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?

I got composite bonding on my teeth with £1500 I saved. Wouldn't recommend, they're uneven and I've been back four times.

I would plan a holiday to Lake Bled in Slovenia.

It is so beautiful.

I went there for a day and would love to go back for longer.

Now I'm boring and would put it towards a new house (3 beds cost 1mil and up here).

Or, maybe, a trip to China. Always wanted to go.

@CaramelCup this is what I would do too. I did buy new cutlery before Christmas ( when I hoped there would be full family here. That didn't happen. ) I had 12 of everything from years ago, but after a few breaks etc I'm down to about 8 full place settings only but now need 16 of everything as the family grows.

I would put it towards a new kitchen (which I'm currently saving up for).

Either:

• retile the bathroom and put a new bath in.
• optimistically book a holiday and have the most marvellous time looking for and planning it.
• buy a gorgeous piece of furniture that I’d usually find too expensive, like an Arne Jacobsen-style egg chair (I say ‘style’ because an actual one is north of ten grand...).
• Definitely buy £50 worth of Crunchies.

So I will have £1,450 for the other things.

I have everything I need so I'd spend it on a total luxury. I'd buy a Mulberry handbag.

I'd put the money towards a decent electric bike.

Mulberry amberly handbag here! (I even have the colour picked out 😊) Not sure what I'd do with the rest- properly fritter it away at Anthropologie.

Book a (refundable) holiday!

Thailand or India.

intheshallows it'd be a Mulberry Bayswater for me, a small one in a bright colour. Lovely

A lovely big comfy sofa. Mine is too small and groans when we sit on it. Or I would pay for decorators to paint the entire house. I really can't face doing it myself...

@DramaAlpaca they're on sale, you could get two!

haircut, massage and beauty treatments and an all inclusive holiday * if we werent in lockdown

Iceland trip with a hot tub to watch northern lights or a cruise of the ffords. Just for one so I could have some peace after being with my family every hour or evry day (I love them, just need a bit of space)

We just booked a week break for the first week of June for about that. (UK and we'll get a refund if Covid doesn't allow it)
I'm really, really looking forward to it 🤞🤞

Oh we are in similar situation!

(It's actually going into savings for our disney holiday in August however...)

If it was just me on my own I think I would be picking between a piece of jewellery, fancy bag or an amazing coffee machine. I would probably get a coffee machine and a new ring.

A garden makeover 😊

Probably a holiday, or we need a new set of bedroom furniture including bed frame and mattress so possibly that.

I've got money aside to buy a piano. This would bring me to amount I need! I havent actually found a space for it in my house but oh well

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

Screw this. I’m buying a horse.

It’s actually going on the house.

I’ve always wanted to fly business class. So many cheap flights to Europe right now with BA for silly money but I daren't risk my own money on a flight that might not happen but I’d chance it for later in the year if the money didn’t matter.....

Iceland, Italy, Cyprus.....anywhere actually

I would buy a beautiful guitar. A Fender American Pro Jazzmaster in surf green

Save £750
Put £750 into overpayment of mortgage

Boring I am

I'd treat us to a weekend away once things are better.

Or new rugs throughout the house and some clothes for my 5 children, myself and my gorgeous hunk of a man