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?

It has crossed my mind! 😃

This. I check it every 6 months and top it up and replace and renew anything. Also my bag with EpiPens (also have some hospital prescribed meds etc steriods etc) I check it periodically but haven’t used it since June 2022. It’s a massive relief.

@Wigtopia Do you rent it out? I know someone who lived ten minutes walk from Wembley. Charged £22 a day or a cheaper rate if 3+ days

He moved abroad now

A dining table

95% of meals are eaten on the sofa or Poang chair.

I have cleared the crap off table so hopefully with exception of breakfast, meals eaten at table

We have one too. If we turn it on it trips all the outside electrics. Ours only currently houses spiders.

Does this count, it's abit crap.though sorry.
Tumble drier, never use it though.

Oh, if we're doing household appliances, an iron and ironing board.

You beat me too it. Mine is very much out of practice.

Same. Only I use ours to prove bread!

My parents used to drive miles to visit interesting gardens. There was one less then 10 minutes walk from our house that was so good it attracted coach-loads of tourists. Took them more than 10 years to get around to visiting it although once they did, they went regularly.

Guilty as charged. I live in an ordinary terraced house (but I keep it nice lol!). So we all have back gates onto a driveable back laneway. I just have to cross the lane, go through a wicket gate and I am in a beautiful park. Playing fields, walking circuit, separate running and cycling circuits, a wilded stream area with lots of wildlife hopping and flying around, lovely trees and so on.

Honestly in the twenty odd years I've been here I think I've gone into that park about ten times. I'm not sure why probably because I know it's there on my doorstep and can always do it tomorrow!

A more obvious reason for me is that there are far too many dogs off lead there too. I don't dislike dogs but I really only trust those that I know IYSWIM. So a walk for me out there is a scary obstacle course. There is a petition going that dogs must be on a lead, as there is a big dog run not far away. We shall see.

I've no kids, but my younger nieces and nephews love it and can never wait to go out the gate into their "Secret Garden" lol. 😊

A Range Rover. I hate driving and haven’t driven a car in 2 years.

Kitchenaid mixer

Dh has a car space in the city. I can use it on weekends or evenings in my car but don't bother most of the time. I often take it for granted and remind myself how spoilt I am when I hear others worrying about the cost of parking. It's less than 20 mins away and I go in a few times a year

My car ... It's totally pointless. I use public transport every day it's nice to have but ...

Yeah
..would be great if we had cold and dry evenings instead of rain

Carpet cleaner.
Pain in the arse to set up and use.

DH had me on his works private health insurance for years and thankfully I never had to use it, when it got too expensive we stopped it.
I got a full time job once DD was 15 and health insurance comes with it. After 8 months I was diagnosed with severe osteoarthritis in my hips, thankfully they’re both replaced now. Health insurance is something you hope not to use but by my late 40s I needed it

Life insurance …. But I know I won’t be lucky enough not to use it forever!

A KitchenAid food processor , which initially was used lots , but since it isn’t like a stand mixer I haven’t used it much at all for years .
A Dyson hairdryer that was a gift is barely used because I prefer my Babyliss big hair rotating brush or I leave to air dry .

Air is still way fresher / nicer near the coast I feel, even though you don’t use the beach

The top floor of my house.

Iron … I have actually bought a new one a couple of months back. I got the old one out by accident and it had rust at the bottom. My 7yr old DD asked “ What’s this Mama “. I explained what other people use it for but ours was used last in 1874 shortly after the potatoe war an
d it’s sole purpose for it being in the house is that a neighbour might want to borrow one and I can not tell them that we are a iron free house. People might talk, we are living in middle class suburbia after all. I felt very domesticated as I bought for 14£ a new one. It looks smashing in the place of the old one. Shiny and all.

A jacuzzi bath. But l prefer to just hop into the shower. If we stay in a hotel l always soak in the bath but at home l am always too busy.

Rent it out. You’ll make a fortune.