What little luxuries do you buy/do/have that make you happy?

[GandolfBold]

Just thinking about the little things that cheer me up and that make me smile.

Radox bubble bath
Hayu membership because I love my reality TV
Exercise class which is the highlight of my week.

Bottle of wine at the weekend

Im happy with that!

i always buy flowers in my weekly shop - nothing special, this week it was tulips

Really cheer the house up IMO

I go running

I have nice baths

I buy good books

Tulips every week for my kitchen

Body shop banana conditioner

Nicely packaged loose leaf tea from my local tea shop
Big bars of beautiful Nesti Dante soap
Artisan sourdough bread from Booths

I love Aesop Geranium Leaf body cleanser - it smells absolutely heavenly and lasts forever. Brightens up your morning and really gives you a boost.

Exercise.

Scented candle. This is new, but I love how it makes the living room feel and smell.

Bedside hot water dispenser so I get coffee without getting up.

A trip away to see friends / day trip with DD.

I have good quality bath stuff , L’occistane , Molten Brown , Chanel etc
Lunch out at least a couple of times a week normally
Sky sport for the cricket

Lush bath products.

Superdrug skincare, cheap but great.

Meditating every day.

Going to library/Waterstones without toddler and perusing the books slowly.

Subway salads. They make me so happy

Fresh flowers. Never spend more than £3/£4 a week, usually the yellow stickered ones. I've got some gorgeous lilac tulips this week.

buy lunch at work once a week. I take sandwiches and leftovers normally so it's a bit of a treat on my last working day of the week.

I know how to live!

Fresh flowers every Saturday when I do the food shop, big bar of chocolate and some nice chips and dip that I hide so the kids can't get it 🙈

Fresh flowers here as well, cheers me up no end.
Nice soap & candles.
Good bread & proper butter.

Jo Malone candles

Decent chocolate

Nice make up

I barely drink, don't smoke and don't go out often so whilst my treats are quite expensive, they're not things I need to buy all the time as they last (except the chocolate!) and they make me happy!

Buying a new cushion or candle for home
Getting a shop bought sandwich for lunch
A trip to the library
My Champneys pillow spray

Big fuck-off McDonald's meal. My monthly reward to myself for putting up with all the shit that goes on around me.

A milky, syrupy Starbucks once a week. Yum.

Good coffee with a dash of hot milk in the morning.
Running.
Nice soaps.
Nice skincare (not expensive necessarily).
A good glass of wine or G&T.
Waitrose dark chocolate.
Silk pillowcase.
Cashmere jumpers.

Eyebrows waxed and tinted once a month
Also have been buying fresh flowers weekly since nye and am loving how they brighten my kitchen (and day!) up.

Lash lift every 6-8 weeks, hair colour every month/nails done every 2 weeks

Not sure it’s a luxury but I buy proper bread, not sliced stuff in plastic bags. Blotting paper bread always looks so depressing.

Very regular holidays and escapes from reality - not always the £££ type but its good to get away even a cheapo night in a nearish city spending a day wondering and drinking coffee etc not always spending much either

Lash extensions/nails done (sometimes)

Gym membership.

Daffodils - so cheap and so very lovely

Fountain pen ink

Coffee and cake or breakfast out, every week

Dinner out, most weeks

Good bread, butter and cheese

Nice fruit - raspberries, blueberries and mango, because then I actually eat fruit, whereas if I buy apples and bananas I tend to ignore them

Really good, thick, proper Greek yoghurt

I've just bought this face oil and it's absolutely lovely, and feels really luxurious. It's much nicer than the Clarins one I was using before.

Mac lipsticks and eyeliners

In May, my DP buys me a flat wooden tray of cherries from the wholesaler, all dark, shiny and succulent. The tray comes studded in bows and I have been getting one every year since 1994.

I would prefer a quarter of a kilogram of coke, once a year. But, hey ho.

Disposable contact lenses.
Quite expensive moisturiser. (In my defence I don't even own make up or do anything to my hair so at least I save money there 🤷‍♀️).