Four Ways to Spoil Yourself

Flowers

Chocolates

Lingerie

There's no tastier way to indulge yourself than splashing out on your favourite chocs and keeping them all to yourself. There's plenty of scope beyond the odd family-sized bar of Dairy Milk, too: Green and Black's do delicious organic chocolates, including 70% cocoa dark chocolate slabs, and you can pick up unusual-but-divine chilli-chocolate mixes from Montezuma's.

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Flowers are the quickest fix for brightening up your kitchen, bathroom, lounge or wherever – and because they're seasonal, you can go on changing the arrangement and style throughout the year. If you're a London-dweller, bouquets from Columbia Road Flower Market on Sundays are a must, but otherwise get to know your local florist and together you can start to put together blooms that perfectly match your taste and home décor.

Shoes

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If gift-card sellers are to be believed, there's nothing girls love more than a pair of heels, preferably in pink with some glitter thrown in. They're half-right: shoes are a number-one lust object for even the most rational types every once in a while, but shoes that constitute as desirable vary enormously from person to person. If you're really looking to splash out on yourself, invest in one pair of designer shoes that'll last for seasons to come – classic Chanel pumps, Louboutin heels with their tell-tale red soles or directional styles from Acne Studios.

Cliches exist for a reason: often, there's a grain of truth in commonly-held sentiments that let them graduate to cliche-status. So, while typical boyfriend or husband gifts like flowers or French lingerie are seen as unimaginative, mostly you don't actually dislike this kind of stuff. You just hate fall-back presents. We say, buy your favourite 'typical' girlie things for yourself before he gets the chance to, and get what you really want. Here's a rundown of the top four gifts you might get from a partner that you can do much, much better at - or to put it another way, four great ways to spoil yourself...

Sexy-looking lingerie shouldn't be about getting all trussed-up in something uncomfortable, fiddly or garish – when you think something looks gorgeous and you feel totally comfortable and confident wearing it, you can't help but look hot. Whether it's finding that perfect matching bra and knickers set, a corset that fits like a glove or trying out a sexy pair of silk stockings and suspenders, you know your body and your tastes best so go ahead and indulge them.