Asking for a friend
A good pair of shoes, especially if you’re on your feet a lot. Your body will thank you now and in the future for spending a couple hundred bucks on a pair of good quality shoes. It depends on what you’re doing but I do most of my running around in ASICS and I can feel the difference if I wear almost anything else. There are good choices in Brooks, Saucony, New Balance, and Mizuno as well
If you don’t have one grab a cheap blender. Moderately healthy fruit smoothies for pennies on the dollar compared to a smoothie shop.
A nice chair
Especially if you spend large amounts of time sitting at a desk. Nice chair helps soooo much
On the same kind of note, a mattress and good quality linens, or blackout blinds and a humidifier. Anything that improves your sleep is huge.
Are they good? I remember they used to advertise so heavily on NPR that I figured they were not.
At an old job, I liked my chair so much that I called the barely-visible number on the faded sticker on the bottom to find out what it was, found out it was an Aeron and got me one. The great thing about a new one is the long-ass warranty. An arm snapped off mine maybe 7 years after I got it and they replaced both arms.
Depends entirely on what you have. I’d say a used eReader and a VPN is one of the absolute best bang for your buck entertainment methods, but you can get by with your phone for reading if you don’t read much. An Aeropress is fantastic for those who like coffee and don’t have anything for making it. A good pillow, socks, shoes, and underwear goes a very long way, as does a comfy hoodie and sweatpants for lounging. Most of these can be quite inexpensive. If you’re vegan, a good quality blender is night and day for making sauces and creams, milks, etc, or even a gym membership or set of dumbells can be massive for your fitness goals if you have any, along with a scale for you and a scale for food if this is something you personally want to do. No personal responsibility bullshit.
Try to think of what’s missing from your life, any habits you wish you had to supplement your life or any you think need improvement, and go from there! This answer varies from person to person.
If you have pets I highly recommend a robot vacuum. I have a Roomba brand one but other brands have decent ones too. Having a freshly vacuumed floor every day is sooo nice.
They do like 90% as good a job vacuuming as a person does but if you’re like me vacuuming more than twice a week feels like a lot, so 90% every day on a set schedule is better overall.
How well do those work around household clutter though?
I think I might be a pretty un-neat person…
Depends on the clutter. Cables are the thing it really hates. Definitely helps to pick up the floor before you run it though, even if that’s just throwing stuff onto the nearest surface.
Personally I found it just makes me less bad about leaving shit on the floor, something I used to be really bad about.
Yeah I got one several months ago and can’t live without it now. Not sure about any other brands, but the roborock maps your house and let’s you set up schedules so it can do things like cleaning up around the litter box once an hour. It cleans the whole house before I wake up and stepping out onto freshly swept carpet every morning is amazing. Have a routine for after meals where it cleans the kitchen and around the dining table. But mostly yeah never stepping on litter again is amazing if you have a cat.
Are you saying you vacuum more or less often than that? Having a dog and two cats ideally I’d vacuum every day but I simply do not have the energy for that. Twice a week is me being good, once a week is probably what I do more often.
Gotta agree. Especially if your place is tiles or hard floors. I got a second hand one like ten years ago and it’s still going, though I’ve had to fix it up and replace parts over the years. They’re literally perfect if you have pets tbh. Definitely a bougie option but a worthy one.
