What do you consider a treat?

this genuinely made me lol 😂Cake before 8:30am is definitely a treat!

For me a treat is about how it makes you feel. So if I needed to buy some water out and about because I didn’t bring a drink with me, that’s not a treat. If I chose to get a drink and sit and enjoy it or take the children for a drink, that is a treat.

And not having to get up in the morning 🙌

pfft really? That’s just a Wednesday for me.

A ‘treat’ would have to be a new Bentley at the very least. Possibly dinner in Venice but only if we took the private jet.

Expensive shower/bath things that make the ten minutes peace in the shower smell and feel lovely. I’ll occasionally treat myself to an Aesop shower gel, or some lovely shampoo and conditioner.

Anything that involves peace and quiet, with or without the children.

I would consider eating out a treat technically but in all honestly I often don’t enjoy it. I have small children, and they are actually pretty good at the table, but it’s always a lot to think about. And the quality of food is so hit and miss for the price these days.

Ice creams out are treats for sure.

An hour reading under a shady tree on a sunny day, listening to nothing but birds and the breeze, uninterrupted, would be a massive treat.

A day with absolutely nothing that I have to do.

Thats the only thing I like that I don’t get to have whenever I want so it’s the only think I’d view as a treat, although I hate the word treat. 😬

Because it's something you enjoy but can only do rarely due to one thing or another eg. not healthy, very expensive, hard to arrange, time consuming.

The curry I am going for tonight for my tea! I savour every mouthful!

Michelin starred restaurant. A night at the theatre or Royal opera house, a day in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot. Just not everyday events.

I buy myself flowers every week - just £1 daffs in Spring or £3 bunch from Sainsbury's. Or I'll hack a bit of the Jasmin in the garden when it's in flower.

A new lipgloss - Always cheers me up!

i think it depends on your headspace at the time.

for me a treat could be anything from a nice meal and drinks at a high end restaurant, to a relaxing hour in a bubble bath followed by some nice M&S picky bits and a bottle of fizz with a film.

Well, it pretty much is what you asked.

Things that you consider basics rather than treats are only basics to you because you have plenty of money. This isn't complicated.

This thread is absolutely a case of you thinking 'Ooh, let's see what poor people think of as a treat so I can pity them'.

And you only got argued with in your other thread because you said 'How can I have spent so much money when I didn't do anything' and then revealed that you had, in fact, done a lot of things that cost money.

I don't really have any kind of budget and buy most things when I want but work long hours and have 2 very small children so anytime I manage to carve out some time for myself, that's a treat. It's my birthday next week and I've taken the day off to go to a spa and then a michelin star restaurant for lunch on my own - the main luxury there is to be on my own, not rushing and not have to think about anyone else or do anything for anyone else, even if just for 5 hours. My husband takes the kids to a class on Saturday morning and I often watch TV in the bath - most weeks that's my biggest treat of the week.

A day when I have nowhere that I have to be and nothing that I have to do.

I replied to your other thread, too.
Convenience is a treat. If you're hard up you have to do it the hard way or go without.
Things designed to make life more convenient are luxuries and always tend too be more expensive.
IMO you've come to take these luxuries for granted. Did you grow up like this?

Its just a choice I can't make that often because of work and stuff. Would love to just read books all day

There’s a certain yoghurt I get that they very rarely stock and that is the ultimate treat for me, saying that the cinema with popcorn, crisps and malteasers is huge for me, or haribo, a can of coke and a packet of crisps so all varies.

The other day I did a shop in a ound shop and got clothes baskets, hangers, cleaning products and toiletries and I came out of it as excited as most are going on holiday 😅

Oh and reading with no interruptions!!! (Never happens!!)

Holidays are the main treat for us. I do recognise that a lot of our ‘normal things’ would be considered treats by others e.g horses, expensive hobbies, frequent meals out etc

I've got quite a tight budget, so a treat to me is on the first Saturday after payday I buy myself a large trifle or cake from morrisons on my way to work and I eat the whole thing about 8.30 in the morning before I even start work. (I work Saturdays and Morrisons is next to my workplace).

More fascinating than your own children were?

But why is it 'a treat' & not simply a choice you've made?

But people explained the concept that ‘treat’ means different things to different people on your previous thread? Or do you just specifically want to know what random strangers on the internet consider a treat?
If so, for me a ‘treat’ is an entire day when my autistic child doesn’t self harm.