I bought cast iron pan which I think is the best ever purchase I made.

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    585·
    11 months ago

    The best purchase I’ve made this year has to be the tickets for the “Barbie” movie on opening day July 21st. As I watched the movie in theater (the best way to watch a movie), I was literally moved to tears by the performance of the lead actress, whom I might add, deserves an Oscar this year.

    Fellow lemmings, I, for one, will definitely be buying “Barbie” on Blu-ray to have it in my collection.

    Multiple copies, in fact.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      51·
      11 months ago

      You are the opposite of me, I got bored in 10 minutes and I turned it off after 30 minutes.

      It’s cool that people can enjoy so different things.

    • sudoshakes@reddthat.com
      3·
      11 months ago

      Two questions for you!

      1.) What is the most useful thing we in the Lemmy community can do to help you get that Oscar?

      2.) I have a secret Santa this year coming up in a month that I am a part of with some friends. Would you be interested in leaving a comment for a friend of mine in response to this that I can show them a month from now for the secret santa?

      “Hey Rome, this is Margot Robbie wishing you a merry Christmas and happy new year?”, or something like that?

      Thanks for being cool either way and good luck getting nominated this year!

      • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        1. Memes. I don’t know how it works either so I’m just going with it.

        2. I’m sure he would appreciate the sincere thoughts of you as his friend more than a social media comment left by a complete stranger from the Internet. Which is what this is.

        Still, hi Rome!

        • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
          11·
          11 months ago

          You’re no stranger, you’re THE Margot Robbie! Well, A Margot Robbie. And since I saw that name on my screen that means we’re best buds, right?

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
    47·
    11 months ago

    Off the top of my head no particular order:

    • Proper mop bucket like heavy duty on wheels. Mopping takes minutes now, nothing has worn out in years, very little waste.
    • Proper broom, not plastic. Got tired of all the waste from plastic ones wearing out so quickly. I got one of these and it is an amazing buy it for life kind of thing.
    • Bidet
    • An IDGAF pocket knife. All those times when I was young and just needed a vaguely knife-shaped piece of metal but dad was like “don’t hammer that knife into that rock you’ll damage the blade” or “don’t hammer that knife into the can of beans” or “don’t hammer that knife into the deer skull you found” well now IDGAF. Sturdy, cheap, doesn’t matter it it holds an edge or stays clean.
    • A Dremel. I don’t have a lot of space and this thing is great for cutting random things I don’t have real tools for.
    • Respirator and impact goggles. Originally bought for going to protests but I’ve found they’re just fantastic around the house. Don’t want to breath in murder chemical while cleaning an oven? Or microplastics from sawing your latest art project in half? What about “This Dremel blade might explode if I use it like this and I don’t want to lose my eyes”?
    • Yak tracks, they work. I’m getting too old to fall on ice and walk it off.
    • The right shoes for the job. Walking shoes, climbing shoes, hiking boots, brown leather heels for construction work, eight inch black leather stilletos for getting attention, blue suede boots for getting attention, six inch pink platform boots for getting attention, blue gogo boots for getting attention. They’re all crucial to my day to day.
    • Cats. They keep the sad away, works great.
    • Jars everywhere. You can store spices, leftovers, paperclips, q tips, an array of rocks for making minis, paints, pepper ferments. They are so versatile and easy to clean I have maybe 150 or so of them currently.
    • Air fryer. Didn’t think I’d like it but I’m a convert now they’re great.
    • A growing collection of glues. I don’t know why but the ability to properly fuse shit together unlocks so many possibilities. This is a new discovery for me.
    • A growing collection of solvents. Like the reverse of glue the ability to clean things in specific ways is great.
    • Metal wire shelves. They’re versatile, sturdy, relatively cheap, easy to break down and transport if you’ve been averaging a move a year for ten years.
    • A small sewing kit. Great for small repairs. I’ve added years to some of my dresses by catching weak points early and doing 10 minute fixes.
    • Proper electric toothbrush. Even the fanciest ones are cheaper than dental work.
    • Lastly, a bin of compost in your living room because you live in a city and don’t have much access to dirt. Feed it very slowly so it doesn’t rot. Keep roly polies in there, they’re cute, and springtails to prevent mold, they’re also cute. When you feel sad about living in a cement and steel environment just crack that thing open and pretend you’re looking at a forest floor. Dig around a little see how the worms are doing. Bother your nesting partner by grabbing fistfuls of it and loudly exclaiming “dirt smells great today really earthy!”

    Edit to add, how could I forget this? I just got home and in my entryway there is an 18 unit locker like the kind you would find during a Bed Bath going out of business sale and they’re getting rid of everything including the employee lockers in back, you know the ones. I’m poly so each of my partners and my nesting partner’s partners get to pick their own locker to keep overnight supplies in. There are unclaimed lockers for guests to store small things, and some that are effectively house mandatory junk drawers. Also serves as a lost and found when like partners leave phone chargers or whatever else behind. Great purchase.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
        5·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been told I’m very me. I think mostly I have too much going on to give one hot fuck about what other people are thinking of me so I end up being a top tier goblin

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
        4·
        11 months ago

        Yeah I didn’t realize quite how much of a difference they’d make in my life until I was like 27. Can’t live without them now makes a lot of things much easier

  • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
    311·
    11 months ago

    Vasectomy. Before I got my vasectomy, I had a lot of anxiety that the condom might fail and an unwanted pregnancy would occur. That’s not to say vasectomies can’t fail, they can, even years afterwards, recanalization can happen so I get tested every year.

    Annual failure rate of condom (average use) is 18%, and with perfect use it’s 2%. This means that over a span of 20 years, even with perfect use, there is a 33% chance for a pregnancy which is too high for me. A vasectomy with annual testing of sperm count is as close to zero as possible.

      • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
        8·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, this isn’t the usual holiday present thing… this is something you buy for yourself.

        I agree with OP though on the cast iron though, these are super affordable and last forever. restoring a rusty cast iron skillet is pretty easy, so there is no reason to buy them new; from a bang for the buck perspective, this is really good.

    • klemptor@lemmy.ml
      9·
      11 months ago

      Yup this is why I got my tubes tied. Too much anxiety just relying on the pill!

      • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
        10·
        11 months ago

        Pretty smart. Hope it wasn’t too difficult for you to get it (many doctors treat their patients with condescension and dismissal about sterilisation, especially towards women).

        • klemptor@lemmy.ml
          10·
          11 months ago

          Oh man it was a nightmare finding someone who would sterilize me. I was 24 when I started seriously looking, and I can’t tell you how many doctors told me I’d change my mind about not wanting kids (insert huuuge eyeroll here), and one doctor even said that he thought my boyfriend was forcing me into it and that I didn’t understand how permanent it was. Thankfully I did finally find someone to take me seriously but man, what a pain in the ass!

          • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
            7·
            11 months ago

            Before leaving Reddit, I spent a lot of time on the r/childfree subreddit and read many threads with similar experiences. They have a list of CF friendly doctors, so this is a great resource that can save people a lot of time and frustration.

            • klemptor@lemmy.ml
              6·
              11 months ago

              Yep - back in the day the LiveJournal childfree comm had a similar list which was really helpful!

    • ohlaph@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, I’m 5 years in and stopped getting tested.

      It was a fantastic purchase though!!!

      • Microw@lemm.ee
        6·
        11 months ago

        If you want to be 100% Sure then yes.

        Most people are fine with being 98% sure though.

          • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
            5·
            11 months ago

            Vasectomies rarely fail, just make sure to follow the instructions and use other contraceptives until you get the tests cleared (since you will still release sperm even afterwards for a while). Hope you have a smooth experience like mine.

          • mycatiskai@lemmy.one
            3·
            11 months ago

            I worked with a guy that had to go in three times but I think he was no following post operation care. You are supposed to abstain for a few days while it heals.

            When I got my vasectomy it was no needle, no scalpel. They make a small hole then pull the vas deferens out cut and tie it to itself then do the other, all with pain numbing spray. Was 5 minutes not including the ball shaving. I went in to work that night, with an ice pack on my balls all night but barely had any issues. Some extra swelling happened but I went back for an injection of anti inflammatory and it went away.

    • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      11 months ago

      This means that over a span of 20 years, even with perfect use, there is a 33% chance for a pregnancy

      No this is completely inaccurate and wrong…there’s a 33% risk of a condom failing. You’d still have to time it with ovulation of the person you’re boinking for there to be a risk of pregnancy. And even then, having sex in the most optimal period isn’t even a guarantee of pregnancy, far from it.

  • learningduck@programming.dev
    23·
    11 months ago

    A robotic vacuum cleaner. I just have to clear the dust bin weekly and manually mob some spots that the robot couldn’t clean

    • Stephen304@lemmy.ml
      11·
      11 months ago

      My roborock has been revolutionary for my apartments cleanliness. I’ve had it about 1.5 years and I’ve only emptied the dock’s bag twice (I live in a small apartment). I have the water change kit so it auto refills the docks clean water tank from the laundry hookup and auto empties dirty mop water down the laundry room’s drain. I only have to clean the sensors and rinse the drain screen every 2-3 weeks but otherwise it’s on autopilot on a schedule and my floors are spotless and free of dust and cat fur.

      • Kuma@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        I second this, i haven’t hooked it up tho. But vacuum cleaning everyday because of cat hair got cumbersome. I also use it as an alarm, when it starts am i done for the day (work from home).

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        An extra vote for the roborock here.

        I had an older one, for the best part of a decade. Upgraded to the S7 Max. The difference is impressive. Even with manual fill and empty of the water, it only needs doing once a week.

        The build quality also seems on par with the older one. (It’s now been relegated to the upstairs carpets).

    • phonoodles@beehaw.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      Came here to say the same thing. The robot vacuum cleaner is the hardest working member of our family. We have a white dog that is part husky that has an under coat and she sheds like crazy. If it weren’t for the robot vacuum we would be knee deep in fur.

  • AreaSIX @lemm.ee
    21·
    11 months ago

    My dog. Easily the most value I’ve ever got for my money, no comparison.

    • s3rvant@kbin.social
      6·
      11 months ago

      +1 for bidet; got mine after recommendation from a friend and since then my folks and son-in-law have also upgraded

  • hrimfaxi_work@midwest.socialEnglish
    191·
    11 months ago

    Decent quality automatic cat feeders.

    We have 3 cats, and I resisted getting autofeeders for 5 years because it felt silly to buy what amounts to three $75 food bowls.

    They paid for themselves the first weekend I didn’t have 3 razor sharp dickheads screaming at me to feed them at 5:15 AM. I should have bought them years ago.

    • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
      8·
      11 months ago

      Avoiding 5am starvation yowls is exactly why I free feed, and I’m sure it’s going to bite me in the ass when my two are older and stop maintaining their weight easily. But for now, they’re active and healthy weight even with the free feeding. So we’ll see

      • Stephen304@lemmy.ml
        10·
        11 months ago

        After watching a Jackson galaxy video on how to stop your cat from waking you up early, I followed the advice of never feeding immediately after getting up, and instead doing a certain activity first, like making coffee. After a month of taking a shower before feeding, my cat no longer makes any noise in the morning and only starts getting noisy when I step out of the shower. So thats a good tip for those who can’t free feed. I also started collecting every toy and putting them in a secure box before bed since she has a tendency to chase toys around in the middle of the night and yelp with one in her mouth.

    • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      wish there was one that could open wet food cans and parse it out. my old gato is on soft foods only.

    • UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      11 months ago

      Seriously. My cats are so relaxed because they get their food at the exact same times every day. I still hand feed the first and last meals (canned wet food), but it gives them something to look forward to during the day, even when we are at work.

      They can also apparently tell time now because they get ready within five minutes of most feedings, I like to think that makes them feel more connected to their world and existence.

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.workEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    My house. Even though we have to pay taxes and mortgage interest, it beats paying rent to a landlord. Also, we bought it in 2020 and it has appreciated it value significantly since then. However, that appreciation is kind of fictitious to me, because if we sold the house it’s unlikely that we’d be able to buy a similar one in the same area for less. So, it’s just a nice house.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
    131·
    11 months ago

    25 years ago I bought an IKEA printer cart to hold a computer tower and a UPS and stuff. It was like a billy line, so it was particle-board (aka beaver chow) but at least 20-odd years ago it wasn’t the hollow-core shit like so much of their stuff. I could screw in a mount for a switch and stuff.

    Fast forward 25 years. I’ve moved-house 10 times, three of them coast-to-coast moves, and this thing is festooned with old cable-tie mounts, two switches (hp1810 and er-x) some test-rig APs for a project, a work laptop on top and its 4th APC unit (movers beat the hell out of them).

    Good as new. I’m amazed that the beaver-chow actually held together, but I’ve kept it safe from its kryptonite: water. I’ve rolled it out and around to work on a tower on the top as a workbench l, and I’ve loaded server after server into it as they lifecycle out.

    Barring calamity, I could bequeath this fucker.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    A bicycle with a full chain case. They’re hard to find in the U.S. Bike mechanics say it’s because they’re a pain to work on, but the cool thing is that you hardly ever have to work on them. When riding in the winter, I’d have to clean the gears and chain every couple of weeks, and then replace the drivetrain almost every year. With the chain case, so far my maintenance has consisted of oiling the chain a handful of times in three years.

  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
    166·
    11 months ago

    Bidget, I’m a pretty large man (450 pounds) and I always have trouble reaching under to wipe. I would go weeks without wiping and just let it build up like fondu on my ass while I sit in my gamer chair and argue with Redditors (my karma is over 10 mill btw). My hygiene got so bad my pants were decomposing because of all the caked shit. One day as I was moderating r/mademesmile I noticed an ask reddit thread that was talking about bidgets. They were saying how great they were for blasting your butthole clean and how much you save on toilet paper so I asked my mother for some money to buy an attachment for my toilet.

    I ordered it off Amazon for like $100 and I got my mom’s boyfriend to install it and oh boy was this thing a life changer. First time I used it it didn’t do much because my ass was full of dried shit but eventually with the help of a paint scraper my butt was cleaner than the Shinano-gawa (that is a Japanese lake) but then I noticed that when the water hits a particular spot under my balls my uuuhhh yeah. So even though I can’t really see anything because it’s so small I could see the semen oozing down my leg. That’s when I realised I can jerk myself off useing the bidget. I would bring my gaming setup into the bathroom and play Genshin impact while the bidget sprays water under me until I cummed. I eventually had to throw it away because it rusted from constant use but I am saving up for one of those Japanese smart toilets so I can install it in my bedroom.