Have you ever made a major splurge? Here's ours.

[~bs]

bought a car during the recession, when everyone was panicking and everything was crashing. It was 2 years old, MSRP was $75k, I bought it for $40k.

$40k for a vehicle or vehicles is quite a splurge, especially when considering what that $40k would have been worth invested instead, and that for 99.999% of vehicles, the value will only decline over time.

[Goldy]

I jumped on a cheap flight notification and found flights to Scotland and Iceland for 450 per person. We weren't planning to go to Europe this year but the cheap flight made it too good to pass up. I think the entire trip will be under 3k for the full 10 days.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I'm closer to Reno and get a free room for 2 nights at Sands, I can go every week for 2 nights if I wanted, just got home Friday and want to go again.

My splurge would be travel, I've bought a lot of expensive guns and knives but never considered it splurging, always just thought of it as another way to park money and it has been because I've sold off a lot for nice returns.

97guns, I get those 2 free nights at Sands Reno every other month and may take them up on the offer. I like Sands Regency. The old Fuzio restaurant had better specials than the new Copa restaurant. Fuzio's had a $9.99 filet mignon or a bottomless spaghetti & meatballs for $4.99 (remember those specials?). I like the prime rib buffet for $9.99. Sands Regency is very generous with their offers. I'm a very low roller. I only played a $100 bill in their Megabucks machine one time and they have been ever since sending me these offers. BTW, how would you suggest that I maximize the $25 dining credit being that I travel solo. Can I break it up into two $12.50 meals or do I have to use all $25 in one transaction?

[97guns]

Yep, that's the same flyer I get, I've been going to Cal Neva for over 30 years and had always gotten free rooms until they sold off their hotel a few years back. Never ate at the Copa but tried the buffet a few trips back and it was ok, food was decent but the restaurant was a little dark and dingy.

[msomnipotent]

I've had big splurges but I'm not going to count anything that required financing (like our house).

Three days ago, I spent $12,000 in one day to pay for my wife's maternity stay at the hospital and my business' first quarter taxes.

Later this year, I'll be spending $2000 for a pair of concert tickets so that the same wife can giggle like a school girl when she gets sweated on by the singer on stage.

"Push gifts". It's seriously a thing.

Push gift??? People thought I was over the top when I demanded that the baby and I be brought home in a limo, and other people get actual gifts?

The last concert I went to was $12 for Vanilla Ice at our local brewery. He threw a water bottle at my face.


I thought of another splurge. We went to an auction "just to look" and wound up spending $12,000 on lithographs and rugs. We had no idea what we were doing and just bought what we liked. We overpaid for one litho by a few hundred dollars, but did pretty well on everything else.

[MonkeyMama]

I jumped on a cheap flight notification and found flights to Scotland and Iceland for 450 per person. We weren't planning to go to Europe this year but the cheap flight made it too good to pass up. I think the entire trip will be under 3k for the full 10 days.

Same here. London and Paris, 10 days. It is *so cheap* right now. The flights are on sale from the west coast and the dollar is strong, so we took advantage. That said, our meager vacation budget will mostly cover it (wasn't planning to fly *anywhere* for the foreseeable future, so don't need a lot of vacation dollars). So it doesn't feel particularly splurge-y. Just taking advantage of an opportunity.

The (recent) big splurge that comes to mind is my son just got back from a school 8th grade trip to the east coast. Crazy expensive. & the icing on the cake was that we just went to DC last summer so was largely the same trip. We had some extra money so we just let it go. (I highly doubt my younger child would want to do the same trip, or any trip, so that helps).

[97guns]

saw a pretty good deal on a trip to Hawaii so I jumped on it, $709pp for 7 nights includes airfare and hotel, not bad considering airfare alone is close to $500

[QuarterMillionMan]

saw a pretty good deal on a trip to Hawaii so I jumped on it, $709pp for 7 nights includes airfare and hotel, not bad considering airfare alone is close to $500

This is good. At thanksgiving I paid $1000 just for the airfare roundtrip alone. I stayed with family.

[scfr]

While I know you were probably asking about "big ticket" items in terms of amount spend, the splurge that keeps coming to my mind is when I bought a bunch of high-end mail-order tulip bulbs to plant in our yard in Seattle. They were a splurge because they were 100% unnecessary and there were much less expensive alternatives available. They were really pretty. And apparently the deer found them mighty tasty.

[Milly]

Whenever I eat at a Mexican restaurant, I must have horchata. Usually we just have water because restaurants generally charge enough per glass that you could get a gallon at the grocery store. Anyone know where I can get it cheaper or have a recipe a white girl can follow?