What is a relatively inexpensive 'luxury' item that you will always purchase for any future house?

I’m a very hairy guy, so getting really clean down there is challenging sometimes. With the bidet I wiggle a bit to make sure the whole area is clean, and I usually do it a couple of times.

And sometimes I wipe to dry and it’s still dirty… I think it has more to do with my diet than anything else. When that happens I just rinse and repeat, or I jump in the shower. Once I realized how much cleaner I feel after using water instead of just paper, I can’t go back.

For anyone else reading this who doesn’t already have a bidet, don’t spend your money on the really fancy ones. You can get a basic model on Amazon for less than $50 (my first one was only $20), and unless you really want the heated seat, deodorizer, or other features, that’s all you need. The water pressure on the cheap ones was way better than on my fancy electronic one too.

Wipe first. Use soap if you want to be really clean.

I got a cheap bidet a few years back and I use it all the time. The fancy ones can be nice but most of the extra features are gimmicky things that don't have a large impact on function. They're marketed like magic poop-away devices but bidets aren't magic. Bidets are showerheads for your toilet bowl meant to make buttwashing more accessible. Use your bidet like a butt-shower instead of a magic no-effort poo cleaner and you'll have better results.

Your diet is bad.

Have some actual (not instant) oatmeal every morning, and a good sized portion of non fried veggies with dinner and marvel at the change.

Same - my butt is cleaner but it's not worth the hassle of it being wet now. The dryer on mine isn't any good.

Wiggle around a bit to get cleaner. But I'm not a fan of ours.

The difference between wiping a dry asshole with shit on it and wiping a wet asshole with some shit and some shit water on it is why a bidet is worth it.

TBH, the cold water never bothered me. Now that I have a heated version it is really nice, but not worth the extra money.

Yes, it's for a water heater being inside with sufficient ventilation. If your water heater is currently in a garage or separate area the benefits change.

I'm in Texas, and over 90% of the houses I've seen have the water heater in a closet somewhere inside. Some older builds have it in an attached garage. But if that is the case, there's a good reason to move it when you next replace it, as the garage gets much colder in the winter, costing more to heat the water!

One drop to each room is good enough, you can always drop a 4 port switch into a room that needs more.

I agree honestly. I have a hard wire connection at 2 points in my home... Where my work desk is, and in the garage, which is at the complete opposite side of my house as my WiFi router. I have a could devices hardwired on the garage, including an AP, so now the entire property has WiFi. Everything else is WiFi anyway, so why bother running wire everywhere!?

One for business and the other for pleasure

Theoretically you would never have to put dishes away. Just grab dishes from the clean one.

Cooking for 4 uses a lot of dishes. Modern dishwashers are also much slower because of energy efficiency.

They don't make them that big but the other big reason I like it is because they are piped together with bypass valves so either one can fail and we still have hot water while waiting on a repair.

Depends on the model. I figure about 2 ft. X 2ft. X 2ft. Is about average.

I have the furnace mounted style so a cube about the small dimension of most heat ducts.