Now the kids have all grown up, gone and no longer need my financial support (don’t they cost a lot?) and I’m now living off my pension, I find I have a bit more to spend on the things I want to buy.
Whereas this would in the past have been the cheapest and quite often second hand, now I find I can buy new and a bit more up-market.
Recently I bought some wooden benches for the garden and some new indoor dining chairs, at a price I never would have dreamt of spending before. But you know what? The quality is so much better.
It isn’t cheap wood and everything I built (it all arrived flat-packed) came together seamlessly. All the bolts were dead in line with what they had to screw into and all the finished items look as though they will last for years, have no factory blemishes on them, are sturdy as hell and look just like the pictures that persuaded me to buy them.
Not sure I would class these as luxury items, though they are to me; just quality.