Subluxations of Life

So, what is your biggest "splurge" so to speak (I put it in quotation marks because usually a splurge is something you enjoy).  The one thing that you just cringe when you think about how you bought it.  Ha!  Everyone has got that one thing, the "gym membership" that is needed (when you work out approximately once a year <-------right here!), the "juicer" (oh wait, I have one of those too), but mine, wow!

Every year my work sponsors a health fair.  One can go and get blood work done, check your weight, height, grab some snacks (since you are supposed to be fasting) etc.  This year we had visitors, one of those being a chiropractic clinic.  I avoided them since I have no aches and pains to speak of.  However, a charismatic man comes up to me and asks if I would like to do a thermal scan.  I'm thinking to myself, I can go back to work or do this for a little bit, so I went for the thermal scan.  Can you come in next week for an adjustment?  "No", I'm thinking.  "Yes", I answer. 

The scan looked like the above.  There were black lines in the cervical (neck) area to indicate that I had a "severe subluxation."  A subluxation, essentially, is a misalignment of the spine.  They are corrected through chiropractic adjustments, exercises etc.  I was terrified.  I thought I felt fine.  This scan and this stranger says I'm not.  To make a long story short, after one visit, I am convinced that much more is wrong with me.  I need a 60 visit treatment plan and said plan will only cost $1400.  "I'LL TAKE IT!"  I paid for it the same day I had my first adjustment.  Granted, it feels good to have my neck adjusted, but $1400?!!  The 60 visits were to be used in 4 months for my "treatment plan."  I bought them two years ago.  As often as I am not going, I am still using these visits. 

The treatment plans include "Dinner with the Doctor" and lots of seminars.  Examples of these seminars include conversations about the dangers of vaccinations, natural eating (organic food, grass fed meats etc.).  It's different than what I thought a chiropractor was because I thought it was just adjustments for pain.  Maybe I could get my money's worth out of this, although I'm not entirely convinced yet.  I believe in vaccinations.

 Just for fun:
What can you buy for $1400:
A USED CAR (a rusted out piece, but you could probably get a few thousand miles out of it)
Sponsor a child for 46 months.

I could get my hair cut, colored, and highlighted 10 times at my salon (she's good!)
Pay off $1400 worth of student loans
A week in Vegas (probably cheaper than that, actually)
A whole lot...


What is your biggest splurge?