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Exactly, yes! That was the original spirit of this thread (though I love everything people have said). Things that make you feel like you're living expensively that aren't actually expensive.
Many expensive things don't make me feel like I'm living expensively. But little stuff, like opening a new jar of olives, gives me that little inner smile.
I don't even like alcohol (love the feeling, hate the taste), but there's something luxurious about having alcohol stocked in your house. Even if it's just a bottle or two of wine on top of the fridge.




I agree. I do most of my drinking at work so I don't need alcohol at home, yet I have like 4 different bottles of whiskey and 2 bottles of wine on my bureau. it's nice for when people come over I guess.






starbucks
new shoes
cheap new sunglasses
wine
candles
organic foods and skincare products
baths with bathsalt and candles
buying art
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walking around target or walmart and just filling up your shopping cart with whatever you want without really worrying about what the total will come to and not even looking at the price of half the items you grab.
custom made outfits (just got my first corset measured to fit me)
shopping at whole foods and trader joe's when your roommates shop at price chopper and being the only person in the house who doesn't eat frozen dinners and ramen noodles





xGigi unintentionally brought up a good one - not having roommates anymore, lol.
This is so random, but....getting myself off during the day. Yum. Especially with clean white sheets and all of the time in the world.





Ah - so you're not completely asexual afterall, lol.
MM would SO agree with you. She loves to fuck, but that girl masturbates like, all the time. The more I get her off, the more she wants to get herself off.
I can't criticize - I'm kinda the same way, LMAO.
Hah. If you'd read more about how I identify, you would've read that I'm a biromantic libidoist asexual. Asexual refers to the desire I have directed towards other people, not towards myself.
And thank you for that mental image of MM getting off. Now that's something I'd like to watch!Total voyeur here...
Cooking foods that are different than my everyday - special salads with spinach and my homemade dressing.
Going out to eat at simple places around town with my boyfriend and being able to pay instead of having him cover for me.
Going shopping for lingerie.
Buying books on amazon.
Taking a fun weekend off to go dancing in the big city and go to fancy bookstores and eat out and just generally splurge.
Coming home from work and having my boyfriend mix me up yummy drinks.
Spending a day sitting around playing WoW.
Going to concerts.
Taking a long indulgent shower.![]()
Oh, and sushi! DEFINITELY sushi. I love going out to a nice place and just ordering plates and plates and plates of rice and fish and yummy goodness. It just keeps coming and coming until you're so full your tummy hurts.![]()





You have no idea. So tempted to go into detail just for the knowledge that when I see you "thank" the post I will KNOW you masturbated when you reread it.Originally Posted by charlie61
That's the kind of stuff I get off on, lol.
I just spent $150 on groceries...lots of fresh organic produce and poultry, goat cheese, lots of fresh herbs, nuts, Kona Vanilla Macadamia Nut Coffee, imported British digestives, etc.
And tonight I'm going out to my favorite local restaurant with my friends, where almost everything on the menu is locally sourced and all the pasta is made fresh daily.
So I'm feeling pretty damn expensive![]()




I was in Vegas for March Madness and stayed in a wrap around terrace suite at the Cosmopolitan comped. When new hotel/casinos go fishing for whales, a lot of little fish get caught in the freebie net. 1200 sq ft plus a terrace overlooking the fountains at the Bellagio.
On the bed were 6 pillows of various filling and sizes plus a body pillow. When I stumbled back to the room at night (morning!) I would just build a pillow wall all around me and not even bother to get in the bed. Dirty Ernie in a cloud.




What I'm doing now: watching one of the best episodes of one of my favorite shows while eating the most expensive ice cream that was in the store. Yum...expensive chocolate and orange.
Throwing away the toothpaste and opening a new one instead of rolling up the tube to get that last little bit!





Charlie - just playing on your appreciating the mental image comment, lol.
Dirty Ernie - another SW member comes to Vegas and doesn't PM us for some general carousing while they're in town. *sigh* Glad you had fun, the Cosmo is awesome.
On topic:
Bitching mentally that a particular item is a dollar or two more at THIS store than it is a block away, but deciding that a couple of bucks is SO not worth another stop.
Realizing that I forgot some little thing and deciding that stopping to buy another one is easier than going back for it. Yesterday that meant forgetting the Ibuprofen that GF#1 takes o work and just grabbing a couple of the little packs at a convenience store when we stopped for power bars and water rather than drive 1 mile back home to grab it before getting on the freeway. It thought of this thread at the time, lol.
-Being able to hand my mom a few hundred a month for bills,even after she says "don't worry about it".
-Paying my little sister to watch my child while I "work",even after she's said 100x's not to give her anything because she enjoys watching her nephew.
-Buying a toy for my kid sister and toddler brother every week I get paid and seeing the smiles on their faces when I hand it to them.
I just LOVE spending money on my family!!!![]()
Old thread revival!
Something that's been making me feel like I live expensively...I just joined Costco recently, and I've been super impressed by what they have available. They even have huge cat trees for only $90 - something you'd see at PetSmart for $200+. Not to mention the food options, of course. Enormous slabs of salmon for only $30, huge bricks of cheese for totally reasonable prices, four-pound containers of perfectly ripe strawberries for $6, superhuge pizzas for $8.99, a great selection of wines and other alcohols... They even have quite a few organic options!
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