Extravagant purchase

"Another zombie thread" ??? Please explain

Monica, whether you're swithering or havering, just go for it if it makes you that happy. ?

Mr Barmey always insists he doesn’t want to be the richest person in the cemetery, so I follow his advice and treat myself to Channel 5, large bottle. It usually lasts about 2 or 3 years and I just love the smell, can’t do without it.

Another zombie thread

Good for you Rosiebee we only get one life.

Just after we both retired 12 years ago, DH was diagnosed with throat and neck cancer. With the help of our amazing NHS, he came through it, plus another cancer diagnosis unrelated to the first. We have since had some fantastic holidays / trips all over the world, staying in fabulous hotels. This is our extravagance. Our home life is very quiet, content and fairly simple but we do love plotting our getaways. Our cancelled Canada trip is back on the agenda for September. I take a bit of a gulp when I see what it costs, but we're very fortunate that we can afford it and our family cheers us on.

M0nica 'havering' has quite a different meaning up here from what you think it means! Havering is talking nonsense. One might say something thing like, 'Och awa' wi' ye mon, yer havering!'It's a great word.
If you're undecided you might be swithering. Not sure if that's just a Scottish word though.

I love Victor and Rolf flowerbomb and Dioressimo perfumes. My other luxury is Champagne coupes or saucers not flutes. I adore them. Been buying the occasional pair for years. But they are only used on rare occasions because I’m rather clumsy. If my husband knew what I spent on each pair he would have a heart attack.

I've just ordered a squashy velvet sofa from "Loaf" for my kitchen, way too expensive really, even with the slight, reduction from what they laughingly refer to as their small sale, but I love it nevertheless. Furniture is an occasional purchase which hopefully won't be replaced for years, better therefore to get something you really want than something bought half heartedly.

Other than that I like my favourite perfume, Hermes, Eau de Merveilles, I bought that 20% off on Black Friday, plus a couple of cushions William Morris designs again discounted on Black Friday, I'll always try and get something off if I can that makes me feel slightly better about indulging in fripperies.

Me too Monica!
In my early 20s, my mother gave me a bottle which my father had bought home for her, duty free.

Far too jeune fille for me, she pronounced.?‍♀️
50 years on, still my favourite...

The Dior eau de toilette called Diorissimo. It smells of lily-of-the-valley and I only use it spring/summer - from when the lily-of-the-valley come out in the garden in early May.

I use about one bottle a year and it cost me around £60. However this year the price has doubled and I am havering. I cannot imagine life without it, but at over £100.....

Over the years when I couldn't afford it and since, I have tried 10s of alternatives, but none gets that lily-of-the-valley scent the way Diorissimo does.

I bought a lovely new cushion yesterday, even though I have too many already. I can't resist cushions.

I love a <a href="https://mortonmulberrysilk.com/product-category/bedding/silk-pillowcases/">Silk Pillowcase</a>as well, super cool and really good for my hair.

As the saying goes “There are no pockets in shrouds”? My extravagance has been a Land’s End Stadium coat. (In the sale) Long, warm and waterproof and replacing one which was veteran of many school field trips to Malham Tarn and is now downgraded to gardening coat ?

Years ago I bought a 'Chinese' rug from a market stall in Staffordshire. It was so pretty and fairly inexpensive, good quality though. I've just arranged to have the fringing replaced - at an eyewatering cost.

I couldn't just throw it out now, could I?

This thread has made me seriously think, and get a grip. I always have terrible guilt about spending money on myself, thus I buy clothes which are 'ok' rather wonderful. For the money I have spent on 'meh' jumpers from Woolovers and such, I could have had a couple of lovely cashmere ones instead. My wardrobe is bursting at the seams with stuff I don't really like.

I’ve spent years debating about buying a handbag! I can afford it, but as Martin Lewis says, do I need it? Trouble is I’ve wasted so long thinking about it, I’ll never get enough use out of it if I get one now.
I have no hesitation spending on family though.

I’m frugal generally, but will spend generously on travelling and help in the house. Making memories travelling is such a cliche, but I’m missing that very much at the moment.
I’m allergic to housework and delicate health ? is my excuse to have a hand around the place.

Coming back to silk pillow slips, I did trot to Abakhans sale before lockdown etc and bought 2m x 1.4 m of pretty silk fabric and have turned it into 4 pillowslips - all for £7.50!

The saving on making them myself has now been spent on Estée Lauder posh foundation.....in the Black Friday sale.??.

I can talk myself silly ? on these things!

Tom Ford perfume.

I will travelnan.
We probably should have done it in the Black Friday sale. Perhaps some offers are still on. I’ll look at AOL online as you suggest.

Puzzler 61 Please replace your oven now. You could have a nasty accident. A new oven is not an extravagance but a necessity. Do not hesitate. Have a look at AOL you might be surprised at their prices.

Air conditioning units in our bedroom and lounge. Not used often but an absolute godsend in hot weather. Worth every penny.

Apparently, silk pillowcases iron out your face wrinkles and keep you hair clean for longer. Go for it.

If you can afford to buy whatever you want and not go into debt, or go without something important -then go for it.

I can remember my best friend paying out for tooth implants and saying to me that if her husband had still been alive he would have been horrified at the cost. I pointed out to her, that if it made her happy then he would have been happy.

New oven to replace an unsage one is NOT an extravagence - it is an important purchase. Many, many years ago, when things were extremely touch I can remember my oven door would not stay shut tight - something wrong with the hinges which were not replaceable. I used to have to keep it shut to cook things by placing a long piece f wood under the handle and then across jammed into the skirting board opposite. How none of us had serious accident I do not know.

At the time there was no way we could find the money to replace it, and I was cooking for a large family of eight of us.
The first windfall that came our way went on replacing that oven.

Anniesixty I agree with you about first class train travel. Also, found the first class lounges at main stations are so much more comfortable and welcoming than the usual ones, as well as providing refreshments.