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’d put it towards the new James and Rose sofa I am hankering after.

I’d buy a painting. Local artist. Done this with small bonuses over the years.

@Anystarinthesky we got married in Lake Bled! Like you, we had been once, when euro-railing at the start of our relationship, and fell in love with it. Our wedding was awesome!

I’ve always wanted to go to lake bled!

Lake Bled is fabulous. I would happily spend this on going there!

Stick it in my facelift fund 😳

It's definitely a want/would bring me pleasure - so I hope you'll let me spend it like this...

I'd pay for 'help' to renovate the house. So much needs doing. I live alone and I'm not as well as I was when I started it and some physical (skilled) help would be brilliant. It would be a 'treat' because I could actually enjoy some of the rooms & an indulgence because I can do it myself, I just don't feel well enough.

If that's still not allowed I'd buy some tools that would make it easier - and if handbags are allowed,surely tools are!

If still not allowed can I buy curtains or carpet or dishwasher or what?

I don't want jewellery/clothes/shoes...no enjoyment for me at all.

I'd put it towards a puppy, but I want a garden first

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Of course!

I'm planning on redecorating my bedroom so I'd push the boat out and buy better paint, beautiful fabric for curtains and splash out on good bedding including a wool duvet. Then any extra would go on a decent wardrobe.

That may be more than £1500 but who's counting?!

A Dutch Pyramid Tent.

I would get flooring for my dining room and spare bedroom and spend the rest in ikea on bits and pieces to make the house nicer and a new bed for DD. Takeaway dinner from my favourite Thai restaurant - would have added a lovely bottle of wine but I’m pregnant.

Book a three day trip to Lisbon for me and DH when all this is over.

With the change, a new chair for my reading corner.

A painter and decorator . We normally do it ourselves but I’d love to have someone repaint the entire house.
Frivolous purchases that I really don’t need

an antique diamond ring
Some art
A Chloe handbag

Or some beautiful new curtains for my sitting room

Jack Russell puppy
Coffee machine
Fire pit
Yoga retreat

Hmmmm not sure I'd have much change after that... ahhhhh blissful

Someone to come and landscape my garden with a good tidy up, prooning, and some decking in one sunny corner for me to drink wine on. Maybe an arch way too with honeysuckle growing over it.

@Jumpjumpjumper

A dog. Three years waiting. Prices aren't coming down, it seems!

Rescue! Adopt!

Pay my self assessment bill

Home improvements £500-1000
Posh perfume £160
Make up £100
Bottle of Bolly £60
Some new books £20-30

Probably save anything I didn’t spend rather than keep spending frivolously

£500 on the mortgage, £500 into the ISA, £500 on nice things. Lego for DS, art for DH, something pretty for me.

A fresh cut flowers subscription for a year. Twice a week. I bloody love them but can't justify it.

A really nice overlocker.

Makeover of my office/sewing room. I have that all priced already, £300 should do it.

I'd get Vistœ shelves for my study room.

Treadmill. It’s far too cold to go out 😂

A bow fronted cabinet that I have convinced myself is too expensive and any left over on getting a Gardner in to do the spring tidy.

As it is I don’t have a spare £1.5k as I have just shelled out on house renovations so once the charity shops reopen I will look for a suitable cabinet for the space I have and the gardening I will do myself. I have enough in my left over budget for a bottle of radex to soak my aching muscles after I do the gardening.

Ooh. £1500,
I'd buy a new sofa, and carpet if I could stretch thr budget to fit both.
I don't need new of either, but I'm fed up of looking at the same carpet and sofa right now.