# Your One Extravagance **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916 "2006-08-01T18:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/41 "2006-08-03T00:31:46Z")
I would have built in my custom home a “rain room”: a room with projection screen walls, sound system, and ceiling shower fixtures to duplicate rain in different settings. I might even have a bed in there under a waterproof tarp and pretend I’m camping out on a rainy night. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/42 "2006-08-06T07:29:09Z")
I just emailed my college friend how I could support her missionary-school work in Sierra Leone. If I got a million dollars, I’d just paypal her 50K or something and let her sort it out. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/43 "2006-08-06T07:35:36Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] Along the same lines as Ellen’s: socks. If I had money to burn, I would wear brand new creamy-soft socks every single day, and give the used ones to Goodwill or something. New socks every day! Oh, the decadence… [/QUOTE] Oh man a kindred spirit…drool, new socks EVERY day or even every time I fancied changing 'em. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/44 "2006-08-06T14:40:57Z")
After donating 10% to charity. One of these. > **[Wakesetter 23 LSV](https://www.malibuboats.com/boat/lsv-series/wakesetter-23-lsv)** > > The Award-Winning Malibu 23 LSV wakeboarding boat dominates on the water, and in the market. It’s not only our best-selling boat — it’s also the best-selling wakeboard boat ever. Either of these. Hell, a billion? I’ll take both. [http://www.internetautoguide.com/car-photos/99-int/2006/jaguar/xk-series/xkr-convertible/1751/exterior.html](http://www.internetautoguide.com/car-photos/99-int/2006/jaguar/xk-series/xkr-convertible/1751/exterior.html) [http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2005-Ford-Shelby-GR1-Concept-Aluminum-Body.htm](http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2005-Ford-Shelby-GR1-Concept-Aluminum-Body.htm) This specific house. We worked on it, I have been inside and out, love the architecture, location, everything. I’ve seen a lot of really nice shacks through the years, but this one is perfect. [http://www.edinarealty.com/Consumer/Listing/ListingDetail.aspx?Search=6c2c7e9d-49f6-4ddb-bb51-8c8f6499faf3&Listing=12162393&IRPAgentID=&Image=1&First=1&Last=1&pagesize=10&SearchType=city&ListingDistrictTypeID=&FirstLetter=&Sort=6&Cookies=](http://www.edinarealty.com/Consumer/Listing/ListingDetail.aspx?Search=6c2c7e9d-49f6-4ddb-bb51-8c8f6499faf3&Listing=12162393&IRPAgentID=&Image=1&First=1&Last=1&pagesize=10&SearchType=city&ListingDistrictTypeID=&FirstLetter=&Sort=6&Cookies=) I’d hire a housekeeper and a desk troll. Oh, and someone to keep all my new toys shiny. Wow, I never realized I was so materialistic… ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/45 "2006-08-06T14:58:34Z")
After donating a bunch of it and setting up a few scholarships, I’d buy a house in our neighbourhood. I would remodel the kitchen completely, with two ovens and two cooktops, and lots of space. And a professional dishwasher, one that cycles through in two minutes. In the basement or an attached wing I’d set up a soundproof, insulated, high-ceilinged area for Mr. Lissar to use as a quasi-dojo, with mirrors along the walls so I can use it for dance practice. Does that count as two things? My extravagance is just one house! Oh, and I’d have at least two guest rooms. And central air. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/46 "2006-08-07T04:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=Fretful Porpentine] I don’t know if this really counts as an extravagance if you’ve got a _billion_ dollars to play with, but I’ve always wanted to go on one of those cruises to Antarctica. And I would like to see mountain gorillas in the wild. [/QUOTE] To make it really extravagant, you could just combine the two - ship mountain gorillas to Antarctica and see them there. 😃 (And double-bonus, you’d have your very own unique frozen gorilla ground statuary! It’s a decorating theme that has yet to come into its own, but you could be the pioneer.) ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/47 "2006-08-07T04:27:02Z")
I’d get this [handbag](http://cgi.ebay.com/HERMES-BIRKIN-BAG-FUSCHIA-PINK-CROCO-LEATHER-SILVER-35_W0QQitemZ180013644743QQihZ008QQcategoryZ63852QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). Yeah, $45,000 is a lot for a handbag but I’d carry it until they pried it out of my cold, dead fingers… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/48 "2006-08-07T04:49:46Z")
Travel. Travel travel travel. I’d just head off with a passport and no real plan and see where I end up. Staying in cute little B&Bs when I feel like it, and ridiculously lavish suites when the mood strikes. Then I’d come back and find myself the perfect home, not _too_ big, but with a huge lot. The kind of home that gets a _name_. **Antigen Manor** or something. In it would be a kitchen much like Baker described. and a library with leather chairs and a gigantic oak desk and a full wall of windows to look out on my lovely estate. The other walls would be floor-to-ceiling bookcases with ladders to get to the high shelves. You know you can’t start a dream thread like this one and limit people to _one_ extravagance! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/49 "2006-08-07T05:10:29Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] I would have built in my custom home a “rain room”: a room with projection screen walls, sound system, and ceiling shower fixtures to duplicate rain in different settings. I might even have a bed in there under a waterproof tarp and pretend I’m camping out on a rainy night. [/QUOTE] Speaking of which, I want a “Lego room”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/50 "2006-08-07T05:22:40Z")
Can a collection count as one extravagance? I’d collect old computers: PDPs of all vintages (1 through 15 with a few gaps, not counting the super-PDP known as the VAX), other minicomputers, supercomputers (CDCs and Crays), mainframes and midrange computers, desktop computers of all vintages, embedded and process control devices, and any other variety I can think of. I’d also create a super networking cluster, one that would put Google to shame, someplace without much government intervention and host files banned from various places. Nothing I would think of as evil, but, well, that doesn’t leave out a whole lot. All of the files would be downloadable through an anonymous network complete with satellite access into countries with obnoxious censorship régimes. Oh, and it would also have a public access ITS system running on an emulated PDP-10. After all, even lusers deserve their fair share. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/51 "2006-08-07T05:29:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mahaloth] I like to think that if I had a billion dollars, I wouldn’t waste my money buying myself pointless and expensive things. However, I’m sure I would allow myself at least one extravagance. For me, I think it would be a huge, high-definition, widescreen television with the best sound system available. Along with it, I’d get the best cable/satelite service available so I can get every channel available in my part of the world. What would be your one extravagance/luxury? [/QUOTE] Your extravagance is my necessity. [I have all this now.](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/yojimboguy/detail?.dir=/2d97&.dnm=c2dc.jpg&.src=ph) My extravagance would be a Steely Dan concert just for me and my friends while we are fucked, sucked and blown by a dozen of the best hookers money can buy. (Yes, yes, everybody has to test clean for STDs before getting in the door.) To quote Greg Giraldo: > [@](#): > > What happened to the 21st Century? By now I should be snorting vitamin-enriched coke off the tits of my sex robots ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916/52 "2006-08-07T12:49:33Z")
[QUOTE=Shalmanese] I would create a foie zoo. Buy a normal zoo and then gavage (force feed) all the animals to see which ones I could make foie gras out of. [/QUOTE] Mmmm, ostrich foie gras. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-one-extravagance/366916.md?page=2)