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Your best BIFL purchase? (lemm.ee)

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What’s your top BIFL purchase, that might not in itself has been all to frugal, but long term, will be?

After having 5-6 different office chairs over the last 10 years, none of which I liked. I went and bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair. It’s ridiculously expensive, but I’m so pleased with it and hope to keep it for well over 15-20 years. If that actually succeed, I will have spent less money one chairs than if I hadn’t bought it.

What similar items (cheap or expensive) do you feel the same about?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Something that I’ve not seen a lot of people talk about is a good lidded kitchen trash can.

I accidentally did the reverse of your BIFL with my trash can.

I was at IKEA, and went, "Cool! A retro trash can!" And I got it. Because it looked retro. It's the type that looks like a stereotypical trash can, round lid and all.

...the materials hold up, but it sucks. There's a reason the general design of trash cans changed from this type to the ones with the step-pedal.