What’s the one thing you always spend top dollar on?

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For me it’s bedding. Even when I was on the bare bones of my arse I still wouldn’t buy polyester and saved saved for one set of perfect white company bedding. It’s lasted years.

Not top-dollar but definitely not cheap - boots, coats and bedclothes/towels. No polyester bed linen and my white company towels are still super fluffy 3 years in. My last pair of boots were £75, reduced from £170 and lasted 6 winters which was actually very good value!

Washing powder!
Underwear for my DP.
Trainers for Older 2 children (they will not wear primark/supermarket brands etc- trainers must be for Bday or Xmas pressies though)

Jumpers - not "top dollar" as such but pretty much merino and cashmere.

Oh, and shoes must be leather or textile - not plastic.

Health insurance, food, foundation, bras

Nice organic ground coffee. Was buying the Sainsburys Fair Trade one, but have discovered that Morrisons do one for £2.50, which is quite a bit cheaper, and as nice IMHO.
Also, I refuse to buy cheap shoes. I'd rather have less of them.

Food
Shoes and boots
Raincoat
Concert tickets

Shoes. I've spent far too long crippling my feet in cheap shoes that just don't fit, now I have proper supportive comfortable boots that I can walk for miles in.

Yarn
Artist paint
Dairy
Eggs

Food
Skincare products
Clothing

Tyres. I drive over 400 miles a week on motorways in all weather conditions so I need to have decent tyres on my car. Cheap Chinese tyres might be adequate for just pootling to the local school & shops, but my car needs the best.

Meat. I would rather eat really good meat just once a week, than economy pies, sausages & burgers every day.

Lipstick. It's the only thing I will pay extortionate prices for.
Anything else I'll bargain hunt.

Meat.

Can't bear cheap meat.

Not really bothered about designer goods but I do like a Cath Kidston bag

Firewood - I pay over the odds to get kiln dried. It fires up straight away and burns without tar clagging up the stove door and the chimney, which would otherwise need sweeping more often.

Meat.
Health - spectacles, over the counter remedies, footcare etc.
Chocolate - palm oil free tends to mean pricey.
Tea or coffee - don't drink it myself, but keep 'good' brands for guests.

The central heating!

I'm generally really frugal in every single way I can be, but fuck it if I work full time to be cold! It's just not worth it, it makes me so fundamentally miserable, if I could afford only heat or food I'd choose to be hungry but warm.

Perfume. I can't stand anything off the shelf in boots. I like rare, unique weird perfume.

With pretty much everything else, I love a good bargain, although I can't abide shopping and spending money generally, so avoid it mostly

Children’s shoes and scented candles.

And specs

A mattress when buying a new one.
Meat or fish for Sunday's main meal (usually lunch).

Fitflops. l've worn them since l broke my ankle 20 years ago, and l still have the ones l bought then. l wear them every day (not the same pair, l have a few!) and they're wonderful. lt's like wearing slippers, l can tramp round town all day in them, and my feet don't hurt.
l got my newest pair of boots last year in a sale for less than half price, and they're worth every penny even if l pay full price. l have three pairs of boots, one of clogs, and two pairs of sandals.
Oh, and nice bedding and towels. l usually buy the hotel quality bedding at HomeSense. Always white, and a decent thread count. The more you wash them, the softer they get. And everything matches.

Winter coats (fully wind and water proof) , gloves, socks, welly boots for work, as I am outside for eight hours a day in all weather.

Children's winter coats and fitted shoes/ trainers. Hunter wellies for children

Bedding white company

Towels

Method cleaning products /laundry

Diet coke

Food meat from butcher, organic dairy, Lurpack butter, Heinz Sauce/Beans. Uncle Ben's rice.

Neals yard moisturiser

Coffee

Other items I will spend less on .

Boots
Coats
Meat and fish
Children's shoes
Body cream (I have really bad skin)

Free range meat, organic dairy products, fibre broadband, plants for the garden, shoes

Any kinds of lessons for kids - music, coaching etc..., sports equipment like mouth guards, football boots, shin pads

Perfume (bit I usually get it as a Christmas present and it will last me until the next year).
Butter
Make-up, particularly foundation, I'll try cheaper versions of other things but never foundation.
Coffee