I have a dimmer switch in my bathroom. Every time I take a shower, I turn the lights all the way down, and it makes my shower feel so soothing and luxurious.
And every time I take a shower anywhere else (say, in a hotel room or at a friend’s house), I think to myself how tacky the harsh, standard lighting in their bathroom is.
How are you spoiled?
I’ve had a work from home job for 8 years now.
I have a large cabinet like device in my kitchen. When I open the door a light comes on illuminating an array of fresh food and drink choices.
I drive a nice car. I’m not too interested in cars, so my husband picked it out and I rolled my eyes at all the bells and whistles. It has cameras all around, parking assistance, the steering wheel vibrates if you go out of your lane, and it casts transparent information on to the windshield in front of you as you drive. Now that I’m used to all that stuff, I love it and need it! I drove my mom’s car the other day and had to try four times to put it in a parking spot because my car has ruined me.
I have a toilet that washes my bum for me. In fact we have two toilets and they both have this feature. Whenever we travel and I have to use a regular toilet, I lament greatly at the inconvenience.
I have a dishwasher. I never had one until I was about fifty years old.
This is the most amazing thing in the world.
I also have a washer and dryer in my apartment (the same apartment with the dishwasher, that I didn’t get until I was about fifty). A set of those little stackable ones.
Again, amazing. But not as amazing as the dishwasher. Surprisingly, not even close.
I have an electric floorboard heater in my bathroom, which gets it good and toasty in there during a shower, but more than that my towel rack is right above it so I get a nice heated towel to dry off with.
I’m married to the most beautiful woman in the world!
This.
I too was never “into” cars. (It drives my wife crazy that I can’t tell the difference between a minivan and an SUV.) In my entire life, there were only two advertisements for cars that I enjoyed, and they both made fun of how ugly the car was.
But our new baby has four cameras on all sides, and parking is now an absolute joy. We don’t have parking-assist, but I don’t need it. I just keep my eyes on the birds-eye-view from the sky, and ease right in. It’s actually fun!
I live in a Western country in 2021
In case anyone is curious, this one was a full-page ad in Life magazzine in 1969, and this one wasa Superbowl commercial (in 2006, I think).
I have heated marble tile floors in the master bathroom. It’s the warmest room in the winter and an absolute joy to stand on while looking out the window at the snow. Plus the one car addition I added to my garage is air conditioned so me and my classic car are pampered.
When I took an early buy out at 55 the one thing I bought for me was the best massage chair at Brookstone just as they were closing down. Got a good deal and a great chair. Use the thing at least 5 or 6 times a week. Love it.
Central AC. I enjoy central AC more than anything I have ever had, it’s all I ever wanted in my life. I would live on peanut butter sandwiches all summer to pay for it, if I had to…Got it 5 years or so ago, and I feel blessed.
I grew up with them, then for a while I lived in a rented house without a dishwasher. I was spending a lot of time washing dishes, so I bought one for the house I was living in.
The first thing I noticed was that, with a dishwasher, you have a place to store a day’s worth of dirty dishes before you run the dishwasher. That in itself is half its utility!
I have an easy job with flexible hours and great pay just 9 miles from my house.
I have three different good corkscrews that always work, even including an electrical one. I first had this one, then a friend of mine gave me a crazy electrical one like this as a joke gift, which works much better than I had thought, but it’s kind of overkill. Then a few weeks ago, as my family was clearing out the apartment of my uncle who had moved to a retirement home, I found a beautiful corkscrew like this, which is called “Kellnermesser” in German (“waiter’s knife”), because it’s predominantly used by waiters and waitresses and rarely seen in private households, though it’s a perfect mechanism to quickly and effectively open wine bottles.
The kicker is: nowadays I mostly drink wine with screw-caps.
I have a magic coffee maker which cleans and refills itself every day. I just wake up and turn it on.
For some reason, it breaks whenever my husband is out of town.
Since COVID, I’ve been able to work from home. I had wanted to for years. TPTB are trying to figure out how to deal with this now that most don’t want to come back. No point in it. We’ve proved it. We prove it every day.
Also, we live on two acres in the Rocky Mountains. No neighbors. Property line backs up to national forest. Going for a walk involves stepping out side. The road I live on gets maybe 2 cars on it a day.
Damn, I just accused my gf of cheating on me, but she insists she isn’t!