If you had an extra £2k per year...

[NatMoz]

If you had an extra £2k per year in your hand after all bills/essentials had been paid and it was to be used entirely for you to improve your life, what would you spend it on?

I was having this conversation with my husband and he said a full body health check annually for both of us to identify any 'problems' early doors. Something i imagine the Royal Family would have.

Mine was a bit more boring in the form of a gardener. The only depressing thing is, once the gardner stops, everything goes wild again! A bit like a cleaner, a short term solution but wow i love the idea of gleam and neat bushes 🤣.

How about you?

Also this is for fun!! No I'm not a journalist, i doubt they care about trivial wistfulness!

Champagne. 1 bottle per week

I don't know, I feel like an extra 2k would be swallowed up fairly easily with increasing cost of living expenses.

Home improvements.

Boring but it would go in to my S&S isa.

Extra holiday.

Travel

For the last few years, we've been getting quite a significant extra wedge of cash coming in each year.

I can't say we've really spent it on anything tangible. I guess its bought us a bit of extra retirement time which will be nice in future. I suppose its also brought a nice sense of security but, again, not particularly tangible.

If I had to spend £2K a year, I'd get a cleaner.

I agree with your husband.

Holiday

Clothes/beauty/gym budget. Should get a gym membership and a fairly healthy clothes, makeup etc spend.

I'd outsource either gardening or something else.

We've had a bit of extra cash this year. Most of it went on a family holiday, and I'm now eyeing up some new trainers and a scarf that I want but don't really need. Anything leftover will go into savings.

Cleaner.

Personal trainer/gym

Kids activities (they probably cost me this at the moment 😬)

How am I getting it? As a pay increase split across the year it would just get swallowed up with random expenses, as a bonus (assuming after tax because otherwise most of it would go to the taxman!) I'd spend it on either on the house or put it towards a holiday.

Something I enjoyed that would improve my quality of life - a gym membership or an activity I wanted to do (like gear for something).

TBH, it probably wouldn't really be noticed.

A cleaner, no question! I could afford one now but it feels lazy considering we do have lots of free time, I just hate cleaning and an extra £2k would give me the perfect excuse!

£2k.

That's something boring to the house or new furniture.

Holidays/travel.

Art. An original oil by an up and coming artist. I bought one about 8 years ago for £1,200. Another painting by the same artist sold at auction last year for £3800.

Gym membership and beauty treatments

Wow I'd love to have so much money it wasn't noticed!!

Actually I think right now I'd pay for an autism assessment for my youngest.

Greenhouse

Holiday or days out.

Holiday abroad for sure as we can't afford that at present.