Luxury Item

Luxury Items are items that the contestants bring from home to alleviate boredom. Not to be confused with rewards won in Reward Challenges or Haves vs Have Nots, Luxury items are items that are chosen by the contestants before the game begins which usually have an emotional connection. Though these items are not expected to be beneficial to camp life, the said items are somewhat needed to remind contestants of home.

In earlier seasons, the contestants were apparently allowed to bring luxury items. But starting from, subsequent castaways did not have such items. In recent seasons (such as and ), luxury items are only obtainable if a tribe wins a Reward Challenge that has these items as the reward.

In Redemption Island and South Pacific, the current inhabitant of the island (and his/her challenger) gets his/her luxury item to alleviate boredom.

Trivia
Over the course of the show, several luxury items have been popular to fans:
 * In Australia and Heroes vs. Villains, Colby Donaldson's luxury item was a Texas flag. The flag was used as a tarp, only to be confiscated because of avery crucial circumstance. The flag reappeared in Heroes vs. Villains when Colby's Heroes tribe won the Day 8 Reward/Immunity Challenge.
 * Diaries and journals (brought by several contestants).
 * In Heroes vs. Villains, James Clement brought one of his two unused Hidden Immunity Idols from China.