What do you buy to cheer yourself up/treat yourself?

[GingerAndTheBiscuits]

Not necessarily expensive. Am, like many, feeling a bit down in the dumps at the moment. Trying to lose weight so where I would usually go with chocolate or takeaways that is out. Obviously a bit of pampering with a haircut or nails is also out. What’s your favourite non-food pick-me-up? I think I’ve defaulted to food for so long I’ve forgotten what else is out there!

Ordered myself some more Clinique 72 hour moisture surge yesterday, and a few other Clinique bits That's my little treat to myself.

I’ve recently bought myself nice Tea bags (Joe’s Tea Company, Earl grey) to make work Zoom calls more bearable
And some nice bubble bath from Fikkerts

Flowers, even a couple of quid spent on a bunch of daffodils cheers me up. I tend to order a bunch of something with my online shop, I see it as a reward when I've put it all away.

Long bath with nice products and flowers.

Painting my nails generally picks me up, haven't done it in ages!
Reading a book, I find some sort of craft can make me feel better, crochet or embroidery, I rarely finish anything though!

Books
Wine
Mostly books

Flowers. And more flowers. And flowers.

A nice smelling sugar scrub, running gear, clothes in general to be honest :)

Plants. Far too many houseplants! You can buy really cute plants for not a lot of money, M&S have very cute mini plants in ceramic pots at the moment and they brighten up the house.

At the moment? Pyjamas!

Cheeses.

Books,.plants, hair products, clothes, even a lottery ticket.

I've just signed up for a stationery subscription box. The first one had some lovely postcards which made me smile and I like having something (albeit small) to look forward to each month.

Books (and I love my Reposed subscription)

Bath salts /bubble bath

Face masks and space masks

Jewellery

Flowers

A card to send to a friend or relative

@wonderstuff I have bags of half finished projects I should really dig them out!

Flowers is a good shout, I have space above my wfh desk and it would be something nice to look at. And love the sound of a stationery box.

All great ideas, thank you. I may have to purchase that loungewear I was eyeing up the other week.

Candles in pretty jars or tins

Candles, nice bubble bath/salts and wine (might not be allowed on your diet though!)

My wax melts -
although I have rather to many as I do subscriptions to 3 companies 😂 so I get around 16 bar of wax every month and a spray and a big tub of wax as well
Books or rather ebooks
My french bulldog - absolute twat but cracks me up every day

In the last year mostly scented candles and loungewear, plus several new jigsaw puzzles and a big fold away board to do them on.

Food
Daffodils

Flowers, always brighten me up or something nice for dessert

Candles
Beauty box subscription
Nice hand cream and lip balm
Flowers

I'm out of work & feeling down at the mo but I found a £50 John Lewis gift card that needed using so I ordered a sheepskin rug for the sitting room, and a designers guild cushion.

It worked, cheered me up.

Lipstick, nice bath or skin care.

Under usual circumstances, a massage and I'd just got to the point where I could probably afford one every month when this all kicked off!