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Posted by3 years ago

What is the most "worth it" item you have ever purchased?

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· 3 yr. ago

A Miele canister vacuum. I had read the 4 AMAs from the vacuum repair tech and he recommended Miele over all the other ones. My girlfriend and I found the C3 Total Care on sale in Canada for $650 and I jumped on it. She was hesitant to spend that much on a vacuum but it outperforms the $200 uprights by leaps and bounds. So much quieter, can get into tight spaces, better suction, a power head for the carpets, and from what I have heard, will last upwards of thirty years if the proper upkeep is done. Spending a little more to get a premium product is sometimes worth it and this is definitely one of those cases.

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· 3 yr. ago

Years ago my dad bought a plastic severed hand as a Halloween prop. Every year we stick that hand in different places, hanging from the stove, the trunk of our car, under the front porch, basically anywhere we wanted. I even tossed it at him once or twice when he asked for a hand (just like Buzz did to Woody in Toy Story).

Hands down, one of the best purchases he's ever made.

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· 3 yr. ago

I bought an eight outlet power strip with surge protectors and 4 usb charger plug ins built into the power strip. I have everything on my entertainment stand all plugged in and a phone charger that reaches from there all the way to the couch.

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· 3 yr. ago

My only problem with these, is that most have 0.5amp chargers, where as you can get some nice usb chargers which charge 4x faster.

I bought a 6 port fast charging usb adapter with swappable plugs (so you dont need adapters when traveling) and a couple of 3m braided usb C cords.

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· 3 yr. ago

10 ft charging cord for my phone.

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· 3 yr. ago

Same here, great for the bedroom and when traveling. It might charge a bit slower but that doesn’t matter because the utility of having the longer cord and being able to use your phone is far better that it charging 20 minutes faster.

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· 3 yr. ago

Well after 61,000 miles I finally got rid of my tires (which have been trying to kill me for a couple of months now) and bought new tires this past Saturday. So, yeah. Keep good tires on your vehicles.

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· 3 yr. ago

I used to sell tires, and the line I always used was :

"I don't care how good your brakes are, your brakes can only stop your wheels, your tires stop you car. I don't care how strong your engine is, your engine can only spin your wheels, your tires move your car. I can make a minivan out handle a corvette by putting the right tires on the minivan, and the wrong tires on the corvette. Every move your car makes has to go through your tires before anything actually happens. "

Tires are critical, there is no excuse to go with cheap, crappy tires.

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