What do you own (or do or eat/drink) that others would consider extravagant?

The Madone was he treat to herself a couple years ago when she made D1 as a college basketball official. I've thought about taking the plunge myself with a new bike, and Specialized makes some sexy rides, but I'll probably just keep my old Giant.

 

It's been good. Trying to have a kid. No luck yet. Maybe too soon to tell. Fearing I'm gonna have to seek medical treatment, or, umm, advice?

Plus, I fear our firstborn, whenever that is if we're lucky enough, will have diabetes (neither one of us are obese). I've got diabetes. Her mom has it. Odds not in our favor.

 

When my wife and I were seeming to have trouble conceiving our doctor told us "lots of sex". By the time we got to the fertility clinic we were pregnant!

I would not get too stressed out about it just yet.

 

And remember, the best part about kids is making them.

 

Only on this site and among these peers would someone humblebrag about a 3,600-sq. ft. house or owning approximately 18 dress shirts.

 

Or a $4000 couch.

 

Really good bourbon. I'll buy one bottle, and it'll take me a year sometimes to drink it. Other times, I'll go through it in a few months. Since I started the kick a few years ago, I've yet to buy the same kind twice, though I've only bought about a half dozen bottles.

The boots I wear about two or three times a week cost me more than $600. They're Luchesse, which probably doesn't mean jack to most people. But for Luchesse, they're modest, as they have some models that cost as much as $4,000. Yes, for a pair of boots.

But like my bourbon, I've made those boots last. I bought them six years ago, and I'm about to have them resoled as they currently have a holes in the bottom. But they are as comfortable as a pair of boots can be. I'd wanted them forever but could never constitute paying that much for a pair of shoes. Then we went to the beach. My ex-wife lost her sunglasses, $200-plus, in the ocean after I'd told her before she left, "Buy a cheap pair for the waves." The first day, boom. Before I knew what was going on, she'd went and replaced them so I was none the wiser. The next-to-last day we were there, me still telling her the whole time, "You're drunk arse is going to lose those in the ocean," she loses them and starts bawling.

Being a good husband, I go and buy her another pair, because she'd had them for a year and really liked them. Same shop. Come home, end of the month comes around, two charges on the bill. I called the shop and explained that I thought they might have double-charged us through some error. Guy says, "If you don't mind me asking, what does your wife look like?"

As far as the sheets go, I've only splurged once. And it wasn't really splurging. I caught a set of sheets on markdown at Dillards. They were like 75 percent off because they were a horrendous pattern. But they were still $60. I thought, what the heck, I'm going to see what the fuss is all about with high thread counts and nobody ever sees out sheets and my eyes are closed 80 percent of the time I'm in bed. Sheeeeeeeet. They were, and still are, amazing.

I love a cold bed. These sheets seem to get colder. And they are like sleeping in lotion. Until they wore out, I would take them off the bed Sunday when I got up, but them in the washer and put them back on the bed that day.

Better-than-average beds are a good investment, too. We got ours in the scratch and dent room of a furniture store. The fabric on the box springs was ripped. They took almost 50 percent off. That bed and those sheets were amazing. She got the bed in the divorce. I still choke up a little bit thinking about that sleep I used to get.

 

A horse

 

Not at all. I am borderline cheap. My truck is nine years old and I anticipate I will keep it for at least 5-6 more years.

The media room is basically my basement and my father did most of the work. He was hung the drywall to the electric and wired all of all media equipment from a storage closet. The cost to finish the basement was pennies on the dollar if I hired a contractor so I was able to splurge on the TV's. Originally I was going to have one large tv with two smaller ones on each side. My wife thought the five would balance the wall out much better and who was I to argue with the Mrs?

 

You eat horse? Are you Apache?

 

I've had the same vehicle for better than 10 years. But it was exactly what I wanted combined with what I could reasonably afford at the time. Might pull the trigger on something new sooner rather than later, and it might be pretty close to my dream machine.

Ray-Bans. Wore glasses for a few years growing up, then switched to contacts. Wasn't going to ruin my eyes with cheap eyewear or none at all driving or looking west in the late afternoons.

Jerseys. Don't have many - and have sold off quite a few - but those I have are authentic and/or have the proper stitched nameplates, logos and numbers where applicable (two exceptions are autographed jerseys, one by Mr. Mills).

If that makes me careless with finances, so be it.

 

Steak and martini dinners;

Small house (1800 sq ft.) in a suburb with spectacular schools where homes cost over $550 per sq ft;

10 sports T-Shirts that are of the "vintage" soft premium feel (I love them; '47 Brand/Red Jacket, etc.); old school retro Adidas Firebird sweatsuits

Sports shoe/tennis shoe collection (Nike Frees for running/Kobes for hoops)