The fancy bread from the local health food shop. It's £4 😱 but lord is it delicious. It's a nice occasional treat
Even a bread machine can't beat fancy bread
Bread machines make awful bread.
Hand bake it and it will be much better. It's not really hard or time consuming... it's just a lot of waiting for the rise. I make a lot of rye/whole grai breads and the rise often takes 2 hours or more.
My rye sourdough ferments for 24h. That takes some planning.
you don't have to make sourdough? also it's 24 hours is just a scheduling problem. you don't have to stare at it for 24 hours.
pretty easy for me to make a sourdough loaf at 9pm, and then come back to it at 9pm the next day, bake it for 30m then go to bed. it's also pretty flexible. sourdough can sit for days after the rise in the fridge before you bake it.
Every luxury costs money and makes me feel a little poorer.
If it counts, it feels great to use free software when it is better than paid software.
If I've ever got enough of a variety of cheese in my fridge, such that I could throw together a decent cheeseboard at a moment's notice, I think that's when I feel my most decadent
If I've got multiple chutneys and some grapes too? I might as well be aristocracy
For me it's hot showers. I always imagine what it must have been like to live in Rome, in a mosaic tiles bathhouse, and experience this miracle of hot water on demand. (My fantasy glosses over the horrors of slavery that made it happen, lmao.) But I think about how for most of history, that experience was limited to the very wealthy, limited to spas, and so on. Showers are amazingly nice. Cold showers can also evoke this feeling, but those remind me more of standing under a waterfall, which is an equally lovely fantasy, but something available to humans since the beginning of the species, and so not fitting the question, I guess.
Ordering takeaway food to be delivered.
It's like $1000/yr including tips to have your house cleaned bi weekly. I'm shocked it's not more popular.
Damn, I've been paying 6 times that
Find someone working solo or in a small group. I find the prices are lower.
That's what I have. But it's ok. I think their time and the job they do have been worth it to me. Just some folks workn workn for their fams. Glad I can support them a little
Depends on where you live. Where I live a basic cleaning for an hour is $200+. Since I have pets they charge closer to $300.
That would be like $7200 a year for me.
I only make about 70/hr, so yeah makes a lot more sense for me to spend a few hours cleaning.
Home made popcorn
I don’t know if it counts as a luxury since it’s usually cheaper than already popped popcorn, but… it’s absurdly delicious for something that is just a cereal with a bit of salt and oil. And freshly popped tastes completely different from packaged!
And the amount of PFAS in bags of microwave popcorn is off the charts!
Having the Internet in my pocket. 🍭
Every so often a game I own has new DLC that seems worth it and I think about it once, twice, three times and then I buy it and feel fancy (Wartales and Rogue Trader, for example). 😅
coffee snobbery
Hand grinder, pour over, syphon, and a subscription to a local roastery... it's changed my life. I'll never understand how anyone can be happy with Starbucks, nespresso, or any of the swill that most commercial coffee is.
I’m on the tea snobbery… totally understand you. If I travel, I “have to” bring my own tea, or just go without.
The neat thing is that it doesn’t cost much. A great tea can go for 4-5Euros the bag of 100gr, that will last me almost a month. Sure, fancy tea can double that, but that’s still around some 10Euros a month well spent
yeah i love tea too. ever since i was a teenager.
people endlessly harass me about it because I'm 'too good' for Lipton or whatever. Because it tastes like shit. God forbid I dont' want to intentionally make myself miserable...
I like my socks
I hope you like them washed
Buying new models for a tabletop game. It also implies I have the leisure time to paint them and use them.
I got a magsafe compatible case + magnetic charger. Makes me feel like an apple fanboy with its fancy accessories.
Then I realise that even though probably 60-70% of work uses iPhone, no one uses mag safe charging and accessories. I'm going out of my way to join theluxuries of apple accessories, and when I get here, no one is using it lul
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