ITT: purchases that really improved your quality of life.
Pic related: a wake-up light. I used to just use the alarm on my phone to wake up and I'd always wake up groggy, still half asleep. With the wake-up light it's really as if I woke up naturally like I do in weekends. I've since replaced it by smart lights to light up my whole room to wake me up, which works even better.
A steam toaster. This is amazing jap technology. You add some water to it, it steams the bread inside with lower heat and then cranks you the heat at the end to crisp up the outside. It makes the inside of the bread soft and chewy and the outside crispy. It basically turns even stale-ass bread into tasting fresh out of the oven again. It’s given me a newfound love of toast.
lost only after 3 post !!! btw I seconde the air fryer
Christian Clark
Mine might seem a bit silly and I'm sure I can think of several things more suitable for this thread, but my current one(s) is pic related.
I've spent the last year of my life in a shitty cramped apartment with the worst housemate of all time. Basically confined to my tiny bedroom because he wouldn't so much as clear a shelf for me to have food, and the place was always a dump. He would leave his laundry in the machine for like 5+ days at a time. Fuck I almost lost it so many times.
Anyway, just moved out and have a huge 2 bedroom ground level apartment now with a whole garden to myself. Coziest way to enjoy the empty bedroom and relish all the free space I have now? Electric fireplace and planetarium projector baby!
Sega Toys Homestar Flux. Don't get the original, the Flux is way brighter and focuses much sharper, worth the extra dosh. There are like 25 discs you can buy for it, the standard star maps are kind of the most immersive and relaxing, but all the others are actual photos from the Hubble, Spitzer, and various observatories. Really good quality shit for a consumer grade dealie. Also it was designed at least in part by the genius who invented the $2.5million Megastar professional planetarium projector. I love this thing.
I think a wake-up light from Phillips is like 50 bucks but there are cheaper alternatives. Smart lights from Phillips, a starter set is 120 I think. Ofc cheaper alternatives exist. I really like that I can set the lights to gradually turn brighter
sweet. I've looked at them off and on, but it's really hard to tell what you'd be getting.
Levi Myers
Thick curtains for windows. Room gets direct heat and the double layering is insane. The curtains get hot as shit if I put them in between the blinds and window.
Doesn't have a loud fan and saves me money on my heating bill, as I don't need to crank the heat for the whole house/room. Have one out by my TV and couch so all I need is an extra blanket.
Also, my cat loves this thing. She sits in front of it like she's praying to a sun god. She's older and gets stiff so I think it helps her relax.