really a person who wants much so I don't regard purchases as treats really.

It's people doing things for me because they want to, not because they were paid to that I regard as a treat.