<p>My fiance and I both have ugg bedroom slippers and I will never wear anything else again. I have the ansley ones in chocolate, the best Christmas gift I have ever gotten.</p>
<p>intparent—I am with you about feeling bad about returning heavily-used items to Bean. I would never hesitate to return anything that gave out before it should, but after two long winters at college wearing my high school Bean boots daily, it was appropriate to purchase another pair. I still have that second pair today.</p>
<p>Toledo—somehow I would feel safe retrieving a butter dish from a stranger. It is the electronics (cameras, etc) & show ticket transactions that I would fear. </p>
<p>missbwith2boys–you must own excellent rain gear to bike around Ireland!</p>
<p>One other thing I thought of- my husband has always had a gym membership and he deserves it- he works long hours! I have never had one as i can always think of something I need more. I broke down and joined one yesterday. I am having a hard time motivating myself lately ( knee replacement followed immediately by a month long case of Shingles) and need to get back in shape. I figure I deserve it.</p>
<p>What’s a butter dish? Isn’t that the plastic thing you keep in the refrigerator until it’s time to put it on the table? (Kidding)</p>
<p>I “need” the heated seats because I have degenerative disc disease in my lower back. ;)</p>
<p>Good knives.
Good fruit, meat & fish.
Old and expensive to heat house with high taxes.</p>
<p>But I’m looking at my eggplant for dinner and wishing I had zoosermom’s potatoes.</p>
<p>“What’s a butter dish? Isn’t that the plastic thing you keep in the refrigerator until it’s time to put it on the table? (Kidding)”</p>
<p>Hey, that’s what I thought it was for. I figure my guests think they’re lucky to get butter in any form. Never had any complaints about the butter dish not matching the mismatched plates!</p>
<p>Oh I got one:</p>
<p>$500 to watch Michael Jordan play basketball in the mid 90s from the 4th row. My plane was delayed and didn’t get there until midway through the 3rd quarter. Boo Hoo.</p>
<p>I didn’t tell DH until years later how much I paid. He thought I sat in the nosebleeds for $95 which he thought was an appalling amount for a basketball game :D</p>
<p>^^okay, that’s another good one!</p>
<p>*Toledo—somehow I would feel safe retrieving a butter dish from a stranger. It is the electronics (cameras, etc) & show ticket transactions that I would fear. *</p>
<p>Right…I doubt a Craigs List Murderer is seeking victims by advertising a pricey butter dish from a discontinued china pattern. lol</p>
<p>I do think heated seats are a necessity. My brother used to laugh at me until his new car came with them…now he’s begged forgiveness.</p>
<p>Sometimes I think that the biggest luxury I have is a garage. </p>
<p>My current house is the first one that had a garage that we could actually put the cars in. Before that we lived in places where there either was no garage or we had to use the garage for storage and park the cars in the driveway.</p>
<p>I love it. I never have to scrape snow, ice or frost off the car on winter mornings. I never have to steam cook myself in the car on summer mornings. I can just get in the car and go – comfortably, year round. </p>
<p>I don’t think I would ever want to live in a place without a garage again. Even if I have to pay extra for it.</p>
<p>(Now if I only worked in a building with a parking garage…)</p>
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<p>Agreed. Can’t remember the last car I had that didn’t have heated seats. Something new in my newest car is that the seats are not only heated but they also cool in summer. Yep, air conditioned seats. Not really a splurge because they came with the car but, yes, the car itself was a splurge.</p>
<p>I have really poor circulation, cramping and cold intolerance thanks to my various medical conditions. I think the Wicked Good slippers should have been a medically necessary expense because they eliminated a lot of my foot issues in the winter!</p>
<p>Our Subaru had the rear view camera and heated seats as part of the mid-level trim package. LOVE those seats. Almost as much as I love my 50 mpg in the Prius. (In our area, a Prius is a good choice because of all the stop-and-go traffic. I get better mileage in DC Beltway traffic than I do on the interstate for long trips!)</p>
<p>Purses (and a couple of other luxury knick knacks besides)
Coffee
Olive oil & vinegar
Lunch out - especially sandwiches
Butter
Recently, travel</p>
<p>I think if you buy something pricey but you use it and love it, its worth it. I’ve bought a few things with good intentions (an exercise belt, clothes a size too small) that I’ve never used. Those are small potatoes (pun intended) compared to my DH’s big splurge a couple years ago. He spent months researching and putting together a fancy telescope that cost $3K+ and takes up a huge amount of space in our home office. I don’t know if its because its too heavy or he is too busy, but he has used it exactly twice.</p>
<p>Northern toilet paper. I hate cheap toilet paper, and don’t like Charmin as it has too much lint. If I have a coupon for some other kind I can’t pass up, I put it in the kids’ bathroom and keep the Northern for myself.</p>
<p>But I’m not totally crazy - I don’t buy (or like) Ultra Northern.</p>
<p>twoin&onedone–OK, we are now getting to the level of TMI….but I am with you–almost. I prefer Angel Soft and distribute the Northern throughout the other bathrooms. My newspapers do not include coupons but TP seems to be on sale almost constantly.</p>
<p>"$500 to watch Michael Jordan play basketball in the mid 90s from the 4th row."</p>
<p>Been there, did that, and it was TOTALLY worth it!! My (undergrad) friend and I carried signs that said: “Two weeks’ pay: what a bargain!” I still have fond memories whenever I hear the songs that were part of the warmups/player introductions back then. Thrilling every time.</p>
<p>Ditto a $300 single seat to see “The Producers” with the original cast back in the day. I was high off of that show for two weeks. I still think about it now and then.</p>
<p>Splurge I wish I had done: flown the Concorde once. Yes, for $10,000 for three hours, even though I’m the kind of miser who dithers over a pair of Payless shoes. The minute they retired it, I thought, “Crap, I should have blown a year’s savings on that when I had the chance.” I visited the one at the Intrepid museum in NYC and had something like a religious experience. Just looking at its silhouette on Google Earth (you can see it sitting on the deck of the Intrepid) gives me chills.</p>
<p>My real splurge: I only buy meat/poultry from a local, humane, free-range, antibiotic-free, yada yada producer at the farmer’s market. Everything is 2-4 times the supermarket cost, but it’s worth it to me. (I like to make vegetarian food, but I’m cooking for two, and he likes meat. This is meat I can feel pretty good about.)</p>
<p>Every year we get VIP tickets to a charity concert in a local club.
The VIP part gets us in before everyone else, to eat while listening to the soundcheck & a meet & greet with the musicians.
Plus we get seats & I always get my picture taken with and autograph from Mike mcCready, who is the nicest rock star I have ever met ( granted,I have never met Dave Grohl).</p>
<p>I had a nice chat with him last year when I was on crutches, I can’t wait to tell him about my new knee & introduce him to my surgeon who is a huge fan.</p>
<p>Red wine !!!</p>