# Luxuries you don't enjoy **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2026, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008 "2026-07-29T21:26:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/182 "2026-08-02T11:49:48Z")
I don’t like massages either, but not because of intimacy or being touched or pain, but because they do nothing for me. Every massage I’ve had I felt the exact same afterwards, neither better nor worse, so they just seemed pointless. Maybe it had something to do with my being very thin at that time, so I basically had no muscles anyway. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/183 "2026-08-02T13:17:26Z")
Or maybe you didn’t have any problem amenable to being improved with massage. I’ve had a wide range of outcomes, from literally enough taller that i had to adjust my car mirrors, and relief from pain I’d had for days, to “nothing much”. I enjoy the process. I generally like being touched. But i don’t enjoy it enough to be worth the price. I do it for pain relief. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/184 "2026-08-02T15:30:03Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > I’m looking forward to the day where there’s some kind of automated haircut machine. A Flowbee ain’t automated, but it’s pretty close! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/185 "2026-08-02T16:39:52Z")
> [@ricepad](#): > > A Flowbee ain’t automated, but it’s pretty close That’s exactly what I thought of, too! > **[George Clooney reveals he’s been cutting his hair with a Flowbee for years](https://www.today.com/style/george-clooney-reveals-he-s-been-cutting-his-hair-flowbee-t201777)** > > Who knew that proper suction was the key to a movie star haircut? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/186 "2026-08-02T19:10:33Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > My Timex does its job: it tell me the time. That’s all I need it to do. I don’t understand why anybody who wears a watch needs anything that does the same, but costs a helluva lot more. My wife bought me a couple of Invicta watches, great quality, they run $100-$200. One has a Swiss movement. But after that, it is just a status symbol. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/187 "2026-08-02T19:27:38Z")
Regarding the ridiculously expensive Swiss watches, I could appreciate that they are entirely mechanical and that they tell time (along with whatever other complications there are) using tiny gears and other elements. I can’t imagine ever spending that kind of money but right now, a twenty-dollar expense wouldn’t be a problem. So if I was rich enough, a $50,000 watch might not be a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/188 "2026-08-02T22:08:12Z")
Doctors and Dentists. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/189 "2026-08-02T22:11:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Regarding the ridiculously expensive Swiss watches, I could appreciate that they are entirely mechanical and that they tell time (along with whatever other complications there are) using tiny gears and other elements Invicta watches (mostly) do that same, for way way less. ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/190 "2026-08-02T23:36:17Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > You can take the girl out of the trailer park… 🤷‍♀️ I got a beat up convertible, a clean t-shirt and a jug of Boone’s Farm. There’s a traveling carnival next county over. When should I pick you up? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/191 "2026-08-02T23:45:26Z")
> [@vbob](#): > > I got a beat up convertible, a clean t-shirt and a jug of Boone’s Farm. There’s a traveling carnival next county over. When should I pick you up? Q: Why does the T-shirt have to be clean for this momentous occasion? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/192 "2026-08-02T23:49:27Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Q: Why does the T-shirt have to be clean for this momentous occasion? My other t-shirt is no longer legally allowed to cross county lines. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/193 "2026-08-03T10:19:48Z")
> [@vbob](#): > > My other t-shirt is no longer legally allowed to cross county lines. But I bet it’s old enough. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/194 "2026-08-03T13:48:03Z")
My sister’s wearing the good shoes today, but as soon as she gets back from the Piggly Wiggly, I’ll get the dogs put away and be ready to go! ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/195 "2026-08-03T14:20:40Z")
Aren’t you supposed to NOT inhale?? ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/196 "2026-08-03T14:34:32Z")
well, maybe I should have said “puff”? ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/197 "2026-08-03T18:05:11Z")
I really don’t know the in’s and out’s of cigars. I flee as if from a wildfire if I smell one. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/198 "2026-08-03T18:06:14Z")
> [@Thumper668](#): > > > [@themapleleaf](#): > > > > It is on my mental bucket list to experience a hammam (a Turkish bath where an attendant scrubs you squeaky clean while massaging you with copious amounts of soap suds). > > It was actually at a Hammam in Turkey that I discovered this (I was stationed in Sinop Turkey in the 80s and a shipmate talked me into the Hammam) In my experience I paid for a 300 lb bald Turk to beat the shit out of me. You can keep it. On the contrary, I went to a hamam just last November in Istanbul, and it was a wonderful experience. We went to the [Cağaloğlu Hamam](https://cagalogluhamami.com.tr/en/), which was built in 1741. The architecture was phenomenal. They had pictures of the many celebrities who have been there, from Florence Nightingale and Franz Liszt; Turkey’s first president Mustafa Atatürk, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and King Edward VII; to Harrison Ford, Oprah Winfrey, and Cameron Diaz. It has catered to men and women since its founding with separate men’s and women’s sections. (There was another even older hamam we considered, but they did men and women on alternate days, which was not convenient for our travel plans.) Anyway, you do the whole thing naked or covered with a towel. There is some light beating. 🤔 But I came out feeling great and I have never been that squeaky clean in my life. I would go back to Istanbul just for the hamam experience. > **[Home | Cağaloğlu Hamamı](https://cagalogluhamami.com.tr/en/)** > > 1741 yılında inşa edilen Cağaloğlu Hamamı, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu döneminde uzun bir süre sonra yapılan en son hamamdır. > **[Cağaloğlu Hamam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C4%9Falo%C4%9Flu_Hamam)** > > The Cağaloğlu Hamam is a historic hamam (Turkish bathhouse) in Sultanahmet, in the heart of the historic centre of Istanbul, Turkey. Finished in 1741, it was one of the last major hamams to be built in Constantinople/Istanbul during the Ottoman period. It was built to raise revenue for the library of Sultan Mahmud I, situated inside the Ayasofya Mosque, and was begun by one of the head architects of that time, Suleyman Ağa, then completed by Abdullah Ağa. Cağaloğlu is a double hamam with separate... ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/199 "2026-08-06T20:39:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I really don’t understand why anyone _wants_ designer eyeglass frames. I doubt that Tom Ford I didn’t even know Tom Ford was some kind of designer frame… They were the nicest looking/fitting frames in the place, and I just carped about how expensive frames were getting when I found out the price. Didn’t find out until later they were some hoity-toity designer frames… ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/200 "2026-08-06T22:22:00Z")
I expect that some people will look at the designer name first and only second consider if the frames work for them. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan\_myers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@aruvqan\_myers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan_myers)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008/201 "2026-08-11T12:45:59Z")
Very good point =) It is flavorless and useless. About the only thing gilded I will bother with is the silver and gold gilt Jordan Almonds that one gets at weddings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/luxuries-you-dont-enjoy/1032008.md?page=11)