I'm not a big spender on food, as an example, but I will spend more than my usual on experiences. For instance, I've spoken about pictures I see that send me off half-way around the world and sometimes it eases the logistics, in an otherwise difficult journey, by treating one's self to a bit of pampering along the way. I spoke about it recently in my blog here on Gulangyu Island.
Another such splurge was to a restored Chinese merchant's house I saw one day in my library office in a new issue of Architectural Digest. It was called the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion and is in Penang, a place I'd never heard of before except on menus, and couldn't stop myself from immediately planning a trip to stay there. I stayed a week, went off for a few days, then returned for another week, and it was worth every penny. It was early days for the enterprise and much of the time I was the only guest.