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

We have a microyard. I think it would be silly to have a lawn mower to run for less than 10 minutes once a week - if that. We go in with the neighbors, it takes the guy a half hour to make the whole side of our street nice and spiffy.

 

I've long coveted a KitchenAid mixer, but I certainly don't have a few hundred to drop on one. The other day, my dad tells me he'd like to get one to make some stuff for the holidays. "But after that, I wouldn't need it," he says. "Would you want it?" I say, "Yeah, of course," thinking he must not know how much a mixer costs. But then he says he'd like to keep it around $300, and how about if we both look around for a good deal. I very excitedly agree.

The next day, he calls me. "I ordered one this morning," he says. He even coordinated the color with my kitchen counters.

Really awesome surprise. Didn't think I'd ever get one.

 

My wife uses our KA mixer all the time. I think it gets more use than the toaster. She makes pasta with it. Heck, I used it to make venison sausage.

 

Well done. Well done. I once had 12 putters. Cleveland tour blades. Copper eye 2 set. Hybrids up the gazoo. I know the feeling.

 

Congrats on the mixer, copperpot.

I'm a disaster in the kitchen, and people routinely think if they give me kitchen things (appliances, gadgets, cookbooks) that I will somehow magically improve. An ex-boyfriend once gave me a KA mixer, and I hauled that thing through three moves while it gathered dust.

I finally gave it to my cousin, who otherwise couldn't afford it, and she loves it. And I got homemade cookies in return!

 

I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

 

Well, that was highly disappointing.

I've tried to think of something, but I don't think I do anything that others would consider extravagant. I own season tickets to a mid major college basketball team. I drink expensive beer sometimes. We often vacation in an all-inclusive resort in Cancun.

That's all I got. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

Corinthian leather?

 

I take a nice international vacation just about every year. But other than that... not much. I'm trying to think right now, if a burglar stole the most expensive thing I own, besides my car, what would it be? Maybe my leather couch? But even that was only about a grand two years ago. My fridge? I have a 50-something inch TV, but it's huge and I bought it in about '06, so I'm sure it's nothing extravagent by today's standards.

I'm too cheap to own nice things.

 

That's the way I am with yard work and snow removal. I throw on the iPod and I actually find it quite relaxing.