He and his wife, Patricia, have a 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foottion home in Tahoe City, Calif., where black bears have been a problem for years.
Mr. Sandow said that although Mr. Shafran was initially reluctant, he later accepted gifts, including money - sometimes handed over in restaurant bathrooms - vacations, theater tickets, kitchen renovations and a two-year-old color television set.
Kay and Ed Nadel said that they knew no one in Scottsdale in 1996 when they bought a three-bedroom, five-bathroom, 4,500-square-foot 4,500-square-foot 4,500-square-footunity there.
Some days the bathroom at our vacation house and certainly the trunk of the car were well above that mark….
Some days the bathroom at our vacation house and certainly the trunk of the car were well above that mark.
A family splurge, he says, consists of Sandy redecorating the bathroom; a family vacation is Sandy coming along while her husband acts on location.
The international socialite and stepdaughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was found unconscious in the bathroom of a vacation house at a country club near Buenos Aires.
My mother would wash me in the hotel bathroom sink during vacations, cupping water over my head; a newborn baptism.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a self-described workaholic who has ascribed his success partly to not leaving his desk to go to the bathroom, is planning a vacation.
If your jewelry box is a tangle of bling you no longer wear, you may be able to turn those baubles into a car payment, a vacation, a bathroom remodel — whatever you value.
Driven, still, by inexorably aging baby boomers, all 78 million or so of them, the luxury market is most active right now, she said, with things that can be described as "experiential" and restorative, like a huge new spa bathroom or an exotic vacation.
