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Showing posts with label luxury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luxury. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 07, 2026

It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, 4-inch Hermes bagatini

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One of the more annoying and/or idiotic things to emerge in the post-9/11, post-shoe-bomber has been the ever-evolving bag policies at conce...
Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Maybe there is a god after all

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So many bon mots - couldn't find the Venetian equivalent - that spring to mind now that the Sanchez-Bezos nuptials have been celebrated ...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

The nap of luxury...

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The most I ever paid for a mattress was for a king-sized Tempur-Pedic, purchased at Brookstone's maybe 30 years ago. I don't recall ...
Thursday, May 01, 2025

LVMH? Quelle horreur!

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Last summer, I watched a bit of the Paris Olympics. I wasn't wild about the opening and closing ceremonies, which are normally my favori...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

May be the best thing Walmart has ever done

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Of course, I'd love to have a Birkin bag. Of course, I wouldn't pay $28K for it (on top of the $100K or so I'd have to spend at ...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

This year's N-M Fantasies...

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I do so look forward each year to the Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts Catalog , or, as I like to think of it, the Let Them Eat Cake Spree.  For ...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Birkin Bag class action? Oh, FFS.

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You can get a Hermès Birkin bag for as little as $10K and change. Or swallow hard and pay $2M+ for a diamond-encrusted gold and crocodile (o...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Remember when "million dollar smile" was a figure of speech?

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I volunteer in a homeless shelter, and plenty of the folks I see there have lousy teeth. It's no surprise. They're poor. Many live o...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Swagbaggery 2024

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Having managed - quite amazingly - to see all ten of the films nominated for Best Picture this year, I had more of a vested interest in this...
Monday, March 04, 2024

The ultimate luxury submarine yacht's for sale

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On occasion, I play the lottery, and just last week actually "made" eight bucks. That was off of a couple of two-dollar tickets, s...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Welcome to the Funsch House

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Dan and Sheree Funsch are rich. (Probably, anyway. What with assets vs. liabilities, you never really know.) They're not Forbes 400 rich...
Friday, December 08, 2023

There are fantasies, and then there are FANTASIES. Part 2

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The Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts Book is always a hoot. I have no idea whose fantasies these are, but it is fun to see what my financial be...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

There are fantasies, and then there are FANTASIES. Part 1

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One of my absolutely fav Christmas traditions is paging (virtually) through the annual Neiman Marcus catalogs. There's the pedestrian, e...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Going to extremes

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As long as there's been tourism, there's been tourism for the rich.  In fact, when tourism was first a thing, it was pretty much exc...