@great_lakes_mom : When are you planning to retire?
I fell in love with a blanket at a gift shop in Anchorage several years ago. I didn’t buy it, but you made me think of it again.
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My sister gives Pendleton blankets to every newborn among friends and family. I didn’t know this, and had ordered one for the same little boy.
If I lived in a cold area, I’d definitely splurge on one of their jackets.
I did buy bath towels as holiday gifts for relatives, with cabin in northern Michigan.
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Back around 1990 I bought a new Mercedes. It was my first truly outrageous purchase. At the time these cars had a distinctive hood ornament that had Mercedes logo. At that time it was also apparently very popular for kids to break these hood ornaments off and use as belt buckles or in some other way. Mercedes had a removable hood ornament for sale ($90) that you could just pop in/out and take with you. I cannot remember the number of times I was sitting in a restaurant or someplace else, suddenly remembered I forgot to take the hood ornament and ran out to my car. It got to point where I just ended up with a $90 glove compartment hood ornament. One time we drove to Vegas. I parked the car, took the hood ornament. When I came out the next day, someone had pried off the Mercedes logo from trunk. I eventually sold car, very sad.
Not me, but I have a friend looking at $3,500 toilets. Tankless, heated, sensing, etc. Toto is the brand, and I don’t think that one is even the cheapest.
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Should have sprung for the Rolls; they have retractable hood ornaments. 
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Your toilet comment reminded me of when an ex-family member drove several states away to purchase a toilet with blue lapis inlaid on it.
sort of envy some of these purchases; i really can’t think of anything outrageous and extravagant I’ve done. always sensible; and in budget; waiting for that day to treat myself! But, i will say having that fourth child was sort of my extravagance 
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@mom60 , I’ll hem and haw about whether to pay for a movie on Netflix but never batted an eye when a horse came up the driveway on (yet another) one-way trip. It’s important to keep the cat:horse ratio at 1:1. What else are you to do when the universe keeps delivering cats to you?
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I generally don’t spend on myself - the house, the family, sure, but not me. I’m not a shoe/handbag/jewelry aficionado, I abhor clothes shopping, and my tastes are pretty frugal, though I do enjoy a good meal with friends and family!
At the outset of Covid, I decided I REALLY wanted a new $1,000 camera lens. I had the funds (reward $$ from work). I didn’t feel like sharing with my family (for once). I debated it for 2 months, drew up spreadsheets comparing all the other lenses I could buy instead (for less), stalked all the stores for sales.
I am not a professional photographer. I don’t think I even count as an amateur hobbyist. I bring my camera when we hike or visit a pretty place. I do not NEED a fancy lens. I just wanted to see if it would be sharper than the lens it’s replacing - a very good value, pretty similar lens, nothing wrong with it. The new lens IS sharper… and faster… and feels nicer… and it’s waterproof. I love my fancy lens!
(And yes, I’m fully aware $1,000 is not an expensive lens - not by a long shot - but it certainly was my most outrageous purchase to date!)
I hope you bought the blanket.
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Our most outrageous purchase was an impulse buy. We were young, just moved into our first house, and went to find a mattress for our new bed. We didn’t like anything we saw, but my H noticed a piano store a few doors down so we went in. I tried out a few pianos, and H insisted we buy one. I felt sick about the purchase at the time since I’m the least impulsive person on the planet, but 32 years later, I’m grateful to have my baby grand piano, and it’s brought me countless hours of joy.
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September
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Wow. That’s pretty soon!!
We put a less fancy but still very fancy Toto toilet (I think probably $1000) in the master bathroom when we moved into the house. Such a wonderful luxury. It has tanks and is not auto-flushing, but the heated seats in the winter and the bidet functions are fabulous. When we renovate the rest of the house, we are putting one in the bathroom next to my office ( it is actually a long walk from my office to the master bathroom, though there are many other bathrooms in the house). As Andrew Tobias wrote in my favorite investment book, “A luxury once sampled becomes a necessity.”
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Great quote!
Heated seat? Wow!
Ewwww… I would never use a bidet in a public bathroom. 
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I doubt many people use that component of the toilet. But the heated seat and other features, maybe…. And how nice of the company to want to make their employees comfortable while on the throne. There were even articles on the wall of the stall about recommended laptops! What’s not to like?
Restoring our 1917 Steinway grand. Cost more than our new car. But it was worth it. I love playing it. 
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