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Business class also, five star hotels, designer clothes, expensive cars, haute cuisine restaurants, every 6 mnts a new mobile, etc... There are so many things luxuruous in life... O, and a bawab...that is really luxury to me!
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*weekly maid service *nanny *mini-van without having to worry about the gas $$ *private chef preparing meals each night *private jet
I can think of a ton more but really none of that matters to me...except for the maid service since I hate cleaning. Posts: 1808 | From: USA | Registered: Aug 2006
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quote:Originally posted by ?????: Business class also, five star hotels, designer clothes, expensive cars, haute cuisine restaurants, every 6 mnts a new mobile, etc... There are so many things luxuruous in life... O, and a bawab...that is really luxury to me!
Business class i agree Expensive cars i agree 'haute cuisine' restaurants i dsagree because you could eat there once in a while
new mobile every 6 months is stupidity - teenage bullshit or arab middle age BS ..AHahahah
bawab translates to laziness ... walk to the souq ????? Posts: 2079 | From: 'by any means necessary' - Malcom X | Registered: Mar 2007
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Besides all been said,luxury can be also going on a shopping spree and buying things that you don't need but like or enjoy just for the pleasure.Examples:expensive jewelry,good perfumes and high-end cosmetics or apparel(not necessarily designer but high tagged). Spending a week or so in a spa doing nothing but being pampered. Having live-in maids.
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I guess a luxury is anything you can do without isn't it? I mean right now, a luxury for me would be a holiday, yet others see it as a necessity, a luxury COULD be a car, because there is always public transport and of course we have those dangly things on the ends of our bodies
Quite a lot of things are luxury for me at the moment because i dont have 'spare' cash right now, take yesterday, I bought these, well, kind of crisps, exept they are vegetables dried - parsnips, beetroot etc, they are absolutely divine and they cost 99p, yes 99p. To me, right now, THEY are a luxury Posts: 83 | From: uk | Registered: Jun 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Sashyra88: Not having to look at the price tag when you're buying something.
< guess a luxury is anything you can do without isn't it? >
That sums it up completly!
I am proud (let me brag a little) to say (and alhamdulliah)when we eat out - we usually order what we want irrespective of the price - we might talk about it later but it is not an issue.
Simply avoid 4* and 5* restaurants
It's not clothing but you know you guys look at $$ on the food menu Posts: 2079 | From: 'by any means necessary' - Malcom X | Registered: Mar 2007
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Sobriquet - It may be time you stopped eating at McDonalds every night And for goodness sake will you let your wife look at more than the happy meal menu just for once Posts: 83 | From: uk | Registered: Jun 2007
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quote:Originally posted by tarka: Sobriquet - It may be time you stopped eating at McDonalds every night And for goodness sake will you let your wife look at more than the happy meal menu just for once
We have an oven now so I expect some chicken tonight Yayyyyyyyyyyy
We usually eat very healthy but we’ve been dependent on ordering in the past few days.
I miss basmati rice with chicken/beef/lamb Posts: 2079 | From: 'by any means necessary' - Malcom X | Registered: Mar 2007
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quote:Originally posted by tarka: Sobriquet - It may be time you stopped eating at McDonalds every night And for goodness sake will you let your wife look at more than the happy meal menu just for once
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quote:Originally posted by ?????: Business class also, five star hotels, designer clothes, expensive cars, haute cuisine restaurants, every 6 mnts a new mobile, etc... There are so many things luxuruous in life... O, and a bawab...that is really luxury to me!
Business class i agree Expensive cars i agree 'haute cuisine' restaurants i dsagree because you could eat there once in a while
new mobile every 6 months is stupidity - teenage bullshit or arab middle age BS ..AHahahah
bawab translates to laziness ... walk to the souq ?????
The restaurants I disagree,when you HAVE to eat there, it`s not because of luxury, shall be business... The bawab, I mean all the people who are working in a house, to do household jobs. In Europe only the very fortunated have people in their house 24/7. Even millionaires don`t have this usually. There are people to do work, but not 24/7. Like in Egypt, it is to luxury... Not stuff where I have to save for is luxury, but the stuff what is unnecesarry, in my point of view.
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quote:Originally posted by ?????: Business class also, five star hotels, designer clothes, expensive cars, haute cuisine restaurants, every 6 mnts a new mobile, etc... There are so many things luxuruous in life... O, and a bawab...that is really luxury to me!
Business class i agree Expensive cars i agree 'haute cuisine' restaurants i dsagree because you could eat there once in a while
new mobile every 6 months is stupidity - teenage bullshit or arab middle age BS ..AHahahah
bawab translates to laziness ... walk to the souq ?????
The restaurants I disagree,when you HAVE to eat there, it`s not because of luxury, shall be business... The bawab, I mean all the people who are working in a house, to do household jobs. In Europe only the very fortunated have people in their house 24/7. Even millionaires don`t have this usually. There are people to do work, but not 24/7. Like in Egypt, it is to luxury... Not stuff where I have to save for is luxury, but the stuff what is unnecesarry, in my point of view.
Products are a luxury in third world countries whereas service is a luxury in the west. Just out of curiosity ????? what would you choose?
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The West. Not because of the products, but because of work, my family, my friends, my age together this is my life. I couldn`t do the same in Egypt.
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quote:Originally posted by ?????: The West. Not because of the products, but because of work, my family, my friends, my age together this is my life. I couldn`t do the same in Egypt.
I meant what would you prefer choice of products or ample services.
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Difficult question, neither one of them should be that important to me. I`m not materialistic and I`m defenitly not lazy.
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not very realistic: being able to fly to Egypt whenever I want and not worry about the cost or losing my job for too much time off
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quote:Originally posted by Sobriquet: Products are a luxury in third world countries whereas service is a luxury in the west. Just out of curiosity ????? what would you choose?
I generally agree with that, but it's funny, because I would rather have products than services most of the time. I feel I can do everything myself. But I grew up without so much, to actually *get* things feels like it's my birthday.
I'm going round and round on a nice quality wool rug for the living room (I mean the reception). Do I kick out the cash for this? (It's not even super-expensive for a carpet, just not something I've ever purchased for myself). Or is it a waste of money? Should I just get a $100 nylon remnant? I'll obsess about this until I finally buy it.
But the nice thing is, I *will* appreciate it forever.
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quote:Originally posted by Snoozin - Bokra Fil Mish Mish:
quote:Originally posted by Sobriquet: Products are a luxury in third world countries whereas service is a luxury in the west. Just out of curiosity ????? what would you choose?
I generally agree with that, but it's funny, because I would rather have products than services most of the time. I feel I can do everything myself. But I grew up without so much, to actually *get* things feels like it's my birthday.
I'm going round and round on a nice quality wool rug for the living room (I mean the reception). Do I kick out the cash for this? (It's not even super-expensive for a carpet, just not something I've ever purchased for myself). Or is it a waste of money? Should I just get a $100 nylon remnant? I'll obsess about this until I finally buy it.
But the nice thing is, I *will* appreciate it forever.
Get the wool rug Snoozin and what color? You do know rugs of all variety are dirt-cheap in the Middle East compared to the U.S
I saw this beige/brownish wool rug that would look magnificent in the bedroom.
Solid color. I don't like fancy patterns in the bedroom. Tranqulity - serenity - and a picture of nature is fine by me
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being in controle of my own life,no one to answere to,what more could i ask for
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If I had a money no option scenario. I'd like to stay in the Burj al Arab in Dubai, just to experience how the other half live, private jet there ofcourse!
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I dont really think about what money can bring or buy.To have good health and happiness is important.I value theses to things the most..But of course money helps..
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More time that I have to spend with family and friends rather than being able to use it to work!!!
Oh and tickets to go to Egypt next weekend to be with my boyfriend for his birthday!!!
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My 32" LCD with orbit discovery channel, along my habitat Sofa, AC on, Big Jug of pineapple juice with Ice, wife and kids around me. Out side house, slow driving my Grand Marquis Mercury, with light music on and heading to Al Borj fish Restaurant. When their, one can order the following menu, Starter, Stuffed Crab skulls and Salads Soup, Sea fruit soup (boneless) Main, fried squid, grilled stuffed hamour fillet along with a pespi Max. the main thing is to eat very slowly enjoying the situation. When back, 20 minutes on the treadmill, and finally, one puff of double apple shisha (water pipe smoking) in my roof garden with a mint tea.
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quote:Originally posted by Mer: My 32" LCD with orbit discovery channel, along my habitat Sofa, AC on, Big Jug of pineapple juice with Ice, wife and kids around me. Out side house, slow driving my Grand Marquis Mercury, with light music on and heading to Al Borj fish Restaurant. When their, one can order the following menu, Starter, Stuffed Crab skulls and Salads Soup, Sea fruit soup (boneless) Main, fried squid, grilled stuffed hamour fillet along with a pespi Max. the main thing is to eat very slowly enjoying the situation. When back, 20 minutes on the treadmill, and finally, one puff of double apple shisha (water pipe smoking) in my roof garden with a mint tea.
The restaurant where the waiters peel your shrimps and actually put them in your mouth??? I don`t like that. It is to much "class romanticising". Yek! Nearly slobbering waiters to honour their majesties...
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This is waiter job, I am not asking any extra..also I am asking in a polit way cos the whole situation is fantastic..
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So, that is "an extra", and actually people are paying for that? I didn`t know... For me it is pretty sick to ask this kind of things from a waiter. It is humuliating...placing yourself above another because you pay...show power by money...
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A real luxury would be walking around cairo and not being stared at constantly, not being approached by beggars (my mommy's sick! give me money!), not being harrassed by cops with nothing better to do than to exercise their megalomania.
quote:Originally posted by VanillaBullshit: A real luxury would be walking around cairo and not being stared at constantly, not being approached by beggars (my mommy's sick! give me money!), not being harrassed by cops with nothing better to do than to exercise their megalomania.
VB, I'm curious...how do you deal with the cops?
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quote:Originally posted by VanillaBullshit: A real luxury would be walking around cairo and not being stared at constantly, not being approached by beggars (my mommy's sick! give me money!), not being harrassed by cops with nothing better to do than to exercise their megalomania.
VB, I'm curious...how do you deal with the cops?
I use invisible mode.
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Luxory in Egypt? Someone to wash my windows and iron my clothes.....oh, and having McDonald's delivered along with all the other great food. lol I would rather have services than shopping, I can shop when I go home each year or travel elsewhere...but services...ah...life is good.
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Okay I don't need the 42" Plasma anymore the new 29" Flat (regular crt) TV definitely suffices. We watched 8 episodes of 'Lost' back2back last night until dawn this morning and it was great.
Alhamdulliha I rather think about the 'have-nots' and not the very wealthy in such a case. Yaani the unfortunate (Somailians) and not persons residing in mansions and driving around in 500k cars.
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Floating on an airbed in my pool, in 92 deg. weather, with a cool drink in my hand..... bliss!!!!! Posts: 4238 | From: USA | Registered: Jul 2004
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quote:Originally posted by VanillaBullshit: Seriously tho, it depends on how frustrated/bored the cops feel which will determine anyone's fate.
How do they/what do they do to harrass you? I agree with VB, being in Cairo without being approached by 50+ people in a single morning with their hands out for money is a luxury. I give to the first couple of people who are limbless and after that I get burnt out.
Luxury to me = one free hour of my baby sleeping to answer emails and/or exercise or shower in peace. Posts: 13440 | Registered: Feb 2006
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