What is your one splurge??

BillsGirl · #1 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 02:49 PM

I know personally we are a very frugal family, we buy bare minimums and don't spend unless we have to... we have no house phone only a cell since I have family all over, we usually buy generic unless the name brand is truly better, etc etc but the one thing we could save money on is internet service (we have cable modem) I am not willing to give it up, I would rather pay $30 extra for the speed, guess I am impatient??? we have no cable tv so that saves us $50 there...

So whats your one splurge that you could save alot of money with every month that you just wont part with?

34saving · #2 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 06:29 PM

Oh, we have a few I guess . . . but I think the winner has to be Subway's 2 foot longs for $8.99 Sunday deal

cercis · #3 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 09:09 PM

2 - Cable. DH loves digital cable and DVR. And, I don't hate it.

ANNNNNDDDD - Eating out. We love to eat out and eat out about once/week. We average almost $250/month eating out (of course a lot of that is dh traveling for work and we get reimbursed for that). A little more is expensive months where we have to travel out of state and pack the car too full for more than the lightest snacks. But, the full truth is that we love to eat out.

DivaJen · #4 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 09:45 PM

Lattes - literally.

Tall nonfat Starbucks lattes. I've cut back, but I don't want to give them up for good. Besides, I'm a stockholder now.

Gotta' support the company, lol!

jmjj215 · #5 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 07:57 AM

Protein powder

PrincessPerky · #6 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 10:26 AM

a hot shower, I get to take as long of a shower as I want (children interuptions depending) And I do treat it like a splurge, I luxuriate under steaming hot (and I mean HOT) water with all the 'neccessities' done, yet I stay in for a few more minutes reviling in how wonderful it is that I can. (and putting the bills out of mind for the duration)

Oh and I have cable net, but I NEED it

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BillsGirl · #7 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by cercis

2 - Cable. DH loves digital cable and DVR. And, I don't hate it.

ANNNNNDDDD - Eating out. We love to eat out and eat out about once/week. We average almost $250/month eating out (of course a lot of that is dh traveling for work and we get reimbursed for that). A little more is expensive months where we have to travel out of state and pack the car too full for more than the lightest snacks. But, the full truth is that we love to eat out.

I totally know where you are comming from on that one but I married a stickler!! growing up we use to eat out ALOT, I guess I got spoiled cause I still LOVE to eat out but my hubby only takes me to olive garden once every 6 months, grr I hate to cook too, not only do I hate to cook but I am an aweful cook!! I tell him I want to go to culinary school so I can learn to cook as good as restaurants do that way I wouldn't want to eat out so much!! lol like thatde work!

german0955 · #8 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 04:50 PM

Cable TV !

and it's expensive !! with HBO to boot !!!

shengmei · #9 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 04:57 PM

Five indoor-only cats

jodi · #10 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 05:42 PM

Night and Day contacts (the ones you wear thirty days straight) - they cost well over twice what regular contacts cost, but they are SO convenient.

cercis · #11 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 07:49 PM

Oh Jodi, I have those too. I love them!

I've been told that you can enzyme them and get at least another 2 weeks out of them. Plus, take them out to clean once/week and you can get an extra week.

There is some study that shows extended wear are the same contacts as daily wear, just slightly thinner, so you can clean them and enzyme them and get them to last longer. I think the night and day are different because they are sooo comfy and moist, but I'm going to try enzyming and cleaning.

PennyPincher · #12 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 06:09 AM

MASSAGES.

I treat myself twice a year, usually - but would love to go more often. There is a massage school nearby, and I can get a one hour massage for $30 from a student, or $40 from a graduate. It is an hour of heaven.

That's not my only splurge though...just my favorite!

Some1Shy · #13 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 05:57 PM

i have to say my gym membership its £35 a month..
i go 3 days a week sometimes 4..

and i "may" pay for a personal trainer in jan. thats £130 for 5 sessions! even thou its steep ..i want to do it i been on this stupid platue for a month now almost 2 and usually i can get off of them and have done going on 2 years jan 2006...its just these last 40 pounds to lose to get to 100 pound lost is fustrating me!

joeswife · #14 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 06:20 PM

oh my.i have a couple..i have satalite..but i have a lower package.we live in the country and cant get any channles without it. i also have 3 horses, 2 cats inside, and a piggy. i also have 2 cell phones but no home phone. thats my biggest splurges. i feel so bad.

CJsoccerchic · #15 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 07:34 PM

Cable instead of dialup....
and PEDICURES!!!!!!!!! I like to have nice feet.. they do the massages and shave off your callouses and then give you lovely french manicure or someting with flowers on it.. Gotta treat my feet - they work hard for me!

cercis · #16 (**permalink**) 12-09-2005, 07:59 PM

Definitely cable instead of dialup. I think back to my first job - I had an old XLT. What a dinosaur. It couldnt' do more than one thing at a time and took forever doing it. I remember my first pentium. I couldn't believe how fast it was.

Now dialup seems sooooo slow.

I've only had one pedicure and it was nice. Maybe someday. I think I'd rather have a cleaning lady right now, but maybe someday I can do both ...

CJsoccerchic · #17 (**permalink**) 12-12-2005, 05:18 AM

I'll bet I forgot to mention... EATING!! Anykind of eating! Eating out, eating in, eating, eating eating eating!

Man, food takes up so much money!

miclason · #18 (**permalink**) 12-12-2005, 08:38 AM

er...fish?? I buy the kind that doesn't have any bones, and that one is more expensive, but, having been to the hospital TWICE as a kid to have a piece of fish bone removed from my tonsils made me afraid of fish- eventhough I love it! - so I think it's worth it!