Some of our business mentors recently received a $15k bonus from the business we are a part of. J, the husband, gave K, the wife, $1000 to spend on whatever she wanted. The rule was that she could not spend it on him or on their three kids. K decided to do her shopping at
Somerset Collection, instead of somewhere in Cincinnati, where she's from.
A whole bunch of ladies in our business have a yearly tradition around Thanksgiving to go shopping with $5000 monopoly money. We go to Somerset Collection and "spend" our money by taking pictures of us wearing the clothes or wearing the jewelry, or with whatever we decide to "buy". The purpose of this is to stretch us and help us actually start believing that we will buy these items someday.
K had already decided that she wanted to buy a couple things specifically. She had gone online and picked out a Coach purse and a Coach wallet so that was the first thing she was going after. Unfortunately, that would have only left her with about $300 to spend for the rest of the day. Cue the romance....
Before we went shopping, while we were waiting for the rest of the girls to show up, J said he had something for K before she took off.
"I called ahead to the Coach store here and they didn't have the wallet that you wanted in stock, so here you go. This obviously doesn't count toward your $1000, but I wanted you to have some place to put your money." He smiled and K got all teary eyed. They hugged and I thought it was such a sweet gesture....
Then he pulled away.
"And actually when I got talking to them, they informed me that they didn't have the purse either, so I went ahead and got you the purse you wanted to...so you'd have some place to put the wallet." K's face lit up...she got super emotional and all of us ladies were "awwww-ing".
I thought, how awesome is that that because of this business, they live a life of abundance, where he can do that for his wife just for the heck of it? I mean, maybe some of you get to spend tons of money on whatever you want, but I haven't yet. I've never gone and blown large amounts of money and even when I spend a little money, on whatever, I feel guilty. It'll be so nice in the next couple years when I will have earned the right to spend all sorts of money on frivolous things.
So this year, because K got $1000, our budget was $1000. I bought a pair of shoes, a necklace from Swarovski Crystal, and a business jacket. I was stressing because I had only spent a couple hundred dollars and I had a couple minutes to go...I ran upstairs in Nordstrom and found a jacket I loved which happened to be $800. HA!
Anyway, we had a good time. K got tons of clothes from Ann Taylor and White House/Black Market and also got a necklace from Tiffany & Co.
If you had $1000 to blow, what would you buy??