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Apr. 13th, 2006 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dichroicI tried to do a different and less annoying version of the spoilage meme, but it still grated on me. I'd say dishwashers are common enough in the US to not constitute "spoilage". On the other hand, owning an airplane sounds outrageously luxurious, but I know people who do whom I wouldn't consider terribly spoiled, because they center their lives around it and have given up other things to have it. That list doesn't work for me. We do have multiple boats, for instance, which are certainly a luxury but since ours are all rowing shells, are probably not the sort of lifestyles-of-the-rich thing the creator of that meme had in mind. Nonetheless, I'd say I am a little spoiled. Here are my reasons why:
(x) Paid cleaning people. I don't spend a large fraction of time doing housework, except for some cooking, dishwashing and laundry.
(x) A house that supplies quiet and private space whenever I want it.
(x) The ability, health, and finances to travel reasonably often and occasionally widely. (We've been to every continent but Africa.)
(x) The ability to splurge now and then on books or yarn or clothes without wrecking my finances or being criticized.
(x) Getting to eat out 2-3 times / week, at least one of those at a mid-level place (Outback, say), and at a fancy place every month or two.
(x) Three working vehicles for two people.
(x) Three computers for two people.
(x) My own library (approx 1500 books), room to keep them in, and no nagging to get rid of some of them.
(x) A massage every couple of months.
Some of these I could give up relatively easily, some I'd fight or sacrifice to keep. The quiet house may be the biggest.
(x) Paid cleaning people. I don't spend a large fraction of time doing housework, except for some cooking, dishwashing and laundry.
(x) A house that supplies quiet and private space whenever I want it.
(x) The ability, health, and finances to travel reasonably often and occasionally widely. (We've been to every continent but Africa.)
(x) The ability to splurge now and then on books or yarn or clothes without wrecking my finances or being criticized.
(x) Getting to eat out 2-3 times / week, at least one of those at a mid-level place (Outback, say), and at a fancy place every month or two.
(x) Three working vehicles for two people.
(x) Three computers for two people.
(x) My own library (approx 1500 books), room to keep them in, and no nagging to get rid of some of them.
(x) A massage every couple of months.
Some of these I could give up relatively easily, some I'd fight or sacrifice to keep. The quiet house may be the biggest.
