I'm unsure about the original price as it was a gift, but DEFINITELY my Kymera Magic Wand!
This wand works for real! With a little wand movement, you can control your TV and other appliances! If you are a Harry Potter or fantasy fan, you will adore it!

I don't know if it's the absolute coolest, but I really like my little pocket microscope: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LAX52IQ

And, for $150 you could get the case and cell phone camera attachment and still have plenty leftover to buy cool things to look at. Although I find the coolest things to look at are just random tiny things you happen upon: salt and sugar crystals, bugs, the fibers in a napkin or piece of fabric, hair, sand, carpet fibers, plants, whatever random bit of snoo is on the table/carpet/my shirt, ear wax.

Sous Vide and vacuum sealer. My husband's favorite present since 3 Christmas' ago

My husband would say his engraved Leatherman multi tool.

I love my Lampe Berger and making the house smell nice.

AirPods!!

My washer was overflowing because it's in a cold pantry and the drainage pipe was freezing over. We close the pocket door and the heat doesn't get in there.

The water was backing up and overflowing into the floor. Without this it would've gone on the full cycle and sat there all day.

Tip: I called my insurance agent and let them know I had these in addition to smart smoke/CO detectors that notify my phone and I got a small discount on my Home Owner's insurance

I have several that work with Tuya, same app as a ton of my smart home devices. It'll beep and send a push notification to my phone via wifi.

I inherited mine. The world’s smallest adjustable wrench. It’s the size of my index finger, I’m a woman with small hands. We’re nothing else will work this will. In generator engines, lawn mowers, even taking apart one of those pop up covered car ports. It’s been a life saver and it’s older than I am and I’m 57.

Those sensors are great. Ours saved us from slow WH leak that would have eventually ruined the flooring downstairs. However we bought one after a serious WH failure that ruined the flooring downstairs. More a fool me once, fool me twice situation :)

The ones I purchased not only have an audible alarm but send me a test email once per week with battery level reading.

Fixed my dryer twice with nothing but YouTube and a few dollars of eBay parts (manufacturer doesn’t sell them any more).

Ours is a Procter-Silex, but it is as bare bones is one gets (exactly what we like). If no waiting and extra features like thermometers is what you want, this one is not the one for you.

My mom thinks I’m a savant because I can fix all kinds of stuff. I just watch YouTube videos and follow the steps.

The Moen ones are pretty good for this, but they're way too expensive now for me to wholly recommend. They were $70 when I bought a 3-pack a little over two years ago, now they're $125.

Remindme! 72 hours

!remindme48hours

I was about to add this. I think the adapter runs around $30 and it’s simple to install on a standard toilet. It’s a game changer!

A kitchen screw driver. One of the small palm sized ones that has the bits in the handle. Throw it in the junk drawer and now you don't have to go to your tools when something needs a new battery.

A quality travel mug. My wife loves her contigo and I love my yeti.

You can get one of those for under $50?

A 10 foot phone charger. Changed my life!

Do you have an example of one that's buy it for life? I've seen a number of those cheap amazon ones break.

Yeah, I want one, but I think it will have to be heated. Our water is like ice. Anyone have a recommendation for a heated bidet?

If you’re not already on the bandwagon: a 10” or 12” cast iron. We use ours all the time. Its great to cook with once you get the hang of it and you can pass it down for generations. In 100 years your great great grandkids will be cookin’ up dinner on grandpappy u/IdahoJoel ‘s old casti

What do you think you spend the most time on?

Maybe there's a better way to do dishes (like a good drying rack or dishwasherable baby food containers), or laundry (better diaper pail or drying racks? Mesh laundry bags for all the little clothes?) or food prep (a decent blender?) that would help you out.

Someone mentioned an air fryer, which are great, but I also need to toss in a crock pot if you don't have one. There is so much great food you can make with like 5 minutes of prep time and they almost always come out with enough leftovers for a couple days.

Not religious but if my air fryer was Jesus Christ I'd worship it.

If your house has two floors, a secondary place to change diapers. Changing pad, basket for diapers and whatnot, etc.

Best thing we did so far was create the ability to change diapers upstairs or downstairs. Pretty cheap to have two of everything.

Bidet!!! I loved my bidet so much I got one for the other bathroom just in case I poo in there. Best money I ever spent.

Instapot. I'm shit at cooking so I ate out a lot. Now I can throw whatever I want in there and I have a nice home cooked meal and saving money

Microwavable ramen/noodle bowl from the Japanese dollar store. That plastic thing is a lot more useful than just noodles TBH.

Professional grade tinfoil and cling film cutters. No more shitty stupid cardboard boxes breaking every 2nd use.

A lollipop, the very moment my father gave me my first lollipop it changed my life forever, from that moment forward I would crave sugar to the point that it would damage my teeth irreparably however I'm doing a lot better about it now, as the old saying goes "you don't appreciate what you got until it's gone"

My vibrator. I’m not joking. Being able to get off has really helped with my anxiety, and for some reason my hands have never done the job on their own.

Power sander. To think after all those years of doing it by hand, I could have saved myself so much time.

My dog, he was $30.

A power sander. You know, an electric hand held belt sander that if you leave it too long in one spot it digs a hole? Yeah, one of those literally saved me hours and hours and hours when I went to sand my parents deck in the back yard. To think I used to do that stuff by hand.

a water bottle. This is not a joke.

Its nice because I can't ever say I don't have something to drink. Best 16 bucks I've ever spent.

Weighted blanket with cooling technology.

Bidet.

Pocket pussy 🤣🤣🤣

Squatty Potty, that thing is magic

A water pick to clean your teeth and gums.

Darn Tough socks

Mace.

Deodorant, and you can keep the change you filthy animal.

Condoms

Instant read meat thermometer...

Take the guesswork out of cooking, make better food...