While not very humorous, some of the most useful permanent items on our shared shopping list include “That spice that ran out” and “That thing I was looking for the other day”. They’ve saved the day a few times over ten or so years.
I would definitely go for a recursive island. It’s an island with a lake, that has an island.
Turns out there’s a ton of them in Finland.
There I would build my house: by a private lake, with a summer house on the private island on the private lake.
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