What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?
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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.
What kind of flashlight??
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I used to always carry one but it ripped holes in sooo many of my pockets
Yeah, I solved that by wrapping the pointy end in electrical tape. Works out pretty well.
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a fred is a bit bigger but also good.
Oh yeah, that's cool. I don't know how comfortable I'd be eating out for the spoon end with the can opener blade so close to my face though, lol.
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Now you need to find a can in a survival situation.
Fair enough. Its just one of those situations I'd hate to be in (i.e. starving but have a can of food with no can opener). Food so close yet so far...
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I loved my breadmaker back in the day. I'm in an apartment these days though, so no room for a new one after the last one broke.
Did you try getting rid of the old one and putting the new one in its former place?
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It's hilarious that they say
Swiss made nail clipper with two functions
Followed by not mentioning what the other function is...
Lanyard hole. Victorinox always considers keyring attachments as features.
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got any recommedations?
I have a silicone cup like this that works pretty well: https://a.co/d/3nabYyx
I also have tumblers without a top from the brand Brumate that work amazingly, but they cost more than $20 retail. I've gotten them for cheaper at discount stores and on sale at their website.
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Make sure you also test it while drunk or heavily drugged up.
That does sound like a fun Friday night
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Go judge someone else. It wasn't my decision to turn whole cities into mental institutions. It was Ronald Reagan's.
Hahaha. Who said I was judging you? I hope you don't need to be using a tazer often because it doesn't sound like a fun existence. It sucks that we have homeless people in the richest country in the world, but that doesn't mean homeless people can't be dangerous. Take a chill pill please.
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Wool poncho. I've used it to stay warm, stay cool, as a groundcloth under my sleeping bag, as a blanket, as a pillow, as a decorative throw, as a cat bed, as a picnic blanket, as a beach blanket. It's incredibly useful and versatile.
Same! I always keep my emergency wool cloak in my car. Saved me tons of times
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I have a silicone cup like this that works pretty well: https://a.co/d/3nabYyx
I also have tumblers without a top from the brand Brumate that work amazingly, but they cost more than $20 retail. I've gotten them for cheaper at discount stores and on sale at their website.
ah I was hoping for something more coffee cup shaped - thanks anyway
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Oh wow, there's a product out there? I've been heating the back of a spoon on the stove and applying it directly to the skin for a minute all these years. You gotta do it carefully, but it works very well!
::: spoiler Nerdage
The mechanism relies on denaturing the mosquito proteins injected with the bite. Meaning the heat causes the proteins to loosen up and deform so they no longer interact with the surrounding tissues in the same way.
:::I've been using a spoon and a lighter like a heroin addict all this time...
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no, I mean, got any recommendations for drinking slowly
Put a drink in your cup that you hate, that way you'll be reluctant to drink it as frequently. So if you hate pineapple juice, fill it up with that!
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Put a drink in your cup that you hate, that way you'll be reluctant to drink it as frequently. So if you hate pineapple juice, fill it up with that!
But I FUCKING LOVE pineapple juice, how dare you!
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I've got a lot of use out of a 1000ml water bottle I got at college. Originally got it because the club I'm a part of was making food and I needed a container to take some with me. Since then I have used it a lot. Same with a discounted $1USD aluminum bottle I got because I forgot my water bottle at home and needed something so I wouldn't be getting up every few seconds to get water while working on something in the library.
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Hahaha. Who said I was judging you? I hope you don't need to be using a tazer often because it doesn't sound like a fun existence. It sucks that we have homeless people in the richest country in the world, but that doesn't mean homeless people can't be dangerous. Take a chill pill please.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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But I FUCKING LOVE pineapple juice, how dare you!
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A roll of really heavy duty velcro. The kind that can, for example, stick a sledge hammer to a wall. It's about $12 for 5 feet or so, and about a 1" piece is sufficient for most tasks, so it lasts a very long time. I use it for all kinds of stuff; it's amazing how many uses for it you find when you have it.
Last time I did install work we used double sided Velcro for cable management. I snagged a roll and made a jig to split it in half with a box knife to get twice as much and I've still got a ton left over a decade later. It's really handy stuff to have around and better than zip ties in most applications I use it for.
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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.
