On a lighter note….we all need it! Here’s a question for you.

Oh, and a huge Tupperware bowl with lid from our charity shop. I’m not sure exactly what it’s going to come in for, and it’s taking up a lot of space, but it was only £4.

I absolutely LOVE Robins, my favourite bird! It's beautiful!

I’ve got me some bargains.

A No 7 skincare set from Boots to put away, a box of various Christmas chocolate novelties from Hotel Chocolat (supposedly for the grandsons, but I’ve already made an inroad on the penguins), an Audible and an Ancestry subscription, all massively reduced.

Another drinks bottle! I'm obsessed with metal drinks bottles and the plastic sort with straws dangling from the lid.

I have 3 on my bedside table - water, juice and fizzy pop - which I keep constantly as I'm always thirsty, refilled one for water on my livingroom desk, a fizzy one on my works desk and a trillion in a cupboard at home!

I paid £7.00 for the latest one!

Cake and books.

Yet another handbag I saw in a charity shop. It still had the label on, so I presume it was an unwanted gift.

A pinball machine 🙄😳

A Treadmill for when I can't get out for my walk........But when it arrived it is huge and I can't see where it will go.
So I have called the company to come and pick it up. At the moment it is nearly blocking my hall and not going until next Tuesday but I hold my hand up ...... I shouldn't have ordered it!

I bought this mug. I felt very guilty about it but - I just loved it. It 'spoke' to me! More mugs are the last thing I need but but but...

Two Home magazines, £10 as a treat, but they were complete rubbish, full of pretentious design and expensive adverts.
£ 22,000 for a kitchen cupboard in which to keep your (white) wine.

Beautiful teal coloured trainers, reduced, from Moshulu. Can’t wait to start wearing them…

I’m saving for a new car, hoping to get it in February, so I’ve been very disciplined this month. My only very small extravagance was some single source Amalfi lemon marmalade I bought in a deli. Very costly for what it is, but very delicious. 🍋

Cashmere sweater, full price, but it went with things I’ve got!
A 100% cotton oversized shirt, half price ready for spring.

Too many woodland figurines for the top of my grandson’s first birthday cake which is a woodland scene. Ordered some from amazon then thought it wouldn’t be enough so ordered a bigger batch and I now have loads of badgers, foxes, deers, and rabbits etc.
Also felt trees to stick on top of green icing.
Am no ace baker btw will be more like junior bake-off 😆

My son and daughter in law bought me a gorgeous black dress with a slight sparkle effect for Christmas from TK Maxx. It is a dress that can be worn any time not just Christmas. I like it so much I bought another one online so I have a spare for future wear.
It sounds extravagant but I have duplicated the odd outfit occasionally. I am generous with family and don’t often treat myself so it’s my treat for the new year.

Boots with multi coloured flower design

A pair of green boots

Both very daring for me!

Another pair of warm lined trousers! Also a thermal T shirt both in grey.. I feel the cold and live in these in cold weather. Not needed really as these are extras for when originals ( black) are in the wash! I hope I will show up better in grey than black when out in the dark or rain- or so I convinced myself.!

A doona cover, a sweater, chocolate, more chocolate.

Another new Cyberjammies nightie and Dressing gown this morning - they were in the sale.

A box of No.. 7 potions and lotions down from £85 to £42. The contents individually add up to £136. I wouldn't normally buy anything like this but I thought 'Why not?'. I got my daughter one too.

Some Easter decorations. Don’t need them, could live without them, but I liked them, they’ll cheer the room up at Easter, plus they were heavily discounted (wouldn’t have paid the full price).

Why do I buy clothes on line? They usually don’t fit, or if they do they look awful on me and always have to be sent back. The problem is though that shops (usually M&S ) never seem to have my size (I’m quite a common size) and the assistants then offer to order it on line for me. I always say that I could have done that myself. Very frustrating

Yes! only yesterday, I bought another handbag after contributing to the other thread on handbags with the comment, all my others languish in cupboards, whilst I only use a purse like cross the body bag. Well I bought another such across the body bag, one of those with the wide colourful multi coloured strap that everyone seems to have these days. It's slightly larger than my last one so it can accommodate my glasses I think. I absolutely didn't need it, but I wanted it want and need are not the same thing, as I used to say to my kids I needed it because it's purple, I love purple and that is picked up in the strap along with other vibrant colours.

A Lino cutting kit (for making prints) that I may never get round to using, being the sort that starts off full of enthusiasm and then falls by the wayside. The box is nice though! At the moment excuses range along the lines of: it’s too cold in the conservatory; I need a bigger table; I need to buy proper paper; I need a special glove to protect my left hand from the cutting tools…… (the weakest of the lot, that one!).

A Seasalt jumper, down to £39.99 from £115, a shearling jacket also reduced, a lot of Kindle books (I convince myself they’re no more expensive than a coffee or a magazine, usually less and of course take up no space at all)

A joint of pork -half price- which has gone into the freezer , thus taking up useful space 😟😟 My freezer supplies are much ridiculed by my daughters but came in handy in the pandemic when we couldn’t get delivery slots.
But how do you (or I) define “necessary”
Do any of them bring me joy?
Yes 🤗🤗🤗
Job done