If all goes well I'll be moving out on my own for the first time this fall, so I've been trying to figure out worthwhile appliances and such to set my sights on. So far I've got:

  • Rice cooker for easy cheap meals
  • Cold brew maker (I do be drinking it almost daily)
  • Sparkling water maker (any non-sodastream recommendations?)

Doesn't have to be kitchen stuff or even an appliance like the stuff above—anything helpful (and general advice) is good!

  • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I am a forgetful person and would forget to buy things when they were getting low and then oh no, I’m out of soap/deodorant/shampoo/etc. So you don’t want to go overboard and become a hoarder but 1 drawer of extras took a layer of stress off my life.

    This is also a really decent strategy to save some money - lots of places have buy one get 50% off deals so buying multiple at the same time makes sense. Ditto for toilet paper and hand soap refill bottles - that stuff don't go bad and you'll end up saving money just from not buying a bunch of individual soap bottles.

    As a secondary concern, get a cheap sound system - you can find receivers/speakers pretty easily at thrift shops and getting the cables to hook everything up is pretty short money (like $40 all told ) Great if you have friends over so you can hand them an aux cord and also just nice when puttering around.