Not in my home but living in the panhandle of Texas I have a tree.

Everyone is jealous too.

Richard Dawson > all the other scabs combined

Sun Touch makes a system that you can install betwee the joists under the sub floor. It's easy to install and you wouldn't need to rip up the tile.

Just having a home with hot water, heating and cooling, a refrigerator, food, a nice warm bed, and high speed internet is a luxury.

That being said, I dig my PC in my room that I have hooked up to my 55 inch Samsung. I do everything on that beast. Gaming, movies, internet browsing, music. You name it.

Running water.

Maybe the only useful thing I've learned on CP--last time I needed dress shoes I spent twice what I normally would have. Oh yes, there's a difference.

Does that mean I have to rip the ceiling out of the laundry room, though? I'm not sure which would be cheaper to do.

IT'd be worth it. Not only does it warm the tile for your little footsies, but the entire room is warmed up by it.

I think a towel warmer is a necessity for a metrosexual. :D

For us, maybe 5 bedrooms for two people.

The floor was linoleum before we redid the kitchen, and then we put in tile. The linoleum wasn't bad, but the tile is always cold, which is good in the summer but not so good in the winter.

Right now, we have some sort of Swedish superheater in our basement laundry room. It's electric and heats that room up, which helps, but electric heaters spike our utility bill up. Did your bill go up notably when you installed the tile?

It's funny, because after our Great Flood of 2011 we put in a new high-efficiency heater, but we don't have ducts to the third floor, the laundry room, or the apartment. (Hey, it's a 108 year-old house. I'm just glad it has ducts.) So we have electric heaters in those rooms. We get a quarterly report from our utility company about our home efficiency, and it's laughable. Our natural gas usage is very efficient compared to our neighbors with similar-sized homes, and our electricity usage looks like we're powering a Vegas casino.

I've become less of a cheapskate on some things. It used to be I would buy the middle tier of everything, but when you look at things like clothing, I don't think you always save in the end. I think too often we think only about the price and not about the cost to keep yourself in shoes over the long term, as it were.

And that leather smell wafting up from under your desk. You can't put a price on that. ;)

That faucet sounds fantastic though. Sometimes I think the water pressure at my house is going to knock me over and sometimes it's barely workable.

My 70" flat screen.

I must have this.

I definitely recommend the faucet system. I don't remember the brand - I don't think it's one of the common ones.

On the clothing, I've kept my weight pretty stable, and I've been acquiring clothing over time, so my stuff doesn't get that much wear and tear any more. As long as I keep my weight under control, I may be wearing my current jeans for 20 years, in which case the cost of buying a higher-end brand is diluted. And the nicer jeans are so comfy.

So that's how my parents manage to still find clothes from "their day"... they're the same clothes...