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[easyas123]

Sleep Number bed, hot tub & education for our kids.
401K & real estate investments - meant some lean times but has paid off in the end.
Our dogs & all their associated costs, they've brought us a lot of love & joy over the years.

 

[prairie_girl]

Paying a LOT in rent, but we have central air and in suite washer and dryer, and a 100% accessible building for my husband (including elevator)

Upgrading to business class for our recent trip to Toronto. Having the extra legroom was worth it so that my 6’7” husband wasn’t folded in half.

Buying a fancy office chair for me. I have a lot of aches and pains and the extra cushioning on the chair is so worth it.

For us, we are willing to pay extra to be comfortable.

 

[JLTraveling]

We paid extra for close seats to see Angela Lansbury in Blithe Spirit about 7 years ago (25th wedding anniversary). We flew from Chicago to Washington DC for the weekend, and I've never, ever regretted the $$$ spent.

We also paid over $2,000 for a wood cabinet bed for our spare room. We have overnight guests pretty regularly, but not enough to keep a bed in the room -- too much space for the time used. It's a great, comfortable bed, and we just love it.

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I am in love with that bed! Where did you find it???

 

[Immadismom]

Aside from family vacations, I would say my robot vacuum/mop. We recently moved into a much larger house and having almost 2,200 sq ft of floors, plus a finished basement, makes the robot SO worth every penny. I run it almost every single day and it picks up so much dirt, dust & dog hair!!

 

[DLgal]

1. Octane Fitness Q47Xi elliptical. It's an amazing machine.

2. 4th row floor seats to the Lady Gaga Jazz and Piano show in Las Vegas. An unforgettable experience.

3. Every Bose product I own, but in particular the Bose 700 Soundbar/Bass Module combo and NC700 headphones. And a special shout out to my Bose Tempo Sport Sunglasses, which are fantastic replacements for earbuds while outdoors.

4. Breville Smart Oven Air (we use this thing multiple times a day and it can cook ANYTHING)

5. Tower Club Level at the Contemporary over 4th of July in a MK view room. Great memories.

6. Our Pottery Barn couch. It's 15 years old and still looks and feels great.

7. My fitness road bike. It's 11 years old and still going strong.

 

[MillauFr]

buying a house within walking distance of a subway station.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Buying our home when we got married 51 years ago.

 

[leebee]

And last but best, paying a licensed snake remover $50 to check my miata for a snake after something with 'heft' fell out of a tree and hit me on the arm. That's right people, money can't buy happiness but it can dang sure check your convertible for snakes.

You are far braver than I could ever be! I'd pay $5000 for this- I figure that's cheaper than a whole new car!

 

[tweetykl]

DVC at VGC and Aulani

Our 700 square foot covered deck.

 

[bcwife76]

Our Tesla model 3. Combine the highest gas prices in North America with a 100km round trip commute 5 days a week and the savings are adding up! Plus being able to cool down the car or warm it up before you get in it.

Our Aulani DVC.

Our airfryer. It's not an expensive model, nor is it huge but I love it because it's SO versatile.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

King size bed with an adjustable base. Love it!

 

[Disneybuckeye]

Remodeling our house. It was built in 1979 We bought it in 1983. It was almost exactly as built when we remodeled in 2013. Raised two kids in this house, converted it from a family home to our retirement home. Spent more on the remodel than we did for the house in the first place. But even with the original purchase price, an addition we put on 25 years ago, and the remodel we're still only into it for $245,000, less than half of what we could sell it for today.

I agree with real estate. We bought our last house for $185k in 1992. Put $60k into it and sold it for $625k in 2018.

Paid cash for our lake house in 2015. Knocked down what was there and rebuilt for an all in price (including brand new 1800 square foot dock) of $300k. We had a realtor and a family contact us to purchase and both offered over $700k. We have a great location, great view, 120 feet of lake front that is over double of most lots, and plenty of room to put an addition on the house and could triple the 1400sq feet we currently have easily.

We told them no as it is the best purchase we ever made.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I am in love with that bed! Where did you find it???

I bought it from Furniture in the Raw about 6 years ago. The bed has since been posted for sale on Amazon, though -- I bought ours before it was there. Just search for cabinet bed.

 

[sunnyshari]

Off the top of my head...

1. Having a professional landscaper come in and do all the landscaping when we built our house. We have 4 acres of land and ended up planting 38 trees, 20 shrubs, and dozens of other plants. Eighteen years later, we really appreciate the foresight the landscaper had when placing clusters of trees/shrubs throughout the yard.

2. My Bosch dishwasher. Not sure why I wasted money on any other dishwasher. I will never own a different brand.

3. My Dyson hair dryer. I have thick curly hair and that thing is a dream come true for my curls. I love it so much that I bought a travel bag for it and it goes everywhere with me.

4. I'll probably get slammed for this one but here goes....Genie+ and ILL. We accomplished more in the first 5 days of our trip than I thought we'd get done during the entire 8 days we were there. We were FP+ power users and I had many doubts about G+/ILL before we arrived. Within 24 hours, I was a fan....a big fan. It added about $900 to our trip, but it was well worth it for us.

5. Epcot Fireworks Cruise. We've done this twice and loved every minute of it. Hope to do it again one day.

Off topic but do you have info on this hair dryer? I have thick wavy hair and this sounds great. Thx!

 

[luvsvacation]

We did a backpacking trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The best money I ever spent was 75 dollars to have a mule carry our backpacks back up to the rim!

 

[mjkacmom]

Off topic but do you have info on this hair dryer? I have thick wavy hair and this sounds great. Thx!

I have the revolt one, $30 on sale. It works well on my thick wavy hair, and my friends with thick curly have and love it as well.

 

[bluezy]

Off topic but do you have info on this hair dryer? I have thick wavy hair and this sounds great. Thx!

They are expensive -- about $400. I've had mine for about 2.5 years and my hair stylist has used them for 3 or 4 years. It dries my hair so much faster but doesn't dry it out like most hair dryers do. And this is the first hair dryer I've ever had that I can actually use the diffuser and my curls look nice -- not frizzy. I spent most of my life straightening my hair because I didn't like the way it looked when it was curly unless I had hours to let it air dry (which rarely happened). This hair dryer changed that. Now I wear my hair curly/wavy almost all the time and it only takes about 5-6 minutes to dry it even with the hair dryer on low and using the diffuser. All the attachments are magnetic so it's really easy to attach them and they stay in place. I got my dryer directly from the Dyson website because very few places carried it at that time and no one offered any discounts on it. We bought our daughter one for Christmas this past year and got it at Bed Bath & Beyond online because they were running a promotion that if you spent $500 at their site you got a $100 gift card to use within 14 days. So I used that $100 to put towards an Oral B electric toothbrush which is probably something I should have added to my list upthread. I never thought I'd spend $200+ on a toothbrush but this thing is totally worth it! Anyway, I think you can also buy a refurbished Dyson hair dryer for about $200.

 

[Kitty 34]

Paving our driveway 3 years ago! So much easier for DH to snowplow.

 

[JLTraveling]

I bought it from Furniture in the Raw about 6 years ago. The bed has since been posted for sale on Amazon, though -- I bought ours before it was there. Just search for cabinet bed.

Thanks!

 

[DisneyHardin]

Someone to clean my house and someone to mow the yard. DH and I both work full time and taking these tasks off our plate has been life saving.