Fiber. In addition to my cheerios every morning, the kind that gets me reliable gigabit symmetric internet service with lag consistently only a couple ms. You could argue I overpay since I don’t use anywhere near that bandwidth, but it just works. Internet use is so much nicer than neighboring towns with shitty Comcast monopolies
A really good mattress is a gift that keeps on giving
I flew nonstop from Newark to Singapore. That was a crazy flight with fantastic amenities. First time I’ve ever had the “hot towel” 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 I’ve ever done. I have essentially unlimited clean water and sewage at my house, I think that’s pretty easy to take for granted
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 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.
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.
Unfortunately I’m not young enough to pull this off anymore, but back in my early 20’s 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, I’d pretend to be my 17yo cousin and with my other cousin (who was only lying about his age, not who he was), we’d regularly hit the links. For non-members, the typical price for a round of golf was like $200
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.
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.
After everything I've been through, existence.
I have a Xbox series x
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 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.
why is a cat in your lap an absurd luxury?
I guess in the same vein, my dogs sitting in my lap
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.
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