BTW - in case anyone's curious, I spent my first month's budget on fitness stuff:
I picked Zombies-run because it's a fun way to gamify fitness in a meaningful way - and ingress worked really well for me last time, whereas other simple "record what you did" sites don't seem to be as effective for me. So far I've gone out twice and will be going again today, and I'm looking forward to it. All the rest is to make it more comfortable to support me doing it - also in the past I was using "but my exercise pants are dirty" as an excuse (so now I have two pairs).
What can I purchase with $100 that will be the best thing I can buy to make my life better?
I've decided to budget some regular money to improving my life each month. I'd like to start with low hanging fruit for obvious reasons - but when I sat down to think of improvements, I found myself thinking of the same old things I'd already been planning to do anyway... and I'd like out of that rut.
Constraints/more info:
Background:
This is a question I recently posed to my local Less Wrong group and we came up with a few good ideas, so I thought I'd share the discussion with the wider community and see what we can come up with. I'll add the list we came up with later on in the comments...
It'd be great to have a repository of low-hanging fruit for things that can be solved with (relatively affordable) amounts of money. I'd personally like to go through the list - look at candidates that sound like they'd be really useful to me and then make a prioritised list of what to work on first.