little luxuries

trailingspouse

So, you've reached a certain age, and maybe you're more comfortably off than you used to be. Kids off your hands, mortgage paid off.

What little luxury do you allow yourself now that money isn't so tight?

In the Spouse household, we buy quilted loo paper, and Lurpak butter. I still feel guilty about not buying the cheap stuff, but what the hey, life's too short.

moneyistooshorttomention

Making ethical choices more often.

I'm a bit stymied at the moment (ie because I'm temporarily on much lower income in between retirement age and my personal Revised State Pension Age) but normal income prevailing I won't buy battery eggs any more (mind you, I don't think I could bring myself to buy them anyway, no matter how poor I was). I choose the more ethically-produced consumer items sometimes (over the cheapest reasonable quality ones).

More ethical holiday choices (though, at the moment, that means no holidays), as in I have given up flying by plane and would travel to my destination some other way (even though it would probably be dearer).

Am looking forward to going back up to normal income again, when I can expand the range of ethical consumer choices I make to a greater extent (eg at the moment I am having to buy standard clothes, rather than organic/fair-trade/etc on the one hand and am buying standard mainstream paints to decorate my house, rather than "green" ones because I cant afford my choices yet).

I'm not really into luxuries that much. I will occasionally buy a dearer type of food item than I otherwise would (luxury type of dairy product for instance than basic Cheddar or similar).

Farway

Likemabove, ethical choices, so only free range eggs, from local [not supermarket] shop, free range UK sourced pork / bacon products.

Locally grown tomatoes, again from local greengrocer

Fairtrade loose tea, sugar & bananas

Plus boycott certain goods from certain countries, which to avoid a flame war I will not name

Biggles

We've never treated decent toilet paper as a luxury but a necessity. Andrex Quilted was rated a Best Buy by Which? a few years ago due to strength and absorbency as well as softness and we've bought it ever since (waiting till it's on offer, obviously).

Where I'm putting that, I only want good stuff!

margaretclare

trailingspouse wrote: »

So, you've reached a certain age, and maybe you're more comfortably off than you used to be. Kids off your hands, mortgage paid off.

What little luxury do you allow yourself now that money isn't so tight?

In the Spouse household, we buy quilted loo paper, and Lurpak butter. I still feel guilty about not buying the cheap stuff, but what the hey, life's too short.

What's so special about Lurpak butter, and what did you buy before it?

We only buy English butter. And everything we buy, as locally as possible. Farm shops, farmers' markets, local butchers. Organic meat, free range eggs.

Errata

My number one luxury is having a siesta after lunch. Money can't buy it, it's priceless.

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I use abel and cole now and get grass fed home made butter and by golly you can taste the difference. We also get raw chocolate like booja booja and lovely cheese like cave aged. I don`t think twice any more when it comes to our food, I buy organic chicken and meat and lovely quality fruits and veg. Lovely sheepskins to sink into on our easy chairs. Tbh we still don`t spend a lot overall as I make everything from scratch and we don`t smoke or do exotic holidays

Swings and roundabouts, might as well enjoy it while we can

pollypenny

Traveling is our luxury. And eating out once a week, usually with a voucher,,though.


Oh, and Egyptian cotton bedding.

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Errata wrote: »

My number one luxury is having a siesta after lunch. Money can't buy it, it's priceless.

oops, just read something while browsing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2602913/Why-taking-afternoon-nap-raises-risk-EARLY-DEATH-third.html

whodathunkit

A better quality of red wine and aperitifs at the weekend.

trailingspouse

At one time, the 'specials' alternated between Lurpak spreadable, Anchor spreadable and Country Life spreadable. OH and I agreed that our favourite of the three was Lurpak - so now I buy it even if it's not on special!!