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without a ton of thought, and other than my current house:
travel, in general. recently a trip to sail out of svalbard down to norway. it's another world up there
an inexpensive handtruck is one of the most useful tools i have
a 'prosumer' grade espresso machine and a grinder is used and loved every single day
High end PC I built. Players every game I'd wanna play super well and is far more reliable than any other PC I've owned
The original Guild Wars released in 2005. Damn that was an awesome purchase. Insane number of hours for the money spent.
Proper leather boots. I got the red wing irons rangers. Took 3 months of to break them in but it was worth it. Now I have boots that will last me half my life if I take good care of them, plus they fit like a glove!
Proper chef's knife and vegetable cleaver. Most of my military surplus clothes. A vaccuum sealer. Second hand books. My Traynor YBA-1. Some good boots. There's definitely stuff i forgot, i don't really buy items anymore.
One of those nice traveling Bluetooth speakers about half the size of a brick. Whenever I travel I bring it and it is a huge improvement having music that sounds good everywhere.
It was more than I wanted to spend but it was money well spent these many years later.
In 2009 I bought a lot of 10 late 90s Sun servers (1997 machines upgraded a few years later with better CPUs) for $300. Original list price about $2.5 million. After fixing a few problems and swapping parts to max out half the machines, I kept a few as my compute servers, and traded the rest for SGIs. An Onyx for the museum, and a small (one 6' rack) Origin-2000 for myself.
Electrostatic capacitive rubber dome keyboard. β¦Such a pillowy, smooth travel compared to every mechanical keyboard. I wish there were higher demand so I could get an ergonomic one instead of basically being limited to what Topre or NiZ release.
I bought the Rockwell 6S razor a few years ago and it's one of the best purchases i've ever made.
Beyerdynamic DT 900 Pro X headphones. Love the sound profile on them.
Got myself a samaung galaxy active a couple months back for like 20$ off ebay. Its a nice reminder to keep my body moving and helps lose some of the weight I put up over the years. I do however keep it offline now and just manually record my info for privacy sake. Looking to get a casio royal as a more general watch for myself this christmas and keep my active as a workout watch instead
Nothing really fancy here but:
Glerups. I wear them all day