Typically, I'm really good about not spending money, but once in a while I do splurge. Today I got tickets for the best seats available for me and my husband to see Mark Morris (with Russell Sherman as one of the soloists). I'm psyched, but feeling guilty.

Help me feel less guilty! What was your latest splurge?

__________________
Support our Troops - Drive a fuel-efficient car

THREE new pairs of Nike running shoes.

Splurge isn't the word for it at our new house.
New hot water tank,new toilet,new toilet seat pad,new linoleum floor,new bathroom fixtures, new electrical stuff,new storage units, new locks,new furniture,new this ,new that, the list goes on and on.

__________________
May you be blessed

New laptop. Our desktop was going on six years old and we figured we were finally due for a new computer. We splurged and got one with a large screen and an 8 hour battery life.

__________________
I've had a Foreman Grill for about six years. I've done about 85% of my cooking on it, but I've never burnt myself. Probably because I don't use it as a pillow.

DH ordered a $60 bottle of wine at dinner the other night when it was just the 2 of us. It was a nice dinner.

Lisa

__________________
"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything they have."

My lime green Coach handbag. I am totally in love with it. Got it with my winnings in Vegas!! Dh still can't understand my fascination with these designer handbags I'm acquiring....till I remind him how he feels when he gets a new gun.

__________________

Friends are like butt cheeks.
Crap might separate them,
But they always come back together.

I haven't worked since the end of June so I don't recall buying anything lately. I guess my last splurge was my Coach bag I bought on ebay in May. Sigh~ Clarence misses me I'm sure some of you are cheating with him right now.

__________________
Faith + Love = Happy

the $40 of stuff I got at Yankee Candle.
I saw what some of the boney bunch items were selling for on e-bay so when I saw that the store by me had some of the pieces, I just had to have them My thought initially was to ebay them, BUT.. I can't decide what I want to sell and what I want to keep so more than likely I am going to keep them all

__________________
I just got a firm grip on reality....
Now I can strangle it

The Red Sox game I went to on 9/1. Between the tickets and all the other goodies, it was a $100 day. I can justify it though. If you haven't been to a game in 17 years, it comes out to only $5.88.

__________________

I'll make you feel better.... most recently:

$130.00 for new UGGs for me

$700.00 for a night out at the Dallas Cowboys stadium for me and DH - we went to the first game in the new stadium. $360 for tickets, $60 for parking, T-shirts, drinks, etc. It was historic, but kind of spendy!!

$7,000 for vacation to Mexico for a week the first of August. We had only planned to spend about $2,000 and fly standby, but the flights looked questionable, so we decided to suck it up and buy tickets last-minute. We also bought lots of stuff there and did some excursions! Yowzers.

I've put a hold on myself.... Christmas is coming up!

__________________
Kim

YIkes! I feel like a tightwad now! Phew - thanks!

__________________
Support our Troops - Drive a fuel-efficient car

my new gps i bought back in march for my birthday

__________________
Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at:
http://bookcrossing.com

My other favorites
www.paperbackswap.com
www.wheresgeorge.com
www.geocaching.com

Not sure if you would count it as a splurg but $25,000 on new landscaping for our new house, sad thing that amount wont finish it, that was what we could pay cash for and decided not to go in debt for the rest.

I bought a new laptop at the first of August to keep me entertained when I was in the hospital. It will come in handy for future visits too since I seem to be racking up frequent flyer miles there lately.

I am going on a 12 day Cruise to Turkey, Greece and Egypt in Oct.

Got my DH a new GPS

DH got me a Coach purse for my birthday.

Gee looks like we splurg alot but honestly we don't. It just happens we did it all at one time.

I went to the thrift store recently and spent about $17 on 5 tops and two bathing suits.

DH has been unemployed for the last year, in August he got a job! It made me feel pretty good

We haven't made a big purchase in awhile so here we go:

Today: I got DH and I iPhones (with warranty and accessories) $800 (ouch!)

In the next month: a nice insulated cover over our back patio and firepit ($7K)

so don't feel bad

__________________
Proud to say I haven't shopped at a Wal-Mart since Sept 2003

A shiny Lexus SUV for driving around the coming baby.....

__________________
I'm the kind of woman when my feet hit the floor in each morning, the devil says "Oh crap, she's up."

I don't even feel bad anymore.

Thanks, Jujubee2!

__________________
Kim

A pair of pants at the Liz Claiborne outlet. I just love the way her stuff fits me.

__________________
Forgiveness is love in its most noble form. -Anonymous

Spent a tad over $100 to join Sweet Adelines - a singing group here. I love it and love singing. I justified it by opening a new bank account and when you opened with $25 you got a free $100 - so that is what I used it on.

Nice~that's one lucky baby!

__________________
Faith + Love = Happy

I just wanted to thank you all for stimulating the economy. Some more than others.
We are a little leary about job security around here right now so no splurges for us.

__________________

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass
It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Mine was our six week vacation in our motorhome from KY to CA and back.
We took our 16 year old grandson and we visited 5 National Parks and 3-4 National Monuments and relatives we had'nt seen in years and grandson had never met. It was a simply wonderful vacation and all three of us had a great time! It was worth every penny!!!

__________________
Square dancing is friendship set to music!

Flew to Chicago last month to see two Pearl Jam shows. And I bought the tickets for one of the shows on StubHub. Stayed at a super nice hotel.

And I think next month I am going to fly out to Philly to see them for 4 shows!!!!!

Complete splurge but sooooo worth it!

__________________
Sometimes realize, I could only be as good as you'll let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?

Yeah, that's the consensus among most people we know: this is not the time for unnecessary spending

Even people who had always felt their jobs were fairly secure are finding that they're not!

My vacation to visit frinds in the DC area. Between eating out, thrifting to we dropped and going to the Newseum I probably spent $200 in 4 days.

Not a fortune to be sure but more than I've spent on myself in quite some time. And worth every single penny, including the one I squished at the Newseum.

__________________
Jesus SAVES by shopping smartly and using double coupons!

I love squashing pennies. I'm like a little kid when I see one of those machines!

__________________
Support our Troops - Drive a fuel-efficient car

a standby generator for the house. When and if the power goes off, it automatically kicks on and runs all the electricity in the house as normal.

new front load washer and dryer

Induction cooktop

bmw 3 series convertible

I have a 318ic. I love it! Super fun to drive in nice weather.... Hope you enjoy yours!

__________________
Kim

My latest splurges have been my new (to me) bmw 328xi and travel deposits/airfare for trips to Cancun and Guatemala (Habitat for Humanity). Oh, and I suppose that $20k tuition/room&board bill is a splurge of sorts....

__________________
I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Count me in 22,000 for my son Tommys tuition for his 3rd yr of College and 7500 for a second hand with about 52,000 miles toyota camry for my younger daughter Caitlin who is now is a driver , there is no spare money to spurlge to have fun, we did do a vacation but only to florida nothing big, we really wanted to go to a Island but with the above items forget it. Oh yeah also one of Tommys college books cost 275.00 and lets not forget that we had to add Caitlin onto our auto insurance plan which of course only made the premuim go way up especially since she is only 17 and a first time driver... I do not even want to think because while Hope is done with College next year Caitlin will be so again we will have 2 in College oh well. Peace. Catherine

__________________
in memory of my beloved beautiful brother Sonny who is now an angel in heaven

Now that was smart! Enjoy your singing group.

My latest splurge was a $140 ticket to the fift row at the Schoenfeld Theatre in NYC to see the broadway play A STEADY RAIN with HUGH JACKMAN and DANIEL CRAIG! We have to drive, park, and eat which will be another few bucks but totally worth it! I am counting the hours until this Saturday at 8 PM!

I have been drooling over and Ed Hardy purse for several months now, I finally bought not only that one but another one.

I'm going to do it. Going to buy a plane ticket to Philly to go see Pearl Jam next month. 4 shows, the last one is on Halloween!

__________________
Sometimes realize, I could only be as good as you'll let me
Are you woman enough to be my man?

$450 for U2 tickets
I cannot wait until Tuesday!!

__________________
John 14:1
GO GATORS!!
GO BEARS!!
Check out my pictures!! Just click below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gotjenks/

$285 for a Coach Brooke purse in Eggplant. It was way over what I normally spend on their bags (I'm an outlet girl) but it was calling to me and that was with a 25% off coupon!!

__________________
Come and visit the gang at TLJ
PM me for info

I bought myself a new outfit at only 30% off. It was hard, not to buy the new outfit, but to only get 30% off. It was a true splurge, skirt, top, and crocheted wrap at $78. Normally I would get at least 5, 6 or more pieces for that amount of money.

dl

Splurge? The best I can come up with is I bought 3 pairs of pants and a few shirts. Just went back to work after being a sahm for the past 19 years. Oooh, and guess where I'm working?? Target!!
I should add, I bought all of my work clothes at Goodwill. (less than $20 total!) Teehee.

Do you mind me asking how much this was? We are looking into them.
TIA

__________________

I suppose you could count the expense of moving my estranged husband out of my house....that would be my latest splurge!

__________________
"God is great,
Beer is good, and people are crazy"

Mine would be a 4 week old blue quaker parrot a couple of weeks ago. I've had green quakers before and always wanted a blue baby. And the hand feeding formula for her.
I did get a really great deal on a cage for her- free!

__________________
Mom to Katie 1/95 and Sara 5/97