What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?
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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.
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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.
