If you had to spend £500 a month on non essential extras, what would you choose?

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Inspired by a friend of a friend who has a very niace lifestyle. I’m just day dreaming, but I’d choose

monthly car valet
weekly cleaner
mani and pedicure every two weeks
hair blow dry weekly

Anyone anything else? Not essentials or utilities etc. This is just extra stuff that would make your life so much easier and, well, nice!

I have the first two and a monthly gardener. They save me time and come when I’m at work/wfh. I also farm my ironing out.

I don’t have any interest in the last two.

Edited to add I spend £350 ish not £500

Monthly Facial & Pedicure
Personal Trainer
Bin cleaning service that I read about on MN

Manicures,
Cleaner
Nice expensive dark chocolate
Nice bedding
Spa/massages
Blow drys

Oh ironing would be wonderful. Especially bedding.

Eating out at decent restaurants occasionally.
Regular good haircut
Better clothes
Theatre tickets

That's probably all £500 would cover these days

I suppose I already do. Cleaner/gardener/10 yoga sessions pass.Maybe eyebrow shape and tint.

I'd like my teens to have uber accounts so I didn't have to drive them places all the time. Ditto bus passes.
I'd quite like to try a clothing subscription box and maybe some other subscription boxes - stationery, beauty, etc. I'd try a few different ones til I settled.
I would find it hard to spend £500 on non-essentials as there are quite a lot of "essentials" that we can't afford that I could use the money for.

Monthly.massage
Cleaner
Decent wine

People iron their bedding? I’ve never ironed bedding ……ever!

id pay for :
monthly valet
weekly cleaner
manicure monthly
a PT who comes to the house.

I do actually have that and more per month spare. I'm not gloating or boasting it's just the way it worked out for me. I'm retired now, on my own with no kids and I don't know what to do with the extra. Sorry if that sounds uppity or mad. I have little motivation to do much right now. So it just goes in the bank. I don't need a cleaner or a car valet, I have never had nails done, and never will. My niece cuts my hair.

I have a great life, I'm very happy. I travel now and then, good health. I give my nieces and nephews generous gifts at Christmas and when they go on holiday. I am interested in what others would do and a bit of inspiration!.

Cleaner, gardener, babysitter, clothes. Or save for a holiday.

Definitely a cleaner. Then maybe a weekly babysitter and a date night.

Gardener- it’s about €40-50 an hour here now. So 4-5hrs a month (€200)

Handy man - once a month. Save dh and I spending every spare moment fixing up bits

I would like a meal delivery from local restaurant once a month. Save cooking, whilst convenience of being at home

That’s probably most €500 gone tbh

Only the cleaner would interest me from that list. I'd eat out more though

Daily cleaner
Food prep

I’ve given up ironing bedding.
I’d love someone to iron and clean.

Put it in an account and use as when for
holidays
treat days out
theatre tickets
weekends away etc
nice meal in restaurant.

Hopefully there would always be some £ available for extra fun stuff

My cleaner to come every week instead of every other.
My lawn mowed every week and garden sorted instead of once a month.
A mobile car cleaner to wash my car.
A mobile hair dresser once every six weeks.
Dog sitter for a few hours a week.
Dog trainer twice a week.
Those fancy recipe boxes delivered so I don't have to meal plan.
One of those beauty box subscriptions that I read about - lots of subscriptions actually, including flowers and cheese.

Oopsy! I may have just spent about £1,500 a month, not £500!

Cleaner
Monthly massage
Good meal out

Even if I had that much I wouldn't spend it though - I'm completely rubbish at spending money on myself.

Put it in a pension. Your future self will thank you.

My DD spends hundreds a month on ‘stuff’, at Xmas she agreed to stop all unnecessary spending and has just paid off her half of a £6k holiday!

Cleaner. PT. All the house maintenance work, like replacing the fence, that keeps being put off.

We do have this but as we home ed we do museums,days out etc and go abroad twice a year.

I'd put the money into my holiday fund.

Ooh I like this thread. Hair doesn’t interest me as I just tie mine up all the time and die it myself, and don’t enjoy going to the hairdresser.

Well our cleaner costs me £250 a month so that would also leave me £250 yey! I can’t stand anyone touching my feet so I would spend £80 which is what it would cost me for gel finger nails for the month leaving me £170 which I would choose to use on Botox every few months. Me and DH own a
car dealership and also love valeting ourselves, so never have to pay for valeting. Any spare after the Botox I would spend on nice exercise clothes as I love them for some reason.

I have the cleaner, gardener, ironing and car valet.

I also have a cut, colour and blow dry every seven weeks and buy nice cosmetics/skincare. There is nothing else I want but if I didn't have it already, I'd probably pay for health insurance.

Apologies if that sounds wanky.

Other like to haves would be fresh flowers every week and a theatre/opera trip.