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Some high-quality computer peripherals: mouse, keyboard, or chair.
Many people spend a huge fraction of their day on the computer, so it's important to optimize that experience as much as possible. For a long time, I thought of that optimization purely in terms of hardware performance, or operating system, with maybe some time spent on files structure or monitor. But more recently I got a high-quality keyboard and mouse, and they've made a huge difference for much less than the cost of a hardware upgrade.
It's easy to forget about the material objects that you'll be in physical contact with, so they're low-hanging fruit for a lot of people.
Essays can (and have) been written about what keyboards to buy.
It's very easy to spend $100 on a keyboard that isn't very good; moreover, you won't necessarily know, because most keyboards aren't very good. It's also very easy to spend $3-400 finding the right keyboard, because mechanical keyboards—and you should get a mechanical one, unless you go with Topre—are all subtly different from one another. That's why I now have four.
A keyboard lending library might be a good idea; unfortunately, it appears I'm the library.
If you don't want to spend the time on research, though? Get a Unicomp keyboard. (Do spend the time on research.)
Similarly, the quiet fans on my new PC (including a quiet video card) have been surprisingly nice and well worth the small additional cost.