A household time machine

The Domestic Regret Portal

It is 30 seconds before you buy a perfectly ordinary saucepan for a faintly ridiculous price. Can Future You send the right household goods back through the portal?

Enter the price-time continuum
Future You’s intervention desk
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Saucepan
Incoming purchase 01 / 10

Send a warning through time?

Was this one of Jon’s “I wish I knew the big Scandinavian catalogue sold it cheaper” discoveries?

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The timeline is mostly repaired.

The useful bit

Make one strange list before the next ordinary purchase.

Jon’s post is less about one store than one excellent shopping habit: before buying an unglamorous household object, check the broad, boring categories sold by stores you already visit. The savings hide in the things nobody daydreams about buying.

Inspired by Jon’s “Things I bought that I wish I knew I could have gotten at Ikea for cheaper”.