I have a lap cat so I get lots of cat-in-lap time 🐱
No human had a hot shower before a hundred years ago and now I have at least one a day
Lawn. I have a lawn. Just grass. Takes water and space. Makes a little O2 and that’s it.
FWIW, I’m trying to get rid of it. Plans to build a solar array in the back yard, cover the patio with a greenhouse that connects the house to the garage, side yard is going to be raised planters, and the front is going to be mostly wildflowers with some small pathways and nooks for reading and relaxing. I’d like to get it to the point where I can “mow” the whole property with just a string trimmer.
A back yard lawn (and a deck in our case) is a luxury for sure. I really like having a big fenced-in area where the dogs can run around and get some good exercise even on days when we can’t walk them. We traded a more urban life for things like that, although we’re still relatively close to town. We also have a dog door, which, again, an absurd luxury but I really never want to live anywhere without a backyard and a dog door again if I can help it.
Yeah, I’m going native yard now with a small hidden garden as well. Lawns aren’t the symbol they used to be.
why is a cat in your lap an absurd luxury?
I guess in the same vein, my dogs sitting in my lap
expensive coffee. i spend like $60/mo on coffee beans.
Magic beans taste soo good.
A bidet seemed like a luxury until i started using the one that was installed in the house that we rent.
Now it seems more like a requirement
Beers and cocaine. I might have a problem.
About once every 3-4 months I take a 4hr hot bath with, phone in a waterproof sandwich-bag, bluetooth speakers, tunes, Epsom salts, and reading material.
It’s excellent self-care. (No, the water doesn’t go cold, I let out half the water and top it up with more hot, when needed).
Highly recommended.
Am an American in my mid 30s. Recently bought my first and almost certainly only house. There is so much stuff about homeownership that feels like a luxury vs renting.
I’m a somewhat tall guy and my house’s only bathtub is too small to do this. God knows when if ever I’ll have the money to renovate that.
Get a hot tub. My partner and I are both tall and both love to relax in hot water. Now we get to submerge our tense monkey bodies in our personal hot spring and just float any damn day we want to, for as long as we want to. It’s great for our relationship. Plus, foot jets! We spent $7k on ours- a true luxury- but it was one of the best health / self care purchases I’ve ever made in my entire life.
Isn’t this how we all watch movies nowadays?
From a person with no bathtub, I wish.
I guess I should add daily (sometimes double) baths. Love my bathtub
I get to work from home every day, and so does my wife.
We each have our office space so we can work in peace but at any point in the day we can just have a chat, we can have lunch together, we can have our evening planned and be out of the door at 5pmIt’s just all so much better than the old office-based life
Nothing about that is absurd
It would be if you had this exact same scenario 5 years ago. It’s absurd if you remember what it was like before, and it highlights how absurd return to office mandates are.
You could even, oh my god, have a hug or touch her nose.
Boop!
see some of that ankle
You saw ankle bone? You got some ankle cleavage, you dirty devil, eh?
…good height !
Like five niiiine!
heheh
I sit in the back of my car in the parking ramp on my lunch break, throw my Nintendo Switch on a seatback headrest mount, and play Diablo II like I’m flying first class. First time I’ve ever had something with 4 doors and I’m using every damn door
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will try to emulate your good example
It’s ok Nintendo, calm down, he didn’t mean that kind.
I generally get to eat meat twice a week…
I eat meat for every meal, and I love it
How much of an asshole do you even have to be to necro a week old thread just to rub something like this in?
I sort by new comments, it wasn’t me who put it to the top
A King Charles spaniel.
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.
i meant the comments didn’t seem to be appropriate for either of those terms. But I appreciate your genuine answer and inclination to help.
The problem with the relevancy you indicate, is everybody has a different standard. Quite frankly most people on Lemmy have very privileged lives compared to the mean life on the planet.
Over half the world population doesn’t have clean drinking water, which is absurd.
yeah the absurd part is not having water. having water isn’t an absurd luxury. if this is the kind of standard we’re going by I might as well say “having opposable thumbs” since a vast majority of animals don’t have them
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
When washing my hands, I use an electric soap dispenser.
I once bought an electric hand dryer for the “office” bathroom in my house.
Washing my hands, I use a $1 bottle of dollar store soap, feels pretty luxurious (I’m a broke university student and my codormatory had no soap before I bought it don’t judge).
I’m gonna judge you so hard for doing something positive for your living space.
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Clean water, a place to live, a doctor, able to vote in a free election, driving a car,
