Champagne and Netflix (or any other streaming service that helps keep you happy).

Oh, I'll play! The cost of flights to visit my kids and grandkids or fly them to me! The health benefits are obvious!

The cost of travel - either a health care expense or an education expense. And I want a tax credit not a deduction, as long as I’m wishing.

Teeth veneers, cosmetic NOT covered by my dental insurance. $1500 a tooth!

Starbucks coffee....I need the energy early in the morning...and a muffin!

A nice waterfall feature in my backyard...to sooth the senses.

I still haven't seen the avocado thread, but my store than them for $1.19 today. (edited, as during the night I remembered they were 1.19. One lemon was .91 and that number was in my mind also.).

For Health Care deductions:

Pet expenses

Plants

Fairy lights

Flowering houseplants

Flowering outdoor plants (why not?!)

5 (your choice) comfort foods

Bandaids and wrist/hand braces and wraps to support (literally) my handbell habit. Well, maybe the wrist braces are deductible, but I already bought them and didn’t think about them. Oh, and a second pair of glasses specifically for the distance from my eyes to the music, which is not the same as reading distance.

Gym / rec center memberships. Vegetables. Good quality mattresses or anything else that helps one sleep well. Massages. Running shoes. Sports bras. (Maybe some of these are and I don't know how.) I feel like these are some of the important things that help keep me healthy.

Pricklypear beat me to massages, gym memberships or classes and mattresses. I would add pillows, I second (third or whatever the count is) shoes, chocolate, flowering plants or gardening in general (exercise and stress relief), pet care - and so my DH doesn't have to bring it up -- all my sewing machines and fabric.

Acupuncture

Horseback riding or horse related activities

Beach days

River rat days

Pets

Sports equipment (with proof of participation)

Dance classes

Activity programs for toddler through elementary school aged kids

Basic home exercise equipment, pets, tai chi classes, dark chocolate, apples, and subsidies for seniors groups.

I like the way you all think.

Our health insurance offers a small stipend for 'drugstore stuff' like band aids, toothpaste, grabbers -- things that help keep you from needing expensive care.

I've read of care plans that *prescribe* groceries in low-income populations. That really makes sense!

Chisue, i like that it includes toothpaste. Good oral health is essential for good overall health!

I’m going to see if my insurance will cover another wrist brace. After a day of ringing bass handbells for 5 hours (not low bass, thank goodness), the hand that had the brace feels okay, the other one is sore. When I was a young nursing mother, the nursing kicked my carpal tunnel into high gear. My doctor sent me to an orthopedist who ordered custom wrist cocks for me. Insurqnce didn’t cover it, I found out after the fact, because ”you could have gotten them at the drugstore”. Oh well, I like them, they have a good system that makes them completely adjustable to whatever state my hands are in, and I’ve been using them for 30 years as needed.

seagrass_gw Cape Cod

When I was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer and had a long journey through surgeries, chemo, radiation and drug therapy my Harvard-Pilgrim HMO assigned a nurse for telephone wellness checks. She told me they would pay for housecleaning services while I got beat up but I never signed on for it because feeling lousy and having to get my house ready for someone to come and "clean" was more stress than I could handle.

ETA - I haven't been able to post for a few weeks but finally got into Houzz and had to change my password and use a few email addresses. What a PIA. And I'm STILL a HU#

ah, seagrass! I agree, but do not have your "excuse" medically (so sorry you did) -- but I think health care costs of a housekeeper for anyone over the age of 75 would be my choice, lol!!! General aging over the past year has made me even more slothful in that department, and I, too, feel a need to get things in order before a housecleaner steps one foot through the front door... which is most unlikely to occur. I'm just waiting for the "hoarders" tv show to turn up here. =(

So glad you have returned, in spite of the horrible name/number. Do keep adding your real name to your posts, please!!!

@ HU-753479426 ....I was able to sign in with a different email and re-establish my account...then I asked HOUZZ to delete the old one.

Our health insurance gives us both FREE gym memberships to several gyms. Really nice ones! We have Vasa for instance, available in 7 different states. With FREE classes, light therapy, massage chairs, pool, sauna, steam room, hot tub. Ya all in the USA might check into your advantage plan and see what's offered....? We also have FREE dental & vision...it doesn't cover cosmetic surgeries or elective surgeries....but it will cover restorative surgeries.

I would never advise anybody to enroll in an "advantage" plan...why it's legal for them to advertise and market so heavily is beyond me. Managed care, shoving money in their pockets and limiting providers. Any healthcare with shareholders WTF??

100% coverage for dental & vision, I have both but dental covers very little. Just 5% paid for crowns, implants, etc....why bother?

Seagrass, glad to see you posting after your long difficult journey.

@ vgkg Z-7 Va ....Delta dental is what I was paying for, ($25 a month)now it's free. It covers 2 free exams, 2 free cleanings. 2 free sets of x-rays. 1 free periodontal x-ray every 2 years. Then it keeps costs down for most other things.

@seagrass_gw Cape Cod...HMO plans make you use their doctors. I really like my doctor. I do a physical every year....nothing more. "If" we ever have ongoing health issues, we'd buy a supplement plan.

DH's former employer stopped reimbursing for Medicare and provided an advantage plan two years ago. We'd had Medicare and a supplement. The advantage plan saves us thousands in premiums every year. There's been no change to our care. I can't hate 'em.

I do hate Big Pharma. Why Americans let them advertise 24/7 and roll ad costs into what they charge us is criminal. Only in America indeed!