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A frog and a duck living in a 4rm resale flat
Small investments, big impact: home appliances edition!
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Virtual House Tour
- Minimalist
- HDB (Resale)
- ~1,000 sqft
- 3 br
- Couple Living
Everyone talks about TVs and fridges and big-ticket electronics when we say ‘household appliances’ - but here are some of the small, but powerful household appliances/electronic items we’ve acquired since we moved in! They were honestly not part of our initial reno and appliances budget (I mean, who thinks about buying weighing scales when planning your reno right) so we slowly bought them over the months as we got accustomed to life in our house (and realised our weight was going out of control LOL). 
First up, this dust mite vacuum cleaner! Duck loves to watch horror movies in our living room, but there aren’t any ghosts more scary than the amount of dust that’s trapped in our sofa LOL. We acquired this dust mite cleaner to clean all our fabric surfaces (sofas, beds, mattresses) etc - we don’t know if it’s 100% effective, but it definitely is quite effective based on the amount of dust and hair that collects inside the dust chamber. It’s pretty light (light enough to hold with one hand comfortably at least) and quite a no-brainer to use. The only downside is that it comes with a cord, so we have to plug and unplug it whenever we want to vaccuum a different part of the house, or a different side of our bed. And of course this isn’t going to be as effective as professional cleaning with all the right tools and chemicals, but it suffices for everyday household use (not that we use it everyday oops - more like once a month LOL) 
Next up, this small rice cooker! Believe it or not, Duck learnt how to cook rice using a POT - so it’s the first rice cooker she’s had in many years. Like our dust mite cleaner and most of our other appliances, this rice cooker isn’t super fancy - no smart features, no huge range of functions. But it’s been really reliable so far and we haven’t had any issues with it despite regular use for over a year. The size has been great though - it’s small enough to cook rice for just two of us, but also big enough to cook for up to 4-5 pax when we’re hosting guests. We once tried to cook rice for 8 pax before but uhm… the rice was so full it was bulging out of the pot so… yes, I guess we pushed it to its limits oops. But for the price and quality, it’s definitely one we’d recommend for smaller households! 
And then we have this tiny portable fan! We have used this fan for more purposes than we intended for it to have - it was originally just bought for toilet ventilation, but now we use it for toilet ventilation, to dry off surfaces after we wipe them down, to cool down food when it’s too hot, to cool down Duck when she’s suffocating in SG heat waves… you get the point. It’s basically just one of the random household things you don’t ever think about until you need it, and then it becomes indispensable. 
Last up, this smart weighing scale! TBH Duck doesn’t like weighing scales because they remind her of her great (almost too great) relationship with food BUT we also want to live long and healthy lives so weight maintenance is a must in this household. This weighing scale comes with a ton of measurement metrics - from the ones you want to know (e.g. your weight), to the ones you don’t want to know (e.g. your fat percentage) and even the ones you don’t know what to do with (e.g bone density). Everything is stored in this app that has different user profiles so Duck can spy on Frog’s health stats and complain that it’s unfair for men to have higher metabolisms than women. As for whether it’s accurate… we don’t actually know for sure, but so far the measurements have been pretty consistent so we think it shouldn’t be too far off? 
Andddd here's an example of the super detailed health report from our weighing scale to end off this post! Hope this has been helpful for y'all - and if anyone knows how we can improve our bone mineral percentage please hit us up :)
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