For a brief period, crime paid for your extravagances - but now you have a lifetime to regret it.

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Suburban McMansions, houses that are expensive to build and maintain and are big just for bigness' sake, are now seen as wasteful extravagances.

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It was theorized the graduation and exemption of many from the tax would result in less of a check on the extravagances of federal expenditures.

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This was to allow them to qualify for the first intake into the single currency, an achievement many pundits considered impossible given the country's past extravagances.

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He added that weddings involving the slaughter of up to 90 camels were unacceptable and he called upon the general public to inform on those who indulge in such extravagances.

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Rather than go into debt to finance your version of a royal wedding, why not plan a simpler marriage that focuses on you and your spouse, rather than all the frills and extravagances?

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Eschew extravagances like vacations and meals out.

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Those extravagances have got to add up.

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The five-bedroom piano nobile, or main floor, with its 18-foot ceilings, rare antique pieces and Deco extravagances (such as a gold-tiled bathroom with a swan motif) faces the Grand Canal on one side, an Italian garden on the other.

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