4 Items Under $100 That Improved My Quality Of Life

Hopefully, they’ll do the same for you

Matt Lillywhite
4 min readJan 14, 2022
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If you’re reading this, you probably want to make 2022 the best year of your life (so far). Perhaps you want to increase your income, learn a new language, or read more books.

But chances are, you’re busy. You don’t have several hours in the day to apply every single productivity tip you read on the internet. Of course not. You have a job, family, and other things that require your precious time.

While I don’t pretend to have all the answers, I can certainly give you recommendations that worked for me. These items cost less than $100 and massively improved my quality of life. Hopefully, they’ll do the same for you, too.

1) YouTube Premium

In my opinion, this is the best subscription on the internet.

It costs roughly $10 per month (depending on your location) and allows you to watch videos without advertisements. Plus, you can download YouTube videos to watch offline. It’s brilliant.

On average, I watch YouTube videos for 3.5 hours per day. And since ads play at the beginning and middle of many videos, it doesn’t take a genius to do some math and calculate how much time I waste watching ads per month. For anyone interested, it’s…

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Full-time storyteller, part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe