Best Purchases You've Ever Made

Adebisi

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This thread exists somewhere but I can't for the life of me find it. Bump if you find.

Here's my most recent:

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Just an on-sale cheap electric ratchet. No more turning things for me!

There's also this:

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But I'm not married to the BGE brand necessarily. The warranty is solid tho.

Last but not least:

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Specifically Lloyd brand pans. These things are expensive but goddamn rigid as fuck. Great for high high heat pizza and veg roasting
 
Haus

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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)
 
Burren

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Bought a car in 2021 for 130. Sold it in 2023 for 174 after driving 8,000 miles.
 
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Khane

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A 2010 Toyota Camry in 2011, that today has 187k miles on it and the only non-scheduled maintenance I've ever had to have done was an alternator at around 140k.
 
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Hatorade

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Hultafors HT5173 Heavy-Duty Tool Holder was like 15.00 when I bought it but clips onto my belt and beats the heat vs a dedicated tool belt. Quick on and off as well.
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Knipex 13 72 8 8" Forged Wire Stripper 20-10 AWG

Buy KNIPEX 13 72 8 Forged Wire Strippers 20-10 AWG with fast shipping and top-rated customer service Haus of Tools is your home for Tools
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Flawless after daily use for a couple years now, only sucks when I need the heavier linesmans but these do the same job with a little more grip strength.
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YZ250F, this bike is so good I haven't changed a thing from stock, been an absolute blast at any track.
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For something cheap and easy these lights have been great.
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Oh and a good flat bottom wok, game changer if you make your own kung pao and the like.
 
Springbok

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

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Hatorade said:
Hultafors HT5173 Heavy-Duty Tool Holder was like 15.00 when I bought it but clips onto my belt and beats the heat vs a dedicated tool belt. Quick on and off as well.
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Knipex 13 72 8 8" Forged Wire Stripper 20-10 AWG

Buy KNIPEX 13 72 8 Forged Wire Strippers 20-10 AWG with fast shipping and top-rated customer service Haus of Tools is your home for Tools
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Flawless after daily use for a couple years now, only sucks when I need the heavier linesmans but these do the same job with a little more grip strength.
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YZ250F, this bike is so good I haven't changed a thing from stock, been an absolute blast at any track.
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For something cheap and easy these lights have been great.
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Oh and a good flat bottom wok, game changer if you make your own kung pao and the like.
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That 250 looks like so much fun.
 
Control

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Not sure about the best, but this computer build is the first one in my decades of computing that actually appreciated, and still rocking these for the foreseeable future:
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Also, my Aeropress and Odum grinder. There are few things I've ever bought that have gotten more use. The Aeropress does require occasional replacement, but surprisingly, I think they've increased the quality. The last one that I bought has been going strong for a few years now.
 
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Adebisi said:
This thread exists somewhere but I can't for the life of me find it. Bump if you find.

Here's my most recent:

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Just an on-sale cheap electric ratchet. No more turning things for me!
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I love the electric ratchet for working on cars. Very little torque so you aren't going to break shit or strip threads but it just speeds things up while still letting you feel how tight you're getting stuff. I didn't even know what I was getting really when I bought it but now I use it all the time.
 
Bald Brah

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I really love my Gladiator. Bought new in 2020. They call these things adult Legos and they really are fun to wrench on.

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Borzak

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40 acres with mineral rights. Tinned trees and made momney on that. Cleand ups the property and sold it to come out slightly ahead. Kept mineral rights. Two fracking booms and a lithium buy later ranks pretty high in my best all time.

Jobber construction calculator. Yeah the same is available on a phone, but the battery on the calculator will last years and years and not matter if I drop it off a stack or tower, plus I can use it while on the phone. Every dimension I or someone else put on a drawing must be checked by someone with a similar background. I used it a lot checking other peoples stufff all day. Foot and inches and sixteenths and metyic/decimal andf converts betweern the two, trig stuff mostly right angles and chords on arcs.

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Kajiimagi

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2011 Toyota Tundra SR5 , bought used for $$27K , had 25,000 miles on it and still had the factory warranty. Bought it in 2014 when we decided to move to NV. Had a 4.6 V8 used synthetic oil, only had to change it every 10K miles. Spark plugs every 100K. Never broke down on me and had 280,000 miles on it when I traded it in for the Chevy I have now. If I'd known what the future was going to bring I'd still have it.
Built in USA in San Antonio TX.
 
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