What was you BEST purchase for the house or otherwise

[NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin]

Light hearted to counter the worst stuff you've bought thread.

Me - two Kirby vacuums for under £200 delivered from eBay rather than £4k - one for each floor as they're bloody heavy. I may think of more as we go along

I now feel like I am the only person in the world who doesn’t have an air fryer.

@DancingNotDrowning same.

A stairlift to transport my mum upstairs. My grandchildren are never off it when they visit and I use it to take things upstairs eg luggage, loads of washing and occasionally myself.

And I'm feeling like the only person without a dishwasher - not even a pathetic £200 one.

I don’t have a dishwasher either. Don’t have the space for one in the kitchen. We don’t even have a tumble dryer because of the kitchen layout. It’s amazing how much longer clothes last and don’t have the same shrinkage when you don’t have a dryer though, even if we changed the kitchen I don’t know if I would put one in now. I’d probably go for a dishwasher first.

No, I don’t have one as we just don’t wouldn’t get enough use out of it. I mainly use my oven for things like pizza or big batches of sweet potato wedges - and all those things need a large flat surface.

Comfy sofas
Comfy desk chair
Comfy mattress

I am slightly hypermobile and get injured easily so those are really important!

Also nice pans - a decent frying pan, and a few lovely le creusets in differing sizes/shapes

Air fryer, the Tower shelving one. Haven't used my main oven more than half a dozen times since I got it January 2024. Used it today to make coffee walnut fairy cakes for tomorrow when my cake mad friend comes round and baked a huge potato for tea.

Last week I made cheese scones.

Really was worth the £65 I paid for it.

Our bog standard washing machine died recently, we'd only had it 2 years. I talked DH into spending out on a Samsung one and omg its fab. It's like the jaguar of washing machines! Not even my mate's miele is as good! Better to spend £400 than £170!

In the vein of this thread, our Qettle hot tap, Bagotte robot hoover and plug sockets with USB in them.

Agreed

My new kitchen floor. Luxury vinyl tile, warm, easy to clean, stylish...I love it.

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Air fryer

😂😂😂 my mum bought a cheap beko dish washer to “tide them over” when they moved into a project house and 10 years on it’s going strong. For £800 I’d like it to put the cutlery away when clean too.

threads like these are fascinating because there’s lots of similar favourites and I end up feeling a weirdo. I have an air fryer and it cooks stuff but so does the oven. If it died I wouldn’t bother replacing it. I do love my slow cooker though.

And boiling water taps; we have top of the range ones at work and they’re terrifying. I wouldn’t let an older child near them and would rather they used a kettle. Maybe we don’t drink enough tea (coffee machine fan) to make the time saving worth the risk of scalding.

I have to say I bloody love our Samsung and would replace with another when it dies. It’s 12 years old at the moment and still going, coping with 3 babies/toddlers/now teens.

I have a Eufy floor cleaner that hoovers and mops the floors.
It empties itself and is completely wonderful.
It was my treat to myself when I moved into my current house and is definitely my favourite gadget.

The “fryer” put me off air fryers (made me think of fat) but really they’re mini ovens. Ours is used daily as we seldom cook enough food to require the main oven.
I’d be lost without a microwave. Do all my veggies in it. In fact I could use a bank of them!

Cheapest, probably the pyrex baking trays (I'm now up to 5🙈) pre-heated, nothing sticks. Not pre-heated hardly anything sticks. They slot neatly into the dishwasher, not bulky, no discolouration. On the lookout for more.

Expensive, sage oracle touch coffee machine ... its beautiful, produces fab coffee, darn expensive.

It's the little things that make a difference for me.
Revolving spice racks that each hold 16 small jars.
A step-thingy that adds extra rows in cupboards & makes tins etc easier to see.

A basket swing in the garden. It rotates fully and my autistic DD can spin round and round on it for hours.

Electric pressure cooker. I use it all the time for curries, pasta sauces, stews. They come out tasting as if they’ve been simmered for hours.

Microwave with a combi convection function - nice, crispy baked potatoes in a quarter of the time they take in the oven.

Airfryer, we rarely use the oven now. DH is currently making jerky in it.

The pond/mini waterfall for the garden, we have colonies of sparrows/visiting starlings/wood pigeons/blackbirds/goldfinches/bluetits on the waterfall all day.

Lazyboy electric recliner in the kitchen. We migrate there most evenings to watch TV. It allows us to have the dogs up with us. We originally bought it so we wouldn’t disturb the attached neighbour when her dc were tiny.

I curse my Samsung! I bought a washer / dryer matching pair with the big black glass doors.

(I know I’m an easily led fool when it comes to aesthetics - especially ridiculous when me and the cleaner are literally the only people that go in the laundry room)

the dryer lasted 6 days post its 1 year warranty and was said to be irreparable. I was in desperate need and ordered the only one my local electric store could deliver following day - a cheapish whirlpool and thought I’d replace it when I had time to think. It’s AMAZING. 6+ years old. It’s on for several hours every day and never given me any problem.

My magimix.

A fairly large cast iron casserole dish, with some kind of coating that stops it rusting, from John. Lewis years ago.

Freezer dishes with lids, in various sizes.

A jam pan.

A good probe thermometer.

An old sofa which I have had professionally reupholstered twice.

Cordless Dyson V7 Motörhead pro
im waiting for a new launch one next year which looks like a round metal detector!
Polyflor Camaro LVT in " nut tree" looks just like wood, but is bombproof and safer underfoot.. best 2k I've spent.
Dehumidifier( mines Honeywell) had to get rid of tumble dryer due to kitchen refurb
Coverless Duvet( mine is silentnight Lifechanging for £23)
I'm disabled and changing covers was the one thing I found impossible one handed.
Apple HomePod. Same function as an Alexa

I also have a sistema box and bacofoil ziplock bag habit Both used daily

We have an AMAZING £300 dishwasher and the door pops open when it’s finished, to let the steam out. Just like an £800 one … but cheaper😃 Not as cheap as a shitty £200 job (obvs.) It’s very quiet too. And has lots of buttons.