What's one thing in your home

[Nzoner]

you consider a luxury?

I ask this question because the last couple of mornings I've been using a bath towel warmer that my Aunt got us for Christmas and it got me wondering how many people might actually have something like this because I would've never thought about buying something like a bath towel warmer but sure am damn glad she did.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

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

Everyone is jealous too.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Katipan

Steve Harvey hosts now. He'd smack the counter, double over at the waist, laugh silently until the camera zoomed in and he made an amusing face.

And then ask for some.

Richard Dawson > all the other scabs combined

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

When we redid our kitchen a few years back we considered a system like this and our biggest regret is not doing it. The kitchen is above our laundry room, which has no heat ducts, so the tile is always cold in the winter. I've even half-considered pulling the tile up and putting it in now.

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.

[lcarus]

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.

[Bob Dole]

Running water.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Cochise

I wear business dress to work, so it's shirt and tie every day. Someone recently turned me on to Allen Edmonds shoes. I'm ruined now for the cheap dress shoes I'd always worn before.

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.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by raybec 4

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.

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.

[tooge]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

When we redid our kitchen a few years back we considered a system like this and our biggest regret is not doing it. The kitchen is above our laundry room, which has no heat ducts, so the tile is always cold in the winter. I've even half-considered pulling the tile up and putting it in now.

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.

[HemiEd]

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

For us, maybe 5 bedrooms for two people.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by tooge

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.

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.

[Eleazar]

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.

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.

[sd4chiefs]

My 70" flat screen.

[sd4chiefs]

Originally Posted by tooge

When we did the house addition about 5 years ago, Phobias (shameless plug), who did all the work, put in a below the tile heating system in our master bathroom. I get up, walk to the shower, and it's all toasty warm in the morning. Great on cold days like today.

I must have this.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Cochise

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.

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.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

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...