Depending on where you live my almost daily trip to the bakery for fresh baguette or croissant could be a luxury I guess?
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Got an Inada massage chair (~$6k) on FB marketplace for $50. Used massage chairs are easy to get ahold of for cheap, if you have the space
Seeing the bathroom related comments.
I have my own personal sauna.
In a cheap rental apartment.
Also a built-in bidet.
These things can be said for practically all Finnish apartments built this millenia. Buildings built before the 90's, on the other hand... Personal saunas were a bit rarer and apartment buildings would just have one large one you could reserve hours on. Sometimes free sometimes for a marginal fee.
But yeah. I think some might consider that a luxury, I guess.
I flew nonstop from Newark to Singapore. That was a crazy flight with fantastic amenities. First time Iβve ever had the βhot towelβ treatment
Thats something you do every day? Wow.
Oh shit, whoops. Gonna go ahead and blame that on posting before coffee. No, just the most luxurious thing Iβve ever done. I have essentially unlimited clean water and sewage at my house, I think thatβs pretty easy to take for granted
My absurd luxury is probably my PC. I had a pretty decent one but saved for 1yr and built a $2,600 one. It was unnecessary in almost every sense of the word.
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I live next to a large open field in the middle of my city. I'd guess its about 15 acres. It's beautifully undeveloped with a few paths through it. Lots of people use it to walk their dogs and stuff.
Why is it empty?
The land is contaminated. It used to be a rail yard about 50 years ago. A company in a major city hundreds of kilometers away owns it and as far as we know has no intention on scraping the top few feet off it so it can be rehabilitated.
Sucks to know that the land is poison but nobody's growing stuff there. Many people enjoy it, including me and my wife. The view off my back deck is about 750m of green right smack in the middle of the city. Love it.
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Having my own home - I mean I have to pay off the loan for it but still, I never thought I would be able to call a house my own.
Unfortunately Iβm not young enough to pull this off anymore, but back in my early 20βs I would engage in some light identity theft for the purposes of free luxury golfing. I have two rich uncles who are both avid golfers and both members of a ridiculously expensive country club in the city where we live. They also both have sons, and the club benefits extend to all minor children. So, Iβd pretend to be my 17yo cousin and with my other cousin (who was only lying about his age, not who he was), weβd regularly hit the links. For non-members, the typical price for a round of golf was like $200
I have a Xbox series x
After everything I've been through, existence.
I eat as many lobsters and crabs as I want, and it's a lot.
Gaming PC, PS5, VR headset...
Shit now I feel bad cuz I'm imagining some starving kid covered in flies just watching my fat ass play games in awe and anger.
I have this comforter I bought at a consignment sale for 15 dollars years ago. Every day I revel in how much I like it.
I cook myself a New York steak roughly once a week.
does anyone here know what absurd or luxury means
An absurd luxury is something either super indulgent (possibly to the level of impractical) or something seemingly commonplace that you otherwise personally value immensly in your life and have taken note of.
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why is a cat in your lap an absurd luxury?
I guess in the same vein, my dogs sitting in my lap
Absurd? On the Daily?
How do we define absurd? As in a lot of people on the planet don't have it? That would be a lot of things. Absurd as in "out of the ordinary? Absurd relative to the people in the same socioeconomic group? I'm boring. Nothing.
I guess I'll try this: A decent job that is allowing me to have medical insurance and get paid enough that I can save money and hopefully have enough money to retire, or work a little maybe just for insurance in retirement.
I don't think I enjoy that fact because I'm always aware that it is a situation that a shitton of people will never reach, and that's what makes it feel like a luxury.
I either buy a cafe con leche from a local place, or make moka (no idea why this autocorrected to mija, I am not boiling my daughter) pot coffee with freshly ground beans - not just any type, the same beans the cafe uses, from the local coffee roaster.
Also get gently woken up, no alarm, and have sex every morning.
My mornings are the most ridiculously indulgent time, every day.