What's your little extravagance?

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Maybe a guilty pleasure or something you don't strictly need to pay for but you really appreciate the impact of it.

Recently, paying to skip the security queue at a certain nightmare airport is fucking heaven. It seems ridiculous to me to spend £5 on it but i've had stressful queuing experiences where I thought we might miss our flight. Swanning past the queue is bliss but a bit naughty because it costs me nothing to wait in line.

Hmmm maybe. I’ve found manky fruit in most supermarkets and my Aldi is a fairly new one with the doors on the fresh produce but that shouldn’t make much difference. I check what I buy though. I honestly get great food and service in my Aldi. I do like a browse in Waitrose and go in there for harder to find Ingredients if I’m making something special.

Our new motorhome so we can go away whenever we want, we're retired.

I use a stylist to shop for me. Can’t abide shopping and it means I have clothes that I like and fit.

@StarDolphins I mean technically chicken is a dead body so

Ooh this sounds interesting! Do you just give the stylist your measurements and examples of what you like and they shop online? Just wondering how it works.

Decent wine and Molton brown shower gel

Horses, lip filler now and again, full head bleach and toner, cleaning with really nice, sudsy products that I’ve just bought

Lurpak butter

Monthly massage
Coffee maker in the bedroom
Cleaner
Eyebrow wax

Ooh jersey milk...I need to try this.

Instead of audible try the Libby app. It's a library ebook listening app, you can basically add in your library subscriptions and join most libraries online and listen to books for free. I go through around 2 a month!

My kindle unlimited subscription, I read a great deal and being able to read as many books as I like for 8.99 a month is awesome.

I have also, today, started to rent a washing machine. The one I have came with the flat, so it's over 12 years old and walks across the kitchen if I put more than 1 towel in it. And maximum spin in 800rpm, anything more than that and again goes walkies.

Another with a sourdough loaf each week from the bakery.

Also flowers from the local florist each pay day.

@StarDolphins I agree. Perhaps they vary hugely, but the quality of the ‘fresh’ stuff at our nearest one is awful.

She used to send me pictures and I’d say yes or no, but now she prepares a rail and I go and try it all on. It’s expensive (and I do feel guilty!), but I’d be naked without her and need to look well turned out for work.

That sounds absolutely fantastic @Applesaarenttheonlyfruit . Not quite in the same league but I once booked a personal shopper at John Lewis (it was free then, don't know about now) and it was brilliant!

Like a lot of people I suppose, I tended to stick to the same brands as my 'safe' work clothes, but she looked out clothes for me in brands I hadn't tried before and it was a game changer for me. She also knew which sizes would be best for me in each brand, which was much better for my self esteem than having to poke my head out of the changing room door on the offchance that there was an assistant there who could find me a bigger size.

And no reason for you to feel guilty about it, it sounds like an excellent use of your time, and your stylist will be earning money and ensuring you don't go to work naked 😲, which saves you from getting arrested, so it's all good!

Books
Candles
Posh perfume
Botox
Cleaner
Brushed cotton bedding in winter
Cashmere jumpers
Private transfers

Working part-time
Nice holidays
Organic veg
A good hair dresser

Waitrose/M&S top up shops including avocados, smoked salmon treats and wine.

M&S Shower Gel, particularly Fragrance Society ones.

Working part time.

24/7 gym membership which includes classes.

High thread count 100% cotton bed linen

Six weekly hairdresser visits for colour/colour top ups and cuts.

Massages and facials as and when.

Fresh berries for breakfast every day. Bean to cup coffee.
Staying in places with their own pool on holiday.
Crazy expensive hair colouring.

Nice shower gel some fab M S ones. Agree with others nice bed linen. The mags are pricey here 8euro prima etc but still a nice treat.

I read only read magazines at the hairdressers now. They’re so expensive.

Small group personal training.

Appreciating this thread now i'm starting to think about Christmas gifts.

1. My Nespresso machine.
2. Nice matching underwear.

Staying in places with their own pool on holiday

We did this for the first time this year and I don't know how we'll ever go back to sharing a pool.