Cheap Treats!

Emmzi

Going through a breakup. Put on 20lbs with this relationship.

This is usually where I
-get a £100 haircut
-buy 20 new outfits
- invest £500 in latest diet fad
-book a holiday somewhere exotic

All of which work at the time but leave me paying it off for a year.

Cheap feel good esteem building treats, please??

cat4772

Emmzi,

sorry to hear about the breakup, I hope things get better for you.

Best cheap treat for me would be a 'spa day at home' which includes a manicure, pedicure, facial, luxuriating in a bath with my favourite bubble bath or oils, music playing and a good book! Even better, my family and friends know which products I LOVE so those are what I get at Christmas and Birthdays, which means that the total cost for a spa day at home is drastically reduced (I might have to buy nail polish but that's about it)!

Also depends what you like doing:

I've gone to visit an old friend and what pre-LBM would have ended up costing about £80 for meal, drinks and taxi home, managed to come in at under £10 (caught the bus £3.50, took a home-made picnic £0, wine £6 - it should have been £15 a bottle but was reduced)!

learn a new skill - Artsy / Crafty places might offer taster sessions for pottery (reminds me of watching Ghost) last time I checked a taster pottery session came in at c£15 and I treasured the "blob" I crafted! or glass making (didn't do that as I had a cold). Check out your local library as they'll have details of various things!

Good luck with it and I hope your self esteem is enhanced.

Cat.x

tifnstav

i havent had my hair cut for about six months cos i am trying to find someone new to do it (preferably a student hairdresser) - when i want a treat i will whack on a sachet of aussie hair miracle and chill out in the bathroom with hot towels (treat myself to putting on the heated towel rail!!)

tifnstav

sorry, that makes it sound like i just sit in the bathroom next to a warm towel rail. i have a bath too!

bargainbetty

When my big break up happened, I got some of the girls over for the home-spa thing. Everyone brought one nibble-food and some kind of beauty product, and I provided some booze. Then, looking all pretty, plus already fed and watered, we went for a dance at the local late-night pub (no entry fee) and drank water or got bought drinks.

Bit of female company, feel-good makeover session, dance your pants off and have a good night out. Works for me every time.

Failing that, do you have a picture of the ex and a set of darts? That often works too. : )

As my mum says, you can't live with them and you can't shoot them.

Gemmzie

Definitely look into your local college - ours does massages for £8, hair cut and colour for £15! Then you can pamper yourself without blowing your budget.

Sorry to hear about the breakup Emmzi

tifnstav

why not melt pictures of the ex on the heated towel rail, while relaxing in the bath?

Emmzi

Gemmzie wrote: »

Sorry to hear about the breakup Emmzi

Pleased to say at least I'm getting better at them as I get older. Hopefully a *little* more dignified! Still cry but there isn't the wailing or pleading etc on either side!

tallyhoh

Have a nice bath with all the little treatments you had last Christmas & haven't yet used, put on your flannelet PJ's & eat chocolate watching a girly film.

Can't do that when you have a man about.

MissKJ

Write letter to friends you haven't seen in ages...nothing quite like receiving them in return.

Why not plan a holiday anuway, only make it a working holiday or a charity challenge abroad?

bathgatebuyer

My treat to myself is a £20 treasure hunt on pay day each month around the charity shops of Edinburgh! It may not sound much, but some places have some great bath fizzers / salts, natural soaps and the like which help indulge my toiletries obsession! Can also pick up some nice bits and bobs to wear for next to nothing too (my best buy being a pure wool knee length coat for.......wait for it ...........£6!)

What can I say, I get a thrill from buying things I know someone else paid twenty times that for!