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I spent a few hundreds dollars lining 2/4 of my office’s walls with tabletops to make one huge L-shaped desk. Lovingly deemed “mega-desk,” it greatly improves my ability to work on multiple and/or large projects. It is also the envy of every WFH person or crafter who enters my house.
pics plz!!!
Electric Unicycle. For short trips and errands, it's a super fast and effective way to zip around my area. For more recreational trips, off-roading on local trails and ravines is super fun. It feels like snowboarding around the city, and has a learning curve of a few days (like skiing). Initially, I borrowed an old one from a friend and decided to stick with it by getting my own (a fairly good one). Next up was the v…
I spent ~$2700 on a new mattress. I no longer wake up with hip or lower back pain. My sleeps are an order of magnitude better. I ended up with a Tempurpedic. I spent about 2 hours trying every mattress at the store and bought the one that felt best. There’s probably a million hacks to get that mattress cheaper, but I regret nothing. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made. It also came with 2 “free” memory foam pill…
I'm not the only person saying this: getting an espresso machine was the biggest QoL improvement from one purchase I've ever had. Although you do have to enjoy and be excited about manually making espresso. For me I specifically wanted to go through the process (grinding, tamping, etc) since being able to vary the result, pick the coffee, etc is part of the enjoyment, so a machine that uses Nespresso pods or the like…
It's a great little machine!
Going on 2-3 day bike camping trips in the summer is a blast!
A Litter Robot 4. Automated litter boxes are easy more expensive than I thought they would be, but you just can't put a price on not having to scoop
litter box: a deep stainless steel full hotel pan (like you see in a food serving line)
Litter Genie (and generic inserts)
location: in my bathroom where I frequent enough that I can pretty much scoop after each time my cat uses the litter.
Right now I'm experimenting with a handheld cordless vacuum cleaner to pick up litter.
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I seriously recommend it. I put mine over my roadcrafter, and i stopped noticing that i was wearing it within 10 miles. Now "clip in!" is a reflex just like "buckle up!" is in the car.
Which one did you go for?
1) I trust the tether a lot more than someone else's (or my own for that matter) software 2) No battery to forget to charge 3) Uses cheap CO2 canisters making it and easy to re-arm. Many airbags have to be sent back to the manufacturer after a deployment and are quite expensive to re-arm.
A Litter Robot 4. Automated litter boxes are easy more expensive than I thought they would be, but you just can't put a price on not having to scoop
Instead we now need to empty the container weekly (pull bag out, close bag, replace bag) and cleaning the machine monthly.
All parts are made of a sturdy plastic and can be disassembled them nicely to clean them, without any electronics in the parts in contact with the cats.
Pricy but well worth it
Nice big refurbished sturdy motorized desk. Nice improvement. Now I have more room to pile junk and it doesn't wobble like slightly cheaper Ikea one. Should go get an other one as my home office is too small to have any hardware or multiple laptops and screens.
Anova Precision Oven, got it under 500€, but now it is certainly more than 500. Have to get more use out of it, but the steam is interesting and having app even if I hate idea of IoT is nice to see when it is at temp or even could do some programming.
Anova Chamber Vacuum sealer. So much better than side sealers, ordered some meat from online and packing it for freezing was a breeze. Probably also need to get around to toy with bit more things.
Steam Deck, nice bathroom gaming PC. Not really changed my life, but still fun toy occasionally.