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I bought a Bethany Homes Lefse griddle. It's cast aluminum, gets up to 500 Fahrenheit, and is the closest thing you can get to a restaurant flat top without rewiring your kitchen. I've saved my wife and I so much money cooking at home. I've owned griddles before, but nothing this high quality, high temp, and easy to clean. I now prefer my homemade smash burgers to eating out and by the time my patties are done resting, I've already cleaned the griddle.

My house. Boring but true.

Xbox Gamepass. 5 years now for a total of 152 Canadian dollars.

I will likely continue to use the service even at regular price.

Bidet is up there.

Saxx underwear or B3neath. No more batwing. Play around with some other brands, Hanes makes one with a pouch that doesn’t feel right for my body type but I could see it being comfortable. All citizens makes a good one. Duluth ballpark pouch was too lazy of a fit and held sweat.

Wireless devices. 📡📶📺📻

Everything on my desktop looks so clean now. ✨

I went back to college at 30. That set me up for a career I actually enjoyed and a wage that was double the dead end job I had at the time.

A computer when I was still a kid. I wouldn't be the quant and maths PhD I am today without it, that shit literally shaped my life.

I just kept messing around with it when I was 7 years old. I learned to write .bat files and create DOS bootable floppy drives for my games at that age (you needed to play around with Soundblaster drivers and DOS extenders at the time). Then at the same age I quickly discovered BASIC thanks to the fact that MS-DOS used to include QBasic. Then learned some basic assembly using MS-DOS's included DEBUG tool. Then my father got me floppy disks with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ on them and then I learned that shit again just by fucking around and looking at the examples, all at the age 7~8.

I coded like a monkey but I still coded and at a very early age I already knew what people usually learn first in university computer science classes.

By the age of 14 I already knew how to write my own minimal bootloader in assembly and a basic 32-bits kernel in C. (then later on math ironically won me over, so ended up formally pursuing applied math with a tiny bit of computer science because I just didn't need it and the whole exposure to programming at a very young age helped me a lot)

All of that was just thanks to the little spark I got when I first got that Pentium MMX computer.

A really nice kitchen knife. I use it daily and it makes cooking so much more fun, which translates into eating less junk food and take out, saving a ton of money and being more healthy.

Vasectomy.

By far the best purchase I have ever made for myself. Seriously.

Probably Rocket League. Bought it for 20 bucks in '15 and I have about 1500hrs of total playtime.

I paid $120 for a year of PS+ Premium in January.

If I add the cost of every game I played for 4+ hours I got off that service, it would total over $1000. Even more if I include shit I installed, played for 10 minutes and didn't like.

Even with the recent price changes going up by a whopping $60 for the tier I am at, that's still worth it; assuming they continue to add new shit at the same rate.

With how often I see people bemoaning subscription services, there are still some that are very worth the cost if you're actually utilizing the service often.

An Elk Rotary™ lawn mower. It's easier to use than my old lawn mower and it makes the lawn look so much better. The time and money that I spent repairing the old mower that I now save have more than paid for the Elk Rotary™.

Bitwarden for $10