Best Purchases You've Ever Made

OK. Two I can think of that hit the "best value in something I've purchased" category, and their on opposite ends of the cost spectrum.

First , Bare Naked boxers from Duluth Trading. I used to be a "Go to Sam's once a year, but a dozen pack of boxers, wear them for a year, throw them out because they're becoming threadbare/elastic is shot, repeat" guy. Then one year the wife got me some of these for Xmas, I think mostly as a gag gift because we had seen the ads on TV and laughed. And damn if they weren't the most comfortable underwear I've ever worn. And that's not the great part. I only recently threw away the first pair of them she got me because the elastic started going out... after over a DECADE. They simply last forever relative to other options.


Now on the other end of the expense spectrum. My 2017 Cadillac CTS vSport. Purchased because a change in my job necessitated I get something more "take customers out to a nice lunch/whatever" capable rather than the Mustang I was driving at the time. (There are pics in a few places in the what do you drive thread) Went for the Caddy due to a combination of reasons; The numbers on it were great, my grandfather who raised me always saw owning a caddy as the sign you had "made it", and only car in it's class without a speed limiter on it. Got a decent deal on a low mileage one that came back early off a lease as a CPO. Now coming up on a decade in on the car and it still drives just as good as when I bought it, still looks great, being the car and driving is pretty much my "happy place". Maintenance on it and repairs have been very cost efficient (There's a good Caddy-centric mechanic/tranny shop called Eagle Transmissions in Dallas)

Bidet; heated bathroom tiles; real hardwood floors; shit load of incandescent bulbs before everything turned bright. Little things na'mean