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extravagance in everyday life

16:24 / 16.03.02

i just spent a whole wad of money (for my upcoming birthday and as a pity-present for not getting to go anywhere for spring break) on a morning of self-indulgence--a massage, a hair cut and a brand new hair color. (Red!)

My partner buys stuff when he wants to indulge; i buy an experience. If you have a little extra money to indulge yourself in some way, how are you most likely to spend it?

16:27 / 16.03.02

If I have extra money that doesn't go either into the gas tank or towards supplies for school I'll either buy a nice paperback or a cd.

Not all that glamorous is it? Well, what do you expect from a penniless college student?

The Apple-Picker

17:40 / 16.03.02

If I want to buy stuff, I sometimes will go for books.

But I usually buy food! The real treat is to go to Haiku, sushi place. It's stuff and and experience. Mmm.

*edited to cut down on unusual number of "usually"s in text*

[ 16-03-2002: Message edited by: theapplepicker ]

17:58 / 16.03.02

Old hardcover books is my weakness, although I've been known to pick up some used CD's when feeling a bit flush.

But what I really enjoy doing is socking money away so I can travel. Even if it's just a long weekend, I like going to different places and experiencing different cultures when I can. I intend to go to Europe this fall (hence two jobs right now).

18:50 / 16.03.02

just rent me a sack o' DVD's, turn off the phone and spend the weekend in my head. that's the best gift i can give myself. oh yeah, and there's the whores...

19:14 / 16.03.02

A CD, an old comic I've been coveting, or a new hardcover if there's one out that I want.

Zoom.

19:57 / 16.03.02

Books and travel seem to be the only outlets for my money.... and the odd video game every few months..

11:08 / 17.03.02

gadgets. Books aren't expensive enough unless you buy about ten at once and then I never have time to read them all. Don't have time to travel. I get free games because I review them.

I bought a new webcam yesterday, and 100 blank CDs, for no reason at all, just to make me feel better about having to spend even more money on a new pair of glasses. (but the frames were cool...)

09:37 / 18.03.02

Whenever I have any extra money I tend to buy things (usually books or network crap) for my partner. I suppose that seems like a strange way to indulge oneself (or not), but I would rather do that than, say, go out and buy myself something.
I’m such a giver.

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:37 / 18.03.02

Books and CDs, baby. Books and CDs.

09:37 / 18.03.02

Flowers, clothes, books, holidays. I am Elton John...

10:27 / 18.03.02

I tend to buy things (usually books or network crap) for my partner. I suppose that seems like a strange way to indulge oneself (or not),

it's not the gift-giving that's strange, it's this "network crap" thing that's worrying me. "Here darling, I picked up this lovely ethernet hub just for you"?

10:36 / 18.03.02

4 DVDs - the long-awaited (well, by me anyway coz all I've got is a crappy late night Channel4 tape of it) remastered Akira; Oh Brother Where Art Thou; Gods and Monsters and the second series of Spaced (worth it just for the line about Jar Jar Binks making the Ewoks look like Shaft).

And I once swore I'd never buy a DVD player...

10:51 / 18.03.02

My weakness is notebooks. I love notebooks. A notebook is the best comfort purchase around, the epitome of retail therapy. There's this sense in which they are like a security blanket for me. Plus I am always looking for the *perfect* one, and never truly finding it. Yes, I lovenotebooks.

I also really like to buy stuff for other people whenever I get the chance - unbirthday presents.

The Apple-Picker

11:07 / 18.03.02

Oh dear.

I seem to recall the stationery-addiction being discussed somewhere before.

Notebooks, blank journals, paper cubes, pens, envelopes, yes, Yes YES!

11:34 / 18.03.02

[Homer Simpson]Noo-ooteboo-ooks...[/Homer Simpson]

11:45 / 18.03.02

I prefer to think of it as a stationery fetish, as opposed to stationery addiction... but this is threadrot. Perhaps someone should start a thread where all the pervy stationery fanciers can congregate...

12:00 / 18.03.02

I dislike spending money, whether frivolous or entirely necessary. Fortunately my lovely partner has no such qualms and I am therefore (David-)Furnished with clothes and other luxuries. In the last several months, my only major purchase has been £60 worth of socks from Marks and Spencer. Dull, dull...

12:05 / 18.03.02

I hate shopping. I hate buying stuff. I can't think of anything less comforting than filling up with consumer crap.

Bah humbug.

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:08 / 18.03.02

>I am Elton John...

MAIL!

12:13 / 18.03.02

£60 worth of socks from Marks and Spencer. Dull, dull...

Just out of interest and for comparison (as I buy all my socks from Sainsburys) how many pairs of Marks and Sparks socks does £60 get you?

Seems an awful lot of dosh to spend on socks though, even if they are M+S ones...

12:17 / 18.03.02

Heh- that kind of reminds me of an argument with my older brother I found myself in recently where I'd somehow found myself trying to object to the National Lottery and why I don't take part in it- but realised I had no concrete basis for disagreeing with it- I ended up just spluttering 'Yeah! Who wants loads of money anyway! You'll just end up spending it all on shite!" and stomping off

12:22 / 18.03.02

LullaB, once I deduct the price of the collapsible umbrella I snuck in with the socks, there was an average sock spend ratio of just under a fiver per pair. There were two Italian wool & silk handmade pairs in an attractive purple which would count as extravagance (at a fiver per sock) and a much greater number of sensible black wool-rich ones. But I shall restrain myself from talking further about socks (lest I become over-excited...)

12:26 / 18.03.02

I don't spend money, really.. But if I had some extra I'd buy a copy of Entropy in the U.K.

Last thing I bought was Apocalipstick, in January.

This makes it seem like I have no life.

Before that I bought drugs. They ran out last weekend.

12:59 / 18.03.02

I actually think it's very important to splurge on yourself when you can. But then I am a hedonist with very little self-control.

Seriously, alas I wouldn't feel bad. The thing about money is, there's always MORE of it. This is probably why I have none at the moment, but I'll tell ya what, I nearly always get to do what I want to do.

Your day of indulgence sounds lovely to me. I've done the similar things for my birthday and never felt one iota of guilt. When's your birthday by the way? There's gotta be some sort of barbelith Aries shout-out soon, what with so many of us clogging up this place...

(And being a typically egomanical aries, I'll probably plan it myself!)

17:16 / 18.03.02

It can never be extravagant to buy books, btw. I have only ever been tempted to shoplift in bookshops, although haven't done so since stealing comics whilst at Primary School.

17:35 / 18.03.02

I am a hedonist with very little self-control. – Cherry Bomb

This explains why we get along so well. (To be fair, my ability to–ahem–"focus my decadence" has improved with age!)

Since I don't have a kitchen in my house, I do a lot of take-out and restaurant action. I'm not sure if that would count as extravagant...I suppose so, as I theoretically could be staying home cooking pot noodles on my electric burner and making Jell-O in the fridge (once I've pushed the film, nail polish and beer aside to make room...)

18:26 / 18.03.02

You keep your nail varnish in the fridge? Perhaps that is what I should be doing...

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:24 / 19.03.02

Hmm. think i buy experiences. food mainly, either eating good food out, or buying expensive ingredients to make really good food at home.

It's the one thing I find it really hard to economise on. Most other stuff (the books,music,clothes type things) I get for cheap or free.

Also travelling, socialising - am v.bad at saying no to going out even though I really can't afford it, and am considering splurging some savings to get out of this blooyd country for a bit.

Interesting qu, alas, hadn't really thought of it like that before.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:36 / 19.03.02

You keep your nail varnish in the fridge? Perhaps that is what I should be doing...

Yeah, cold stops it going gungy. Mind you, if I kept all my nail varnishes in the fridge there'd be no room for the food.

12:55 / 19.03.02

Your day of indulgence sounds lovely to me. I've done the similar things for my birthday and never felt one iota of guilt. When's your birthday by the way? There's gotta be some sort of barbelith Aries shout-out soon, what with so many of us clogging up this place... (And being a typically egomanical aries, I'll probably plan it myself!) --cherry bomb

March 24th. aries rule. (of course.)

And it was lovely. And i really don't feel guilty. one of the most sensible things in the Christ story was when he said when the disciples were getting all high-n-mighty about the woman who had just wasted a whole bottle of expensive perfume and oil by putting it on his body, he said, and I quote: "Jesus H Christ, guys, lay off. Poor people will always be around. Of course we should take care of the world's problems. But I'm only going to be here a short while and I think it's just fucking cool that she did this for me. We gotta love each others bodies." Most people don't realize that's in the bible, however...

13:51 / 20.03.02

quote:Originally posted by fridgemagnet / w1rebaby:

it's not the gift-giving that's strange, it's this "network crap" thing that's worrying me. "Here darling, I picked up this lovely ethernet hub just for you"?

You have no idea -- "here's an rs-232 switch and a rs-232 cable, now let's set that PET up as a dumb terminal. It can fake Linux, really".

I have no excuse for that, any of it.