What have you bought that's changed your life for the better?

[Mabelface]

I'm not taking about big houses, cars etc, but small, every day purchases. I've spent £35 on a pair of Bluetooth over ear headphones with active noise cancellation. Being autistic and sensitive to noise, these are an absolute game changer. They're amazing. Currently on a fairly busy train and all I can hear is my music.

My bike. I absolutely love it - I can't cycle too far as I have joint problems but each week I try and do 7km around our local lake and I get to see all the wildlife. It's not an expensive or flash bike, but I love nothing better than riding that around the lakes.

Instant pot
Air fryer
Eufy robovac
Heated throw blanket
Alexa
Giant puffy Persian cat

The dog

My kindle, I love to read and my kindle means I can have a dyslexia friendly font.

It’s a Dawinsie one from Amazon. With a red cover with white hearts Actually having googled I don’t think it has any magic properties but it seems to stay warm for ages.

I have a Eufy 11s its almost three years old , runs every day and still going strong .
It cost just under £200 , so not small change by any means but certainly worth it

@Itsalloutofwhack which steam mop is that, I’m looking for a decent one, thanks!

Long charger cables for my phone and a enough of them so I can have one by my bed , one downstairs and one in my work bag so I am not constantly hunting for them .

I have 2 Westies - I adore them. Aged 14 yrs and 14 months.

No ifs
no buts
My robotic vacuum (I have £50 off code for any Eufy if anyone wants to pm me!)

Seriously though - they are truly incredible and i would give up my right arm before I gave up my eufy!

A shaped pillow for people with neck and shoulder problems £20 on Amazon. After years of not sleeping well and waking up unable to move because of my neck I now wake up pain free.

My cat.

Rehomed him from the RSPCA a month before my then STBX turned nasty and decided he was moving back into the family home after 10 months elsewhere, without discussion nor warning.

Looking after the cat in the emergency house move 5 days later, then the move to rented a month after that, gave the teens someone to look after and care for rather than focus on what was actually happening.

Absolute Godsend. And he's a real sweetie of a cat too.

Phillips Lumea. Dark hair and pale skin so works really well on me!

One of my favourite things is an old landline phone picked up at a car boot sale for......10p.

It had a working hash key which our old phone didn't - just at the time when everything was going automated with the endless demands to "then press the hash key."

Saved me an awful lot of frustration.

My house is full of car boot sale stuff - I love them. Always a thrill finding something I actually need for next to nothing - and I get to feel virtuous about the environment too!

Apple AirPods (other brands are available but these are what I have!). I love to listen to podcasts and audiobooks when I'm doing housework and whatever but the wires annoyed me with catching on stuff all the time, and all the other Bluetooth headphones I tried wouldn't stay in properly. I love these so much and listening to my books makes me so more likely to do boring cleaning!

Totally missing the point as it's not something I bought but discovered.

iPhone had done an update which allowed you to change the alarm clock by typing instead of scrolling and I loved it as it made it so easy. But then changed it back. It sounds so silly but the act of scrolling the times back and forth so often (I work different times every day and they change week to week) really got me down as I set a series of alarms for the mornings and they have a set time between each so ti was becoming a chore.

Well, last night I discovered (after a frustrated Google) that all I have to do is tap the time and it allows me to do it by typing.

It made me so happy

Steam juicer.

We grow a lot of soft fruit so I make a lot of jam. But no one in the family likes 'bits'. I used to strain the fruit through jelly bag. Always a messy job. No more!

I use a white noise app on my phone - don't need to worry about forgetting it if I go away. I've always been a poor sleeper but we started with the white noise when DS was a baby and slept in our room and I found it really helped me. He's now six and has been in his own room for years but I kept the white noise!

At the top: Philips Lumea. Wish I'd discovered it when I was 20!
Heated throw
Robo vac
Tassimo
Lidded wok with handles
Decent, spill free, large takeaway cup
Cheap CCTV camera
OnePlusPro mobile phone

Multiple pairs of inexpensive reading glasses. I must have ten or more. Now I never have to look for a pair because they are everywhere. 😎 My iPad, which I use constantly, a heated blanket, a good quality handbag that I’ve had for a few years now.

I love these threads

How did I not know about electric mops?

Mini iPad. I really dithered about buying it because I thought it was a pure indulgence, but it comes into its own when we go on holiday. I load Kindle and library books onto it, can listen to music, watch TV and film programmes, listen to audio books and podcasts, load maps and tourist information. Even crochet patterns!

Love the chopper thing. Got mine from food chef or whatever it was called but doesn't exist anymore.

An upsee firefly walking harness for my disabled son for £315 when he was 3 and couldn’t bear any weight on his feet but after a dedicated summer with this he was not only able to stand but walk too.

Life changing is an understatement 🥰

Sorry just seen this!
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