Sometimes it’s true, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. But sometimes when one door closes, another one opens. And sometimes it leads you right back to where you started!

On that note, here are Mrs J’s top five everyday luxuries. Make sure you enjoy them today!

1. Air-conditioning

You may be clever enough to naturally appreciate AC for the luxury it is. But Mrs J is still young and dumb enough to expect AC everywhere it’s reasonable to expect that it might be needed. A few years back she went to Martinique and (knowingly) stayed in a house there for a week without AC. It was … err… quite warm. Mrs J is glad she didn’t have AC on that trip, because she may not have left her room at all during the day otherwise. That being said, let’s hear it for AC y’all!

2. WC’s

Bears do their business in the woods. But do they like it? Enough said.

3. Drinking water

Mrs J normally drinks tap water and never really understood the raison d’être of the bottled water industry in an area where tap water is perfectly safe to drink. Until someone dug off the wrong pipe down by the river. A couple of nights later, boiling water, waiting for it to cool, then chilling it in the fridge before drinking, she’s happy to pay for a bottle of water. Luckily, her village escaped the really brown water. She seriously feels for those who didn’t.

4. Your back

Your health, really. But since this is Mrs J’s Ideas, which is unashamedly about Mrs J, the back will serve as the example for any health issue. Try doing anything without your back. Or rather, don’t. Just celebrate the fact that you have a back! Never mind how much of a lemon it is.

5. Your family

They can be extremely annoying. Also, whether you like it or not, and whether you decide to let this influence you or not, their opinions are more likely to be important to you than anyone else’s. Those guys just have to be dealt with, dog down it man! Still, you wouldn’t want to be without them, would you. And yes, that’s a rhetorical question.

P.S. Credit for the inspiration and intro to this post goes to a tweet by @tannerc retweeted once more by Mrs J’s conduit to the universe @mindfulmimi. Thanks!