What is your biggest lifestyle indulgence?

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Mulling this over as I look through job listings. I think for me it is enjoying fitness classes at different expensive studios, well pre covid it was. Not sure when we will be able to do that again! But I really enjoy it so much and it is definitely not an essential, I'm fortunate to be able to do so. We do live in an eye-wateringly expensive area so I guess that is partly a luxury, although we do need to live in this city for my partner's work.

What would you say is the most luxury aspect of your lifestyle?

Working not quite full-time...I work 31 hours (only because that's the least my boss will let me work, my ideal is 25!)

I could and 'should' work full time but I can afford not to so, I feel it is quite indulgent.

Can't afford anything else that's indulgent cos I only work part time ya know

Usually holidays - we tend to do a summer and winter family holiday plus maybe two city breaks per year without DC. That is all currently on stop but we’re hopeful for next year.

Holidays. 2-3 long haul holidays 2-3 weeks each
I had managed to get a holiday for 3 weeks in Feb before all this started
I had one booked for 2 weeks time to for 2 weeks long haul but that’s not happening
Would have done 2 - 3 weekends away and had another holiday around Sept -Oct
Beauty treatments. Nails lip fillers Botox
My dogs.

Now atm it’s just my dogs

Books for my kindle, I'd say. I buy them most days.

@ScarfLadysBag Nice!, I'm intrigued by the PJ one? Tell me more.

We have a coffee one, a cheese one, a beer one, and I have stationery and beauty ones.

I LOVE a surprise box.

I would say my horses (mine, my daughters two, snd my husbsnds). They have kept us sane during the lockdown

I’m not particularly extravagant with anything. I guess if anything it’s working part time when I could work full time (assuming I could get wrap around childcare!).
My 2 days off give me time to sort the house, shop and exercise-thing ls which would otherwise take up time in evenings or weekends.
So I guess I buy myself time.
Aside from that I use the tumble drier for most loads

Buying my children things they truly want

I don't buy them because they want in general but if they really want something and constantly ask for it over weeks or months I will buy it and I love to see them get that surprise it's better than buying for me.

Art books...oh I am a sucker for an art book.
A MASSIVE Louise Bougeois book arrived yesterday and I am eeeking it out so I don’t look at it all at once.

Travel....for the galleries. Oh I miss that so much. Just before all this bollocks, DS2 and I spent nearly nine hours in the Prado and it was BLISS

Art supplies. Jackson’s regularly suck ££££££ out of my purse

Treats for friends, children, parents at the moment is the biggest luxury. I am having fun sending flowers, hampers, chocolate to random people

My 2 horses. Cost a bloody fortune but keep me sane.

I am also surprised at the number of horse owners on this thread

@ILikeyourHairyHands I've only had one delivery so far but basically it's a pair of new PJs and some beauty/pamper stuff, like moisturising gloves, bath salts, etc. I am a PJ fiend but quite set in my ways so I was hoping to maybe have my pyjama horizons broadened and get some slightly more stylish replacements for my tattered grey holey ones! Last month was giraffe-themed!

A cheese box sounds AMAZING

Teenagers 😂❤️

Oh and st Eval candles. I convince myself that I'm helping a local business.....

We have three children, which I think some consider a luxury. They certainly cost enough! However I think our main “pure luxury“ spending is on frequent international travel.

My sponsored children!! To know that over the years I have helped 8 young people in the developing world to have an education and the chance to get out of poverty and make a decent life for themselves is more than worth the money they have cost over the years

My hair extensions, I’ve had to remove them myself after having them regularly for 11 years because of the current situation. I worked out how much I’d spent on them (disgustingly it was the amount of a small house deposit). However it has made me wonder if I do really need them after all this. Other than that it would be my 5 dogs but they are worth every single penny of course.

For myself regular facials, massages and jewellery. For the kids trips out e.g. theme parks, zoo, theatre etc. We would normally do several weekend breaks a year to different parts of the UK.

Holidays and a PT for me. DH's is his bloody supercar. It brings him joy, but only has two seats which is bloody ridiculous since we have two kids.

@BrownOwlknowsbest That's great. What charity would you recommend to do it through. Is it very expensive I'm not well off I'd love to do this if it was affordable.

First class airline travel, and my garden.

Language classes
Food atm, getting deliveries from local independent shops
Glasses as I wear them f/t
£££ on footwear and coats from outdoor clothing shops. Don't need to now as I'll be wfh permanently.

@ScarfLadysBag the cheese one is, it's Pong Cheese, £23 a month and you get five great cheeses, generally a blue, a goats, a soft, a hard and a wildcard. Never had a dud.

Travelling lots

In recent years it's been nicer clothes and a few beauty treatments.
I used to only buy in sales and never have beauty treatments, probably because there wasn't a lot of spare money growing up so I never thought I'd be able to afford them.

Then I suddenly realised that DH and I could afford some luxuries so I decided to enjoy them!

@nonevernotever, so sorry

For me it's second hand books, and second hand handbags which I recondition. And I like candles too (new).