To ask what you’d do with £1500

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Just received an unexpected windfall of about £1500. Very happy. Will probably do something sensible with it (have savings but planning home improvements).

But just to while away the hours, what would you do with £1500 this weekend if you could just spend it on yourself, and things you want rather than need?

One of the beds they use in the Premier Inn (£870 for the double), a nice headboard, new fancy bedding and whatever is left on Oodies and fluffy socks.

Botox and teeth whitening and some lasering...

I love this thread.

Custom made Josef Frank bedroom curtains.

An eyebrow transplant.

Dental work.

I’d like a new patio set and an Indian bean tree.

I had a little windfall a few years ago and bought a sensor bin and a Dyson hairdryer.

I honestly think I would spend the whole lot on shoes But not all at once, I'd want to buy a pair every few days so the package excitement is spread across multiple weeks. Hearing the doorbell go with a parcel for me has become one the few joys of life!!

I keep looking at garden sets with a gas fire pit in the table but need a windfall to be able to afford one

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Infra red sauna

I would be like a rabbit in head lights and just buy stuff I don't really need or want and then be like why did I blow that money lol🙉🙈

Some Diptyque perfume
A mini break in a nice hotel when we’re able to, with a couple of lovely dinners
Some new jumpers for DP, his are all like rags but he refuses to buy more
A big grocery shop for loads of cleaning, freezer and cupboard stuff, so the shopping budget can go on more treaty things, and wine.

Sensible me would like probably get stuff for the house.

Irresponsible me would get a handbag.

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£100 on craft supplies and beautiful boxes to store them all in.

£300 on a coffee machine for dh.

£50 on seeds and bulbs for our garden for the rest of the year.

£50 on new cushions for our sofa.

£100 on one of those long padded coats for me.

£100 on kitchen bits like popcorn pots for movie night, hot chocolate cups, special pudding bowls.

£50 for garden lights

£200 for garden projector

£200 for bean bags and covers so we could watch films outside.

£100 on new silk bed linen for us all

£200 on toys for ds

£50 on fresh flowers for my house

Disclaimer, i've played this like I get the money tomorrow in our current covid lockdown. It would be different in normal life!

New patio doors!

Buy a small piece or Georg Jensen

Sensible me wants to add it to savings as dh and I want a pretty good cash deposit for the next house when we sell this one next year.

I would treat myself to some nice new underwear, I've found a lot of what I have doesn't fit so well since having ds.

I’d take the kids and leave my husband. Been squirrelling money away bit by bit for a year but a lump sum like that would be the difference between planning and doing.

It's pretty much the exact amount of the (fully refundable) holiday I am considering booking at the moment, so probably that.

I got this amount last week as my end of year bonus (a hell of a lot less than usual but grateful all the same)
We want to buy a house this year so sadly it went straight into savings but if I could justify frittering it I’d probably have either put it towards laser eye surgery or a really lovely designer handbag.
When I was at uni I always promised myself that with my first proper job pay check I’d buy myself a designer bag. Then I realised about all the bills that need paying before that and it’s just never happened....always something else to pay or save for

OP don't spend it straight away! Pop it in the bank and forget about it until you think of something worthwhile.

£1500? That’ll buy you six shares in GameStop. More than enough to be part of history.

Teeth whitening and a holiday for me and DD

New bathroom suite and tiles, and flooring if the money would stretch that far.

New front door

I'd buy a second-hand large kiln.