优雅的餐厅吃午餐

1.Go to an elegant restaurant…for lunch.
I’ll never forget the time a group of friends and I went to a French restaurant I’d been longing to visit that was a little pricey. It was tucked away on a leafy, residential street. Inside, tall windows surrounded a dining room, bare save for the wooden tables with thick, sturdy legs. We enjoyed the bread basket, drank a carafe of the rough house red, and I ate a croque madame, oozy with egg yolk. We shared dessert, something chocolatey as I recall, and sat for a long while that afternoon finishing the wine in the early spring sunshine. To this day it was one of the best $20 I ever spent.
去一个优雅的餐厅吃午餐。和几个朋友一起，找一家有气氛的餐厅。这将会成为你一段美好的回忆。

出入高端舞会

2.Step into a high-end boutique.
Touch the clothes, appreciate the craftsmanship, try on whatever you like. Then breeze right out, unscathed.
出入高端舞会。选择品位的衣服，穿上自己喜欢的衣服。

将网上的购物车装满

3.Fill up your virtual shopping cart…and then close your browser.
For me personally, this works much better than actually going into a store which will somehow inevitably make me feel bad about myself and angry at the world. I hit up Anthropologie, ShopBop, ModCloth, Nordstrom, or Sephora and load my shopping basket full of everything I want. Then I look at the total — so glad I won’t be adding all those digits to my credit card — and close the computer. The end feeling is one that I got whatever I wanted and didn’t have to suffer the consequences.
将网上的购物车装满然后关掉浏览器。这样我们会觉得自己已经得到了我们想要的，而我们又不用花钱。

请自己喝茶或喝咖啡

4.Take yourself out for tea or cappuccino. And I don’t mean the kind you grab on the way to the subway. Go somewhere they will serve you in proper china with an adorable little spoon. Seat yourself at a table. Enjoy the ritual of the experience. Don’t read; just sit back and enjoy the aroma of your beverage, the hot cup in your hands, and the luxury of doing nothing.
请自己喝茶或喝咖啡。试着享受这个过程，不要读书，静静地坐着并享受它的气息。

体验充足感

5.Experience abundance.
Have you ever gone to a store with just lots and lots of one thing? Plastic boxes deep with buttons that you can sink your hands into, a room ringed with bolts of colorful fabrics, shelves lined with bottles of wine, a flower shop filled with fragrant blooms. Sometimes just experiencing abundance — even of something as unassuming as a ball of yarn — can give you a sense of abundance, and if you’re lucky, maybe even a bit of wonder.
体验充足感。你有没有注意过超市里巨大的塑料箱子，你深深地将手放进去才能摸到底，一个有各种各样颜色的屋子？这些物体的富足感会让你感受神奇，觉得自己也是奇迹的一部分。

试商店的香水小样

6.Pick up perfume samples.
I am experiencing a new obsession with perfume, and great perfumes are as complex and subtle as the best cheese and wine. What makes them even more fun, though, is how personal and evocative they are, and how they tap into imagination and fantasy. Buy wee little samples of exquisite scents here, ask for free samples of your favorite at Sephora, or just read some of the best perfume blogs for a taste of olfactory luxury.
试商店的香水小样。让售货员拿出你最喜欢的香水的试用装，那些美丽的香味会让你由衷地感受到富有。

买一支新口红

7.Buy a new lipstick.
Isn’t there just something about the makeup counters in department stores? The sales associates are pleasantly fawning and all the glass and reflective surfaces evoke Grace Farrell’s dressing room. Walk away with a new lipstick and you may just feel like a new woman. Is there anything more glamorous than a bare face, a shock of red lipstick, and big sunglasses?
买一支新口红。有什么比一个干净白皙的脸上，配上魅力的口红和大大的太阳镜来的更过瘾呢？

文化富有感

8.Get culturally rich.
There are so many free programs at planetariums, libraries, book stores, and museums. You might be listening to a lecture about something a little (or a lot) esoteric — 15th century Provençal literary traditions or how printmaking has changed through the ages — but you’ll walk out with your knowledge base broadened and your experience of life enriched.
文化富有感。天文馆，图书馆或书店，博物馆有很多免费的节目，去体验一场免费的讲座，也是不错的选择。

淘物美价廉的东东

9.Get pampered on the cheap.
There may not be an Aveda Institute near you, but there are certainly other schools for natural healers at which you can receive discounted treatments performed by students. Also, keep your eyes peeled for no-frills bodywork and reflexology places in your area. Or do what the thriftiest of those in need of pampering do: take some beauty products to your gym (an exfoliating treatment, a thick body butter, a facial mask) and turn the locker room into your own mini-spa.
淘物美价廉的东东。你可以低价买够spa需要的各种东东，建立自己的美容spa。

收集愿望

10.Count your blessings.
You knew this one was coming. The surest way to remember the embarrassment of riches already at your feet, for free.
收集自己的愿望。最终的一点就是学会感恩，祈愿是免费的，还可以让你感受幸福。

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