You can always get ping-pong tables out of tight spaces in basements - Sawzalls 
My DIL was wishing for a dutch oven–wish granted, brand new in box, never used. I’m little and weak and hate heavy pans.
We had heavy cast-iron pots that were never used until my wife found this recipe:
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
Now she uses the pot every week; we even bought a second one so she could make two loaves at once.
@windbehindwings I love my Le Creuset and use them daily. I just consider the weight a good workout for my arms
We bought an optional built in video screen entertainment center option for the car just a few years before the kids were driving on their own. I think they were only used a few times.
A few years ago, we bought a high end front load washer and dryer that are supposedly energy efficient, and built like tanks. Unfortunately, there’s more wrinkling on the normal cycle, probably because less water is used. You have to set it to “wrinkle free” and the spin to “low” to work around this issue, which means clothes take longer in both the washer and the dryer. That’s not very “efficient” from my POV! They’ve since discontinued the model.
Front loader washer - ugh. My parents bought one last year and loath it. I am staying with them right now and doing all the laundry because my mom is sick, and I agree.
My fingers are in my ears about your ping pong tables. We just got one for Christmas.
I would like to volunteer my front load washer for some sort of high-speed/high-impact crash test. Hate that thing.
Love our LG front-load washer (except that the door’s on the wrong side for easy transfer of clothes to our dryer, given the way hookups in our house are set up). I’ve learned, though, that we were rather lucky, and there’s a lot of variation in build and wash quality among front-loaders—that’s one purchase you ought to research pretty intensely.
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I have all-clad d5 pots that are very heavy, but I love them. I have the le creuset lasagna pan that I don’t use very often. It seems heavier than the all-clad.
Just curious – why don’t you folks like the front-loading washing machine? Is it simply the front-loading aspect of it, or other reasons?
I can’t call it a splurge since my giant Le Creuset was a gift, but I just don’t understand them. If they were naked cast iron, you could develop a seasoning on the bottom and everything would’t stick the way it sticks to that dratted enamel! Plus, you’d get extra iron in your food. I don’t mind the weight so much but that’s only because I have a really big ladle.
I don’t mind my front loader, but it seems to take forever, and it doesn’t get the clothes quite as clean as the top loader we had. I bought may tag for our old house, and I guess I didn’t realize how much I liked them til we left them behind.
My front loader is also an LG.
Molds easily (I leave the door open, clean it periodically) and it rips small holes in certain thinner cotton items. It also doesn’t clean my clothes as well as my old-fashioned top loader.
@VeryHappy Let me count the ways. Inside ring around door was always nasty, if you left the clothes for even a few hours, they would stink, and in the end, it didn’t seem like the stuff was clean. I tried cleaners for it as well. Edited to add - yes, we had to leave it open 24/7 or it would stink to high heaven.
Yup, molds easily. And water never leaves the little drawer where soap goes, so it always has to be left open. And it is easy to drop laundry on the floor. And you need a darned flashlight to make sure you get the laundry out.
Huh. Who knew. I’ve never owned one and, based on all your comments, I never will.
When my front loader goes to WM Heaven, I’m going back to a top loader.
Our biggest splurge that wasn’t remotely worth the money is our sound system throughout our house. Terrible waste of money for not a great return.
When we moved last year we tried to leave the front loader and they specified in the contract that they didn’t want it. Lol
Voice of dissent…I love my Whirlpool front loader. The sanitize cycle is the only thing that has ever really cleaned the grungy dishtowels and those bath towels which the kids would leave in a corner somewhere to grow that lovely smell. The hand wash cycle is fantastic. I follow that with an extra drain and spin and the stuff comes out almost dry.
Now, I HATED our original Maytag Neptune. What a lemon.