Vacation home.

TLDR. OP, good shoes, good pillow, and good mattress. Anything that comes between you and the ground — go for something luxury and lasting. You spend a third of your life in bed, why not make sure it’s the best it can be (and no I’m not a mattress salesman).

Restaurant meals can really vary in quality and be really salty. I'd rather have cleaners to free up time at home to cook healthy meals.

I had breast augmentation. It made a very beneficial change to my dating life.

Anonymous wrote:My highest priority quality of life splurge is 2x month massages with a great sports/deep tissue massage therapist. Been going to him for the better part of a decade and it's worth more to me than cleaners, laundry, take out, etc.

2nd biggest is my yoga studio.

Congratulations on the raise!

I'm looking for someone who does great deep tissue massage. Willing to share the name of yours?

Anonymous wrote:Single mom here if little kids ages 4 and 6. I just got a new job with significant raise 80k to 140k. I'd like to splurge one 1 quality of life improvement for myself. What would you choose? Cleaners? Gym membership?

This is out of your price range but the most meaningful splurge purchase for us was a beach house. I can't even think of what would be a very distant second.

This is going to be overlooked by everyone UMC and above who is totally numb to driving new cars but as someone who drove used, out-of-warranty cars from age 16 to my 30s:

Leased new cars, ideally 24 month leases.

Yeah, yeah, leases are a "total waste of money." I don't care and I personally don't drive anything terribly spendy. They rarely break and if they do everything is under warranty, free roadside, free towing, free loaner cars, no shopping for or worrying about tires or even wiper blades. And frankly, I like that new cars are so comfortable with shiny paint.

Stress-free. Blissful.

first off, congrats on the raise OP!
At 140K a year, your time is worth about $70/hour. Your biggest commodity is time not money.

Definitely outsource the housecleaning and hire a laundry service. Your time is more valuable than that (you can get an independent housekeeper for about $35 per hour, laundry service is about $2/ pound).

Use the extra time to spend with your kids or get a micro certification to advance your career even further and make even more money (lots of low cost course options with Linked in Learning or Coursera).

Budget about $600-$700 a month for the housecleaner and the laundry service, then max out your 401K and invest in your kids 529 plans.

I'd gladly trade eating out for cleaners any day of the week. It doesn't hurt that my DH is an amazing cook but I rarely see something at a restaurant that my husband cant do as well or better.

Pilates, cleaners or item to make cleaning easier like a cordless and/or robot vacuum (I got a great Robot vacuum for next to nothing on FB Marketplace), trip, maybe controversial but my induction stove saves me so much time while cooking, a small house or landscaping project on your list, nespresso machine, car detailing, nice bedding/pillows/pad, bidet (get that regardless), Headspace app to practice mediation, therapy

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Anonymous wrote:Single mom here if little kids ages 4 and 6. I just got a new job with significant raise 80k to 140k. I'd like to splurge one 1 quality of life improvement for myself. What would you choose? Cleaners? Gym membership?

You can get a gym membership at planet fitness for like 10 bucks a month. If you actually go regularly for a solid 6mo then think about more expensive gyms.

Cleaner and someone to declutter and organize our house. It all wears my spirit down.

Most definitely hire a housecleaner or a cleaning crew.

It seems the majority of responses agree that outsourcing your housework is the best splurge you can treat yourself with!

It’s amazing all the responses that suggested you get a housecleaner - - shows how much most of us hate all the time we spend on cleaning our houses!