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Didn't accept a bad coffee mug. Kept looking for the perfect coffee mug. Bought a great coffee mug - size, materials, heft, stability, aesthetics. My preference is stoneware, 12 oz, square-flared bottom, with abstract natural imagery. Pre-warmed before use.
1. A condensing dryer (used to hang washed clothes on a line and have to take them down again when dry)
2. An extra car, old station-wagon with trailer hook + trailer. It's nice that it's old and crappy so I don't care when it's getting dirty, scratched or dented, it will be decommissioned when it breaks down (used to borrow car every time we needed to transport something larger than fit in the small main car, or when we had to use trailer.)
3. A toaster (used to toast my bread in the oven which is both slow and energy efficient)
4. An electric kettle (used to boil water in a pot when we lived a place where gas was practically free)
5. A standalone freezer (used to have only a small one builtin to the fridge, with room for maybe 5 frozen pizzas)
6. Good powered studio monitors along with a XLR usb dac, I use them for general-purpose listening, love them. (Used to use headphones)
7. Coffee maker (used to either boil water and do slow pour-over or use instant which is expensive and not as yummy as an espresso)
9. USB Switch, for switching between the computers under my table, along with a monitor with multiple inputs, (used to switch cables around)
10. The long IKEA USB-C charging cables + 3 outlet chargers. (used to move smaller chargers+cables around the house, now there's charging spots in bedroom and in the livingroom, and the cables are long enough that we can sit comfortably and use our phones while charging).
Extra device chargers. Now wherever I sit around the house I have a cable nearby, I don't have to be lugging them around everywhere. So worth. A power tower. Simple, doesn't take up much space, but lets me do a variety of upper body exercises on-demand without having to set anything up. A great way to fit exercise into the day without friction. A good rice cooker. Makes the rice perfectly every time without me having…
I purchased 10 USB chargers that attach magnetically. I keep 2 at the office, 1 in my gaming console, 1 in my computer, 2 in my car, 1 in the wall with an adapter next to my bed and have the other 3 set aside. The metal connectors wear out after a year or two of constant use. I recommend getting the 360 degree ones. I also bought two 3m USB extenders so I can plug in my console peripherals from where I sit while gaming. One for now, one for later just in case. Overall cost of this was ~$60 but it's some of the best money I've ever spent. The convenience is incredible and since all the adapters are the same, they work with all my devices as long as they're not being connected for data transfer reasons.
The best thing I've ever bought that has improved my life, has been an "extra" of anything I find myself using frequently.
I have a "BahnCard 100" [1], the German national public transit flatrate. My employer pays for it in lieu of a company car. I only have to pay income taxes on it, which comes out to about 170€ (200$) a month. For that price, I can use all trains across Germany as often as I want and also get free local transit (busses, subway etc.) in 120 cities, including the one where I live. 2020 is my first year with a BC100, so…
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Same for me. I found out at low speeds I can do creative work for 40 minutes, typing on my laptop. I need to take break then as I feel too tired (mentally and physically), but it feels great.
What’s your set up look like? Do you have a standing desk that somehow fits over top of the spin bike? I have a standing desk but it doesn’t go tall enough to fit over top.
Cordless vacuum
Automated cat infrastructure: automatic USB water fountain[0], food dispenser[1], Litter Robot 3[2] (as of recently, with a homebrew controller[3]). These allow me a good four days of absence from the house - for camping or whatever else. Doesn't happen often that both the wife and I are MIA, but when it does, these things are indespensable. [0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WGLYV22/ [1]: https://www.amazon.c…
Had issues and tried to interface with their tech support. Unless you email with the person's email that bought it - nothing. Then when you email them with that person's email - nothing.
There are a number of systemic issues that I think can be fixed either in firmware (which I guess they don't believe in updating) and/or a hardware upgrade kit (which I'm willing to buy - if I felt that they understood the issues.)
In this day and age, not allowing easy community access to root out issues is just not excusable. They need to spend more on updating their site for honest feedback and less on the advertising that they have been up to of late.
A flight ticket. The last one was to Madrid. But really every time I go on a journey, I am surprised how much it improves my life quality. Not only while I am traveling. But also afterwards, when I am back. The effect holds for quite a while.
How do you travel? Do you travel alone, do you meet people? To what part of the journey would you attribute the positive effect?
Going solo is going to let you do this the best. No link to your normal life.
Noise-canceling headphones. I recommend Bose QC35 IIs. You don’t realize how loud the world normally is until you take them off.