Drain weasel. It’s a little bitty plumber’s snake for the bathroom sink. Works like a charm.
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I ready love my Hoover vacuum. A part broke and they sent me a free replacement (it was just a plastic piece). Also Webber grills; for similar reasons
Anything by Zojirushi but especially their rice cookers.
I love there bread machine!
+1 for their vacuum insulated water boilers.
They also make fantastic insulated mugs. My coffee stays hot for hours in that thing
Antique furniture.
It's heavy, it's durable, it's actual wood, it's over 100 years old and will still be here in another 100 years.
It's also extremely inexpensive and readily available in antique shops, goodwill, second hand stores, estate sales, etc...
I was blown away when I started looking around at used furniture. It's functionally the same as the new stuff, but a digit or two cheaper. Nothing else depreciates quite the same way, and for so frivolous a reason.
When you're talking antiques, it probably goes up again, but still.
King Arthur flour! It doesn't always matter but for finicky baked goods it matters a lot! Love them.
I like their big book of bread too
the SmokeBuddy is fuckin magical if you vape or smoke weed and need to keep the smell under wraps
i could blow the biggest fuckin cloud of dank live resin cartridge vape through it and literally nothing would come out the other side
no smell. no vapor. nothing
they come in so many colors and a few different sizes
absolute life saver
it's like a sploof on steroids. or as someone on mastodon put it, "it's a sploof with an R&D department"
Welcome to adulthood, where we get excited by the same household goods we thought our parents were lame for getting excited over.
Yeah, once it's your choice, instead of what gets brought home in spite of you, suddenly a lot of grown up stuff gets interesting.
Which is good. If all the stuff I have to worry about now, was as boring as it was then, it would be catastrophic.
This is why I think its important for advanced economies that the average person have actual discretionary income of a decent level. so that people can make decisions to spend more for things they believe are quality. otherwise all products become a race to the bottom.
The problem is more figuring out which brands are actually quality. I have no problem paying for BIFL, but I've been burned too often to believe that higher prices = higher quality.
yeah and the reason its so hard is because only some people do not have the problem paying. If all folks could go for other options than the cheapest for the things most important for them for life you would have more feedback like yours to find the quality items which would bump how often they are bought which would lower price (theoretically) or influence lower priced options to up their quality game.
Arm And Hammer products. I use their toothpaste, laundry detergent and deodorant, all top notch while not having a premium price tag. Don't have a cat ATM, but I used to use their kitty litter.
They've had the same few products for as long as I've been aware of the brand. They only do a few things, but they do them right. Praying they never enshittify or start spreading themselves thin.
A bidet with a heated seat and water. The water doesn't get very hot but at least it's not freezing in the winter. The heated seat is underrated until you go somewhere without one and remember how cold a toilet seat can get.
At least they make toilet seats out of plastic, now. I grew up with one that was porcelain. (Or painted metal, maybe? Pre-plastic, heavy and absolutely bracing in the winter, anyway)
I actually prefer the shockingly cold bidet water. It helps my whores immensely.
It's invigorating
Not a brand, but natural fibers. 100% cotton sweats and t-shirts, cotton/hemp blend shirts, wool sweaters. I can't deal with plastic against my skin anymore, at least not when I'm trying to be comfortable.
Me with canvas pants specifically. Always thought I hated anything but cotton sweats, but they suck to work in. Jeans are either so elastic they don't feel protective, or they feel protective at the cost of feeling restrictive (The good jeans are ridiculously expensive). Canvas work pants feel sturdy and they don't limit movement. Plus they wash out super easily
Personally my preference is like 85-95% cotton, but with some kind elastane in them.
I can't go back to non stretchy clothes, they just feel so much more limiting, but I'd take 100% cotton over 100% polyester every day of the week.
I have the two chamber simple human trash can (one recycling, one trash), and honestly have quite a few complaints...
- the interior volume is way lower than the exterior volume that it takes up (including the top rim), it feels like it's wasting a lot of space
- the hinge sticks further out the back limiting its ability to go flat against a wall
- after a couple years the pedal mechanism is very loud and squeaky but hard to access
- theres a removable recycling bin but no removable garbage bin
Don't get me wrong, it's still better built than most and nicely designed for the most part, but to me it feels like a bunch of what you're paying for is the design and not necessarily robustness.
Like in many ways I have more respect for those $10 white Rubbermaid kitchen trash cans with the spinning lid. They get you 90% of the way to a simple human for 10% of the cost. Toss a couple brick in the bottom and it gets hard to push over.
Bone conduction headphones, specifically Aftershokz.
Running, cycling, walking whatever activity I'm doing outside I can listen to music or audiobooks and still be aware of my surroundings.
Taking an acid trip? Now I can hear the birds and have a nice background soundtrack to the day whilst I trip in the woods!
Working with heavy machinery, I can wear ear protection and also listen to what ever I want to pass the time. No more blasting headphones in an attempt to drown out the machine noise and fucking my ears up.
Fucking love these things!
Aftershokz were my first headphones of that type, and I loved them. A big bonus point was that they were the only type of headphones that were watertight enough for running in Irish weather.
Then they died on me a month out of warranty. I did some research and found many others with the same experience. Since then I'm buying no-name brands of bone conducting headphones. Even if they last only half as long, their cost is much lower.
How's the quality, audio wise, of such devices?
That is fair enough. I use mine in all weathers and have been so drenched many times I may as well have jumped in the sea and never had issues with water ingress.
I haven't really looked at what others have said about them so only have my own experiences. My first pair did eventually stop charging but that was when they were still using micro USB for their charging ports, I have never had an issue with charging since they started using the magnetic charging connection.
I am now on my 6th pair in the last 12 years but the reason I change them is due to battery life. I use them 10 - 12 hours 6 days a week and then usually 3 or 4 on the 7th day. That amount of constant charging is bound to degrade the battery so I'm never annoyed and think that is worth the money for me. They usually still have plenty of life left in them when I switch but I like being able to have 12 hours of use on a charge ans not have to worry about charging them during the day.
For your last one, I use just regular ANC earbuds with over ear hearing protection and it works great without cranking the piss out if them. Never tried bone induction or whatever. What's the big difference? Also sometimes I do like the block out the noise so I can hear the audio book or whatever I'm listening to...
I personally find those over ear hearing protection uncomfortable and sweaty, especially trying to wear them for a full shift but I have tried that method in the past.
I can't say I have any experience with ear buds as they have never fit my ears well so even before bone conduction I would gravitate more towards headphones that hooked onto my ears or more often than not just closed back headphones. That being said I know that you would be sacrificing bass primarily in terms of audio quality when comparing the two.
The bone conduction does give you a weird sensation of bass in the way they vibrate against the side of your head but it is no substitute for actual bass, so your main sacrifice in the comparison will always be audio quality. That being said all the points I said outweigh the loss in quality for me.
I can wear these for a whole day and they are never uncomfortable like I would get with any other headphones. On top of that they excel at audiobooks which is what probably 70% of my listening is. The tech was originally developed for military comms so as to keep the ears open to surrounding noises and as such they were designed to be used for speech initially.
The sensation is a bit different to regular headphones too. Regular headphones are using your ear drum like you would usually where as bone conduction is vibrating through your bones directly to the three little bones in your ear that you use to hear, bypassing the ear drum entirely. Because of this it sounds like the audio is coming more from the center of your head rather than from outside of it as it would with regulars. In combination with in ear ear defence I can block out outside noise so well that you don't need the bone conduction up loud it just feels like the audio is comfortably coming from inside my head in a weird way.
On top of all of that it is no where near as fatiguing to listen to things for extended periods of time like if you use regular ones, regardless of how loud you have them.
Ultimately it is a different experience and particularly for audiobooks they absolutely excel. I was skeptical at first and it took me nearly 2 years of reading about then and questioning if they would even work before I bit the bullet. Since I first got them though they barely ever left my head and I use then for nearly everything, and I'm a guy who use to carry around closed back headphones with an external amplifier and everything but these just win in so many other respects for day to day use.
Bone conduction headphones don't touch your ears directly. They transmit sound vibrations through your skull, so it sounds like the music is inside your head. It also leaves your ears open to hearing outside sounds normally instead of muted.. There's no noise cancellation, but it allows you to use earplugs or other ear protection and still have music.
Bloody Farm red fife flour is for sure the tops in the red fife flour game.
I swear by none, because I don't want to be some corporate sponsor goodie consumer who builds trust with certain companies.
I can only swear by my preferences, if it's affordable, can do what I need or want it to do, whatever it is, that's what I get.
Anything made by Knipex. Why cheap out and pay 10 euros for shitty waterpump pliers when you could spend 30 and get the absolute best ones money can buy. I think everyone should own at least one pair of 180mm Cobras.
Knipex, Wiha, also Wera, though I'm not 100% convinced by their quality
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Laundry machines and dish washer machines. I know that Technology Connections says they’re all the same, but I disagree.
Knipex pliers and Wera screwdrivers. Especially Pozi drive.
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Swing-a-way can openers. They work better and smoother than any other can opener and it's not close. They also last for fucking ever. I had one from before I was born and kept for most of my life until it finally rusted out a couple of years ago. The original company went out of business, but after some research, I found the EZ-DUZ-IT can opener which is the exact same design and works exactly as well. I've had this one for a few years now and it's going strong, so I think I'm good for another 20+ years.
Those can openers were my favorites until I found there are openers that don’t cut through the top but simply remove it. The one I have is from Oneida (I don’t think it’s made anymore). Once you use one it’s hard to go back to the cutting type.
Kobalt shovel. I had to tear up roots, rocks, dig new gardens where none had existed, and i decided to dig up a small pond (5 feet deep, 10 across) on new property and I kept breaking my old shovels, new shovels, and then I bought this kobalt. I was frustrated at the various shovels breaking in various ways and spent like 20 minutes in the shovel aisle at Lowe’s studying them all like a lunatic and begrudgingly bought this expensive one that looked the most sturdy and well built in the places all the others broke. It’s a beast. I’ll never need to buy another. It finished the jobs and has doubled the amount of work I did with all those broken ones.
This story sounds familiar. Allow me to offer a couple suggestions.
Water the ground about a half hour before you need to dig. Use plenty of water but don't make it muddy.
Sharpen the edge of your shovels with a file or grindstone. It makes a world of difference for reducing the effort it takes to cut through even small roots.
Get a mattock and a long handle ice chopper for large roots. Keep those tools sharp as well.
I broke two wood handled shovels within 3 weeks of buying my first house that had heavy clay soils. I also resorted to buying the metal handled kobalt shovel. These days I'm back to mostly using a wood shovel with these tips and only break out the metal handled shovel for really demanding work. The wood handled shovel is much lighter and therefore less fatigueing to use.
Shovel sharpening is one of those things that you never hear about, but is absolutely vital.
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