What's an absurd luxury you pine for?
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10,000 acres of land in the northern mountains, with all associated rights (mineral, water, etc.).
I really, really, really don't want to have neighbors. I already live in a rural area, and I still have neighbors 1/4 mile away that blast their music at 11pm loud enough to make out the lyrics. I want to be able to see the stars at night with no light pollution, and see wildlife that's barely seen people.
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TSA Precheck. Yes, it’s borderline extortion but it really is a LOT faster and more stress free at major hubs.
I'm already waiting for my interview. But it's more than that. It's having to go through it at all. It's their treatment of people. It's the super spreader event that is an aircraft and an airport. It's the treatment of people by the airlines and the whole schedule thing. It's dealing with other passengers. I live in Florida, yup the crazy one. In the last four flights I've taken it took 20 hours to get home from Canada, 36 hours to get home from Tennessee and 15 hours to get home from Colorado. I mean WTF!
I took a private airplane once and I parked for free at Signature services, walked into a, large mostly empty lobby area with free cookies and got on the plane. When I got back, the crew, and I swear I'm not making it up, actually brought out a red carpet. It was ridiculously short, like 2 feet, with a ridiculously short velvet rope to match it. I walked through the same lobby, grabbed a cookie and hopped in my car and went home. That was it. Friggin fantastic. I do admit this was prior to 9/11. Since I'm not privy to such treatment normally I've never taken another private flight so I don't know how much has changed. But THAT'S the way to travel... unless the OP meant something like a teleporter instead.
Also I'm not sure it's borderline extortion. Feels like flat out extortion, but I see your point.
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Keep an eye out at thrift shops-- I've seen huge tranches of Star Trek novels.
Upvoted just because I've been meaning to look up the definition of tranche and you reminded me. Thank you.
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A proper (CNC) milling machine and lathe, like ones you can work hardened steel with. Lots of better things you could buy for that money, but with a mill and lathe i could make those things for even more money!
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20 million dollars and a company idea
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A nugget ice machine. Nuggets ice is the perfect chewing ice - not too hard it will crack teeth, even consistency unlike crushed ice, firm like tight packed snow. It's like chewing on frosty heaven.
But it's absurdly expensive for what little it does. At least a couple hundred dollars for a counter top ice maker that does nothing but make perfect ice.
I bought a tabletop ice maker from Costco for $80 three years ago, and have never ever regretted it. It doesn't pull a lot of power and works pretty fast.
The downside is cleaning it, it's cheap so you can't easily break it down and rebuild it, so you've got to get creative.
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Staten Island NYC
Staten island is literally the only part of New York without subway access.
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A large property in the woods with a river running through it. I can literally setup my own mini power generation source if the stream is powerful enough. So I get be at least partly off-grid.
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Staten island is literally the only part of New York without subway access.
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A flying car like on the Jetsons.
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No weeds in my garden. Kinda how the Teletubbies never dealt with crabgrass.
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Having a paid off mortgage
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there is no direct rail link between the SIR and the New York City Subway system
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Get a dog, you big lovable jerk.
I love the conditional love of my kibby. Conditional love is great when the conditions are easy to fulfill.
1: feed me
2: water me
3: scoop my poops
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Watches, sadly. There some beautiful pieces, and somehow the industry figured out how to ask for a house’s worth of money for some of them
I got this for $70 online. It's from china and probably isn't well made but I absolutely love watching the little wheel go back and forth
it's sooo pretty!
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one of those freeze dryers to make infinite crunchy Skittles
They're so good but so expensive and the machine is like $3,000
Also one of those ~$500 IPL permanent hair removers
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free time
or any money at all, i can only seem to get one of the two
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In my case, the house I bought had been renovated before I bought it, but so poorly that it was considered a "fixer-upper" anyway. Technically, the kitchen has a refrigerator water supply, but the layout was so awkward that I ended up putting a cabinet in front of it and putting my refrigerator on the other side of the room.
I eventually ended up getting a countertop ice maker for ~$150, which is less convenient than a built-in one would be, but is also kinda nice because it makes relatively fancy, chewable "nugget" ice.
Ahh, fair enough. That sucks.
Though chewable 'nugget' ice sounds like a pretty good consolation prize.
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A maid. I really don’t like cleaning. I’m not very good at it. I miss a lot of things. I don’t have the attention span, etc. I do it because I have to. I don’t want to live in swallow but gosh, it would be nice to have somebody cleaning my house for me even if it’s just once a month.
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I got this for $70 online. It's from china and probably isn't well made but I absolutely love watching the little wheel go back and forth
it's sooo pretty!
It is indeed pretty!
Is it mechanical?For 70 bucks, though, i would be hesitant. I just can't imagine finding a mechanic to fix it if need be, or what kind of shortcuts they had to make to create it.
Is that a moonphase display on the top there though?
