ICE MAKER
Infinite ice whenever you want, uh, yes, add to cart
Even KINGS never knew such luxury…
Unconditional love and support
A house with a yard in a city with good subway access
Having all my teeth.
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).
Yea I bought it on a whim when it came out cause I love DS9 and Garak. I’ve seen them as high as 200. Its crazy.
TIL those are out of print and valuable. Most of mine were ex-library copies bought for 50¢ each. I guess I should have kept getting them more diligently, since it sounds like now it would be difficult for me to complete my collection.
Kitty holsters. A kitten in a holster on each side. Ready for anything as long as i got my kitty holsters
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
Some magnificent pieces can be had for “only” used cars prices.
The one i have and love the most originally would have cost as much as my first car 15 years ago :D
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.
My wife wanted an ice maker. Thought it a silly idea but indulged her nonetheless. Well, turns out I freaking love it. Well worth the investment in my opinion
A nugget ice machine. Nuggets ice is the perfect chewing ice - not too hard it will crack teeth, even consistency unlike crushed ice, firm like tight packed snow. It’s like chewing on frosty heaven.
But it’s absurdly expensive for what little it does. At least a couple hundred dollars for a counter top ice maker that does nothing but make perfect ice.
I will never regret having purchased one, after leveraging the cost of getting drinks from Sonic to have access to the ice it seemed to make sense, now we just don’t eat out anymore.
Yessss.
My first year of university, I lived in residence and the cafeteria had a nugget ice machine. Every day before class I’d swing through and fill my water bottle to the brim with ice and top if off with water. I’d have enough ice to crunch until my classes were done (not in class, I’m not a monster).
I miss it so much.
Also, a post-mix bar gun. Mostly just for carbonated water, because I’m also a fizz addict and those things are just fun.
The Romans would have thought that even Kings did not enjoy such luxuries as an ice maker. They would be all “what sorcery is this?!”
I bought a tabletop ice maker from Costco for $80 three years ago, and have never ever regretted it. It doesn’t pull a lot of power and works pretty fast.
The downside is cleaning it, it’s cheap so you can’t easily break it down and rebuild it, so you’ve got to get creative.
Edit: I see you said “nugget” now, (which I don’t exactly know what that means), but these ice pieces are not rock hard like refrigerator ice, fwiw.
Fresh clean sheets on a well made bed daily.
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.
Having a paid off mortgage
A butler.
For me, a robobutler.
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.
Is an icemaker an absurd luxury? Practically ever fridge I have ever owned has come with one, except like when I was a kid in the 70s.
Not every kitchen has the plumbing for it.
Fair, though I feel like most do nowadays? And I’m not living in some McMansion or anything, I’m on the poor end of things, but still I can’t think of a house I’ve lived in in the last ~30 years that didn’t have it.
In my case, the house I bought had been renovated before I bought it, but so poorly that it was considered a “fixer-upper” anyway. Technically, the kitchen has a refrigerator water supply, but the layout was so awkward that I ended up putting a cabinet in front of it and putting my refrigerator on the other side of the room.
I eventually ended up getting a countertop ice maker for ~$150, which is less convenient than a built-in one would be, but is also kinda nice because it makes relatively fancy, chewable “nugget” ice.
Ahh, fair enough. That sucks.
Though chewable ‘nugget’ ice sounds like a pretty good consolation prize.
