Is there an upper limit to indulgence?

[neadods]

I was going to buy something little but pleasantly useful as a birthday present for myself. I have the option to buy something really big and expensive and beautiful simply because it's available and I'd like it and at the moment I have the money.

Which way to go, which way to go...

Comments

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

If you have the money and it's not earmarked for debt reduction, retirement funding, or emergency funds, why not splurge?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It's a LOT of money. 4 figures. Usually when I pay that, I'm buying an experience like a con, not... bling.

Really, really, beautiful bling.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Bling is a convertible asset. That's an investment.

Experience is fleeting. Rocks last.

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

If the little useful thing isn't significantly expensive, why not both?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It's expensive. It's "this is my convention budget" expensive.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Reading for comprehension, I cannot has it. I could do both, but I know that someone was eyeing the smaller thing as a Christmas present.

[melusinehr.livejournal.com]

Understandable. That said, if someone is considering giving you the smaller thing as a Christmas present, that seems like a solid reason to buy the big expensive lovely thing instead. (Unless you meant that someone is eyeing the smaller thing as a Christmas present for not-you, in which case never mind.)

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Is it something that will make you smile when you look at it for years to come?

I passed on a gorgeous framed print (?) when I was in college and couldn't afford it, and I still think of it and wish I had a picture of it, at least.... (It was a depiction of a Native American legend that the animals were putting the stars in the sky carefully, one by one, when Coyote came along and flipped the blanket the stars were on, so they went all over the place.)