<p>Cruises and keeping my collector cars in good shape. The market has been very good to my cars so now actually can justify the expenses. One of my few regrets in life was selling one of my cars. Now I just tell my wife-sell them after I die. Unless we need the money to eat.</p>
<p>“Wow. I think that no longer qualifies as a splurge. Do you plan to keep wearing them everyday?”</p>
<p>YES! I think of them as an option to a wedding/engagement ring. I do not wear rings on a regular basis. On a per wear basis the splurge factor is reduced. I considered them a splurge because a much smaller pair and much less expensive pair would have been just fine.</p>
<p>My other “splurges” on a regular basis: books -cook books in particular, a serious shoe habit, regular visits to the salon for perfect highlights.</p>
<p>I like designer stuff, particularly for the kitchen and by Alessi. (I.e. over $100 for an expresso cafetiere.) Now, I would love to extend this to furnitue, such as a $3000 Corbusier Chaise Longue, but with a d in college, fuggitaboutit.</p>
<p>The Tesla–Never heard of it or saw one until I was in SF. Taking son and former roommate to lunch, when Tesla drove by. Next 10 minutes the young men talked about this car. Clearly a dream car, like my dad getting a Mercedes, and the generation before getting a Cadillac.</p>
<p>Spice shop–I forgot how much I missed having one. where I grew up, outside Philly, we went to a spice shop that also sold baking supplies. I would buy toppings for cookies there that made my baked goods “unique”.</p>
<p>My house eats up my splurge money. After the last hurricane, I replaced all my windows with hurricane glass; not only feel safer but no outside noise and better insulation. Water under ugly tile floors and they caved in, so finally got the wood floors always wanted. Now, kitchen redone when d/w leaked and ruined cabinets. I always wanted to fix up this house, but waited until things broke.</p>
<p>bookworm, by waiting until things break, you can justify the upgrades as not being real splurges. They were necessities!</p>
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<p>I replaced 25 y.o. orange laminate countertop with a quartzite, got a smart-touch faucet to replace a faucet that wasn’t even a pull-out, etc.!! Because of everyone on CC raving about the Bosch d/w, I got the 800 series. First time in my adult life that i’ve had a good d/w, and I so love it. I use to call my s/o my “d/w”. I compromised on the rest of appliances. I do wish I had done this many years ago.</p>
<p>I thought of a splurge. Over the last two years I have bought more than 60 yankee candles. Probably in only four or five spurts. I collect them, I like to buy all the tasty food ones that smell like foods I am allergic to (anything with milk, so basically all desserts) so I can enjoy them even though I can’t eat them anymore. We just went and stocked up on crisp apple strudel since it’s being discontinued and it’s one of our favorites. We really like the pumpkin ones, and the cinnamon. I think blueberry scone is my favorite but my fiance hates that one so I don’t get to burn it as often. </p>
<p>I used to have them all lined up at the back of my kitchen counter and I thought it added a great touch with all the colors popping against the light gray/blue backsplash and showed off my collection, but fiance got mad and put them all in a bookcase in the bedroom. So they fill a whole floor to ceiling bookcase instead.</p>
<p>Now I am moving into tart warmers. I have a jack o lantern and a pumpkin, and I also have a black cat but that one uses a votive and I prefer the electric ones for actual use rather than decoration. I really want to get a pretty generic one that I can use year round and a christmas one. We got the ones I have at halloween obviously and we warmed apple cider and pumpkin spice and cinnamon stick and my house smelled heavenly.</p>
<p>ETA: And I exclusively buy the large jar candles, which are $20-$30 each. A few times I’ve taken advantage of their buy 2 get 2 free sales… I get the emails and the catalog with coupons. But then I just buy 10 things and spend $300 at a time.</p>
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DW suffers from the same addiction. There’s one or more candles burning in our house at least 8 hours a day. She would not consider it a splurge. :D</p>
<p>She gets a constant stream of coupons though, so almost never pays full price.</p>
<p>I think my tea addiction is similar to the candle addiction. I get a huge variety of flavors, including chocolate mint, buttered rum, white chocolate frost, etc. and I drink a lot of those instead of eating the things themselves. Another food substitute is philosophy body wash, in flavors like gingerbread and toffee. It is a regular, fairly expensive splurge/habit/addiction. But also a way to bring happiness to little routines of daily life.</p>
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<p>I have both – 5 classic and 3 skate. That seems asymmetrical – maybe I better even it out and pick up 3 more pairs of skate skis…</p>
<p>I finally thought of one! Despite the fact that we have delicious well water, we always buy bagged ice at the grocery store. I don’t know how it started, but H insists now. I often tell people “Hey, it’s $1.49, if that’s what it takes to keep H happy…” :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Now that I’ve typed this I can see how unbelieveably lame my “splurge” is. Guess I should start splurging more.</p>
<p>JustaMom - I would think bagged ice wouldn’t be as clean as ones you would have from your freezer and I imagine it probably takes up a lot of room. But if it keeps Mr. happy, I guess that’s what matters.</p>
<p>For us, we spent A LOT on kids’ music instruments (of course after they proved that they were serious with music study). Our friends think we are crazy as both kids play on instruments that are so high end that many professionals don’t have. One comforting fact though is that they use these multiple hours a day, 365 days a year. And It does appear that there will be great resale value afterwards.</p>
<p>I splurged on getting Invisalign braces. Since I got to my mid-50’s with these teeth I feel a little silly.</p>
<p>Oldfort, it doesn’t take any room since it goes in a bin where the ice cube trays would be. We just get some strange looks when we say “Oh, we’re out of ice, put it on the grocery list”</p>
<p>I really should get out more.</p>
<p>alcibiade, I like your choices! A while ago, I was crazy about Eva Solo kitchen stuff. Still like my sugar and cream “flasks”.</p>
<p>May need to redefine splurge. Hotel suites @ $28K/night.</p>
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<p>I bought my dogs and they were not bargain priced</p>
<p>We got ours from a shelter, he was $50, which is about what I spend on his food/ toys every week!</p>
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<p>Funny story/advice for people who get a dog from the pound. We got one from the pound and my mom figured out that she listened to commands in Spanish. If you get one from a pound and they don’t respond to English, try Spanish.</p>