We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community, “What Is The Biggest Splurge You’ve Bought For Yourself?” Here are the best and funniest responses.
1. $200 worth of cupcakes.
"I was in the final weeks of the most heinous semester of my college life, I had just gotten an IUD that was trying to tear outta my uterus like the Twilight baby, and my boyfriend had just broken up with me. So I treated myself to $200 worth of Dean and Deluca cupcakes, and ate them all while I binge watched five seasons of The Vampire Diaries in a week. I'm not even sorry. I'm proud."
— Christine Tezak (Facebook)
2. An Alexander McQueen dress.
"Alexander McQueen was my favorite fashion designer, in spite of my paltry peasant salary. I never owned an expensive piece of clothing, but I loved his designs. They were like art. After he killed himself, I found myself surprisingly devastated (considering celebrity deaths usually do not affect me), and I went on eBay to look for anything even remotely affordable from his collection. A lot of the used dresses and shoes were much less than they would have been new. I ended up coming across a dress from his very last runway show before he died, Plato's Atlantis.
It was a runway piece that hadn't even been mass produced — it was a one-of-a-kind sample. It was fully lined and labeled, and even had the label from the runway show, which has all the info as far as which model wore it, the line number, everything. I got it for about $450, which I had been saving specifically for anything I could find from his collection. I spent it without a second thought, and although it is probably worth about $4000-$5000 now, I will never sell it. I have no idea how I even got it for such a price, but I never complained! I've worn it a couple times, but the sentimental value of it far outweighs any money I could be given for it. I've never regretted it, and that dress makes my ass look fucking fantastic. I save it for extra special occasions, and there is no other dress like it. It is wearable art. I feel very lucky to have come across it."
— Dabria Dahlhaus (Facebook)
3. A remote-controlled dinosaur.
When I was in high school I bought a remote controlled dinosaur that was about $100. I consider it a splurge, because who needs a $100 remote controlled dinosaur? It's sitting in my parents' basement and has been for the past eight years.
— Gwen Miller (Facebook)
4. A spontaneous road trip.
"I don't splurge often and usually it's on concert tickets. My favorite splurge was a last-minute road trip with a friend. I'm a PLANNER. Like, I PLAN. But I was just so exhausted from working that I needed a vacation. Coincidentally, a friend who had just moved up from Florida needed a buddy to take the trip down with him and back to get the rest of his things. He was planning to go for a week during a long weekend. Within 15 minutes of him posting on Facebook, I jumped on his bandwagon. Spontaneous (not like me), and I agreed to drive half the trip (I only had a permit). We stopped in Baltimore, and then in the Carolinas, and then in Miami, drinking and hanging with his people and my friend who was also in Miami, and then some. Good food, good fun and a great breakaway from the usual. We had a great time and laughed all the way through. You see where this is going — we ended up dating directly after."
— Ashley Shay (Facebook)
5. A microscope.
"When I was 12, I bought a $300 dollar microscope (I saved up for almost a year). To this day, I think I have used it maybe four times."
6. Customized M&Ms.
"One time I bought a bag of M&Ms off the website. They had an option to have your picture printed on them. I spent 50 dollars for a bag of M&Ms with my face printed on them. I ate them after staring at them for 3 months."
7. A fancy washing machine.
"Last June my $75 bare-bones, rusted-out-heap Craigslist washer died on me by spewing dirty bleach water all over my laundry room floor. After I got my first job out of college this past October, and after months of laundromat hell and trips to my parents', I went to Home Depot and bought a flagship model, top-of-the-line washing machine. Electrolux 70 Series with 67 different wash cycles. SIXTY-SEVENNNNN. I still watch the clothes go around in that fancy machine."
— Jordan Watkins (Facebook)
8. A Movado watch.
"I grew up being taught to save, save, save. After my first week as an intern on Wall Street when I was in college, my intention was to save as much as possible so that I would have some extra money for the fall semester. However, my mom, who was the one who always used to tell me to save, save, save, told me that I had to blow my first paycheck. So I went a bought myself a $500 diamond Movado watch, and I still have it today."
— Samantha Hulka (Facebook)
9. Concert tickets.
"Last summer, my boyfriend and I spent over $300 on concert tickets to see Paramore and Fall Out Boy play at Hershey Park. They were front row tickets, and we got to meet Paramore, which is his favorite band. We stayed at the parks campground all weekend, went to the park, and brought home presents for our family. I ended up getting laid off via email before the concert started, and as a result we decided to stay another day. The whole weekend cost about $1,000 and even though our parents chipped in a little, most of it came from our own pockets. It was the best vacation we've ever had, it was our favorite concert we've ever been to, and it is by far our favorite memory that my boyfriend and I have had the past five years."
10. A new car.
"I went to the car wash but there was a long line, so I drove a little further to a Toyota dealership and bought a 4Runner."
11. Chanel lipstick.
"I've splurged much more than I should have in my life, but my most unnecessary one is when I purchased a Chanel lipstick just because it had my name. Now, for those of you with names that are out of the ordinary, it's a big deal to find something with the correct spelling, so while part of me justified it as accomplishing a lifelong dream, it was still a bit crazy to spend more than $30 on a freaking lipstick."
— Destinee Hanson-Miller (Facebook)
12. A harp.
"I always wanted to play the harp since I was little. I was walking through a used bookstore and they happened to have a small harp for sale, and I snatched that little baby up! It cost me about $300, but I found out it's worth closer to $2000. Best deal/splurge ever!"
13. Guitar Hero 3
"Honestly? The time I dropped $70 on 'Guitar Hero 3.' I was a sophomore in college with a part-time job, so that was kind of a big deal for me. The downside? I still lived at home and didn't have anybody to play it with (we lived in the middle of nowhere, and my parents weren't gamers by any stretch of the imagination)."
— Chris Roll (Facebook)
14. A hair straightener.
"I now have a love/hate relationship with the mall. We have all these new restaurants to get drunk at. After spending the day shopping I had dinner with my two friends and naturally, we got some drinks. Doesn't take much to get me drunk, so I decided to walk off some of my alcohol intake. Needless to say, my tipsy self got caught talking to the girl selling hair straighteners in the middle of the mall at a kiosk. $125 later I have a stupid purple hair straightener I barely ever use."