What are some of the best purchases of your life?

erik111189@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 574 points –

For me it has to be:

  1. Helix mattress ($1,217). Sleep is great.
  2. Home gym power cage & weights (~$1,000). Look good, feel good, get strong.
  3. Netgear Nighthawk AXE7800 ($339). No more random, annoying internet disconnects/slowness.
  4. Books ($0 @ library)
    • "Ultralearning" - Scott Young (how to learn efficiently)
    • "Enlightenment Now" - Steven Pinker (the world overall is improving)
    • "The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing" - Taylor Larimore (how to invest)
  5. PS5 ($500). So many great games like witcher 3, god of war, spiderman.

I'm searching for some more deep value purchases. Give me what you've got.

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Electric kettle. Saves so much time and energy boiling water with electricity in a couple minutes vs 10min of burning natural gas. Hoping to get a new one during prime days this week since my wife put it on the gas range this weekend due to motor muscle memory taking over during multitasking. Luckily she didn't burn the place down.

I feel like only us in the UK have one of these by default

Wait, wait I know this conversation. Somebody is going to bring up 240v vs 120v and then somebody else will say that's not actually very relevant and will link to the Technology Connections YouTube video.

This was a very enlightening video for us European people, I was baffled to find out that Americans boil water on the cooker, like my grandmother used to in the 60s.

We just don't really boil water that often, and realistically anyone who does has an electric kettle.

Everyone in Australia has one, so that's one more country.

As an Australian, I was so confused when I found out that Americans don’t use electric kettles by default!

Germany too. Every household has its Wasserkocher

Always so confusing why every household does not have these! Here in UK, it's a default pretty much!

Always laugh when I see these type of comments. An American friend told me they used a pot to boil water for like tea or pour over coffee. Sounds so bizzare, like where's your electric kettle??