# Products and services you've happily used for years **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 29, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-and-services-youve-happily-used-for-years/785509 "2017-04-29T16:54:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-and-services-youve-happily-used-for-years/785509/1 "2017-04-29T16:54:10Z")
Can you recommend products and services you’ve used for years now? What would you hate to do without? Please link to the product, if possible. And leave out products that might not be useful to others, like that perfect shade of lipstick that looks good on you, but might not suit anyone else. Okay, for me the list is: [Electric blanket](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=507259). [Sudocreme](https://sudocrem.com/) for skin folds and little skin problems. [Can-opener that cuts not through the iron, but through the solder.](http://www.finecooking.com/articles/smooth-edge-can-openers.aspx) They are awesome. I give them to people as housewarming gifts all the time. [Literotica.](https://www.literotica.com/) What can I say? Words, stories, do it for me. [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) to check out product reviews. I look to my Consumer Guide tests, or to Amazon for honest reviews. [Chick-pea flour.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/chickpea-flour_n_6429282.html) What an easy and nice way to get proteins, fiber and filling in a heary and convenient way. Also, roasted chick peas are the Middle-east verson of our potato chips. Every bit as tasty and convenient, only a lot nicer and healthier. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-and-services-youve-happily-used-for-years/785509/2 "2017-04-29T23:59:41Z")
What I would hate to be without, used for years. Hmmm… [Contigo travel mugs](https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1833597/contigo-autospout-astor-16-oz-stainless-steel-travel-mug.jsp) [J.R. Watkins Body Wash](https://www.jrwatkins.com/bath-and-body.aspx?facet=%7BC788B8EA-0212-40D7-85FB-D9E30FA2F841%7D), for overly dramatic skin [Homedics Shiatsu Massage Cushion](http://www.jcpenney.com/homedics-dual-shiatsu-massage-cushion-with-heat/prod.jump?ppId=pp5005310373) I’m on my second one in I think six years. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-and-services-youve-happily-used-for-years/785509/3 "2017-04-30T00:08:10Z")
Flour. I buy flour in ten pound bags and never use any mix for anything. Also, lots of cornmeal, never a mix. Coffee. Grounds in boiling water in a saucepan. Landline phone, no voicemail, no caller ID. Mexican laundry bar soap (Zote), for shave, shower and shampoo. Carbon steel kitchen knives. Butter. no margarine. Glasses. No contacts. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/products-and-services-youve-happily-used-for-years/785509/4 "2017-04-30T00:21:01Z")
Been using Right Guard spray deodorant for years, and my fellow citizens are probably happier because of it. I’ve burned out two Magic Chef microwave ovens in the last twenty-five years, and am happily using the third until it burns out too. It astonishes me that something this really useful can be had for only $70. Let me make a plug for the Audacity sound-file editing program. It’s free, which is always a plus. This is what I used, along with an Ion USB turntable, to convert all my old LPs to digital sound files. The process took me two years, but Audacity made it all work. It has a nice “pop and click” erasing feature.