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What’s something you own that has truly paid for itself? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?

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[–] Kattiydid@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My robot vacuum! My robot vacuum with the little home dock tower thing that lets it dump its load and keep vacuuming! I had the original robot vacuums that didn't have a dock to dump their garbage in and it helped some but mostly it needed to be cleaned more often than I would have vacuumed my house without it, the newer ones with big receptacles are so worth it, once a week I dump his container and change his filters and maybe give him a little wipe down with a dust rag and he's happy as a clam. I bought a set of replacement filters so that I can take the old filters out and use my big vacuum on them to get most of the dust and then chuck them in the washing machine, once they're clean they go in the filter drawer and I just rotate filters once a week.

[–] DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can clean the filters by putting them in the washing machine?! I thought they were made of paper and would not survive the washing machine cycle. Just to be sure, mine look like these (voyager is failing to upload the pic for some reason, sorry): https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSqQZcMMvdraSycQnJnIhZCuRQKP7bIE7FfPhSuvLU6Ygc8IYL33ARA5h-6&s=10

[–] Kattiydid@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mine is a shark and has a different looking filter than that. They probably weren't designed to be checked in the washing machine but it has worked every time I've done it so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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