What would you consider to be a luxury?

[Hope54321]

What types of things would you consider to be luxuries?

Having more than a couple of takeouts a week?

Going on holiday every year?

Travelling on first class
live in expensive detached house
newest range rover
birkin bags
kids goes to private school

Gym membership, cleaner, gardener, holidays

Going abroad more than twice a year, only wearing expensive clothes, owning a third car, having any sort of at home sauna or spa room, excessive free time, and being around friends.

Having an automatic car so l don't have to change gears...haven't got one but it is my goal to get one!

Hot water

Not having to worry about my son's health.

Butter

Designer outfits, massages, manicures, restaurant dinners or brunches, expensive wine and yes holidays I suppose.

Doesn't stop me doing them though (except designer gear I can't afford that).

Shopping in Sainsburys (let alone M&S or Waitrose!)
Buying organic food especially meat
Going to Centre Parcs (I've never been)
Having haircuts (I do my own)

Necessities for me though are: holidays once per year even if an Air Bnb in the UK, giving to charity - which some would see as a luxury.

A beautiful home. I don't mean something which is just a roof over your head. I mean something which is full of beautiful things, always tidy because you have enough space to store things, room to have lots of friends for dinner and guests to stay. A fancy hotel is nice but a beautiful big home is absolutely the height of luxury to me.

Tea in bed every morning - made by someone else.

Having time to do everything I need to do.

Having no worries.

Having my hairdresser arrive every morning at 6.45am to professionally blow dry my hair.

Sometimes I have a little fantasy about living alone in a Central London flat with white carpets and a minimalist interior. Guess I'd need a retro teasmade.

For me, luxury would be a cleaner, so I can do something else with that time every week.

Flying business class long haul

I'd love to be able to retire now instead of having to hang on a few more years until state pension age. Simply can't afford to do it though.

Going on multiple holidays or a long haul once a year. One uk/ European holiday I'd see more as the norm.

Granola rather than shreddies. Brushed cotton sheets. A long weekend with no work prep. Fancy rosemary crackers and a really good pie d'angloy cheese and prosecco. A lie in until I just wake up naturally. Someone to come and sort out our wreck of a garden. New socks, especially those bamboo ones. Lunch out on a weekday for no good reason.

Days out, kids’ hobbies, holidays (not including the traditional staycation where you go to the beach one day, picnic in the park next, hike the next etc), regular new clothes for kids or adults, hairdresser, beautician, cleaners, car valet, buying beauty items that aren’t always bargain basement (this is just sounding like what would I do if I won the lottery!!) Oh and things like vanish stain remover!!!

I recently cut down a day a week at work. I have a toddler but it's mostly cause I like having time to do whatever I like.

New carpets in lounge and stairs.Am actually so stressed by the marks on them !

Having outside help, like a cleaner or gardener. We have a window cleaner every 6 weeks or so and I see that as being very extravagant 😂
And then beauty treatments like getting your nails done etc

holidays, takeaways/restaurants, beauty treatments, detached houses, having more than one car (or a car at all if in London) alcohol, high-end supermarkets

For me a luxury would be staying at a beautiful 5* spa hotel for a few days full board with treatments. On top of holidays etc ….holidays are fun but hard work when you have kids!

Something I couldn't afford routinely

A big beautiful house with a bedroom more than 1foot wider than my bed 😂

A driver

Well washed linen sheets. 400+ Egyptian cotton will do.

I bought a polycarbonate sheet from Sainsbury not so long ago. It was like sleeping on a brilliant pad.