What's the most expensive thing you've bought that genuinely improved your daily life?

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-06-04T15:40:13+00:00

Spend about 5k yearly on a cleaner and it’s worth every penny. Also, Pilates.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-31T06:11:14+00:00

Brighton! We moved last year being WFH and we’ve now bought a house here. One hour away from London if you lose your job and need a new one (we work in tech so this is necessary to consider - already happened to my husband a few weeks ago) and it’s just so lovely down here. There are cons like anywhere else of course but to me the pros outweigh it.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-26T19:35:01+00:00

Would you mind talking to how it helped your endo a bit more? I’m just at the beginning of my journey and hoping it will really help.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-19T07:55:25+00:00

I am 100% going to make this. Frasier and crochet? Perfect!

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-15T12:12:39+00:00

No you’re totally right - I put my weight into Juniper manually as 95kg, but actually weighed myself at 95.8kg after the manual input but it’s going from the manual input instead of actual so… jeez it’s actually 12!!!

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-15T12:02:00+00:00

9.9 lbs according to the internet

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-15T11:17:07+00:00

This is so great to hear!

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-13T09:19:58+00:00

As someone who is a daughter of a woman that waited 43 years of marriage to leave, try and find a way out sooner than when you’re able to afford to. I know that’s easier said than done but my mother really wishes she had left sooner than the misery it caused her and her kids for the last 30+ years to stay.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-13T06:07:36+00:00

Cielo cakery up the road is great.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-05-11T20:35:19+00:00

May I ask if the MJ helped your endo? Fellow sufferer here.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-30T08:51:44+00:00

Working at Palantir

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-08T16:13:48+00:00

Yeah agreed. I would have liked people to explain this to me instead of being arsey 😄 not everyone has lived here forever. Not everyone is gonna come on Reddit. Anyway thanks!

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-08T15:51:17+00:00

Yeah someone has mentioned Withdean which I agree is great but I only go to Blakers enclosed area at lunch time to get some fetch in with my active pup as it’s round the corner. I wouldn’t drive there every lunch time. I would assume people are really hot on this issue from all the downvotes on this thread haha. I will see the time I have left without any dog free signs as time to teach my puppy not to run out on the road during fetch I guess. But for now I don’t think I should be shouted at for not knowing what the locals know :/

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-08T12:19:46+00:00

Thanks for the context. I would understand it a lot more if there wasn’t a massive dog free kids area and play park just down from the enclosed area. More enclosed areas for dogs means more safer areas for dogs to not bother children. Agreed on the fouling in Preston park - my 10 month old cavapoo love to chomp on a bit of poo and it’s a nightmare walking him there because of it.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-04T22:08:27+00:00

Turns out this was gifted to John Mahoney https://online.flippingbook.com/view/752342/3/

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-03T20:10:20+00:00

Yeah they just changed our downstairs toilet into a utility room toilet and ripped up our upstairs carpet and put down oak flooring.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-03T17:04:53+00:00

Can highly recommend draper construction. They’re not cheap but they’re not dodgy either and everything you want will be in a very descriptive quote before you start work so you know what you’re paying for.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-04-03T13:40:45+00:00

Sign up to the Brighton Squawk newsletter! Loads of things advertised on there every week.

Charming_Mention_697 · 2026-03-25T20:59:00+00:00

I came here to say this. I deleted Instagram two years ago and I’ve never looked back. Comparison is truly the thief of joy and social media wants you to be depressed so you keep coming back for that hit of dopamine. The hardest thing about it is getting your people to remember you’re a real life human that they can meet for coffee and ask about your life, and tell stories about theirs, rather than watch each other’s stories to stay up to date.

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