These days most people are having to be very careful with money. With the prices of energy, petrol and food soaring and take home pay staying the same most households have to account for every extra penny. It is rare to have any extra pennies for treats and we are often on the lookout for ways to make extra cash.
Imagine that one day you find a £20 note that you didn’t know you had. It could be lurking in your coat pocket when you shoved it in while you were rushing about one day. Maybe you find it in the bottom of your handbag where it escaped from your purse. Possibly you find it down the back of the sofa, the back of the sofa does seem to collect cash. It is £20, it is all yours to spend. No one knows you have it, you can treat yourself. How does it feel?
For me the £20 is now a list of possibilities. I can spend my time planning how I am going to spend it which is half of the fun. Lots of ideas run though my mind. I could have an adventure, I could take a bus to a random destination and find out what was there. I have done this before and it is fun but there is always the chance you end up in the middle of a farmers field. I could go out for the day, to somewhere like Beamish Museum or Marsden Grotto which is a pub set into a cliff. At this time of year though the weather is not the best so it is not the best idea.
In the end I decide I am going to treat myself to an exercise DVD. That might sound as if it is not much of a treat but I really want to get fit and with the cold weather I have not been getting out running the way I would normally. I have been hearing great things about Jillian Micheal’s 30 day Shred.
It sounds like it really pushes you which is what I need to stop being lazy and the benefit of fitness can’t be measured. At the moment it is only £5.09 so I can also treat myself to something else.
If I am going to do this DVD I suspect I will need some serious pampering afterwards and for a gorgeous pampering treat I always choose Lush. Now what can be more relaxing that a lovely warm bath filled with bath bombs or bubble bath?
This Lush Relax Take a Bath box is the ultimate relaxing pampering treat for me and it is not something I would normally treat myself too. This box is £12.50 so I will still have change from my £20. In fact enough change to buy myself a magazine and a bar of chocolate.
Have you ever found money unexpectedly? What did you do with it?
Disclosure: This is my entry into MoneySupermarket’s ‘What’s in your pocket’ blogger competition.
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