After adopting a frugal lifestyle, the Kubackis say they now really appreciate life's little luxuries.

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For Siti the lack of trade doesn't mean she gives up life's little luxuries.

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She might have to cut back on her clothes purchases and all the little luxuries she enjoyed, she would have to give up her hope of redoing the bathrooms in marble, but that was hardly to suggest her impoverishment.

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In her little apartment her life is far removed from the luxuries of her royal roots.

CNN: February 1, 2013 -- Updated 0959 GMT (1759 HKT)