I have recently made changes to increase productivity and reduce friction to prepare for a child that will be born soon. We now have made tons of convenient upgrades, and are looking for more. Robot vacuum was for instance a worthy upgrade, even if I thought it was gimmicky initially.
Any ideas?
For me: Door lock with fingerprint, code and physical key. Added autolock to it as well. So when I walk the dog and leave the home it locks automatically
Robot vacuum
Drying clothes in my “closet”, no dryer, just hang everything up in my open closet, it makes the indoor climate better, smells good, and I have to put the clothes away anyways if I had a dryer. So we have specialized hangers for different things, multi layered, hooks, etc. works great. Duvets etc. we use a drying rack for.
Inoreader with heavy filtering and very high signal/noise feeds to follow. I don’t need to know about sports, movies, etc. It also supports newsletters so that I can get newsletters directly in my feed. So that it has many condensed and curated articles.
Buffer for spreading my socialist memes to several platforms at once, why share stuff with just people on one platform? Creating class consciousness one meme at the time
Automatic dosing of detergent on my washer
2x pet feeders with desiccants
Water dispenser with UV and filter to give my pets high quality water all the time. Have to fill it every now and then.
All black t-shirts, same pants, same sweaters, same socks, share socks with my wife.
If something can’t be washed in the dishwasher, it will be washed there until it breaks. Knives are an exception.
Automatic lights
Automatic payments for all my bills
A charging case for my phone, no worries about having enough battery
Do your clothes not get mildewy/musty in the closet? We have a big enough one to do this in, but the few times I’ve tried to dry my clothes indoor they got that mildewy scent to them.
Now we live in an apartment where I’m not allowed to have a clothesline outside, but It’s really like to not use my dryer at all because it’s so hard on clothes.
Not really, we have decent ventilation. A solution if you have this issue is to add a dehumidifier. It drastically reduces the time to dry, and you just have to empty it once it’s pretty full often a few liters. You can also set it to not run under a certain amount of humidity.
I’ve similarly simplified my wardrobe. It’s been great.
Most of my clothes are made from the same (or at least non-delicate) materials and all my daily wear aren’t light clothes, so they all go in the same wash.
Did this next one with a few things, so for example, socks: Bought one type of daily-wear sock, made sure I liked it and then bulk bought them, so apart from a few special pairs (sports, decorative pattern, other colors), I don’t need to care about pairing socks because they’re all the same. Growing up with 3-pair packs of socks all in different paired-colors, and then socks with the same brand and same colors but different length, was a waste of time.
I wish I had a decent closet. Hanging the clothes to dry like this is genius.
And to add, newborns are a wild ride, congratulations on your upcoming adventure :)
You’ll do 15thousand things to prepare, but most importantly, be prepared to be flexible and adapt