There’s 3 things that really stand out for me that I would say made a massive difference to my life:

  1. Cordless screw driver. Bought the day after building a flat pack bed with a crappy screw.driver that just shredded my hand. Thought it was frivolous at the time, but I’ve used it so much since. It’s light, small enough to fit in my pocket and good for 90% of DIY tasks.

  2. Tassimo coffee machine. Bought it 9 years ago, use it every day. Nice quick easy coffee. What’s not to like.

  3. My first DSLR camera. It was a Nikon D50 back in 2005/6 and it sparked my interest in photography to this day. It gave me a hobby I can take lots of places and do it alone or with others. I never loved the D50 camera itself, but I did get some really nice shots with it

  • XIIIesq
    2•9 months ago

    People that say “vaping isn’t good for you!” etc etc are people that are missing the point and people that have clearly never tried both.

    Firstly, no one is saying it’s good for you, just that it is better for you than smoking is.

    Secondly, maybe listen to people like yourself who have extensive experience with both options, the different in you personally health is night and day.

    • Atemu
      1•9 months ago

      The statements “vaping isn’t good for you” and “vaping is a lot better than smoking” do not conflict with another; they can both be true.

      Whether vaping is an improvement or not depends on what you were doing before. If you were smoking before and are substituting cigarettes for vaping, you hurt yourself a lot less and it’s an improvement.

      If you weren’t smoking before (the case for most teens for example) and would start to vape, you’d be hurting yourself significantly more than before.

      You should be advocating to never touch a vape (or cigarette) to non-smokers and to try vaping to get out of smoking addiction to smokers.

      • XIIIesq
        0•9 months ago

        Fair point.

        It’s obvious that the best thing for your lungs is clean and fresh air and the best thing to do with nicotine is never try it.

        But some people are always going to be attracted to that sort of thing and it’s sensible to not fear monger the option which is clearly the healthier choice.