Luxury or Necessity

The Pew Research Center has a new report on what Americans consider luxuries. Apparently, not much is considered a luxury anymore and Americans need things.
About our extravagant home:

Car:

• shared between the two of us
• Air conditioning hasn't worked for almost a year
  
• Heat in the car-now unhappy

Home

• washing machine dumping water on the floor when the machine runs,
  
• no working clothes dryer, (tonight after the children go to bed: laundromat!)
  
• home air conditioning that is less than optimal (and we live in FL)
• We do have:
• tv (s)-watched rarely-definitely could do without
  
• cable* (see internet connection below)
  
• a microwave. (I love my microwave, but we have done without one before.)
  
• a shared cell phone-we never take it anywhere unless we leave a teen at home or give it to a teen when s/he goes out and may need to call for a ride.
  
• computers-well, a lot of computers, none brand new-most recent was the boy child's doorbuster sale computer from Santa last year.
  
• I don't have an ipod and can't imagine a life where I would think it was a necssity. One child has an ipod, another 2 have some other brand, I don't think they consider them necessities.
  

In any case, these are luxuries folks, not needs. Ok, wait, we may need one computer and a high speed internet connection because it would be cardboard box time for us otherwise.