What's an impulse purchase you've made and it turned out to be awesome?
What's an impulse purchase you've made and it turned out to be awesome?
So I kind of impulsively bought a Steam Deck OLED this weekend, I hadn't really done much research and I haven't really played any games in about 15 years.
Now I have to wait for it to be delivered and, I'm worried this is something I'll use a few times and forget about it.
What's something you impulsively bought and fell in love with?
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Those Ikea snap together decking tiles. We rent but have a tiny all-concrete backyard, and for like $250, we transformed it into a remarkably pleasant deck between those tiles for the ground and planters for the perimeter.
The Govee Dreamview TV lights and Philips Hue lights are also pretty high up there.
3D printer is now, but it took it several years of occasional use and occasional CAD upskilling before it got really useful.
Automatic cat feeder for dry food. It's so nice to reduce cat feeding to just the wet food, and it makes it way easier to put them on a diet.
Dyson handheld vacuum, but only because I got it refurbished and on sale for substantially less than half the original price.
Edit: oh and the biggest one by far is my Onewheel. I hate the company and will never buy anything from them again (will be making an open sourced VESC board or buying a Floatwheel instead), but I bought the board at the start of the pandemic to have something to do during lockdown and I now have ~7000km on it. It's way more fun and practical then I was expecting. Even compared to like an e-scooter, a Onewheel still give you both hands free and is small enough to fit on the bottom of the grocery cart, making it surprisingly more practical for hauling stuff.
I wanted to get those tiles but they seem a hassle to clean/maintain. How long have you had yours?
Cleaning is a non issue, some dirt accumulates beneath them but you never notice until you lift them up again.
Maintenance wise they do fade in the sun, but it only takes like a couple hours to apply a couple of coats of new stain to a whole deck (like maybe once every two or three years depending on your tolerance for fading). Otherwise they've held up great for ~4 years of constant, year long exposure.