Your biggest extravagance during the Celtic Tiger

blackcard

Those were the days. Getting a pay rise I hadn't looked for, being pre-approved for loans I hadn't sought, the limit on my credit card being increased. But I didn't go mad. No second home in Portugal, landcruiser, Xmas shopping in New York, electric gates, shares in a horse. I even bought a second hand car. The most money I spent was putting tarmac on the driveway for €8000. But I can still justify that. My worst extravagance was spending €3000 in a hair clinic because I thought my hairline was starting to recede. I got bored after a while and didn't carry on with the treatment. So what was your biggest extravagance during the Celtic Tiger?

nervous_twitch

Decking.

Agricola

Probably 1500 on a flatscreen in 2006. It wasnt even a very good one.

SEPT 23 1989

breast implants for my jacuzzi

Youngblood.III

blackcard wrote: »

spending €3000 in a hair clinic because I thought my hairline was starting to recede. I got bored after a while and didn't carry on with the treatment

Are you a baldy bastard now?

Beasty

blackcard wrote: »

The most money I spent was putting tarmac on the driveway for €8000.

Pah! spent a lot more than that on a bike - doesn't count though as I spent that in the recession ....

blackcard

Youngblood.III wrote: »

Are you a baldy bastard now?

Actually no. It was only slightly receding and didn't carry on, I had more money than sense

boobar

Weekly shop in Tesco

Tony Beetroot

Beasty wrote: »

Pah! spent a lot more than that on a bike - doesn't count though as I spent that in the recession ....

You would want your head examined spending that on a pedal bike.

Cianmcliam

Turkish Travertine from Daft Dave.

Mister Vain

Escort.

Sparklygirl

I had a public sector job so didn't have buckets of money but had no kids so did have a disposable income. I just enjoyed being young and having meals out and going to the pub and shopping for clothes. On hindsight, I should have gone on more holidays had I known the responsibilities that lay ahead. I helped my sister and brother out financially while they studied and I am happy I did that, it was money very well spent.

Junkyard Tom

An Armani suit made out of decking.

Tony Beetroot

Mister Vain wrote: »

Escort.

Mk1 or MK2?

Specialun

Was in college

One week i splashed out on chicken with more than 60% chicken

Beasty

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

You would want your head examined spending that on a pedal bike.

I've got 2 that cost more than that....

fleet_admiral

I left the immersion on for an hour longer than normal

Mister Vain

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Mk1 or MK2?

Mk mad whore of a yoke.

Stroke Politics

Went to Paris for the day on the first flight out and got the 9pm flight back that evening. The wife needed to pick up some Macaroons from Laduree for a dinner party we were having that night (it was a Wednesday). Had a glass of champagne with breakfast and lunch in a cafe by the Seine before travelling around Paris twice on one of the open top tourist buses...

porsche959

Once paid £2,300 for car insurance on a sportscar. Reason it was so high was that even though I had a totally clean record, I had only just got a full licence, was under 25, and had no NCB. Fortunately it came down massively the next year, but putting the first years' insurance onto the 5 year loan I took out to buy the car was probably not the best idea in the world!

Outside of that, probably spending ridiculous amounts on nights out, ordering two bottles of champagne in nightclubs or whatever, this didn't happen that often and I certainly wasn't ordering the more expensive types of champagne, but it did happen a few times.

I also lost money on certain investments but I don't consider that extravagance as such, just investments that didn't pan out.

anncoates

A house,I suppose, although it was a relatively modest mortgage by the yardstick of the times and still doesn't seem that bad.

I think, like most people, I fell between the cliches of the tiger. Didn't lose the run of myself by any means but also didn't do the smug hairshirt thing beloved of some of the blowhards you read in here.

porsche959

anncoates wrote: »

A house,I suppose, although it was a relatively modest mortgage by the yardstick of the times and still doesn't seem that bad.

From your own description, that's not an extravagance. It's just the most expensive thing you've bought ever (as it is for most people).

Different story if you'd paid €1.2m for a 3 bed penthouse in 2006 and got a 110% interest free tracker mortgage so as you could buy a new car/go on holidays/spend the balance on renovations, etc.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Mortgage,remortgage and another remortgage.

Damn you Bertie and your free money.

I added a basement to my yacht garage

wtlltw

Bought a one bed in godnoslovoweritiz, still haven't been there, but everyone was buying a place there at the time!!!

deandean

I paid 6.80 for a pint of Heineken in Temple Bar.

eviltwin

I won a 1000 Euro voucher for Brown Thomas, spent the entire amount on a handbag

Mint Aero

Ate breakfast rolls everyday for an entire summer working on building sites. I was a kid and t'was like another land thinking back on it now. The queues of white vans outside the petrol stations in the early sunny mornings and the smell of bacon to cure the hangover from the night before. T'was the summer before it all ended. There was hookers, and coke and cake and decking everywhere. We'd so much decking we decked the van.

YFlyer

blackcard wrote: »

Actually no. It was only slightly receding and didn't carry on, I had more money than sense

Liar lol

anncoates

Let's be fair, it's now time for a moratorium on the word 'decking' in this thread.

Tony Beetroot

Could we have a moratorium on big words?