What are your extravagant spends that you have zero guilt about

[LittlePrecious]

My mum lives about 130 miles away from me. I visit her three times a year. I always get an Uber there and a first-class train back.

My friend nearly fell off her seat laughing at my extravagance when I told her about this earlier today😅😅😅

My DH has a bit of a tinned fish habit and can easily spend £70 a month on it.

What ridiculous, extravagant things do you spend money on with zero guilt?

Love seeing all this.

For me, it's seeing new places. It's not always expensive - yesterday I went early to an unfamiliar town, did their parkrun, had a poke around the museum and the charity shops, walked on the beach, had a slice of cake and came home content. Other times there will be longer travel and hotels and it won't be cheap.

It makes me feel alive. Without it, I feel like a hamster on a treadmill. With it, I feel like the hamster running triumphantly free.

@LadyMacbethWasFiercein so sorry about your loss. Flowers and candles are lovely to honour her

It means different things to different people, do you not realise that?

For you to scoff at people's thoughts on extravagant items says a lot about you.

There will be a billionaire somewhere that will be scoffing at your idea of extravagance...well they would if they were a complete dick.

Lurpack is DEFINITELY an extravagance for a lot of people.

Lucky you!

President butter (in my case ) IS an extravagance because it is beyond my grocery budget without making other sacrifices, and it is a product where (for me) the enjoyment is greater than the function. I could buy cheaper serviceable butter, President isn’t a necessity, it is, in my budget, a luxury. And therefore extravagant.

Though I admit it lacks the ‘wasteful’ element of ‘extravagance’

What do you consider to be an acceptable answer to the question in the OP? Private jets? Swimming pool? Please let us know so that those of us who can’t afford those things can leave the thread.

OMG that Belle Iloise website is fab! What a lovely place to find tasty little extravagances. My DH also loves tinned fish and pretty much all the stuff on there so I know what he's getting for our anniversary now!

I've thought of a few more extravagances, which I guess I just think of as 'life' or necessary maintenance, but to many they would be extravagant - I love bags and coats and have quite a few, certainly more than I need, my book habit (I read about 40 per year and have a whole room full of bookshelves aka my 'library'), regular Botox, annual Radiesse, haircut and highlights every eight weeks, professional teeth whitening and invisalign. I just think as you get older it's worth investing in your appearance, if you can afford it.

Similar situation here. Please can you let me know where you get yours from as I’d love to look into it for myself.

I flew to Buenos Aires, then to Ushuia at the bottom tip of Argentina. I went from there to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, with a company called Albatros expeditions. There are restrictions on how many people can be onshore at a time, so the smaller the ship the more time you spend on land. I went in December/January which is peak time for seeing Penguins.

Next time, I'm going from New Zealand to the Ross Sea and East Antarctica.

This is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. I hope your cat fully appreciates how fortunate she is.

I love this. What a great idea - and a fabulous image of the hamster running wild and free!

Holidays and weekends away.
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Love this thread! I didn't realise there was such an extensive market of tinned fish, I feel like this could become my extravagance! 😂

And me please.

Gosh @dubbie you are either really very rude or you are blinkered and have very little understanding of the world. Can I suggest some voluntary work as a learning exercise for you?

We have this too + the scents x 3 + showee gel & soaps

I decant the pot pouri into little hessian drawstring bags & hang from door handles etc .

The smell is absolutely wonderful & lasts AGES. Every so ofen i shake up the little bags & it reactivates the scent

Our house smells amazing!

My other extravagances are:

Perfume - Tom Ford, Le Labo, Creed, Santa Maria Novella, Guerlain etc. I have 20+

Books & literary related events - courses, readings, conferences. It's my main passion

Theatre & art - we attend a lot of events

Travel - we go abroad several times a year & those trips keep me sane. This year i will be in European cities 5 times over the year at least.

We also do lots of nights away nationally. Often work related but we love exploring new places

Jewellery, i adore good jewellery & am lucky enough to have several bespoke pieces which i'm obsessed with

Good coffee from our Sage machine has ruined going out for coffee for me

Clothes & shoes, coats & bags

Food & wine.

We're in our 50s now & love living life to the max where we can

Scrolling back and wow, that's sultry, @Beachtastic ! Love it!

@Summergarden its a strange life we live in the year 2026. Anyway I'm getting made redundant soon - which I kind of wanted, seeing as my time with this employer has run its course and it turns out they have to give me a rather bigger payout than I expected - so I've been cutting outgoings and really gotten good at feeding my normal self and my normal cat very frugally and nutritiously these past couple of months. The rescue cat continues to eat the finest human grade pure exclusion meats available from Zooplus. She is also allergic to grass pollen. So she's a cat, and she's allergic to chicken, fish and grass. I feel like evolution really dropped the ball there.

potential extravagance.....I fancy one of these for my downstairs loo. Has anyone got one and what do you think? https://chateaudusavon.com/products/provendi-rotating-wall-soap-holder-lemon-soap-gift-combo-in-chrome-finish?variant=36484571234463&country=GB&currency=GBP&utm_medium=productsync&utmsource=google&utmcontent=sagorganic&utmcampaign=sagorganic&gadsource=1&gadcampaignid=21375042869&gbraid=0AAAAAC62Le5w1Pxyj5BWBwCxawUHC-lue&gclid=Cj0KCQiA2bTNBhDjARIsAK89wlE1jx2OeQNqXNIyRohdiU40lmhXaHDb3eiYIRuvwzGdh6YQgthnQgaAiRUEALwwcB

I love this description. I currently feel like a hamster on a wheel and I want to run free!

I always used to lunch once every few weeks/months with a relative who has since died and left me a small sum of money.
I sometimes take myself off for a delightful solo lunch which is often at a quality pub or restaurant and indulge in a glass of wine and silently toast said relative that allows me to afford this (because otherwise I'd never justify the extravagance)

I also like browsing fabric shops and second-hand bookshops am not immune to taking myself off to a town in a different area, often miles from home, to investigate.

Toast knitwear 😁

I'm only on page 1 but I love this thread. I've just spent a few hundred pounds on a few months' mounjaro and have just bought a beautiful leather phone case. The phone case wasn't expensive, but it was the fourth for my new phone I bought in January.
I like hearing from people who dont feel guilty about treating themselves.

I'll now carry on reading the post!

Clinique skincare. I hgad acne as a teenager and in my twenties In my thirties I got adult chicken pox and was horribly scarred. Clinique sorted my skin out and I look much younger than my age. However, I only buy where there is a discount or free delivery and I stockpile it. I deserve nice skin in my more mature years.

Adult ballet lessons! Loads and loads of them. I love the fact that say on a Tuesday morning at 11am, while everyone else is sitting at a desk, doing housework or stuck in traffic - I am twirling and leaping through the air to the most beautiful music! Plus I have drawers bursting with tights and leotards of all kinds, and a whole closet full of gorgeous skirts of chiffon and velvet, and cashmere wraps and legwarmers.

I'm wearing a much loved aubergine toast jumper as we speak 😁