Asklemmy

43963 readers

2351 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

194

What are your top 3 purchases of all time? (lemmy.fwgx.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

197 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

Got a gun from sako the other day it's cute, it's small, fits right in my pocket (yeeeeeah right in my pocket)

Real answers tho:

Air pump for car tires. I have notoriously bad luck with flats, leaks, etc. This thing has saved me more than a few times.
KVM switch. I work from home, this lets me have my work computer and my personal computer connected to the same equipment, and I can toggle between them with either a physical switch or a keyboard hotkey
Bit of a curve ball, but therapy. Life's tough, gotta have some outlets and advice sometimes.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Had to admit defeat with the electric screw driver a few times and bust out my relatively new impact driver. Now that's an impressive bit of kit with a lot of power, especially when screwing in to masonry. But for most stuff the smaller screwdriver is better suited.

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The kom.bu.cha! mush.room! peo.ple! sit.ting a.round all day!