Reddit mentions of E-Z Ink (TM) Compatible Ink Cartridge Replacement for Brother LC-61 LC61BK LC61C LC61M LC61Y (8 Black, 4 Cyan, 4 Magenta, 4 Yellow) 20 Pack

I've had a Brother that I got almost 7 years ago now. It prints slow, and the colors are a little muddled, but I can say without a doubt it's still the best printer I've ever had. You can get a 4 pack of CMYK for like $12 on Amazon, it prints way longer after it warns you colors are low, and I've had in that I didn't use for 2 years while my printer was in storage and as soon as I started it back up it could print again.

Now only if I could get to stop running out of paper...

Edit: Also wanted to mention it's the only printer I've never had issues with hooking up and connecting to Wifi. All of their drivers are online, and you can still scan with no ink.

My thoughts on some of these things:

• Skip the Keurig. The only thing better than coffee is coffee that tastes good. There are a million ways to make good coffee with a hot water kettle and different types of relatively cheap tools like a french press. If thats too manual shoot for a drip machine that is SCAA certified. Bonavita makes a few that are not that much more expensive than a keurig and you are not tied to the week coffee coming out of pod machines.
  
  
• Second Monitor. I am a big fan of not looking at a laptop screen all day. I would go one step further and try to get a desktop with its own monitor. nothing like being able to jump on a desktop instead of plugging in a bunch of stuff to a laptop. More cost though.
  
• Bose headphones get the job done, but I can't spend 300 bucks on these kind of headphones. Monoprice 8323 get the job done for me. They don't have active noise canceling but keep a lot of sound out based on the over the ear design. They also cost 16 bucks.
  
• In undergrad I had a laser print and it was great but then I got turned on to Brother inkjet printers. The carts are not as efficient as a laser printer one, but brother knock off ones (likely what you would be buying for the laser anyways) are hella cheap for ink jet and you get the benefit of the wireless/all in one being cheaper and printing in color.
  
• External harddrive is a great idea and everyone should be using one in conjunction with a cloud service or services. Your laptop and external harddrive could be in the same bag/house/car/airplane/whatever and get lost/stolen/destroyed/peed on.
  
• These are my preferred highlighters