The big list of small luxuries
September 7th 2009 03:39
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Christina Stead (1903-83)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason (1934- )
There are big luxuries, appreciation of which demands an understanding of finance, and there are small luxuries, appreciation of which demands an understanding of life. No amount of money can enhance the smell of a rose or the view over an ocean at sunset.
What are your favourite small luxuries?
The list so far. Leave a comment with your favourites and they will be added to the list.
THE VOTE LEADERS
2 - Cats
2 - Hot showers or baths
2 - Movies
2 - Music
THE LIST
24-hour McDonald's
Air-conditioning
The beach
Beer
Birds
Books
Botannic gardens
Cats
Cheese
Chocolate
Coffee
Craft and food fairs
Dogs
Flowers
GHD hair dryers
Holding hands
Hot shower or bath
New hats
Newspapers
The mountains
Movies
Music
Old pullovers
Prawns
Red wine
Rum
Sleeping
Soap
Spaghetti
Tea
Toast
Tobacco
Thinking
Walking along a beach
Walking through woodland
Walking at sunset
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Comment by Janet Collins
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Comment by Chris Champion
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I think I'll redo the list in alphabetical order. I'll add votes if we getting enough responses to make it worthwhile. In fact I'll do it now - I'll combine hot baths/showers and make it the leader with two votes!
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rum
24 hour maccas
prawns
air conditioning
GHD hair straighteners
i would also put a vote in for cats, movies, and music
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Tobacco is definitely a little luxury, however, and if it's all right with you I'll include it under that label, embracing the wider pleasures of the weed. Personally, I once smoked 60 cigarettes a day; now I smoke one cigar about every 60 weeks. And I've always thought of pipe smoking as a luxury.
Prawns are my favourite single food item. The best prawns I ever had were in a four-table restaurant in what was little more than a mud hut in a village of mud huts in a remote part of Hong Kong's New Territories. To steam a prawn perfectly requires an instinct which is granted only by the gods.
I shall leave you to the 24-hour maccas, but they perfectly embrace the spirit of the list.
All alcohol is good really but a good rum is right up there.
Air-con is a great idea.
What the heck is a GHD hair straightener?