Here’s a wish list I regularly update. I also keep my Amazon wish list updated here.
What I want:
Life
- To be a good husband
- To be a good father
- To be a good friend
- To solve people’s problems
- To build what people use
- To write what people read
- To never stop learning
Health & Fitness
- To weigh 200 pounds or less
- To be able to run a half marathon at any time
- To look good naked
- ✅ Power rack with a pull-up bar (like the REP Fitness PR–1100 or Rogue R–3; Went with the REP Fitness PR-1100!)
- ✅ Deadlift platform (build my own with horse stall mats from Tractor Supply Co.)
Finances
- To have control over my time
- “The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays” (Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money, 83).
- To make at least $200K/year
- To have at least $100K saved in the bank
Home
- New roof
- New furnace
- New central AC
- To own a house with
- ✅ central AC,
- ✅ dry basement,
- ✅ home office,
- ✅ workshop (garage), and
- ✅ home gym (also garage)
- ✅ Tool shed
Tools
- ✅ Router
- Planer
- Jointer
- Belt sander
- Slip-on work boots (Skechers)
- ✅ Extension ladder
- ✅ Come-along winch
- ✅ Chain (to use with come-along)
- ✅ Hi-lift jack
- ✅ Bottle jack
- ✅ Table saw
- ✅ Wheelbarrow
- ✅ Post hole digger
- ✅ Chalk line
- ✅ Calipers
- ✅ Workbench
- ✅ Table saw
- ✅ Miter saw
- ✅ Reciprocating saw, AKA “Sawzall”)
- ✅ Pocket hole jig
- ✅ Hand truck
- ✅ Floor jack
- ✅ Jack stands
- ✅ Stanley FuBar III pry bar
- ✅ “Burke bar” pry bar
Hobbies, Tech, etc.
- New MacBook Pro (Current: 2016)
- 3D printer
- Electric guitar, amp, and pedals: Yamaha GigMaker set
- ✅ New iPhone (iPhone XR -> iPhone 16e)
Books
- TBD, working on reading the books I already own!
Last updated 2025-06-02