What's on your current "tangible item" wish list?

We move into our new house Saturday…my list is very long. But, new living room furniture is at the top of the list.

I was supposed to get one for my birthday in September - Aldi had one for a really good price. Unfortunately they all sold out way quicker than DSO could get there to get me one. I'm not even sure whether I would use it, but now I really want one.


DSO and I were talking about what we want for Christmas this year. We are going to Sydney on February, and we want to do the Harbour Bridge climb. It's really expensive, it's going to cost us nearly $800 for two tickets. So I suggested that can be our Christmas present to each other.

I bought a similar set from Target last week plus a few extra pieces and I love it well I haven’t opened the big set just the extras and am in love. I got it in greens. I had bought some of the heritage a week prior and loved it so much I needed more 💕 ❤️ 💕 it. The green the nostalgia. It’s crazy how happy this stuff makes me.

I’d love that Slushi machine too but at $279-299 it just ain’t happening here. 😳

Also on my wish list would be some SugarPrism food color paint sets for hand painting cookies, they run about $75 each and there are two different sets. I can paint with the airbrush colors I have now, but those palettes are sooo pretty. They have edible “acrylic” paints too but those are even pricier.

I really, really want the Nightmare Before Christmas LEGO set with all the minifigures in it but I don’t see that happening either. Also about $200. I should just buy it but I hate spending that much money on something like that when I still have 2-3 bigger sets still unassembled in the boxes. 😬

ETA: My 2019 MacBook Pro has a memory issue that will cost $700 to fix. DH doesn’t want to throw $700 at a five year old laptop, but a comparable new one would set us back about $2200. Also 😬😳.

I wanted a sublimation printer and got a Sawgrass SG500 about a year ago. It’s only about as big as a regular desktop printer. While I really LOVE the idea of it, like the fact that setup and using it is easy without a lot of fiddling around with printer profiles, etc. and the fact that I get flawless prints from it, I really haven’t used it enough to justify the expense. The printer itself was about $600 and I’ve already spent another $600 on ink for it even though I’ve barely used it (it runs a self cleaning program every so often to keep the print heads clean which just burns up the expensive ink without producing anything). I even bought a cheap convection oven to do mugs and other stuff and haven’t even tried that because the blanks are so expensive I can’t justify buying stuff just to test things out only to have them get screwed up. At this point I kind of regret the purchase because I just don’t use it enough.

I make a lot of shirts and other projects with HTV but that’s so much easier because you can put it on any type of fabric. Sublimation only works great on polyester which DH and DD don’t prefer, plus those shirts are twice as expensive and harder to find good quality ones that feel nice.

Congratulations on the weight loss!

I want wood floors. We have wood floors throughout the house except for the bedrooms/office. It's thick plush carpet, so thick it's hard to move my desk chair in my office. I literally have to pick up the chair to move it, no sliding it back.

I want a Vitamix in the worst way lol.

I bought a Ninja system (blender, food processor, small smoothie cup size blenders) and love it. Then I started a vanilla bean obsession during Covid, making my own vanilla and vanilla bean paste. I use it all for work, so the jars and jars I have are all going to be used!

But when I make paste, the Ninja leaves some bits of the beans a bit larger and not so ground up. I did find a new recipe that gives instructions for using a non-Vitamix style, and made that last month, and it seems a bit better.

I cannot justify the expense of the Vitamix just because I want finer bean paste! So I'm waiting for a Vitamix fairy to deliver to me.

I agree. But, I line my drip pan with foil and just replace occasionally.

My wish list is a comfy reading chair for the living room, bedroom furniture, reupholstering an antique chair from my grandmother's house, a cabinet with drawers for my entry, and a photo printer.

Everything is pretty expensive, so will be my list for quite a while!

That’s good feedback, thank you. I’m sorry you’re not loving it but knowing that helps me feel better about not buying it!

I'm changing mine...I want my UK passport...I thought I had finally got all the paperwork in to replace it (USPS sent my priority mail to Puerto Rico and then it sat in transit for over a month and only starting moving again after I opened a case) but no, they need proof of me changing my middle names (when I married I dropped my middle names and started using my maiden as a middle - not something that here in the US requires anything official other than just using the new version - it's on my state id, my SS card, my US passport...). There's a hard deadline (Dec 13) for resolving this and if I don't/can't, they my application gets closed (fees non-refundable) and I would have to start over (which tbh I probably can't justify the expense of doing)

I bought an Epson eco tank and converted it to a sublimation only printer (by putting sublimation ink in it).  It was about $200 not including ink.  My problem is the mugs I made everyone are starting to wear, after eight months of use, and all in the same way. I think I need a new mug source...  

The Sawgrass is a really nice printer and mine worked perfectly right out of the box. I avoided getting an Epson because even though it and the third party inks are much cheaper a LOT of the people in the sublimation groups online have had trouble getting the print profiles right for sublimation ink. Plus, after several bad run ins with Epson in the past I’ve sworn off ever buying another one again, so there’s that. I think if you’re not going to literally use it every single week, it just doesn’t pay for itself like I thought it would.

Quite honestly, I wish the white toner DTF printers weren’t so expensive! I probably would use one of those ALL the time because you can press those designs on any type of fabric, and on any color.

I literally just bought mine this morning!

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