What one item makes your life a bit nicer?

[SheUltra]

I have just read a thread about making life easier. It's always meal planning and household appliances.

Anyway it got me thinking whilst having a shower... I love my Bluetooth shower speaker. Being able to listen to my own music in the shower is great.

I don't need it. I can obviously live without it but I really love that little thing!

I also have dogs. I think it's a given that animals and children bring joy.

You have to recommend something to make life nicer.

What are you choosing?

My rollator. For those not familiar, it is like a walker, but with four wheels, hand brakes and a SEAT! I can lock my wheels, and sit down to rest when I need to do so. It lets me get out and actually take walks. After being pretty much house-bound for years, it is a game-changer!

My cooling blanket! It’s brilliant. Perimenopausal and summer heat and this is just the ticket!

Agree. My kindle is the number one for me too.

My Kindle and wool mattress topper!

For me, because I have MS and am heat intolerant, it has to be my ice making machine. I use it all year round and it just makes life that lurks bit more tolerable.

Yes, I’ve ordered some nice gel pens mentioned upthread 😃

Ny sister recently purchased one and loves it!

Ooh do you have a link please? This sounds amazing!

Noooooo! It is made in China and shipped over to the UK. What's wrong with Andrex (made in the Uk)...does it not wipe your ass clean enough?

Robot vacuum/floor mop. Just wonderful to come down to clean floors each morning (all ceramic tiled floors.

Underfloor heating. Gentle constant warmth

Microwave rice cooker. It gives me joy, perfectly cooked rice every time I use it.

My single cup boiler thingy. I would have liked a boiler tap but this was only £75 & just plugs in, makes a cup of tea in seconds- cheaper than boiling the kettle. It has an inbuilt water filter too.

Oodie hoodie, in winter and the Oodie T nightie, so comfy.

Ooh me too! Always had cats who ate my plants so didn't bother with any more. Now I have one old rescue cat who's not bothered and I have loads of plants. They make me happy and I love taking cuttings and watching them grow, then passing them on to friends and family.

Can I ask which milk frother you have? I'm looking for one, but the last one I had was difficult to clean, ended up with lots of dried in milk around the whisk bit.

@Imatorturedpoet oh god I forgot milk frother, mine also makes my list! It's a Smeg one and was expensive but totally worth it - the jug, lid and whisks all detach and go in dishwasher, and easy to clean by hand too! And makes hot chocolate like the velvetiser but hotter :)

How wonderful! I've always fancied keeping seahorses, but wouldn't know where to start, I find tropical fish challenging enough! Would love it if you could post a photo.

@Arraminta I use the chocoloco gold keratin treatment and have done for years. You can buy on Amazon. It's great, I repeat about every 3-4 months

They're wonderful little things really, ever so easy to look after compared to any other saltwater fishies. It takes a while for them to properly settle in and find their feet wings, for their personalities to come out, but they're right little characters when they get going.

They'll do little dance routines to show that they recognise you, and they'll do a different dance to show that they recognise someone else but know that it isn't you, to show they can tell the difference between one human and another.

They'll flash certain colours to signal "Hey, I know you, you're my friend! Look guys, this one's a friendly one!" and the others will mimic it to say "Yep, we trust your judgement Bob, she looks alright to us!".

Or nudge your fingers with their snout to say "I want to go on your hand like those ones are but I can't find anywhere to sit, can you make me a space please?". All kinds of stuff really - a seahorse snowball is quite a sight to see! We're really lucky to have them :)

My wireless earphones to listen to audiobooks free via Libby. I use both all of the time; while getting dressed, housework, ironing, cooking etc.

My iPad to watch tv while I cook.

A utility room with two washing machines/tumble dryer combos and I usually have them both going at the same time.

We have a ninja air fryer 14 in 1 that has lots of different settings. It's amazing at doing a roast with a thermometer prong and turns off when the roast is cooked perfectly and even cooks veg and potatoes underneath.

A sage coffee machine.

Books- lots of them!

Solar garden lights just make me happy 😃

Perfume. I love choosing what to wear
Wax burner so the house smells nice
Mini bathroom speaker so I can listen to music or podcasts in the shower
My cat
Microplane foot file!

Which vacuum do you have. I get a big overwhelmed by the options!

Dry air weather, humidity less than 35%.
The smell of the desert Southwest after a rain shower.
Watching the birdies hop around my patio while I drink my morning tea.

Electric blanket. I love it.

I have read this before, I have a velvetiser and the hot chocolate comes VERY hot, much too hot to drink. Maybe I lucked out? I don’t preheat anything either. Milk straight out of the fridge.

Is your velvetiser Hotel Chocolat?
My friend also has one and says the same, ie tepid.

Yes. Hotel Chocolat. Seems I was lucky? I can tolerate quite hot drinks too but it’s seriously far too hot to drink. I love it in the cooler weather. I don’t buy expensive hot chocolate just supermarket stuff but it’s so creamy and well mixed.