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!

They also get grants, in some cases.

Elective c-section
Braces
Veneers

All the plants, pots and so on I have bought for my garden....exercise, pleasure and good for my mental health.

For me a tennis coach - I discovered tennis in my 50’s and I’d play every day if I could
A private consultation with a GP for HRT as mine was refusing which has improved my life
Mounjaro - 4 stone down and my knees thank me

Same

It's in the interests of society to have a well educated workforce

The bus driver needed teachers to educate his children

And his own children could attend university without incurring debt

Upgraded my every day handbag to a more expensive leather one- few hundred pounds at the time. I have done the same with a brown one for summer and a decent ish work bag.
they go with everything, are comfortable and stylish. And no more mental load about what to wear.

also a good quality electric blanket. I have joint pain and it really helps to relax it which helps me sleep.

I saw a nutritionist for a few sessions last year and had some private and expansive blood tests done and discovered I had insulin resistance and learnt loads about it. Also discovered a gluten intolerance. I knew there had been something not right for years, struggling to lose the same bit of weight, had to starve myself to get any results which I couldn't maintain. Costs just over a grand but a year later I'm finally consistently a healthy weight and on the road to controlling my autoimmune disease

Good. An educated workforce is what we need and access to learning shouldn’t be the preserve of the wealthy.

Of course we do! I also have a BSc and an MSc, but at least I realise it is not MY investment, it was courtesy of all those people who heavily subsidised my degrees in the 1990s - I paid miniscule home fees and was shocked to find out what our American friends paid - now, they DID invest in their own education, because they did not receive charity via taxes.

Amazing, what a change!!

Of course I do! UK people pay a fraction of what it actually costs - if you compare domestic fees to international student fees. So any degree for a fee-paying UK person is hugely subsidised by the 'state'.

Fact remains, degrees are heavily subsidised, students pay a fraction of what it really costs - ask any international student what they pay and then realise that the 'investment in myself' was a massive charity donation on the part of tax payers.

Precisely my point.

I agree 100%.

Shcolarships, bursaries, grants are open to all.

Finally realising that food brings comfort but it’s temporary, the unhappiness and low confidence it makes me feel is not worth it. Life changing revelation

Being taught how to do self hypnosis. Got me through a life-threatening illness 16 years ago and have used it constantly over the years since.

Surely this should say "£180 every 4 weeks"?

Now, this is a genuine investment - paying for yourself.

It’s a business/accounting degree.

University.
The ability to regularly practise gratitude.

Absolutely! Can't agree more! Only be honest and say 'the investment of the society into me', rather than 'my investment'. All degrees are subsidised by the state to such an extent, that a domestic student should forever bow to the ground every time they meet an international student or the said bus driver.

I think you will find that bus drivers like their kids to be taught by teachers with degrees , their teeth drilled by dentists who have been to university, their heart bypass / knee replacement surgery done by qualified surgeons and anaesthetists, their statins or beta blockers developed by pharmacologists and the planes they fly in to be built and maintained by aeronautical engineers.

Working 4 days instead of 5, with a Friday off.

Income-producing assets