What are you lucky enough to have but never use?

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Could be anything really and am hoping it’s this is a lighthearted thread.

I live less than 100 metres from the beach but hardly ever go there. I love “knowing” it’s there but seem to also forget it’s there somehow.

So what do you perhaps take for granted or don’t realise how others would appreciate it?

A massive back garden with big lawn and mature trees and bushes that's not overlooked by anyone. Considering it's a two bed house in a city, I am lucky.
Unfortunately its steeply sloped so can't use most of it, it would be lovely to be able to put garden furniture out there because the bit that is furthest away gets the sun all evening in summer, but because of the slope I'm confined to the tiny patio just outside the back door which loses the sun at about 3pm.

People always admire it and say how lucky I am, but keeping it tidy is never ending. Now I'm getting on a bit I can't manage it. Might see about turning the lawn into a wildflower meadow, won't need mowing then and good for the bees.

A steamer - used once and that's it

A big garden. We have zero time, zero money and, sadly, zero ability. I would love it to be beautiful, or even just a bit less shabby looking.

Same here. I make my green fingered DM feel sick. She has a tiny garden and I have a huge one... and I can't even keep grass alive 😂

Would she enjoy coming to do gardening for you? That could suit both of you! You get a lovely garden and she gets to do what she enjoys?

The most beautiful writing desk. I'm a writer but never use it, always huddled over my laptop on the living room floor.

She comes here once a week and has a good go at it.

A defibrillator, was going to be disposed of at my husband's work so he brought it home. Hopefully we'll never need to use it!

My common sense !!! But also the countryside and seaside both on my door step . I’m a town girl at heart and only go on walks to visit shops !!!!

A garage but no car. I can’t drive. Also loads of beautiful fine china that I rarely use.

A swimming pool. I live in a warm country but by the time I’ve fished out the leaves, frogs, occasional turtle etc, I really can’t be bothered to use it!

Savings. I'm lucky enough to be able to save on my income and haven't needed to spend much of them. Although they will be spent eventually (there's a goal in mind for them), if something more immediate or important came up that would have to be delayed.

Same as you op. I grew up in a warm tropical climate with the beach being part of my childhood. And we always had a pool at home. Every house that I bought had a pool and at my last one I swam once in 3 years! I also have no burning desire to do beach holidays too.

If I was my brother, I'd say an epipen. Thankfully his peanut allergy is well in hand.

Frozen embryos. Unlikely to use all 5. Very lucky we didn’t need to use any for our second child after first ivf baby.

Two living rooms, we only use one at the back of the house, the one at the front I just go into dust occasionally, I annoy myself that I don’t use it as it’s a lovely room .

A side door. Intended to use it to get to the garden to avoid traipsing through the house with washing and muddy shoes. Not even sure where the keys to it are now and there's a big plant in front of it.

When I was a kid we had a hatch from the kitchen to the dining room. We mostly used it to pester about when the food was ready, but not so close to its arrival that we would be handed stuff and asked to set the table!

Outdoor kitchen, indoor gym….

A million on one beauty gadgets: Phillips IPL, foreo x 2; Dyson airwrap; many many pairs of beautiful super high stilettos that I can’t wear but cannot get rid of

I live on a nature reserve. Hardly ever venture on it. It's lovely knowing we have wildlife and a lake so near (my land borders the reserve) and bird song is fabulous, but our dogs anxiety is now done bad we cannot go on it anymore for fear of meeting other dogs/people.

We only ever walk him at night on the Glastonbury land that leads you the reserve and country park :(

I long to see the kingfishers too - Mr heron is around a lot, but kingfishers are special birds....

I was going to say the same, but the battery is dead and they cost a fortune to replace. We have one in the old phone box at the end of our road ( 25 metres away) so don’t need one at home.
Mine was a spare one at work, we decided it was costing us too much to maintain two units, when legally we only need one. Hopefully we don’t have two patients having a heart attack at the same time.

A fire blanket and a fire extinguisher

Kitchen Aid with all the attachments including the meat grinder. It was on our wedding list after months of research.

I thought it would make me feel like a ‘proper wife and woman’… I think I used it about three times in our fiver years of marriage.

A little home library.

Two bathrooms. One’s never used, ever. It currently just houses some empty suitcases and the Hoover.