What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?
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A bottle opener shaped like a key so it fits neatly between my other keys on my keychain. I thought I lost my keys once and I was way more upset about that than my actual keys, despite it probably being pretty easy to find on Amazon.
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I knew I wouldn't regret starting to use user notes.
Its incredibly useful. Kind of interesting to recognize an unhinged jackass from one thread being normal a week later.
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I tested it on myself.
It works fine.
Stun guns are useless.
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Stun guns are useless.
Always appreciate when people offer their opinion with a YT video. I'm definitely going to watch it. Thank you.
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I think it's home cook weird shit, now sell me something to get rid of fried food smell from clothes. I'll live with garlic and onions which smell amazing over fried oil smell that saturate you skin and leave you as a soggy French fry
You basically have to add grease lightning or something similar to your wash to get that stuff out.
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Its incredibly useful. Kind of interesting to recognize an unhinged jackass from one thread being normal a week later.
It's too bad I don't have a note about you, because I feel like that would make this more contentious but probably interesting.
If I were going to make one about you, and you were as honest as you think you can be, what do you think it would say? I haven't looked at your post history and I don't remember your username from elsewhere (sorry), so I'm genuinely curious how you'll choose to represent yourself.
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A back scratcher. Got a pack of 4 for a few bucks after one I was gifted broke. I'm old and have one quite arthritic shoulder, so half of my own back is unreachable. It's especially shitful getting an itchy back at night, but now I don't need to get up to relieve it. I use it every day, and every day I bless the person who first gifted me one.
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A Victorinox Swiss army knife. Bought it used for 10€, and it has everything from a very good blade to screwdrivers, a bottle opener, pen and tweezers. Always in my pocket in case I need it.
It's weird, but despite owning a couple of nice pocket knives, I almost never have actual use for them.
My tactical torch though, is freaking amazing, and given my shitty old eyesight, I use it every day. -
I just leave my shorts or pants (depending on weather) hanging on the back of the door with everything still in the pockets (except my phone). I change them once a week or as needed and just transfer the stuff when I'm putting on the fresh pair.
You wear the same pair of pants every day for a week straight?
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Opinel carbon steel pocket knife. They're awesome. Cheap, robust and easy to keep sharp. Just need to oil the blade every now and then for corrosion resistance and you're good to go.
they make apple slices taste weird though
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I’m gonna leave this right here…
SNACTIV LITE Finger Chopsticks... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXG8ZTNG?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Rolling my eyes hard.
....and then I saw the pic of the PS controller. I'm now reconsidering everything I know.
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Extra long shoe horn. I eventually upgraded to a solid metal one when the cheap one broke.
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It's weird, but despite owning a couple of nice pocket knives, I almost never have actual use for them.
My tactical torch though, is freaking amazing, and given my shitty old eyesight, I use it every day.I'd be lost without my pocket knife. I use it daily, I've even gutted a moose with it.
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Pair of hook earbuds. Cheap no-name presumably Chinese brand, but they sound great and don't fall out of my earholes.
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Broke single mom here. My H&M usually offers a buy one get one discount on boys’ cotton boxers, so whenever I buy a pack for my 12 year old son, I grab myself one as well and they serve pretty well as pajama shorts which I pair with a cheap oversized cotton tee.
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That's pretty funny. Unfortunately for them, I and probably almost everyone else don't really care about their brand identity, so I'll keep calling it all velcro. I'll also keep call all tissues Kleenex, and all adhesive bandages Band-Aids, and all the others that have become synonymous with their product. That's what they get for being too successful, I guess.
Less syllables always wins.
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It's too bad I don't have a note about you, because I feel like that would make this more contentious but probably interesting.
If I were going to make one about you, and you were as honest as you think you can be, what do you think it would say? I haven't looked at your post history and I don't remember your username from elsewhere (sorry), so I'm genuinely curious how you'll choose to represent yourself.
You can use mine.
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You wear the same pair of pants every day for a week straight?
Only when I leave the house, which I don't most days, since I work from home. People who need to change more frequently (I can't imagine that e.g. roofers can wear the same pants even twice) could still leave things in their pockets and move them over either when they get undressed or when they get dressed (I imagine the former, leaving your wallet and keys in the fresh pair, would be especially important if you get very dirty).
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Apologies.
Every time I mention I had a run-in with a homeless person, some self-righteous SJW discounts my experience and infers that I must have been in the wrong, though I was just sitting on a bus minding my own business on the way to work. My city has fare-free buses, so we end up having a lot of close encounters with untreated homeless people. (Also why I carry a stun-gun instead of mace, so if I have to use it there's no chance of friendly fire.)
So I figured you were another one here to cast aspersions, and I have a short fuse with it for sure. My mistake.
All good. Stay safe out there. It's a wild world we live in.
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I bought a Rada Quick Edge at a thrift store for $2.
Was always taught my my metal-smith grandfather how to properly care for and sharpen knives, but when I tried it out on a knife I cared little for, I found it was such a shocking difference in efficiency I couldn't help but notice.
It completely changed my relationship with knives and knife care, which was so helpful for me because I cook everything from scratch and whole ingredients. Everything, so having good knives is not kids-play for me.
It made me discover that for me, using a quick sharpening wheel and a hone gets my knives beard-shaving sharp in less than 30 seconds. I could never go back to the "right way" and I firmly joined the "dark side" of knife ownership.
Yes they destroy knives with some aggression, far more than traditional methods, but in the forensic audit it has saved me hundreds in a literal way, and hundreds of hours laboring over sharpening stones.
I no longer need to pamper knives, I buy cheap German steel chef knives on sale for $5-$20 and I throw them out in 3 or 4 years. I'll never go back. All the hysterics from knife "gurus" on YT be damned - in my personal cooking world where I have 10,000 Km on my knives and cutting board, I could give two shits what they think. Nobody better ever give me a $300 knife for a present because it's going back in the box.
Dual-wheel sharpener and 14" hone is all I'll ever use from now on.
