No saki?sushi, books.
books, sushi.
Eating out at my favorite Japanese restaurant generally involves sushi, and I bring a book.
It's my big weekly (more or less) thrill.
Sad, I know
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In my dictionary (Merriam Webster), "asceticism" was only defined as "the practice of self-denial, austerity", so I thought it was appropriate... YMMV. I guess it depends how literal you want to be!
Good food (grocery and farmer market)
Person who does yard work
Person who does house work
Occasional electronic gadget
Good idea, we always order that, also with Vietnamese food. It does feel like we are living it up.No saki?
I get $25 coupons from Amazon.com every month or two and have a little trouble spending them, the last one went for a book and three packages of ground coffee; I added $11.00 to that order but would have bought coffee anyway. I could confine my frivolous splurges to those coupons. I’m buying a lot of books & magazines for the Kindle and now prefer getting the morning news that way.
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What did you do to start receiving the $25.00 coupons? (probably by actually BUYING a book once in a while)
We have four cruises planned to the caribean in Jan. and Feb. to escape the cold.
Biggest recent splurge was opera tickets. SO & other friends can be dragged to the opera house once a year or two and I actually like to go by myself without the distraction of someone who doesn’t want to be there. They sold me a subscription in the first row, dead center of my preferred section which is a very good deal. I also budget a lot for various theater & music events. I’ve stopped buying CDs, there are too many in the house.
I bought a Kindle this year (about a month before they dropped the price). So far, I've only purchased one regularly priced book. I "bought" several FREE books, but have not enjoyed those at all.)