How often do you treat yourself to something new?

I'm sure I've asked this before but oh well.

Even if it's something simple and inexpensive, how often do you do it?

I've had to stop treating myself to combo meals and ice cream though
Getting kinda 🐖 😅

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hartfire

Not that often - maybe once every week or two, if I see something new that fits my needs or tastes (and, as you say, is simple and inexpensive).
The most recent is cordyceps powder as an immunity supplement in the hope of fighting a cancer in the corner of my right eye, $20 for a jar the size of three matchboxes. Expensive actually - because the amount I'd need to take: 7g 4 times a day added to a drink or food. It tastes mushroomy, great in stews. However, the cost would mount up to more than I could afford long term.
The alternative medicine, prescribed by the opthamolgist, was drops (chemtherapy) that stung like a red hot poker, caused the skin around to turn red and swell up - funded by Medicare, hence free, but intolerable. I'd rather kill myself than apply those drops 4 times a day - nothing but medieval torture for four months!
So, I take my chances with this one jar of cordyceps immune booster - and if it doesn''t work and I have to die naturally, I accept that as nature doing its thing. Have no fear of death, so its perfectly okay.

Other things new and affordable for me:
- the sound of two channel -billed cuckoos, a series of sqwarks - start at a low pitch, each rises higher, till they finish with a shriek.
- fresh wakame seaweed - delicious and extremely healthy - would have it everyday, but not easy to get
- all forms of soap make my fingernails brittle - now use just water and nail brush, and gloves for garden work
- coffee club in town, a new group of friends, intelligent, kind and funny
- reading, hearing and discussing new ideas
- American Pitbulls can be friendly and love to be petted (most other dogs do too, but i'd always been wary of Pits).
- exploring new places in my area.
- new cooking techniques - using a convection cooktop is not so easy - but MUCH cheaper.
- propagating seeds from last year's veggie and flower crops, [i]much[/i] cheaper than buying seedlings
- internal discoveries through meditation

Actually, there's no end to the new things one can discover if one is open to it. The possibilities are infinite.