What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?
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One of these stainless steel bars of "soap". It's for getting onion and garlic smell off your hands. I was skeptical when my partner bought it, but it totally works. Rub on your hands under cold water and it's like you never even looked at the garlic.
"I too love to rub heavily metals into my skin"...idk if anyone has said this before lol
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It's true, I've never used one of these and was absolutely lying about their effectiveness.
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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.
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So any stainless steel will do that. No need for a special disk. I use a stainless steel cocktail shaker to peal garlic. Then when I rinse it clean it also removes the smell from my hands.
Just drop the cloves into the shaker and shake hard for 30-45 seconds. Most of the garlic is now peeled and some just need a bit help. So much faster and easier.
Yep. Still useful for people without stainless fixtures, or cocktail shakers.
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It's true, I've never used one of these and was absolutely lying about their effectiveness.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Regarding your jib. I like the cut.
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As for what they are, the green text in my screenshot.
How depends on how you access Lemmy. In my client, Connect, I expand a comment, tap the three dots to the right of it, and click "add user note."
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I've never been so proud of a title!
It's great that you got it working; hopefully it serves you well. I've primarily used it to mark people who aren't worth an argument to me ("argues in bad faith") and people with whom it's extra worth engaging ("seems clever, " "shares a fandom," in a few rare cases just their first name to make it stand out if it's a friend but I didn't notice the username).
Tbh I've only got, like ... Five user notes.
edit: One more now!
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$20 bread maker I found at at a thrift store. There's no telling how many hundreds of loaves of healthy, fresh baked wheat bread I've churned out of that thing over the past two years, especially now that we're grinding our own wheat too.
I got a bread maker for free. I asked my coworkers and THREE different people said they had a bread maker that's just sitting there, unused as gifts that they don't want.
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My pocket stun gun was $19.99. Decided I needed a defense mechanism I could conceal after an encounter with a scary aggressive homeless man.
Also has a flashlight.
This has been "useful" to you? I hope mostly the flashlight and not the tazing homeless people part.
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Tesa outdoor double sided tape.
That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It's even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.
It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it's removable. It's kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that's also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.
I'm seeing lots of different tapes from Tesa. Is it PET? PVC?
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My pocket stun gun was $19.99. Decided I needed a defense mechanism I could conceal after an encounter with a scary aggressive homeless man.
Also has a flashlight.
Be careful with a stungun. It requires close range confrontation, and It's not effective if the assailant is drugged up or heavily drunk and ignores the shocks.
Mace gives good distance, and pepper in the eyes doesn't care about the stimulants in your blood stream.
Also practice with it. A large number of people carry self defense tools and choke under pressure/fail to use it correctly during situations.
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I knew I wouldn't regret starting to use user notes.
I'm honored!
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Be careful with a stungun. It requires close range confrontation, and It's not effective if the assailant is drugged up or heavily drunk and ignores the shocks.
Mace gives good distance, and pepper in the eyes doesn't care about the stimulants in your blood stream.
Also practice with it. A large number of people carry self defense tools and choke under pressure/fail to use it correctly during situations.
I tested it on myself.
It works fine.
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This has been "useful" to you? I hope mostly the flashlight and not the tazing homeless people part.
Go judge someone else. It wasn't my decision to turn whole cities into mental institutions. It was Ronald Reagan's.
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It's true, I've never used one of these and was absolutely lying about their effectiveness.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]You're saying that as if I've never used one. I have, and I don't see a difference to just washing my hands with water. But to each their own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Just in case you havent seen it:
Don't call it velcroThat'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.
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Wireless phone charger. I'll be stuck somewhere looking at my low battery life, and suddenly remember it's in my purse. It isn't the fastest charge but it is useful.
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My husband still doesn't use it, the hunt for his keys is getting old
Put a tile or AirTag on them
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I'm seeing lots of different tapes from Tesa. Is it PET? PVC?
It's this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html
Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.
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I tested it on myself.
It works fine.
lol, you completely missed all that advice.
