what one-off extravagant purchases do you have ? *not a gloating thread*

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A friend of a friend lives in Greece and has recently brought themselves an underwater sea scooter. A top of the range one. They are not well off by any means, but could afford to treat themselves to this. It looks a real smart piece of kit.

It got me thinking, we don't have any one-off extravagant purchases. Not that you have to have any, of course. There has just never been anything we have really wanted, with the exception of a new car. But this thread is not about buying to that level.

*edited to add this is a no judgement thread

Can't get dm working but it's from these guys.

They do 2 sizes and lots of styles. Mine is a big one

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I'm lucky I look after and ride other peoples horses or I'd have no money to spend. On frivolous stags heads!

I'm lucky, my horse's are free (other people's) or that would be my pretty much total extravagance!!

My beautiful Wedgewood Butterfly Bloom tea set. I started collecting during lockdown I hunted all the pieces down on eBay but they were still very expensive. Exquisite though

We (friend and I) got a BOGOF horse.

Most. Expensive. Horse. Ever.

Loved him 😂

Had a coat made by a proper seamstress with my own choice of material, lining, buttons. Had lots of fittings which I enjoyed very much.

It's gorgeous and I wear it all the time. Its not ostentatious, but will look fab when I am old too.

This sounds fab. Have you got a link please.

AGA

Ice cream machine

French saucepans and casseroles with lifetime guarantees

Never realised until now all my big purchases are kitchen related!

I still have the one my late OH insisted I buy in Liberty's, I have other silk scarves but the quality of this one, even after 50 years, puts the others to shame.

Peloton bike

@Catsandcannedbeans

I should get myself a Mr Frosty for the same reason 🤣

I didn't think we were allowed to use Ash anymore because of die back.
I will be glad if we can as I have half a bloody ash tree in the garage.

Rather like the time we went to Sainsburys to get the shop - and put an accepted offer on a house using the phone box lol

Janome straight stitch professional sewing machine

When we got this house I didn't want an Ikea wardrobe or something similar - So I got a 150 year old linen press, that is glorious and huge. Only £1000. I've convinced myself it an investment.....

And on our recent trip to Marrakesh got a really big Berber rug. After a lot of slightly uncomfortable haggling we got it down to £2000, which isn't a bargain but cheaper than here. The bonus was it actually arrived in the post a week or so and it is the one we bought! We'd laughed about the chances of getting a rug we liked and getting it home and the dangers of haggling. And currently it's rolled up waiting for the room to be done.

Yes I have one! Difficult to get bedding for it!

Up until this week, I would have said my sage coffee machine. Im the only coffee drinker but when I finish work at 11am, its the first thing I do - make a decent coffee

However I have just treated myself to an e-bike. I love cycling, but I cant do the hills anymore and I live in NI and there are hills everywhere. Luckily I got a two year interest free card to pay for it.

Private school is our biggest extravagance. It's definitely an extravagance, as the state schools are certainly very good around here. But everything is just a bit nicer, smaller, easier and calmer at the prep. Very much an ongoing cost though!

I have a Mulberry bag, but I paid for it with JL vouchers so I don't feel it was a splurge. It was one of the smallest bags, and I gave up using it after I had dcs as it couldn't hold all the extra random bits I needed.

Out of all the other things listed on this thread that I don't have but would like, I'd list a piano (I don't play but took lessons as a child) and a bean to cup coffee machine. We can afford them but are lacking in space to justify it.

We built a sauna in our garden 😀

For random things
I went food shopping and bought a sofa instead. Also went for a walk and bought an apartment

My friend has 9 horses, her husband thinks she has 3. All bay mares with no white bits on them

First editions in a book format
Oliver Twist 1846 and
The Pickwick papers 1837 are just two for sale @£975 at Harringtons

forgot to tag the poster interested in Dickens first editions

Interested to know what size the rug was
If I’m up for haggling it would be interesting to know how much they are prepared to sell for

Ooh I like this thread.

Over the years for me it's been:

Safe coffee machine
Givenchy handbag
Tag heuer watch

I'm just eyeing up a LV never full for a big birthday coming up

Ooh a 1-ton - nice! ❤️ Is it rough in the back? Several years ago a friend had one and my bum would leave the seat every time we hit a bump
DH has an (old) F-350, I’m a baby with an F-150

I guess mine would be two genuine Persian rugs.
Fucking dog crapped on one so it’s now put away until we have no more dogs (so ages away) because I’m worried they’d still detect it and use it as a toilet.

No, not at all. But I am probably the only person that uses it as their interesting fact as an icebreaker (and I do a lot of those!) And I do bang on about it a lot because of how much I love it!

So if my sister is here, hello!

People have asked if it is difficult to get bedding for it. Nope. We have 2 (double) duvets so that's standard. The sheets come from the big bed company.

I also bought big pillows for it. Slightly harder to get the right pillowcases for those though.