Treating yourself

How are you treating yourself these days? I’m not very good at treating myself, and I think I should treat myself more.

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Cake / sweets / something unhealthy as a ‘treat’ for going to the supermarket. Problem is, I live 50m from the supermarket. Too many treats.

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Probably too good tbh, live my life as an interlinked series of chances to treat myself

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Got a deep tissue massage to treat myself but no one told me it’s actually torture

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I’m really not good at treating myself. Maybe a walk and a birdwatch. But don’t have the money for a nice extravagance I wouldn’t normally purchase.

Treat myself all the time, nice meals out mainly.

Quite bad unfortunately.

I keep thinking I should treat myself to a foot massage one day but I’m not sure how.

According to a friend who was a nurse in a geriatric ward feet are one of the most important things people should take care of, but they rarely do.

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Is funny how your brain can judge the worth of something too though

Like there’s albums I won’t buy until they’re discounted in a sale (even just £5 off) then on the way to buy it I’ll go grab a mediocre brownie for £4 anyway. Shoulda just got the full price album months earlier and enjoyed it for longer!

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Tasty, tasty wine.

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Going to see live music is the only treat I can really afford/refuse to give up. Even if it’s a tiny local show I try and see at least 1 gig a week at the moment.

Probably too much tbh. Although it’s lots of little treats. Should take a break for a while, save up and have a nice big treat.

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Yeah, I think this is my issue at the moment. (CW brief chat about weight etc) I’ve been trying to snack less / lose weight / exercise more - and my default ‘treats’ have all been food related

There’s also a part of me that feels weird for treating myself when I’ve (potentially) got two children to put through uni (and actually, we’re not 100% sure what will happen with the eldest in terms of her future independence) so although we’re in a relatively comfortable position financially I’ve still got a mentality that avoids spending on unnecessary ‘nice stuff’

Go on holiday quite a bit.

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Books mainly, lush cosmetics and occasionally eating out.

Getting a cleaner has been the best treat recently, not having to clean is amazing

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Guitar pedals that go BNERRRRRR in almost imperceptibly different ways to the ones I already have

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Pixels and/or frames

matcha latte

A tasty craft beer feels like a treat to me

Ruffers mentioned live music, but to me that’s a way of life rather than a treat

Black jacks.

Offer them round safe in the knowledge that virtually nobody likes them. People say ‘ooh, they turn your mouth black’, but as I never look in the mirror, I am happily oblivious.

The perfect treat imo.

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