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Today I helped my friend twice with a piece of code he was stuck with. He felt I must be god. But I felt like ‘godfather’. I was just returning a favor, this guy had helped me when I didn’t even know how to define a function in python. All I can say is :
“Some day, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But uh, until that day -- accept this justice as a gift”Accenture India Deloitte
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The worst house in the best neighborhood I could find. Easy mil+ in appreciation net of the improvements we’ve made.
Not really that expensive, but I bought bidet add-ons with heated seats for all the toilets in my house. Would be an early purchase if I ever move again.
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I get the McRib every time it comes back.
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For me: bought an Avocado mattress and a lightly used Herman Miller Aeron desk chair years ago, as my mattress and desk chair were where I was spending the vast majority of my Monday to Friday. No regrets on either.
Bosche dishwasher, so quite and works really well
Mine blows
Other than my house and vacations, the most expensive thing I have bought is my 18 year old car. I paid $4600 for it 10 years ago. Shes a beast! Still going strong with over 230k miles.
Honda lol.
Gas.
High end bicycles, but I ride at least 4500 miles every year.
Toto Japanese toilet. Best 4k ever.
Which one did you get? The neorest is ridiculously priced
Decision to have a kid, by far. OK OK that’s not a purchase per se. But still. Two to three orders of magnitude more than any splurge.
Debating a 3rd so appreciate more details!
5k in a mattress splurge - my husband has a bad back
200/month for cleaners - helps my sanity.
60k for a 2024 suburban in 2025 bc we have 2 kids and (hopefully) more on the way. - we bought it “new”, but it was a year old sitting on the lot and feel like we got a “fair” deal.
We now buy our groceries from Publix and Costco for the quality and this feels like a splurge considering we were doing Walmart 2 years ago. And we try to buy organic….which automatically doubles the cost of most items.
Tempurpedic ultimate cooling with reclining functionality. We bought it knowing he had two hip surgeries coming up and the reclining functionality was a nice tool during recovery.
My hubby gifted me a Dyson air wrap. I wouldn’t have bought it on my own but it’s def worth it. My hair feels healthy while still getting a blow out feel. Also versatile with all the different attachments.
Orangetheory gym membership
Ikon/epic ski passes to go on trips with friends
In hindsight, gold. Otherwise, quality clothing - it was expected in the culture I was living in years ago, is classic and great quality that lasts and these days quality is lower. Now the only thing I am willing to spend a lot on is travel and shoes that fit well and look good.
Robot vacuum and mop
Country club membership
I thought of another. I love my fully automatic espresso machine (~$600)
We don’t do that here.
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So you buy cheap versions of everything and believe there’s no circumstance where spending on the more premium version of an item is worth it?
West elm couch (harmony collection sectional) for our main living room. We’re thankful for the splurge every time we sit on it.
High end gym
Amenities. Better crowd, less high school kids
$18k for a 2.1 sound systems. I’d do it again