Luxuries
skibum609
Massachusetts
Strip clubbing is a luxury. Expensive wine is a luxury. Vacation is a luxury. An expensive car is a luxury. Name one luxury that you feel would diminish your life if you cannot have it, but that other people you know think is dumb. An example: Wife and I love seafood. It's Friday, I just had fresh seafood delivered to my house. Fresh, never frozen, packed in ice, put in a cooler and left on my front landing. Alaskan King Salmon, Monkfish and Cod loin this time, with a few Vermont farm products like uncured kielbasa and hot Italian sausage as well. I cannot do better in any restaurant and a I cannot go 2 weeks without it. What is your luxury?
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Uber Eats. I hate putting money in any big tech company's pocket, but I love being able to try a new restaurant and not have the extra time commitment to drive round trip, wait at the table, wait to cash out. All I need is to go downstairs, grab the bag, and come back.
I'd say strip clubbing but my clubbing drive waxes and wanes. If I get a different job, I'll miss the convenient FKK trips, but I don't go often enough to "miss it." Out of sight out of mind.
I spend a lot of money on dining out that I could be saving by cooking my own
It's an "itty bitty teeny tiny little pee pee."
I'll add doing martial arts to the list. I could do cheaper non-weightlifting exercise activities, but I'd get bored out of my mind.
Where's sjg??
Eating well is another luxury, not having to cook when I don’t want to is another, we’re surrounded here by great food stores and restaurants and that’s another beautiful thing.
But I have to say the greatest luxury of all living here is we have so many beautiful women, and many are so friendly they make us all glad that they dress so casually the view is so often spectacular.
I will play along and answer your question:
Q: What is your luxury?
A: My luxury is being “white”…
“It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.”
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Top-end tools (hand and power).
Craft beer.
Strip clubs, obviously.
There's probably a few other things that cross the finish line as luxuries, but not many. I haven't got extravagant tastes.
Ordering take out whenever I want it, is likely another luxury.
Booze. Over the years have gradually developed a taste for high end tequilas and whiskeys. I have some bottles that really should have been maintained as a collectibles, but I always end up drinking them.
If this keeps happening I might have to go to stripperweb.
With that said, I do have a handful of luxuries that make life better:
I special order my preferred brand of mayonnaise, which is not available in stores in this part of the country, for $12 per bottle on Amazon. I have tried every single brand carried locally, but none of them come close. Hellmann's is a vinegar bomb and Dukes, the brand that many Southerners swear by, is tasteless to me. A great cold cut sandwich can be made or ruined by the mayo used on it.
Real maple syrup, which is almost $20 for a 32 oz container and even more expensive per ounce as you go to smaller sizes. But it's worth it. There's no Aunt Jemima or Log Cabin sugar syrup in my house. I can practically hear the cash register cha ching every time my kids pour it on their waffles and pancakes, but fuck it.
Family vacations and weekend outings. Very expensive but very worth it. Before I know it they'll be grown and gone.
Once a week we take a night off from making dinner and have it delivered. For a family our size that's a definite luxury. Even with the discount on the delivery fee I get with Grubhub courtesy of my Amazon Prime membership, with service fees and driver tip I'm lucky if I can order almost anything for less than a Benji.
Never walking into a Walmart. I like the prices, but hate the stores. Every single time I go to one of the local Supercenters it's a major time commitment. I either place a large order through my Walmart plus membership, which cost me $99 per year plus I pay driver tip on each delivery, or I bite the bullet and pay the higher grocery store prices for staples that I could get from Walmart. Either way I could pay less if I went to the Walmart myself, which is literally < 10 minutes from me, but soooooo worth it.
I'll +1 the no Walmart thing too. I gladly pay a premium for many items at Publix to avoid going to Walmart. In general avoiding the discount stores is something that would diminish my life if I had to give up. I can't tell you how often I get dumbass remarks about that shit, but I hate those stores.
So, yeah.
Books. I have five hundred books and that is always the first thing people comment on when they visit my apartment for the first time.
Lap dances. My best friend is a rich guy who owns an expensive new car, a large art collection and travels all the time. He thinks even $25 is too much for a lap dance and almost never buys one. I'm the exact opposite. I own a twenty-year old car, don't own a single painting and have only been outside Indiana three times in the last thirty years. I've spent large sums of money on lap dances and think it was highly worth it.
I know many on here think that being married is dumb, but I got a good one and would hate to not have that.
Every day I enjoy the treasure I have.
1. having coffee in Garden Grove/ Santa Ana on my way down to tijuana.
2. HK. (and what goes with it.)
3. having a nice meal in a great atmosphere with friends.
4. good adult beverages.
so what is a good mayonnaise?
Materialistic things like watches, cars, sneakers.
But as far as luxury that most people consider pointless or stupid, probably milk. I pay a much higher amount ($6 per half gallon) for higher quality milk. I try to eat organic when I can, or eating at higher quality restaurants. More expensive doesn’t always mean higher quality though.
Rick I’m curious what brand of mayonnaise are you getting for $12 and is it organic, using olive oil? An issue with mayonnaise is most are using soybean oil nowadays, the pricier ones will use avocado oil or olive oil.
Regarding maple syrup, cant you get the real high quality stuff from costco for a better value? I think its around $10 for 32oz.
With maple syrup, the Amish farm type websites often sell Grade B maple syrup which is basically unprocessed and hasn’t been purified. Its basically more natural and raw, but can contain more allergens.
One thing I get off amazon which is also insanely pricy is raw honey, $25 for 16oz. Its priced well above even raw honeys you’d find at whole foods.
There was a big article written about how olive oil, honey, and one other food item are the most faked food items in grocery stores in the US. Some olive oils apparently have other oils mixed in somehow and they still bypass the vetting process. Honey also has some issues with it because of honey makers being allowed to mix honey from different sources. The one root brand on amazon is organic, and single sourced only from some mountains in Canada. There are other much cheaper organic raw honeys that are usually from brazil, or uruguay or a mix of Canada and Brazil honey. Some of those honeys like costcos kirkland brand and whole foods store brand, taste horrible even when certified organic and raw.