How much 'treat' money do you allow yourself?

cantcope

I have £130 a month for treats. This includes going out/buying clothes etc.

bought myself a "treat" on ebay, not having a holiday this year so bought a designer bikini for the pricely sum of £2.19!!! at least i'll look stylish in my mums garden

If i really want a treat i buy a nice hair mask and face mask and pamper myself for the evening

tesuhoha

I dont really have treats but I did buy some beer for the 3 of us for the England game tonight and I sometimes buy wine on special offer. We have chocolate but sadly it has been part of our diet for a very long time.

southernscouser

I probably spend about £100-£150 a month on myself.

I would rather enjoy it aswell rather than pay it off the debts. In 3 years time I don't want to look back and wonder what happened to those years of my life! At least this way I'm paying off my debt but allowing myself to live aswell.

QueenB.

I don't set aside an amount for treats, if we have a bit more at the end of the month, and that is after all payments etc, then i treat myself to a magazine or a CD or some cheap craft bits.

Again i use the freebies board and at the moment one of my treats is being paid by quidco for watching lots of great DVD's on the free trails:D

My other treat is going to all the great free exhibitions in london at the moment.


As for haircuts i also haven't had one since the start of last december.

lynzpower

Toto wrote:

Lyn you are so much like me I could have written that. I haven't had a haircut since before christmas either, even then it was because I was in visiting OH parents in Canada (they paid for us to go, grandmother was 90) and everything is so cheap over there I got a haircut for £9! My hair is really long though so it doesn't matter too much.

I honestly can not remember the last time I allowed myself actual treat money besides the haircut. Tell a lie, I got a curly wirly for 10p at a boot sale a couple of weeks ago. So that beats the arctic roll LOL

Axtually ooops Ive just remembered that I bought some of those special BBQ tongs, poky fork thing and flipper as OH keeps burning himself when he is catering. Thats a treat, and they cost £2 from poundstretcher.

And to think how wasteful I used to be :rolleyes: I really appreciate the small stuff now, and its just makes my life so much more, well, nicer

southernscouser

QueenB. wrote:

As for haircuts i also haven't had one since the start of last december.

Well don't you think it's about time QueenB? :rolleyes:

Ali-OK

I have a weekly budget of £40 to cover anything that's not a DD, food or petrol. It gets used for DS clothes/shoes, birthdays, car parking, leaving collections at work, dentist, MOT, haircuts and BOGOFs/offers that I will use in the long run (like washing liquid an extra 87p off at Wilkos, so got 2 for stock).

All months are planned out so I know which ones are going to be tight, the ones where I come under, I throw the rest at the debt or sometimes carry over to a tight month. Though I did have a £25 surplus recently that I earmarked for clothes shopping, but couldn't bring myself to spend it - it went to a cc instead!

I guess my treats are eyebrow shape (keep the hedgerows at bay ) at £4 a month, garden costs (bedding plants/compost) and taking DS swimming at £5 a fortnight.

LookingAhead

southernscouser wrote:

Well don't you think it's about time QueenB? :rolleyes:

:eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Very good SS.

Willsnarf1983

well i was not really spending any on me but i burnt out bout 2 months ago! and now have revolutionised my living. I now spend £250 a month on debts, the rest is mine which results in about 500 squid. At the moment i am paying £120 for three months on my season ticket, £85 a month on an xbox 360 (buying my bros) and of on a road trip to holland in July!!!

so there, slightly of the bandwagon!

Will

jonnydoe

Blimey, I've heard of saving but this takes the biscuit!.. a few freebies won't do it for me unfortunately I'd have to be permanently medicated for that lol