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My dilemma, I actually have difficulty spending money on non-essentials. Food and bills are a requirement, but travel is just about my only vice. I have been packing around $100 cash gift from my Mother-in-law since Christmas and now this has been added to it. In all likelihood I will just convert them to EURO to buy something cool on our trip to Portugal and Holland in April but was wondering if anyone else has this issue.
I am one of those very fortunate people who is perfectly content with little and we currently have "enough". My biggest splurge ever was buying a DSLR camera two years ago which has already had thousands of photos taken on it. I have an iphone but only because hubby insisted I have one for the Company we run, and the Company purchased it (that and my old dumb phone was so old it took 1/2 an hour to text someone). Those items plus the Company laptop are my favorite things.
So, if $100 dropped into your lap today, what would you spend it on?
"I actually have difficulty spending money on non-essentials" were we separated at birth? I got a twenty dollar holiday bonus as a super market gift card. I bought bacon with it!
ReplyDeleteI do think I'd go out to dinner with my husband -- it would be a treat for him and a splurge (i.e. a "real" restaurant) that we don't usually make.
Date night seems to be one of the most common answers - maybe I should plan a nice evening out.
DeletePaint - hands down. Getting a house ready for sale = lots of paint. Normally though - if I couldn't pay down debt, I would struggle!
ReplyDeletePaint costs so bloody much too, I hear you. We fortunately didn't have to do too much to get our last house ready for sale but it is such a pain to do work to something that you are not going to be enjoying anyway.
DeleteTravel fund!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely! Birds of a feather...
DeleteYup, start a Merida, Mex fund and you can stay in our casita...for free....we should be there full time later this year and we'd love to have you!
DeleteWhat a kind offer, your home is so lovely! It may take several years for us to get back to Mexico though as we are on a mission to take in new countries (I love Mexico and have been many places but not Merida)
DeleteI'd use part of it as a splurge. Date night out to dinner with hubby or a pedicure. The rest would probably be saved.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for date night - I am going to have to start doing some research.
DeleteRight now, I want a Food Saver, a very specific one. $100 would just about get it.
ReplyDeleteI have never had nor tried a food saver, are they that good?
DeleteI want one to seal jars of food I dehydrate. I hear they suck out air bell peppers, bananas and such...other things too. I hope they are good but I believe the many people who say they are wonderful.
DeleteI'd put it in my emergency fund. I'm late to the party, but in the last few years, I LOVE saving money. Wish I did it sooner, but I'm doing it now, and really enjoying it. It's fun watching my emergency fund grow, little by little. Yup, definitely the emergency fund. :)
ReplyDeleteI love that even if it wasn't always that way you love saving money now, I think the EF is a great idea.
DeleteDate night, or a massage! My back is so tight from too much work - I would love a massage.
ReplyDeleteDate night sounds good, Sluggy is with you on the massage
DeleteI was given a £100 cheque on Friday, out of the blue and for no reason. It was a lovely surprise and it's going straight into savings.
ReplyDeleteGood for you! How nice - that is really a nice chunk of change to drop into your lap.
DeleteUnlike you, if I won $100 I would immediately go out and spend $500 .. on a new TV for the bedroom or something similar.
ReplyDeleteYou kill me Mitchell :)
DeleteWhenever I get extra money, I just put it into my checking to pay bills for something I probably already bought. :-/
ReplyDeleteTime to share what you have been buying now :)
DeleteI need a good winter coat and it would probably go there, or on makeup splurges in Massena because stuff is much cheaper there!
ReplyDeleteIf it was a little more I would make a trans-border run too but our ferry costs so much to go back and forth you really have to save it up for a big trip.
DeleteI'd use it to help pay the $900 propane bill!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Oh My - you poor thing, not only do you get massive amounts of crappy weather but then have to pay through the nose to stay warm.
DeleteFabric. But I am addicted to sewing
ReplyDeleteA common symptom of all sewers I hear :)
Delete$100 I would put on bills. Its not enough of a reward to do something special with. $1000, I would put half on bills and spend the other $500 on random things that I need.
ReplyDeleteFor now it stays tucked in the purse on the off chance I come across "that random thing I need" :)
DeleteNo debt and the bills are paid? I'd get a massage or put it toward a big travel plan, of see if one of my almost grown kids needed it for something important.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good Mom you are, they are lucky to have you.
DeleteI'd buy something nice for our garden.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea, I am honestly contemplating purchasing a pretty bird bath.
DeleteI would save it for Vegas, baby! We are both on the same page-vacationing!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteVegas can be so bloody expensive, I can see why you don't want to waste money on checking luggage!
DeleteI'm like you, I spend so little, especially on myself. What do I need? Nothing that I can think of. I'd probably sock it away to use for gas on my drive to PEI. I don't like wasting money by just going out for dinner or something.
ReplyDeleteI would do the same in your position - ah PEI, your little patch of paradise!
DeleteOoh how lovely, and what a dilemma to have!
ReplyDeleteIf I was given $100 I would take it on my trip to Melbourne next week (to see my darling daughter) and then replace the $100 I'd already taken out of general revenue :)
No dilemma for me!
xx
Have a lovely trip and enjoy your visit with your family.
DeleteI take extra $ and usually pay extra on bills....notably the house :)
ReplyDeleteVery sensible! We paid off the house last year and now are 100% debt free or I would have done the same.
DeleteI'd put it in my travel fund, for my annual Fall trip to Europe. Who knows that it'll be worth in Euros by then... :(
ReplyDeleteI know, our Canadian buck is dropping, so I am going to place my order for Euros in the next week or so. An annual trip to Europe - I am jealous! I hope to go every few years or so to a different country.
DeleteI would either put it in our travel account for the next trip but make a note so it goes towards something fun to buy on the trip OR I tuck it away for a rainy day trip to the Antique store!
ReplyDeleteI like your answers - I love antique stores as well but never seem to buy anything there, a problem from someone who likes thrift store prices versus antique store prices
DeleteI would put it towards my dream mixer...sigh....
ReplyDeleteI have a dream mixer in mind as well,but at $300 I am not sure I want to spend that much money and also have a place to store it. Maybe down the road...
DeleteBuy some shrubs and perennial flowers, give some $ to a charity, have a restaurant meal with hubby, oh it is fun to plan.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it? The possibilities!
DeleteI would have to find someone who really NEEDED it and secretly give it to them. If I had the good fortune to just happen on it then someone else needs the same good fortune. What is the saying It's enough blessing to be a blessing" But I might keep 5 bucks to buy some flower seeds!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for giving.
DeleteI'm all about a 'SPESHUL' treat / date night!! What good is saving for a rainy day, if those rainy days aren't with the one you love?
ReplyDeleteExactly!
DeleteA day adventuring around town for sure! (I need to work on saving). :)
ReplyDeleteI need more adventures:) Good idea!
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