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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of these things are just ripoffs, which is why I have trouble doing them.

Like the prices are dramatically inflated so strivers can feel superior. [/quote]

As my income has increased substantially, I still struggled with feeling ripped off. For instance, as a celebration, my wife and I went to the Four Seasons for 90 minute massages. It was nearly $1,000 with tip and just felt like a waste. Like it was nice, but it wasn’t thaaaaat nice.[/quote]

I relate to this.

I think there is this massive gap in terms of service and experiences between middle class and very rich, and it sucks. Like a middle class person would go get a massage at Massage Envy using a coupon. And it wouldn't be amazing but it wouldn't be terrible. They might think "hmm, this could be nicer" and they might even wonder if it was worth the $150 or $200 they spent for a special experience. They might wonder if being able to go to a nicer spa would make for a much better experience.

But then you go to the nicer spas and you spend double or triple or quadruple the amount and is it twice or three times or four times as nice? No. It's like... a little nicer. That's it.

I think you don't get to a truly luxurious experience where you feel truly, completely pampered until you are so rich you can get the personal masseuse who comes to $20,000/night suite or something. But that's truly just for the really rich people, not for UMC or even slightly wealthier people.

Which has led me, a regular UMC person, to decide that for the most part I will just do the much less expensive and less "luxurious" version of most things, save the money for retirement so I can stop working a little sooner or feel a bit more financially secure, and accept that I'm never going to do certain things (fly in lie-flat first class seats overseas, stay at a White Lotus-level resort, eat at certain Michelin starred restaurants, get my hair cut by the sort of person who cuts the hair of celebs and socialites, etc.). It's fine. I still have more than like 99.9% of the world population, I will get over it.[/quote]

Massages are one of those things where you need to find a good therapist, and they aren’t necessarily at the high end places. The fancy places may have great ambience but I’ve had totally meh massages are really high end resorts and I have a great therapist at a local reasonably priced tiny studio.

Tea is sort of the same. It’s a fun girls day out but how good it is can vary although ambience is usually nice. I had tea at the Waldorf in DC recently and I thought it wasn’t great, and crazy expensive. Fortunately I wasn’t paying.[/quote]

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