Luxuries in Life

I don't consider internet a luxury although it may be. I don't pay for cable and don't intend to. I'm not sure I have any luxuries right now. Maybe coffee? but my cup of coffee in the morning protects the rest of the world! Maybe having a few sets of clothes is a luxury. But then I have lost almost everything over the last two years due to circumstances. But if I have luxuries, they are not necessary and I would rather eat properly!!

I do have a limited cable system at home but not high speed Internet. I think my luxuries would include having a pedicure and manicure monthly. I also wear gel tips on my nails. I explain that away by saying that it is very cheap out here (and it is) and an older women should look extremely well groomed at all times. This is an effort for me with clothes but my hair and nails always look good. I also wear open toed shoes and sandals all the year around so I like my feet to look good too. As I will be trying to clear credit card debt I am thinking of leaving the pedi and have it done every 2 months this coming year and put that money (no matter that it is small) onto my credit card. I am planning not to use my credit card until I go on vacation in June. so it should be clear by that time. My sister is giving me a trip back to the U.K. as a Birthday present and from there, together with my two sisters we plan to go to Rome for four days. I have never been to Rome and that will be a life time wish come true. I occasionally have a massage as this breaks up the tension areas in my back and neck. Therapeutic. It actually hurts but it does me so much good and increases my flexibility in my neck etc. I honestly do not think that I could give that one up at all. So I guess it would have to be the occasional massage that I could not give up. Blessings

My husband and I have talked about this before. We pay for a music subscription for our M3 players and that would be the first to go if it ever came down to it but it is only $15/month so its not like it would be saving us a ton of money. The one thing that we could not get rid of would be the same as you our cable and internet service. We have our phone, cable and internet all in one bill and it is the most expensive at this time other than our rent but I don't think we could do without and while I am not one that likes talking on the phone and would love to not have a phone, I was without for a few weeks when we moved in here and you don't realize how much you need one or convenient they are until you don't have one. I am a stay at home mom so for most of my days the cable and interent are my only sanity especially when my kids and husband are gone in the day time.

I am actually having a difficult time responding to this discussion! We have wittled down to so little as we have been on a tight budget that we actually don't have too many luxuries to fit into our budget. Funny thing is I can't think of any true luxuries - everything seems to be a necessity. I haven't worked in five years, so hubby is the bread winner . . . I try to budget out everything we need for family and kids - and I hardly ever get anything for myself (I'm not complaining - just saying we live minimally and have adapted to that lifestyle). The things that I have gotten that are luxury items - I actually got most of them for free. I am heavily into Freecycle and Craigslist, so I get stuff that I need for free quite often (you'd be surprised) .. . clothing, kitchen items, books, stuff for my little one, music, tickets, etc etc. Thankfully I have the opportunity to take advantage of these "offers" - but I try to also give back to the community by giving out my extra items too. I guess I would have to say the one item on our budget that is a luxury, that I can't live without, is "sometimes eating out". With a newborn who has til now had a crazy schedule of his own, and an almost 5 year old who needs to be occupied, and with me having to do things during the day . . . I can be quite burnt out by dinner time and we've HAD to get something take out. I don't like it because it costs more to eat out . . . but when you gotta eat, you gotta eat!

I can not live without the Internet and our Satelite TV. My husband and I attend school online and use this primarly for school. I also use the Internet to make extra money. I love having Satelite tv (Dish) and since my husband has had this for years I do ot have the heart to give it up. I like the idea of you having a budget set up for the month. I think I will have to do this myself. Thank you for the suggestion.

There are indeed a lot of luxuries in life that people cannot live without. I am not really rich and I don't even belong to a rich family. We are I guess in the middle class. When I was still studying, I wished to have all the luxuries in the world. But, I know it's impossible. There were things in the past that I wanted to have but I couldn't simply because we didn't have enough money to buy those things. We couldn't even afford to pay for my tuition fee that's why I used to ask help from my relatives abroad. And fortunately, I was an academic scholar. Now that I am working and earning good amount of money, I planned to buy the things which i wasn't able to buy before. I already bought my personal computer with internet connection, air conditioner, and digital cameras. These things are not enough since I am still wishing to have many other things. Those things I am talking about has something to do with beauty. I want to have braces and that's the reason why I am beginning to save money again. I want to buy beauty and skin care products for regular use. I also want to buy nice and luxurious dress as often as possible. The year 2009 was indeed a good year for me and i am looking forward to have more good things in this year 2010 and beyond.

Many a times in vacations when I work online being at home and don't go out of the house for quite some time people think that I am free, but it's certainly not the case. The reality is different because working from home doesn't exactly mean watching TV and being paid for doing that. I still have to juggle many things at the same time: conference calls, emails, reports, reading, writing and lots of thinking... Sometimes, I will have to do all that and worry about doing some housework too like providing a helping hand in some way to parents. But the advantages of working from home are countless. I can enjoy being with my loved ones while working and also eat homemade healthy food, which isn't always the case when eating out. Now, this itself is a lot of luxury for no matter how much time we are able to enjoy!!

some luxuries exist my life,i think that i could not leave them.i save several month salary to buy computer and have internet access,because i find that the world change much,so i hope that the modern machine can give me more knowlege and make me learn something quickly,at the same time i lived in the village,there is not easy to know more imformation from outside,so i hope that i can know more through computer.i have any luxries in life except the computer.but i think that it is important for my life.

I believe that there are many luxuries I use from day to day activity that I (and perhaps many others) take for granted, without thinking how privileged they are for such luxuries to be readily available. From cable television to high-speed internet, I must admit thatI live a very good life filled with lots of luxuries that unfortunately, not everybody will have the chance to enjoy

I used to think of internet as a luxury item but we really use it for a means of communication with our military son. Im sure we would survive without it but honestly it would be very hard!I think cable and internet are my most important items too. Wow dont know how we did it before internet! I was thinking about that the other day its such a useful item when it comes to finding out information on all sorts of things. And life without Email WOW i cant even imagine sending a hand written letter and waiting days for a return reply! LOL funny how times change.

The holidays that I have been to could be considered as luxuries for me. The travel bug bit me since quite a few years now and my holidays include, many States of India,Singapore,Bangkok, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, 7 European countries and the beautiful Bahamas cruise by the Royal Caribbeans (Sovereign of the Seas). My system now demands as it is now used to this comfort and no longer considers it a luxury!

I don't consider cable and internet as a luxuries..For me its a need. Maybe two decade ago its a luxuries but right now its already fall under the needs. Don't you think? If they say that you can live without it..Then its just saying that you don't need a house or a home to stay. You can live in the street and you can still survive. .. For me a happy living right now is to have a job, a house, a cellphone, a computer, an internet connection and cable tv. .. that is needed to have a normal live.

Hi dorannmwin - Many luxuries have now become necessities without which our daily lives get disrupted. I mean, can you imagine a day without TV, a few days without the internet and a just a few hours without your cellphone. You will almost feel like you have been marooned on an island, waiting to be rescued! As we advance into the future, many more luxuries will be added on and soon become necessities. Technology is bringing robots to us who will do most of our daily chores so you will soon see robots being added to this list as well. The debate raging now is whether we are ready to give control of our lives to robots, who the robot inventors themselves suspect, may take over the human world! For me, and I'll be honest here, my biggest luxury is the help that I can afford in the part of the world that I live in. I have stayed in the US for brief periods and I know that this is something that you cannot get easily in other parts of the world. I have help for housekeeping, a cook who prepares the major meals of the day and a driver who can take my family and me around in congested city streets. These are things that I may not be able to do without, certainly not all of them all the time!

I think my internet connection will always be a number one luxury to me. It used to be cable TV, but I no longer watch television for I can find news online anyway. And I am following our local news' twitter account. Am I relying to much on the internet? Maybe so but I'm not willing to give up on it yet. Another luxury I think are those overpriced cold coffee drinks. We seldom drink it now but it's really expensive so I consider it a luxury.

hello, well... if you are talking about luxuries then I will consider about something expensive, such as Rings, expensive hang bags, or clothes or shoes .... etc. I have cable and internet as well... but I never want to give up on those two cuz they are entertain me most of the time... can't give up on them

living in a town far from the city will be so boring that having no internet access will definitely turn me into rock. aside from that, i cant resist it whenever i saw a message saying "NOW SHOWING" thus, even if i need to travel 2hours to get to the city, it doesn't matter just for the sake of watching movie. good day dorannmwin

In regard to the luxuries in life. I guess our luxuries are vehicles that are less than 10 yrs old (caked in debt too!) and the internet as well. But there are times when the really basic things like groceries and gas money to get to work can be a luxury too.

hi dorannmwin I do not have television but am on cable internet and I could not give that up at all,seems more necessity than luxury to me, and oh how I hated it when we first started with dial up ,so slow and so irritating, and always when I needed to phone someone the computer was in use and we could not phone out. oh then came dsl which was wonderful and now cable. I use the net all the time, its my lifeline to my life the way it was before my son lost his job we became homeless and had to settle for splitting up to have roofs over our heads. well anyway I do have my internet .I am retired so have nothing much but time.

Our holidays in our caravan we go to lots of places in it.We look forward to our breaks we don't have a lot of money,so this is a good ,cheap way of getting out and about.We cater for ourselves,get up when we feel like it,eat when we want to.Recently we have brought bikes and my son comes with us on long rides to discover the countryside where we stay.Losing the internet would also be a blow as I spend so much time on it as it passes the time.I also earn pocket money towards our breaks away.Happy New Year to you love Sue.

hi dorann, you are like my girlfriend..she treat there computer as important as her life..heheh all day she is spending her time in the net..but anywayz for me the luxuries that definitely i would not give up is my family, friends and girlfriend.. yes, its a unique one but i consider them as luxurious..