To ask what your best investment in yourself has been?

[HeyItsPickleRick]

Come on mumsnet, creep my lifestyle!

Inspired by the personal stylist post - I’m wondering what is the best thing you’ve bought for yourself?

Mine has 100% been my peloton and all the dumbbells. First exercise I’ve ever stuck to!

All of the above. Plus inflamitory joint condition improved in a way that the harsh immunosupressive drugs didnt touch. And I am a size 4 to 6 from a size 20 😀
Best money ever spent!

54 is absolutely fine, it’s for people of all ages. It’s costing me around £6k and I believe it’s on lower end because my prescription is relatively straightforward. It all depends on the individual. I’m going with Optical Express as I responded to an ad on Facebook. I didn’t look at others so no comparisons to make but the service has been good so far. (Surgery is later today) I didn’t go through a GP or the NHS at all.

It’s worth getting a free consultation- they examine your eyes thoroughly and check medical history etc. They’re a business so will try to sell but there’s no obligation and you have to be a suitable candidate.

Good luck!

Breast reduction. Definitely changed my life

I had 2 years previous pension to bring into the scheme and bought 2 extra years. I went into teaching and taught for 12 years so had 16 years of pension contributions. At that time, you got 1/60th of your salary for each year of contributions. (The rules have changed since.) My Teacher's Pension is under £10k p.a. but I also had the lump sum to help and I'd been saving up too. Plus I had no mortgage to pay and I'm frugal. Got my State Pension at 66 so I feel quite rich now!

Weight loss injections - well, until I quit because I thought I could do it myself and put 80% of the weight back on.

Also private healthcare testing. I was constantly fobbed off by my GP surgery despite severe pain. Was sent home from a&e and told to take paracetamol as it was "probably trapped gas." I told them I have a huge pain tolerance and was in a lot more pain than I looked, but they wouldn't have it.
The private scan showed that my gallbladder was pretty much dead and I had to have urgent surgery.

My divorce 😂

Gym And personal trainer

That’s generally talented students from deprived communities, or ones that want to study for an essential career that’s difficult to recruit into (for example, there are bursaries available for nursing students to help cover transport/accommodation to placements). Why wouldn’t we want to support them, as a society?

I had my tuition fees paid for me by the state because I came from a very low income, single parent family. I was the first person from my family to go to university, and I got into Oxbridge.

The rest of it was funded by a student loan, which I have now fully paid off with interest.

Are you saying I should have just sucked up the fact that I was born into a poor family and wasted my potential?

Gym membership
Walking pad

Semaglutide (non legit & not a prescription) stopped my eating disorder (ironic I know) nicotine and alcohol addictions and calmed my OCPD. I know I can't take it for much longer, but the peacefulness I've had for the past year of taking it has been absolutely life changing and absolutely worth the risk.

Yes, it is interesting. I guess I didn’t immediately think of that because mine haven’t come to fruition yet—I won’t see the gains until retirement.

Good luck @Jk987 thats what I had done.

No more buying new glasses every couple of years with all the expensive options added on. The £6k payback will be covered in no time. I used to come downstairs in the morning and think I had forgotten my glasses and so wenf back to fetch them 🙄. Then realised I didn’t need them but had become used to wearing them every day for 15 years.

that would be Prof Kypros Nicolaides - I've seen him a couple of times too - amazing man.

A law degree.

Which do you follow/use please?

Therapy. I went through profiles on the register of clinical counsellors in the country I was living in

Uni and professional career. I’m fortunate in pursuing the career I Want and I still love it

Same here! Worth every penny!

I made a list of ‘50 things before 50’. There were a couple of big things, but otherwise all fairly manageable things I’d said ‘one day I’ll do…’
Doing them has enhanced my life in all kinds of small but significant ways-I see much more of friends (some of the things include groups of people) my teenage children have become involved in some of the activities in ways I never thought they would, I’ve met new people and some of the activities have meant my views have changed and my life has been richer as a result 😊
I certainly won’t end up doing all 50, but I don’t care-some feel irrelevant now, and I’m doing other stuff which feels more meaningful as a result of the things I have so far done. I’ll definitely do a ‘60 before 60’ list.

I would strongly dis-recommend Betterhelp.
Look for local therapists on the online directories, ask for a short chat on the phone to see if you feel you can trust them, and go face to face rather than online. And be as clear as possible about what you are wanting from the therapy; it really helps.

Having my diastasis recti surgically repaired. Having spent years trying to fix it through consistent physiotherapy exercises and getting nowhere, I finally not took the plunge and did it. Total game changer.

For me it was a paid course in financial literacy and investing, and I suppose various books on the topic also. I grew up in a home where we weren't taught even the most basic financial literacy, my mother deferred to my father for that and so on and I realised in my late twenties that I had started to perhaps do the same to a lesser extent. A frank assessment made me realise it actually was DP dealing with most bills (in the admin respect) or him leading most of the financial conversations when we engaged providers because he confidently understood the topic and I had to face that I simply didn't (investment, our best option for mortgages etc)

The realisation that these things are not actually that complex and that this was a confidence issue at its core was as life changing as the actual learning itself in a way. I've significantly improved my personal finances, future financial prospects, turned money doing nothing into a consistent passive income over the years and more than any of that the change is knowing I can function as my own entity whatever happens and that makes me feel good about myself in a way nothing else has to the same extent.

That was my point!
That is my child!
I agree 100%

Can you share what course you took? And the provider

Mounjaro without a doubt- I accept I may need to be on it lifelong but it’s worth it- I pay for it myself currently but will be eligible when available on NHS due to medical conditions