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Your best BIFL purchase? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by ribboo@lemm.ee to c/frugal@lemmy.world

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What’s your top BIFL purchase, that might not in itself has been all to frugal, but long term, will be?

After having 5-6 different office chairs over the last 10 years, none of which I liked. I went and bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair. It’s ridiculously expensive, but I’m so pleased with it and hope to keep it for well over 15-20 years. If that actually succeed, I will have spent less money one chairs than if I hadn’t bought it.

What similar items (cheap or expensive) do you feel the same about?

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[–] Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just wanted to let you guys know that Bifl sounds a lot like "Bifle", a unique french word. It’s a quite precise verb that means "slapping someone with a dick". It merges the words bite (= dick) and gifle (= slap).

That’s all folks

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I always knew there was a reason I was drawn towards BIFL

[–] tonystark29@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A bidet.

I've saved a ton on toilet paper.

[–] ARNiM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In Indonesia, 99% of toilets have Bidets. Whenever I go abroad, it’s always annoying that it is the opposite, like 99% of the toilets do not have bidets. I've got so used to using bidet all my life and I wish every toilets in the world have it installed.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Osprey backpack

Zwilling and wüsthof knives

De Buyer carbon steel pans

RM Williams boots

Dynaudio speakers

Thinkpad laptop (on Linux)