What is your annual cost for self-care & wellness?

[Anonymous]

Obviously means different things to different people. I sat down and added it up last night and it was sobering. Given, I'm in late 40's so I certainly do more than when I was younger. But it's still a lot. This doesn't include gym membership, cost of healthy eating, and therapy as needed.

Haircut/highlights (quarterly): 2000
Lash extensions (monthly): 3000
Dysport/filler (biannual): 2000
Retin A/skin care, as needed: 500
Annual cost: ~ 7500

Things I don't do spend on:

mani/pedis/massages/spa (don't particularly enjoy)
Expensive bags/shoes/clothes (not a big shopper & don't love labels)
Makeup (don't buy expensive brands)

Just interesting to see it written down. That's a lot for self-care and while I can afford it, it's not money I'm putting in the market. Anyway curious about others' habits/cost.

[Anonymous]

I get fillers twice a year, monthly facial treatments (laser facials and chemical peels), weekly personal strength training for DH and I, and since working a desk job, I'm adding monthly massages so I just did the math and it's about $8K a year. I think it's worth it because I am big on preventative self-care. I love having a great complexion, maintaining my posture, muscle mass and bone density, and don't want to look like a hunchback like most older people in my office in 10 years.

[Anonymous]

We spend
1000/month in gym
600/month on massages
300/month on mani pedi
300/month on yoga

[Anonymous]

Hair 600 year, Botox 800 year, massage 1000 year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously means different things to different people. I sat down and added it up last night and it was sobering. Given, I'm in late 40's so I certainly do more than when I was younger. But it's still a lot. This doesn't include gym membership, cost of healthy eating, and therapy as needed.

Haircut/highlights (quarterly): 2000
Lash extensions (monthly): 3000
Dysport/filler (biannual): 2000
Retin A/skin care, as needed: 500
Annual cost: ~ 7500

Things I don't do spend on:

mani/pedis/massages/spa (don't particularly enjoy)
Expensive bags/shoes/clothes (not a big shopper & don't love labels)
Makeup (don't buy expensive brands)

Just interesting to see it written down. That's a lot for self-care and while I can afford it, it's not money I'm putting in the market. Anyway curious about others' habits/cost.

I havebt had my haircut since last September but I have an appt next month because my brother use to do my hair but he moved and I finally gave up trying to bring him home anytime soon so I assume 150 x 3qmonths= 450.

I just bought 500 worth of skincare products and I'll likely need that one more time to finish off the year. I expect it to last 3-4 months so 1500k skincare yearly.

No lashes. No injections. I don't wear makeup, I wear tinted SPF (FSA 30 4-5x year) and use gift cards or target for mascara/brows. I ask for a year supply of my favorite chapstick for Xmas every year and I use FSA to buy sunscreen chapstick.

I just started getting massages again so that's 250 q 3months but usually one of those is a present for mother's day or birthday. Massage= 750.

Pedicures gift cards or 60/q2month for April-October =240.

2500 total for turning 36. If you include peloton (DH and I both use the bike membership now 50/mo split =$300) and getmomstrong= 175 and random items like razors it's prob 3000-3500.

[Anonymous]

$130/month for YMCA membership
$500 on makeup and skincare (triret)
$1500 on hair and highlight
$60 on razors
$100 on lotions and body wash and shampoo
Do my own mani pedis

[Anonymous]

Age is going to matter here. Lol

Lower facelift $15k

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Age is going to matter here. Lol

Lower facelift $15k

Are you happy with it? Is your surgeon local?

[Anonymous]

I don't really think of any of this as self-care or wellness, but....

Where I spend $$$$:

Botox = $1800/year
Filler = $1200/year

Where I spend, but also save:

Skincare, probably $150/year-- generic Differin and products from The Ordinary

Where I don't:

Haircut and maybe color once per year, maybe $150-250 including tip
Mani/Pedi-- almost never get these, maybe a pedi once a year-- if I had more money, I'd get pedicures once in a while, but my nails are kind of a disaster (very weak), so kinda no point in getting manis
Massages-- Sure, if I had the income
Lashes, Hair extensions-- Maybe, if I had the income
Waxing/Hair Removal/Brows-- Nah.
Blowouts-- I would do this if I had more money, but almost never do as it is
Designer $$$$ bags-- Not interested in the least. Not even on sale/etc. Not like... Hermes or even LV. Yes, I have a See by Chloe bag I got for $50, but that's about as much as I'm interested in.

Where it's complicated:

Makeup-- I do buy a mix of higher end and cheaper brands, but I might have maybe spend $50 on makeup in the past two years thanks to COVID and WFH, and I have tons left
Clothes-- I love clothes, but am a bargain hunter... but also recently lost a ton of weight and had to replace 80% of my wardrobe, so... considering I only spent like $2500, and it was mostly designer, I think I did well. But in a normal year, not that much.
Self-tanning-- I used to do this for like $50 a month and would do it again if I lived closer to a place that does unlimited (machine/booth).

I feel like in a normal year, I spend most of this budgetary line item on my nurse injector, basically. I still dress well and care about hair and makeup, but I don't spend that much relative to what I guess I could. I mean, not really, because I am not well-off. But I think lots of others who had $4000-5000 a year total to spend on all this stuff wouldn't spend $3000 of it on injectables. On the other hand, I spend so little on lots of other things people spend on, like my hair. I should at least get it cut twice a year, lol.

[Anonymous]

Age 42, expenses per year

Botox 4x per year- 1500
Filler every 7 months (1 syringe at $400 per syringe) = maybe 600 annually?
Laser treatments: 1200
Makeup- 75
Haircut, no color- 300 per year
Mani/pedi 3x per year- 325
Gym/app subscriptions- 1200
Skin care (tret prescription, moisturizers, spf, sheet mask addiction) = 600

Acupuncture, chiro, etc covered by insurance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really think of any of this as self-care or wellness, but....

Where I spend $$$$:

Botox = $1800/year
Filler = $1200/year

Where I spend, but also save:

Skincare, probably $150/year-- generic Differin and products from The Ordinary

Where I don't:

Haircut and maybe color once per year, maybe $150-250 including tip
Mani/Pedi-- almost never get these, maybe a pedi once a year-- if I had more money, I'd get pedicures once in a while, but my nails are kind of a disaster (very weak), so kinda no point in getting manis
Massages-- Sure, if I had the income
Lashes, Hair extensions-- Maybe, if I had the income
Waxing/Hair Removal/Brows-- Nah.
Blowouts-- I would do this if I had more money, but almost never do as it is
Designer $$$$ bags-- Not interested in the least. Not even on sale/etc. Not like... Hermes or even LV. Yes, I have a See by Chloe bag I got for $50, but that's about as much as I'm interested in.

Where it's complicated:

Makeup-- I do buy a mix of higher end and cheaper brands, but I might have maybe spend $50 on makeup in the past two years thanks to COVID and WFH, and I have tons left
Clothes-- I love clothes, but am a bargain hunter... but also recently lost a ton of weight and had to replace 80% of my wardrobe, so... considering I only spent like $2500, and it was mostly designer, I think I did well. But in a normal year, not that much.
Self-tanning-- I used to do this for like $50 a month and would do it again if I lived closer to a place that does unlimited (machine/booth).

I feel like in a normal year, I spend most of this budgetary line item on my nurse injector, basically. I still dress well and care about hair and makeup, but I don't spend that much relative to what I guess I could. I mean, not really, because I am not well-off. But I think lots of others who had $4000-5000 a year total to spend on all this stuff wouldn't spend $3000 of it on injectables. On the other hand, I spend so little on lots of other things people spend on, like my hair. I should at least get it cut twice a year, lol.

How old are you, PP? And how long have you been using the injectables. TIA. Just a curious late 40s female, who has yet to spend any money on fillers, etc., but definitely enough on skincare in other ways.