What’s the best thing you’ve ever bought?

[Thefaceofboe]

Just that really.

Mine is my fluffy throw for the sofa I’m currently snuggled up in and them cork heat stands you use to put hot pans and trays on from IKEA

Love my electric blanket
Woke in the night feeling cold and shivery so just reached for the controls and popped it on..bliss

Super king sized bed
Tumble dryer
iPhone
Car
Ester Lauder moisturiser
My teddy I bought when I was 8

Here's the beast

Loving the crocodile!

My salt lamp is from Urban Outfitters.

I've thought of a couple more:

William Morris duvet set - it was massively reduced in the sales and makes getting into bed feel so decadent. I feel like I need to buy some silk robes and have long permed red hair again.

All Saints leather jacket - got my first one a few months ago and already planning my next. So heavy and soft and gorgeous.

Fantasie bras - no other brand fits me as well

My ancient Kindle (the first one I think) - gets used every single day, battery lasts forever!
Vaio laptop
Hopefully my Lumea, but I'm only 2 treatments in...
My cat obviously!

@RussellTheLoveMuscle he or she is GLORIOUS.

Hotel chocolate velvetiser.

Multiple 2/3 metre long charger cables for my phone and tablet, scattered round house and in work bag.

Wherever I am, no need to be hunched over near plug sockets now.

(Ditto paying for the USB wall sockets to be installed, no need to scrabble round for charger plugs now)

@bsc - I got mine from Home Bargains and I haven't seen them there recently but they're just like this one (only difference is that mine are silver).

(Hope this works as a clicky link, I never have any luck with them!)

www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-hanging-storage-shelf/p/0435938?nst=0&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxMCxxeLk5gIVF-DtCh1GNgbWEAQYCCABEgI-0vD_BwE

A Bio Comfort Classic Therapy Massager.

I have Fibromyalgia alongside age- related arthritis and it's no picnic.

This machine enables me to walk when my foot muscles have locked up. Massages my excruciating headaches so that I can function, and has generally allowed me to have a better quality of life than I think I would have done without it.

My kitchen island - was only around £40 but use it every single day makes cooking and entertaining so much more enjoyable!

I do love my salt lamp too.

Also my Fitbit

There are lots of things I wouldn't like to have to live without, e.g. dishwasher, cordless hoover, but in terms of unnecessary things which I absolutely love and am very glad I spent £££ on …

(1) the hairy canine currently sitting on my feet, who always carries a faint whiff of fox poo and sheds like a bastard but who LOVES me ALL THE TIME;

(2) an original painting by Sean Durkin which makes me smile every single day.

(Also, my beautiful engagement ring, which links me and my wonderful DH, but he paid for it so it doesn't count!)

Though I now want a salt lamp too ...

My Kindle. I

My kitchen aid. I love it, wanted one for years but couldn't justify the cost, left some money by a relative and purchased one and use it a lot.

Instant Pot - so handy and we use it almost every day.

Leather case for my phone, with pockets for debit cards - means I don’t have to take my purse out with me, or a bag, which feels very freeing.

Kobo Clara e-reader - a recent acquisition, and I’m loving being able to browse my local library e-book catalogue on it, download books and read them in e-ink rather than on my tablet.

Kindle Paperwhite - means I’m never without a book (or 500) and I can read at night without disturbing DP.

Alexa in the kitchen for music, radio, timers, shopping lists, weather etc.

Beanbags for DD(5) in her room and sitting room. She gets so comfy!

On a practical level my Mooncup. Such a blessing after years of wearing messy uncomfortable STs and tampons.

On a fun level, all of the foreign travel I've enjoyed. Best thing I've ever done and hope I get to continue to do it.

Coffee machine. It's a de Longhi bean to cup machine and it's brilliant

@Candlecandle it's just from Ryman stationers... it's just a big heavy one like you'd get in an office... I love it!!

Am I allowed to say critical illness insurance, which paid off my house 3 years ago after brain tumour diagnoses?
Pet insurance - had to euthanise my beloved girl cat after amputating her leg when her cancer aggressively spread.
My car (love love love it!)
My sewing machines

I got a hot water sausage (aka long hot water bottle) for Christmas. Love it!

Oh yes, my Mooncup! Totally life-changing.

My house. Worth every penny and more probably. I must be missing something with these Himalayan salt lamps, I don't get it at all...

@tiredsleepysleep thank you! That's brilliant just what I wanted, a really heavy one!

I thought of another thing...paying for hypnosis for a phobia I had (I was skeptical) but it was incredibly liberating. I realised just how far it had reached into my life.

My salt lamp dissolved. I had it for a good few years and loved it, and then one day it just randomly started to turn into a slimy mess and huge bits of it started crumbling off.

Big items: my MacBook (after using broken old laptops throughout my first degree and working at home 2 days every week, it's actually life changing)! And I love my Fjallraven backpack.

Small items: adore my new spray mop, am mopping about 10x as much as I used to as it's so much easier than lugging around a big bucket.