Lighthearted! What thing did you say you'd do as a sign you'd 'made it'?

[Tiredofitallagain]

I always said I'd know I'd 'made it' (whatever that means!) When I could go to M&S for my weekly shop!

DHs made it moment is when he can wake up on a spontaneous Saturday and decide to take us to Paris on a whim! (We are in UK)

Obviously his more exciting than mine but I guess for both it's about having enough disposable income to not feel guilt about 'luxury spontaneous' buys!

What are yours? Achieved? Gave you the thrill you thought?
(Ours as yet unacheived haha!)

Ooo good one

unachieved but

fly first class with dd multiple times a year, having got her passport filed with stamps

drive a mini countryman 😂😂

Buy all my clothes from Karen Millen. Unachieved because it’s not 2001 anymore and I couldn’t squeeze one thigh in the largest size these days.

Champagne on Friday rather than cava!

I said I’d always get a taxi home after a night out - no more night buses! I don’t go out much but I can afford and do get taxis home when I do

I’d know I’d made it when I had a pet of my very own 😻

Achieved!

And then overachieved. And now I have several elderly, senile, medically complex pets.

Don’t peak too young, is my advice.

Back in the last century; always having 2 or 3 bottles of champagne in the fridge.

Buy a wanted purchase over £10 without doing an online price comparison.

Absolutely this. Most of mine have had issues and run up bills of £27k. But they were /are all mine. My family think i’m mad for having Persians, but I love the breed.

Flying first class without a second thought about the cost.

A small holiday home/bolthole which I would happily share with friends and family so long as I could leave my things and regularly disappear to.

Buy an original piece of art. For myself just because I like it.

Buy one of the ridiculous priced lrgo sets (£500+), have the time to do it, and the space to display it

Not sure about mine, but DP always said he wanted a picnic table in the garden - like the ones you get in beer gardens or parks.
Two years ago we moved to a house with an overgrown garden, and had to put a lot of work in. But the priority was a little patio with a picnic table. He sits out there at every opportunity and still always looks so so happy 🥰

Being able to buy/pay for anything without having to think about the price. I don't mean stuff like yachts, Ferraris or houses, but just ordinary food and consumer goods.

Just walking around the supermarket and putting anything that looks appealing in the trolley. Fancying a takeaway or a meal out at a restaurant (again, not even the Ivy, but just a meal at a nice pub) and only having to decide where you prefer to go - and then, when there, not having to look at the prices and ordering whatever you want.

Not having to fear taking the car in for its MoT or worrying signs of expensive problems; just taking it in at the earliest opportunity, tell them to do whatever it needs doing and not caring about whatever the bill will be when it's ready for collection.

None of these achieved yet!!

OMG haha the M &S one was mine too from when I was small!! I’m 50 now 🤣🙈

Having a car seat in the back of a 'family car ' and wearing nice clothes and impractical shoes.

It actually got me through really traumatic surgery.

I no longer have the car seat. Or the family car (kids all grown up) but I still feel so much gratitude for what I have

Spending a week’s salary on an Hermès scarf and not asking how much it was first (pre-internet, no way to find out without asking). I still have the scarf and I still love it

Central heating

When I qualified and got my first pay, I bought a silver Nokia and the Clinique three step cleanser with toner and moisturiser. It was 2000 and I felt I’d finally arrived 😆

Pay for everyone's dinner instead of splitting the bill. I used to admire people who could afford to do that so much. I bloody love doing it. Not in a show-off way, just inviting DC and their partners, or my nieces and nephews out for a catch up over dinner and then paying the bill.

The dreaded fear of car bills!
Absolutely this

It's not just food...😎
Hope you ve achieved it somewhat?!

When I could buy a new video game on release day without checking my bank balance first.

I spent most of my life waiting 1-2 years for the prices to drop enough that I could afford it and when I could finally just buy one I was super excited for without issue it felt amazing.

I'm back to waiting for sales now though. Luck is a fickle mistress.

I'm off to play my £30 game I picked up in the sales for 59p!

My mum’s was the M&S thing. It included using a wicker basket to put the lovely things in.
I think it may have been a wistful yearning to be responsible only for herself as she had five children starting at age 17 and we had no money and no car so shopping was fetched by the seven of us hauling plastic bags home on the bus. Poor mum.She died young so never achieved her dream.

When I was younger I would have said holidays, new clothes and cars where as now I would say put the heating on in the middle of the day without giving it a second thought.