Why I spent two rent checks on a Miele washing machine and don’t regret it (mostly)
I have a weird obsession with how heavy washing machines are. Most people look at the energy star rating or the color, but I look at the shipping weight. My Miele W1 weighs about 215 pounds. For context, that’s more than a full-grown mountain lion. When I moved into my place in 2020—back when the …
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Why Reddit’s Favorite Furniture Is Usually Garbage (And How to Actually Buy a Sofa)
I spent three months of my life—and about four thousand dollars of my actual, hard-earned money—obsessing over what the ‘experts’ on Reddit had to say about furniture. I read every thread in r/Furniture, r/BuyItForLife, and even the weirdly aggressive r/Mid_Century. I thought I was being smart. I thought I was ‘hacking’ the system by avoiding …
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Why I finally stopped hating my Clair air purifier (mostly)
Most air purifiers are just expensive boxes that move dust from one side of a room to the other. I’ve spent way too much money on these things over the last five years, mostly because I live in a drafty apartment in Queens where the air smells like a mix of diesel fumes and whatever …
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