When did you feel ready to UPGRADE...YOUR TABLE AND CHIPS

I just got 1K for my birthday. A very special person gave it to me (she's doing ok financially but not rich by any stretch). Told me not to spend it on the practical stuff...like bills etc...but my passion---which she knows is poker. I'd told her 1K would be the amount I needed to get a poker table and custom chips. Right now my home game plays on a dining room table covered with felt...and we use the regular dice style 'clay composite' chips...by the way she bought those chips for me for Christmas. My question is...we play 2X a month...I'd like to play every week...add additional people (we usually have 5-7 players)...does certain amount of playing time JUSTIFY spending 1K...or is it strictly a vanity thing.

Feeling a little guilty...