tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
@kevin An open box but unused OHOM Ui mug and induction heater/wireless phone charger. I paid $44.93 USD via eBay including shipping, and I cannot recommend this product highly enough.
I keep my furnace set to 64°F in Winter to save fossil fuels and money, and this mug enables me to keep my coffee or tea hot all day for a few pennies' worth of electricity (22 W max).
I plan to buy a second, so I can move up and down stairs, and still keep my drink hot.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
@kevin organic food.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
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@kevin Oh and I guess the other thing that comes to mind is a Google Cloud API key + gemini-cli for vibe-coding side projects/hustle. Spent about $30 so far and have a maybe fully automated pipeline to autogenerate youtube videos.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
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@kevin An open box but unused OHOM Ui mug and induction heater/wireless phone charger. I paid $44.93 USD via eBay including shipping, and I cannot recommend this product highly enough.
I keep my furnace set to 64°F in Winter to save fossil fuels and money, and this mug enables me to keep my coffee or tea hot all day for a few pennies' worth of electricity (22 W max).
I plan to buy a second, so I can move up and down stairs, and still keep my drink hot.
@kevin For less than $30, this fan from Dreo. I have no air conditioning in my home, and this tiny fan is extremely quiet and pushes just enough air on Low to make a real difference in my ability to sleep comfortably in Summer. Before getting it, I honestly never thought a fan could be this quiet and this effective.
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@kevin For less than $30, this fan from Dreo. I have no air conditioning in my home, and this tiny fan is extremely quiet and pushes just enough air on Low to make a real difference in my ability to sleep comfortably in Summer. Before getting it, I honestly never thought a fan could be this quiet and this effective.
@kevin For $25, a hardcover copy of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised. This book has opened up an entirely new perspective for me on parliamentary procedure in the American tradition. This past year, I was elected to representative public office and appointed to a seat on my town's Planning Commission, and this book has been absolutely life-changing.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
Immersion blender*
*ours was a gift, but I assume it was under that price cap
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
@kevin
I like coffee, and I usually use either a simple Chemex pitcher or a stainless steel Bialetti moka pot, which were each under $50 when I got them, maybe a little more now. -
@kevin For $25, a hardcover copy of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised. This book has opened up an entirely new perspective for me on parliamentary procedure in the American tradition. This past year, I was elected to representative public office and appointed to a seat on my town's Planning Commission, and this book has been absolutely life-changing.
@kevin To protect my copy of RONR while transporting it back and forth in my briefcase to public meetings, I use this leather book cover from TheAntiq, for less than $30:
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@kevin Started using Narwhal for browsing Reddit rather than using the official app. Feels like going back to the Apollo days.
@gogobonobo @kevin how is it possible? i thought nu-reddit made it impossible
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@gogobonobo @kevin how is it possible? i thought nu-reddit made it impossible
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
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tell me the last thing you bought for under $50 that radically improved your life.
@kevin tacos
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