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I laughed at espresso, I’m glad that has been a shared experience. I spent around $2k on coffee equipment since the start of the pandemic. No way I’m going to go back and drink sad office coffee or deal with poorly maintained espresso machines in micro kitchens now.

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There's definitely amenities at home that seem simple but seriously factor into my preference to WFH.

For example, a Toto washlet. I visited Japan in Feb 2020 and purchased a bidet promptly afterwards, along with starting WFH at the onset of the lockdowns. After more than a year, it's hard to imagine going back. :-)

I’ve bought a clone of Toto Washlet for a few hundred bucks on Amazon when I saw the writing on the wall for toilet paper shortages. It worked great for reducing my toilet paper use to 1/10 of what it was, and it’s objectively more hygienic to boot.

Surely enough, one of the first few things to become scarce after the toilet paper was the washlets.

I spent $700 on the breville machine and it makes far better coffee than the $2000 fully automatic machine at work that has to be disassembled almost daily to avoid mould build up which no one does. When back at the office I’m drinking tea only.

I spent about $750 on a Rancilio Silvia, about $550 on a DF64 espresso grinder and some several hundred here and there for other small equipment at $20-30 apiece. I then paid about $750 or so to a coffee roasting machine, and I started to regularly roast my own coffee. Put in about $200 for books on roasting, and I’m now fully vertically integrated, ready to forcibly take over a small Caribbean nation to plant my flag and start my first coffee plantation under the auspices of the West India Company.

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