Little Indulgences More Than 400 Ways to Be Good to Yourself

by Cynthia MacGregor

Little indulgences are gifts you give yourself. When it's a down day, a rainy day, a sunny day, any day - whenever you need a "little something" to make life better, try one of the following:

Plan to visit your old college during homecoming week.
Host a Christmas-in-July party, where all the gifts go to charity.
Get a movie you'd normally never see-a foreign film, silent film, or martial arts flick.
Get a set of finger-paints and have a wonderfully messy time.
Go to a museum you've never visited-preferably something offbeat.
Send flowers to the local nursing home-you'll feel fabulous.
Take a course in something you've always wondered about (photography), or something you never thought you'd care about (ventriloquism).
Don't play the TV in your house for an entire day. Listen to and love the world around you.
Put some money in your savings account. If you don't have one, start one.
Take a small child to the petting zoo. You pet the animals too.
Call an old friend you haven't talked to in ages. Yak at length.

Inside you'll find nearly four hundred more ideas for every taste and budget. So go ahead-be good to yourself.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Prolific author Cynthia MacGregor has had 54 (at last count!) books published conventionally and another over-50 published as e-books. A full-time freelance writer/editor, she works from a home office In Palm Springs FL, just outside West Palm Beach, where she writes books, ghostwrites books for others, writes “almost anything if the price is right” (web copy, catalog copy, advertisements, business materials, and lots more), and edits books, magazines, websites, and “whatever else needs editing.”

She loves writing so much that it’s even one of her hobbies. For example, she writes all the plays produced by the Palm Springs Players, a South Florida community theatre group, for which she gets “no money but lots of enjoyment.” She also enjoys wordplay with an online punsters group, PUNY, and when possible travels to the annual O. Henry World Championship Pun-Off, a wordplay event held every May in Austin, TX, where she has appeared some years as a competitor and other years as a judge.

Cynthia is site owner of both www.TheSoloParent.com and www.ThePublicApology.com and is producer and host of Solo Parenting, a weekly TV show seen in South Florida, whose audience is single parents, whether divorced, widowed, or never-married, custodial or visitational, moms or dads.

Loving her career, Cynthia believes herself truly blessed and says, “There is no one in the world whom I’d want to trade lives with.”

Reviews

[Annburnett · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is an interesting book to give you a lot of ideas to find things to treat yourself. Some are very simple and others are more involved. It was an enjoyable read.

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

IF your life feels ho-hum boring, then this is a book of ideas on how to add some spice back into your daily life. From buying flowers for someone else, to polishing your nails in a new color....this book has all kinds of ideas of new things to try.

It's one of my favorite books as I need to pamper myself more --just because I deserve it. :)

[Molly · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book of ways to indulge yourself in small ways. I thought some were nice and easy (listening your favorite music in the morning), some were silly, but there were several that were not what I would call a "little" indulgence. For instance, getting your car repainted or considering having make up tattooed on your face. Those are what I call a big deal.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice, but the text was top heavy depending a great deal on indulgences you have to pay for.
Would have liked more good FREE ideas...