£100

I Love Cheese - Me too, you can not have too much fabric

Ooh I missed that Jax I love a cocktail but sadly I have treated myself to an Advent Calendar this year and two would be a bit much.
However next year…. If I’m spared, as an old friend used to say.

Actually….

I am all about clothes so if I had a spare 100 pound it would be a trip to TK Maxx I think and if I had any spare would buy a nice Reed diffuser as well. I do love red wine and nice food though and always would love to treat DH so maybe that should be my answer.
I love Mel1967’s answer though, you are a women after my own heart. X

I’d buy some fish, my favourite meal and it’s so expensive, MrJ doesn’t like it, so all for me.

I've always had a hankering for a Christmas village, so maybe a shop or two. Love looking at them set up so nicely at the garden centre!

Probably perfume.

We went to a pub recently to celebrate a birthday. We were 4 and had 3 starters, 4 mains and 2 glasses of wine. The bill came to £160. So £100 won’t get you far these days.

Winter boots. Mine are 4 years old.

Totally agree, White Linen is my all time favourite too

Pably15 - I've never had Sky - but it sounds likely to me that that is your issue. Personally - I'd swop to standard tv and aerial set-up and have the dish taken down.

I use the Freeview channels on my tv - though I don't actually watch much tv. The standard channels 1-4 and Channel 10 (because it's got stuff on like 1980s detective stuff) and not very often for them.

I could watch tv on my computer too if I want - occasionally have to when there's a programme I want to watch - but Wales has got sport on instead on that channel here. I swear blind there's more sport than normal on tv in this area - and I've not got the slightest bit of interest in sport - so I swear blind if it's sport on a channel - but that channel has something I want to watch on it in the rest of the country. Cue for tv watching on the Internet - so I can see the programme other people are getting - instead of that sport. At least I eventually clicked why there was sport on instead of what I'd planned on seeing - and so now buy a tv guide in a Welsh edition...took me years to realise what had happened......

Bottle of wine. £100 would not buy the perfume I wear.

CariadAgain

pably15

Well, I;d probably have to put more money to it , But I'd buy a new telly...one where the picture doesn't crack up when there's a strong wind..

Is it the tv itself or the tv aerial that is the problem?

I've got a standard (probably considered old-fashioned style) tv and had a traditional type tv aerial on the roof when I bought this house. Cue for a recent particularly bad storm and it messed up my tv reception totally.

What it was was the roof aerial had been broken by the storm and I needed a new aerial. Someone suggested my replacement one be inside the loft and with a booster on it. Cue for that's what I had done and I need an adjacent electric socket to my tv one (for that booster). Fortunately I have that. So that's what I have now.

At least it doesn't now matter to me what the wind in this area gets up to - as my replacement tv aerial can't be "got at" by it.

So your tv is probably perfectly okay per se - but do check out your aerial.

yes I think it's the sky dish, I have to go outside and hit the dish with a big stick to get the picture back, we don't have sky now but when we stopped it , the guy said we could keep the box and dish...

Cue for us all looking up what we'd spend on a pub lunch typically. Where I am living now = I'm lucky to find anywhere I'll eat out #sighs - and so a pub lunch is nothing - as I take a look, feel disappointed and just have a drink usually.

But back where I'm from - in Devon - and I've checked out one I've had various meals in over the years and it comes to:

£15.50 - £19.75 main courses I like the look of (doesnt include meat and assuming I chose one I didnt need to buy separate vegetables for - as they were included)

£7.75 for a pudding

£16??? - 2 glasses of wine

So about £30 each - not including coffee. £100 would cover 3 if they chose either coffee or wine to drink and had no side "extras".

I have a feeling I've got another "home visit" coming on at some point LOL - ie eating out is one of the things I go back for a visit for - as I'm very used to eating out pretty regularly.

mabon2 on a planet where I know I can find a terrific lunch for £100

I hope that’s a bit tongue in cheek mabon2?

£100 would get a nice pub lunch for 3 (that poster says herself and a couple of friends) around here.

My WFA is going into my energy account so I have no qualms about turning up the heating this year.
If I was given £100 it would be spent on books and wine.
I have won £75 on my premium bonds so that is wine for Christmas paid for 🍷🍹

£100 wouldn't pay for a terrific lunch out with friends on which planet are you living?

£50.00 on books, £20.00 throws and £30.00 on Baileys!

As many bottles of gin as I could afford. Don't drink much, but a gin and tonic in the evening is more sensible than wine, as I live on my own and would be forced to drink wine quite quickly, before it 'goes off' whereas gin will last much longer.
I don't drink much, but it's nice to be able to indulge now and again.

I could never spend it on myself. I would feel so guilty, so I would dither about and go home .

M0nica

TiggyW

It would be nice if anyone who doesn’t need their Winter fuel payment donated it to charity, especially to the hospices who are currently struggling to survive!

Those of us who do not need our WFA are going to have it removed from us through the tax system. I suppose we could consider that as handing it back as a charitable donation. The government do seem to be a desperately in need of help.

I must say I dislike it when people tell me how I should spend my money to make them feel good and donate to their favourite charity.

I do not deny the need of hospices, but there are many other key charities who are also desperately in need of help.

My charitable giving is a private matter and I do not respond well to emotional blackmail.

Well said, Monica.
It is of course perfectly possible to do both @TiggyW ie to donate to a hospice AND spend one’s WFA to help pay the energy bills or buy a snuggly warm jumper.
In my case the prospect of a w/e with my D and GS in Paris is making me feel warm inside already. 🥰🥰🥰.

Plants.

This thread is about spending a windfall on ourselves as a treat.
I mentioned the perfume MiuMiu as I was sent a sample from Boots and that is what my £100 would buy with enough left after buying the smallest size, on a joint of beef for Boxing Day.

TiggyW

It would be nice if anyone who doesn’t need their Winter fuel payment donated it to charity, especially to the hospices who are currently struggling to survive!

Those of us who do not need our WFA are going to have it removed from us through the tax system. I suppose we could consider that as handing it back as a charitable donation. The government do seem to be a desperately in need of help.

I must say I dislike it when people tell me how I should spend my money to make them feel good and donate to their favourite charity.

I do not deny the need of hospices, but there are many other key charities who are also desperately in need of help.

My charitable giving is a private matter and I do not respond well to emotional blackmail.