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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

A maid. I really don’t like cleaning. I’m not very good at it. I miss a lot of things. I don’t have the attention span, etc. I do it because I have to. I don’t want to live in swallow but gosh, it would be nice to have somebody cleaning my house for me even if it’s just once a month.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

A large property in the woods with a river running through it. I can literally setup my own mini power generation source if the stream is powerful enough. So I get to at least be partly off-grid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Having a paid off mortgage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

one of those freeze dryers to make infinite crunchy Skittles
They're so good but so expensive and the machine is like $3,000 😭

Also one of those ~$500 IPL permanent hair removers

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago

Free healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

A proper (CNC) milling machine and lathe, like ones you can work hardened steel with. Lots of better things you could buy for that money, but with a mill and lathe i could make those things for even more money!

Edit: oh and a proper garage/hobby room to put them in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

No weeds in my garden. Kinda how the Teletubbies never dealt with crabgrass.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have a house. But it's old and decaying. I want a well-engineered, modern house with great interior design and lots of space. I want to be able to put the couch in the center of the room instead of putting it up against a wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see the confusion here. Your mixing well engineered with modern.

I see houses all the time that are brand new construction or within the last 10 to 15 years perhaps all the way back to 08. The materials used are not what they used to be, regulations have gotten tighter and to cut costs contractors are building lesser quality homes. Everything creaks, is loose, cheap particle board and cheap plywood.

There is very little pride in craftsmanship in Contrustion, Contractor Work. Raw materials are of weaker quality and higher cost. If anyone is looking for quality housing look for pre 2008 homes. While this isn't a blanket statement, it covers 80 percent or more of modern housing that isn't concrete.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

No I'm not confused about that. I have seen the problems you talk about. That's why I felt the need to qualify modern with "well engineered".

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

A flying car like on the Jetsons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

10,000 acres of land in the northern mountains, with all associated rights (mineral, water, etc.).

I really, really, really don't want to have neighbors. I already live in a rural area, and I still have neighbors 1/4 mile away that blast their music at 11pm loud enough to make out the lyrics. I want to be able to see the stars at night with no light pollution, and see wildlife that's barely seen people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

20 million dollars and a company idea

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

A house with a yard in a city with good subway access

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

What color do you want your dragon?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Unconditional love and support

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get a dog, you big lovable jerk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I love the conditional love of my kibby. Conditional love is great when the conditions are easy to fulfill.
1: feed me
2: water me
3: scoop my poops
4: love me, but not too much

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

or any money at all, i can only seem to get one of the two

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I see you have a Samsung refrigerator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

My Thermador is no different, shitty ice maker.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Air travel where I'm treated better than a livestock transport.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Kitty holsters. A kitten in a holster on each side. Ready for anything as long as i got my kitty holsters

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I fucking love this

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A personal datacenter with 3-digit terabytes of storage, terabytes of RAM, and 3-digit CPUs. Unless I win the lottery (and the safe withdraw rate on these investments are high enough), I won't be getting any of this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

A full, refreshing night of sleep every night.

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

Heated foot bath. They're not that expensive, but its real roman emperor hours if you work from home and can have a jacuzzi for your feet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Private Jet. Not because I want to live like a billionaire but because I friggin hate going through TSA and lately every time I travel the airlines seem to have little value-add over just driving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TSA Precheck. Yes, it’s borderline extortion but it really is a LOT faster and more stress free at major hubs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I'm already waiting for my interview. But it's more than that. It's having to go through it at all. It's their treatment of people. It's the super spreader event that is an aircraft and an airport. It's the treatment of people by the airlines and the whole schedule thing. It's dealing with other passengers. I live in Florida, yup the crazy one. In the last four flights I've taken it took 20 hours to get home from Canada, 36 hours to get home from Tennessee and 15 hours to get home from Colorado. I mean WTF!

I took a private airplane once and I parked for free at Signature services, walked into a, large mostly empty lobby area with free cookies and got on the plane. When I got back, the crew, and I swear I'm not making it up, actually brought out a red carpet. It was ridiculously short, like 2 feet, with a ridiculously short velvet rope to match it. I walked through the same lobby, grabbed a cookie and hopped in my car and went home. That was it. Friggin fantastic. I do admit this was prior to 9/11. Since I'm not privy to such treatment normally I've never taken another private flight so I don't know how much has changed. But THAT'S the way to travel... unless the OP meant something like a teleporter instead.

Also I'm not sure it's borderline extortion. Feels like flat out extortion, but I see your point.

[–] dudinax 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A personal library. A room dedicated to the purpose.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Proper espresso bar with a good grinder, machine, and all the meme accessories

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"Luxury Bones"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Infinate free time

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

there is a pocket star trek novel i can't find a physical copy for less than 100 US dollars called "a stitch in time". for some reason they won't reprint it (they released an audiobook recently but i don't personally like reading books that are not physical paper books).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Bread maker. Fresh bread all the time with minimal effort. Takes too much space and isn't worth the spend

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

A well designed back yard with a gardener to help keep it nice and tidy. I fucking love flowers and landscaping, but I just can't do it myself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Watches, sadly. There some beautiful pieces, and somehow the industry figured out how to ask for a house’s worth of money for some of them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I got this for $70 online. It's from china and probably isn't well made but I absolutely love watching the little wheel go back and forth

it's sooo pretty!

(I messed it up the 2nd timezone when daylight savings time happened lol)

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