To ask what you spend your disposable income on?

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Hi MN

After taxes, bills, rent/mortgage , food basically everything - with the money that is left over how do you treat yourselves and what do you generally spend it on?

Personally: fresh flowers, 'luxury' bath products /creams and huge gorgeous candles. And a once weekly massage (I have a semi-physical job)

My best friend : monthly mini break (lucky cow), different ethnic restaurants and rare books.

What about you all?

Stupidly expensive Clark's children shoes (DS inherited my stupid shape feet) and wine.

Whisky and books.

Sadly enough I spend most of it on the children - swimming, books, clothes, entry to places, new stuff. Maybe 10% goes on lunch, coffee etc for me. About twice a year I go mad and buy new shoes and clothes.

Other than that it sits waiting in my bank account.

Books and magazines. Also I save up and have one proper holiday a year and a visit to see family overseas. I like to eat out once a month too, but normally pick somewhere cheap but unusual.

Country club membership
Cleaner
Spanish lessons
Holidays
Handbags
Clothes
Presents for DH

Wine, eyelash extensions, treats for DS, takeaways or meals out, kindle books, computer games (DH), more wine

Oh yeah I forgot to add eyelash extensions

I can't live without them now :)

The lovely lady who picks up my washed laundry and delivers it back the next day all ironed and hanging nicely is my most valued luxury :)
Kindle books
Eating out, as a family and work lunches etc
Socialising at weekends and days out with the dd's
Kitchen gadgets and premium ingredients for my cooking/baking hobby
Clothes, mostly for the dd's and work clothes for me and dh
We save every month for our holiday fund and the odd weekend away

Rubber fettish porn, ketamine and a new spade for going badger baiting with.

finishing the decorating we started in March
Fixing the bloody cars
Replacing threadbare knickers/tshirts/worn through shoes/broken squash rackets for DH
never ending "stuff" that keeps dying in our house and needing fixing/replacing seems to make our credit card wince every month at the moment.

As treats, I adore cookbooks and buying cake out.
DH is a gadget man.

Weekly we pay for his squash club, toddler groups etc out of disposable cash

and wine

I'm not the stereotypical woman as I don't do clothes, shoes, makeup etc. I also have disposable cars (cheap ones that get scrapped if they need too much work).

This means I have about £50 a week to myself and that pays for my pony.

Clothes for the children, ballet & football clubs, occasional take-awaySbooks for all of us, various nutritional supplements/sports drink powders for DH (he seems to have an addiction to these!), occasionally nice make up for me. We do probably spend quite a lot on food though, I like good quality ingredients.

I think that's it actually. Oh, just remembered I do have what DS calls an "obsession with kitchen gadgets". A bread maker, a cake mixer, juicer etc. I convince myself that these items are actually going to save me money though so they are 'necessary'

Days out, meals out, birthday presents, last couple of months has been Christmas - but still had odd day out.

Mine goes on gin too

Books, house stuff (we are doing it up).

Beauty treatments, hair dresses, coffee and lunches, buying nice home things. Whatever I fancy really.

Too much on stuff for the kids they dont really need inc taking them out places like cinema visits (we have sky movies)

Eating out - omg it crimminal our yearly spend but tbh the local Toby can save me some times

Coffees and cakes - so we've had lunch athome and went out after ans still ended up spendng £10 or more

Clothes - I recently went a bit mad. But I am having nothing for Christmas as I really dont need anything.

Nice gym membership

Me personally out of my allowance is my monthyl uni fees (Open Uni 2ns degree)

Gardender (monthly)

..and sometimes a laundry service

Don't really have much of a disposable income but I have a bit of an eBay addiction!!

Some months it will be clothing.
Some months will be furniture/homewear, we have recently moved into our "forever" home.

Rosé, vaps, going to the pub and junk food. It's not often I have extra money after my bills, but when I do, it goes on the above.

Lol at buckfast fudge, the liquor of my youth! Saw in a newsagents for £11.99 in England the other day, I used to buy for £2.99 a bottle but only if a good number (under 18)

Yup (surprisingly) my disposable goes on cheap wine and holidays :D

Ahhh op, a girl after my own heart: in my former life (the one when I actually had a disposable income) I too spent it on fresh flowers, yummy candles & body/bath potions plus I also had a weekly blow-dry & manicure.

Not sure whether to laugh or cry about how different my life is now

Shouldn't have read this thread. I have no disposable income as I have to currently rely on dh. I just get housekeeping for bills. Feel v depressed now. Back to work in Feb though only temporary so maybe I might join in having a bit if a life then.

Sorry...as you were. Self pitying whinge over.

mostly on eating out, and other food treats like green and blacks or nice cheeses

A whole lot of crap really.