I splurged on a nice car for road trips. Another splurge is staying in national park lodges which are expensive but I enjoy the convenience and the quiet once the crowds have left the park for the night. I also bought myself a few small antiques last month for my birthday. Electronics are not important to me.
What I would really like to splurge on is eating out. But I have a weight problem and am trying to lose so that is off limits.
For our big post retirement trip next year, I just booked our rooms at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton, as well as the Old Faithful Inn and Yellowstone Lake Hotel. We are really looking forward to it.
For our big post retirement trip next year, I just booked our rooms at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton, as well as the Old Faithful Inn and Yellowstone Lake Hotel. We are really looking forward to it.
Our biggest splurge was pre-ER. We gutted our entire condo and remodeled it completely. Bought everything we wanted, including high-end finishes, new furniture, and custom made artwork with no regard to costs. We decided since we plan to stay in it forever, we wanted to make it exactly as we wanted. Our two years of w@rking paid for that!
We've been to Italy 8 times so far. I'm sure we'll go back again soon enough. Maybe early 2020.Lovely! Althpugh I would have expected you to take “the young wife” to Italy
Everything but houses and cars. As long as I don't buy the million dollar house and the Maserati I can pretty much do what I please with everything else.
This probably what we want to do during the phase after I retire and I wait until the missus retires. While we've added the odd piece and made the minor modification to our place since we moved in about 20 years ago, we haven't really spent significant dollars to remodel. I would love to do a refresh and rethink of the spaces, furniture, and appliances in the house.
Not to be outdone here, we purchased a 'jar' of Sun Pat peanut butter spread for over 3 Euros here in Perpignan this morning.
(It's not very good, but it was all we could find. Hey, easy come, easy go, eh?)
Close to FIR ...
Hobbies ...
Kayaking, telescope making, tablets/'puters.
Btw, my fav beer is Allagash White, awesome Belgian white from Maine
I wanted to splurge and use 6-gauge wire to run the 80-ft distance between the low-voltage solar array at the corner of the backyard to the shed where the lithium battery bank and electronics sit. Thick wires reduce the power loss. But 12 of them won't fit in a 1" conduit to be buried. Not even 12 of the smaller 8-gauge wires would fit.
Use 2 conduits? That's more work!
See how splurging can cause problems, and not gratification?
For our big post retirement trip next year, I just booked our rooms at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton, as well as the Old Faithful Inn and Yellowstone Lake Hotel. We are really looking forward to it.