đLuxury: Defining, Upleveling, Allowing
What is your relationship to luxury?
In order to explore that question, a definition of luxury is needed. And there are as many definitions as there are people.
If your home space is important to you, luxury could mean coziness, or high-end décor, or an artsy flair. Then again, luxury might simply be more space, more privacy or more quiet.
It might be a calming water view or access to a forest. Or maybe living where you can ride your child to school each day on a bicycle would be the height of luxuryâŠfresh air, sunshine and happy memories in the making.
It is important to decouple the idea of luxury from the conventional price tag it carries. If you can remove the âcostâ of luxury and then reflect on what you would like to experience, you might find that you can have some version of it now. If not, you could create a wish list and enjoy the feeling of it coming toward you.
If you are clear about the definition of luxury for you, stretch yourself to see if you can uplevel it a notch. Start from where you are now and ask yourself, what would make the experience truly next-level?
See what comes up. Is it too much to let in?
Hereâs an example.
A few months ago, I realized that my large shoulder bag was too heavy. It was causing neck and shoulder issues. I knew it was time to downsize.
I felt a pull toward something designer-y. Some bling on it. Pretty colors. I could feel it but I couldnât see it.
Then one day, a Michael Kors purse showed up in my digital feed and grabbed me. Pink, yellow and brown, like a groovy 70âs scarf, with a gold lock and key on a chain. Oooh, I REALLY wanted it.
Even though it was deeply discounted, I found myself resisting purchasing it. Iâm not a designer bag kind of person, or that is what I have told myself. But it kept showing up in digital ads and I pined for it daily. Deep down, I didnât think I was allowed to have it.
My fourth-grade teacher, Miss Salter, wore those groovy 70âs scarves, tied around a low blonde ponytail. She was tall and slender, and she came from California, a long way from our school in Maryland.
I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever met.
I wanted to BE her.
She told us how they donât wear winter coats in California because it doesnât snow there. It only rains. So, she wore a raincoat in the winter. I wanted to wear a raincoat in the winter too.
But I was a chubby kid from Maryland, where it snows in the winter.
I grew up in a frugal household, where a designer handbag would have been beyond our familyâs reach. Purchasing it second-hand would have been okay, but not new.
Fast forward to September 2024, and the first anniversary of my motherâs passing. I saw a photo of an artist colleague wearing the exact same purse in a social post. Considering that my mother was the source of the frugality in my childhood, I took it as a sign from her that day to go ahead and splurge.
I bought the Michael Kors Hamilton Patchwork Satchel and havenât looked back. I donât miss the money spent. And I feel like a million dollars when I look at it.
Iâm all grown up now, living the dream in California, where I can wear a raincoat in the winter and sport a groovy shoulder bag that Miss Salter would have loved.
Life is short. Luxury is available to you.
Reach for it. Allow it. You can have it too.
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In Wealth & Worthiness,
Maria
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