Just the essentials or all the bells and whistles?

[Fireball]

I prefer simple, mostly because all the fancy stuff eventually breaks and is expensive to fix. I bought a Kia Forte new in 2016, and it has way more bells and whistles than I wanted, but the supply of them looked pretty much alike. I did pony up for the 10k miles/10 year extended warranty. Felt stupid doing it on my previous new vehicle, a 2005 Corolla. It ended up getting about $6k of warranty work, the major one being an automatic transmission one day before the extended warranty was up. $3500. I don't need power door locks or windows, or a remote entry fob, for example. I have two keys, and when the battery dies in one, I will use the other until it dies. Then they will just be "dumb" keys. Too cheap to even put in a new battery!   Fortunately my wife doesn't care about dented appliances. We bought a brand new dryer that was returned because the delivery people dented it- in the back. Can't see the back; got it for a song.

Tools- top of the line as required. I have a large collection of wood carving tools, mostly made by Pfeil, pretty much the best in terms of quality. Only going to buy them once. Cheap tools (wrenches, etc.) break and bend more than good ones. If you buy cheap stuff and then replace it with the good stuff after it breaks, that's wasted money, right there.