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Originally Posted by Rain Man
If clothing counts, then yeah, clothing for us. My wife and I both buy upscale brands.
Aside from that, I can't think of a particular luxury. We tend to buy upscale brands on things like furniture and faucets and stuff, but in the long run I don't think it's a luxury because the high-quality stuff looks great for a long time.
Perhaps the best investment we made, now that I think about it, is the faucet system for our upstairs shower, the one we use every day. Man, it's great. It has controls that let you increase or decrease water pressure while holding the temperature steady, and also has some internal control that won't let the temperature change even if someone flushes a toilet or starts the sprinkler system. It was definitely more than an average cost, but worth every penny.
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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.