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Anything that goes between you and the ground. Shoes, bed, tires.

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And chair

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I spend 8 hours a day working from home on my computer. A good chair isn’t a luxury, it’s an investment.

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3 points

Yup, what you rocking? I have settled on a leap V2 love the thing

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1 point

A good chair isn’t a luxury, it’s an investment necessity.

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1 point

Sitting for that long is bad for you, regardless of the chair. Get a standing desk.

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8 points

A chair is just a bed for your butt.

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4 points

Invest in a standing desk. Sitting all day, even in a good chair is no good for you. Mix it up.

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My god how many times is this question and this response going to be posted on the Internet. This single question/response must make up at least a third of all LLM datasets.

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6 points

Shoes?

Laughs in Australian while wearing $2 thongs hiking in the bush.

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5 points

Parachute

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parachute doesn’t go between you and the ground, you go between the parachute and the ground. unless you cheaped out on the parachute

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2 points

Comrade’s parachute

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Bought some nice shoes about a week ago after wearing the same pair of Crocs every day for over a year. It’s incredible

Side note, the bottoms of my Crocs where my big toe was is noticably thinner than the rest of the shoe lol

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I just posted the same thing. Good on you, I’m deleting mine

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There’s the adage, “spend your money where you spend your time.”

If you’re going to spend a lot of time in front of a TV, get a nice one. Cook a lot? Get the good knives and pans. Don’t read much? Don’t buy an e-reader or book subscription service. Not big into DIY? Get cheap drill/driver for the rare times you need it.

There’s plenty of exceptions but it’s a nice general rule.

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Even if you are into DIY: Buy cheaper once, if something breaks buy something more expensive.

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Or better yet, buy second-hand.

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I see this a lot and take some issue with it the wording of it. I think a lot of people say this thinkkng of something like Ryobi or Harbor Freight as the “cheap” guys, when in reality the price scaling of tools puts those makes pretty squarely in the mid to high-end bracket.

In reality, there are some cheap tools that are downright unsafe for use that some people might see after reading that comment and decide to get.

ETA: If it’s sharp, spins, or runs on electricity, get it from a physical store or highly reputable online vendor and make sure it has a warranty

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I dunno, I’ve had good luck with Aldi and Lidl “Center Isle” power tool purchases. Thats Workzone and Parkside tools, a far cry from mid to high-end. If I use something enough that it merits a replacement, I buy the Makita version

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Project Farm on YouTube often rates Ryobi, Husky, and Harbor Freight brands as being pretty good.

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38 points

Submarine construction

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11 points

You’re right, I’m gonna spring for the N64 controller this go around

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33 points

The classic is anything that separates you from the ground.

I’d add anything related to plumbing, electricity and roofing.

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Basically any core elements of a home. Finishes can be redone, but things like a good water heater or reliable HVAC system are niceties you’ll always thank yourself for

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Shopping houses right now. I’m really focusing on the HVAC, roof, and plumbing. Oh and water. I saw one house where it didn’t have gutters on a short eave and the door below was mostly rotted out in the bottom 2 feet from water slashing on to it. It boggles the mind that no one had thought to put a gutter there. Literally a 8 foot section of gutter would save that door and frame.

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Good work. Those are the things that will cost you tens of thousands. New floors? Bah, nothing compared to having to replumb or rewire. Water damage too is terrifying, we had our water heater burst and it took weeks to clean up and repair

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Your kid’s first musical instrument. It’s counterproductive and false economy to buy them a piece of shit guitar or tuba or whatever it may be, in the belief that “if they like it and want to continue with it, I’ll buy them a better one in the future”. You might well turn the kid off the instrument for life if their instrument is harder to play/maintain and worse to listen to than it ought to be.

If you want your kid to be enriched by music and to be creative, buy them a decent mid-range instrument. Make it so that the kid can’t wait to pick it up, don’t make those crucial early days of learning the instrument feel like eating watery gruel for months with an expectation of pizza at some point down the line. A shitty instrument will be an additional barrier the kid will need to deal with every time they use it. Get out of their way, buy them something serviceable. If they lose interest regardless, well at least you know they had a fair shot at it and it wasn’t the crappiness of the instrument that caused them to abandon it. And you can always sell or donate the instrument if they really don’t give a shit about it.

The best instrument you can reasonably afford is significantly more likely to hook your kid than a £50 piece of junk would. It doesn’t need to be fancy, it just needs to be well-made, pleasant to play, and easy to tune/maintain/clean/whatever the case may be.

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I’ll counter with the following: if you aren’t sure whether your kid will like it, it’s probably a better idea to start with renting. You’ll typically get a fully-serviced instrument with coverage for accidental damage.

Yes, it’s a fully sunk cost, but it’s predictable and you don’t have to deal with the hassle of selling off an instrument if they don’t get really into it. Once you’re confident that they’re going to stick with it and know they can handle and maintain it carefully, then you should look into buying.

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Oh man this is so true. My parents enrolled me for piano classes when I was a kid but got me a shitty mini plastic keyboard to practice and I hated it, ended up quitting not long after. Picked up piano again as an adult during covid and bought myself a full sized keyboard with weighted keys and damn the difference was night and day.

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