What purchases make your life a bit better recently?

My Nespresso Vertuo coffee machine and milk frother

for Christmas so not recent but my Henry quick Hoover. The best cordless vacuum I’ve ever had and only get the big Hoover out for a once a week deep clean now.

voduz hot brush, I can actually make my hair sit nice now and thus have left it longer when usually I cut it to collar bone length.

eternal muse Heatless curlers, the most comfortable ones for sleeping in and like that there are different ones for different curl styles

Baggu lunch bag
Small metal cutlery to take with above
Davines shine spray for hair

Some of the shorts arrived today - I wasn’t expecting them to feel like tights material and am wondering how they don’t make you extra hot?

I'm sorry if it's been answered before in the thread, but what is the device please?
Sounds incredibly useful.

Oodie sleep tee! I was sceptical as I either/both get too hot in any nightwear or I can’t bear the seams and either way end up pulling it off and sleeping starkers! OMG it’s wonderful. I got 2 and am thinking about getting more.

New Carolina Dress Room leggings. I got Hairspray, Let it Go, Cinderella and Beyond Midnight. They make me happy just looking at them!

A very small, slim soft leather pencil case in a beautiful blue-green which gives me pleasure every time I pick it up.

A large, gorgeous, soft handwoven Moroccan rug for my garden office.

Some new fancy garden solar lights
a diamond tennis bracelet
io electric toothbrush
flotation tank sessions
quordle wooden jigsaws

Rice cooker & ninja sizzle grill, changed my life. 😂

I felt the same about the Snag shorts. I have some from Boody which are lovely. Mostly bamboo and not sweaty at all

Skechers slip-ins. They're soooo comfortable.

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dewy setting spray for my make up - looking like I have glass skin all year around

Can I ask which one you use please?

Silk pillowcase
long bamboo nightie- so soft and lovely.

Charlotte Tilbury glow foundation stick.Its good on its own but I like to put it on after my normal foundation on certain areas of my face like a subtle highlighter.Blends instantly.Lasts ages too.

I crochet so have bought more expensive good quality yarn and it’s beautiful !

Some bone conducting headphones, listen to pod casts now on my dog walks but can still hear whats going on around me. I have increased my step count and walks are a bit more interesting.

Does a man count? Not like that....

I live alone and can do most DIY myself as long as it's not too fiddly or specialised. But I've recently found myself a handyman who will come and do those jobs that I just cannot manage, or that cannot be done single handed.It means my bathroom no longer has a rotating tap, my roof no longer leaks in the extension and I'm going to get him to put up some complicated shelves for me when I've finished painting the living room!

Money well spent.

You wash your patio with hot water?

Erborian cleaning gel

Heated drying rack from JL. I don't hate doing laundry as much as I used to. I have had it 2 yrs and it still features highly on my I'm glad I have list.

We put aircon into the three bedrooms about 2 years ago. Expensive but genuinely the best money I have ever spent. It sounds dramatic but it has literally changed my life. I cannot cope in the heat x

I’ve been teaching myself to draw with tutorials on YouTube and suddenly I’m hooked on all things arty. So have been buying charcoal pencils, pastels and paints and the joy I’ve found when I purchase and then try them is amazing! I’m 55 and have discovered that I’m not bad at art, still a long long way to go to be able to draw without watching a tutorial but I’m loving the peace I feel from creating.

Coverless duvets for the children

weighted blanket for my adhd husband

Cupboard drying rack - godsend

stair basket for anything that needs to be taken upstairs (usually hair bobbles and little toys or doll shoes) all go in on one swoop

cordless vacuum- game changer if you haven’t got one

dewy setting spray for my make up - looking like I have glass skin all year around

scented tumble dryer sheets in sofa cushions

silk sheets

fountain pen - my writing looks all fancy

face tan drops

my mum keeps going on about her slide on sketchers

fairy liquid there is just no other brand that works the way it does

OMG I know. I took mine camping with me.

I have a rice cooker too! We bought it after going to Japan last year and I love it. My Japanese friend recommended the Tiger, but those ones are at least £150 and I decided that was a bit steep, since we don't eat rice every day, so I got the YumAsia Panda.

Mine is the Russell Hobbs one. It wasn't too expensive (think it was about £35 on an Amazon returned item deal).

I am perfectly good at cooking rice but it just makes the whole process completely stress free!