Recommend a product(s). Food, clothes, hardware, anything…
My recommendations:
1)Dr Scholl’s Extra Support Insoles for Big & Tall men. These are great replacement insoles especially if your a heavy guy standin on hard surfaces all day. I put them in both work boots and tennis shoes. http://www.drscholls.com/
2)Victorinox Swiss Army Knives. If you like a regular pocket knife that isn’t hit or miss quality control wise, this is it. The back springs have the perfect tension to them. They come with a good factory edge. They’re very corrosion resistant to human sweat. They have loads of different models and actually com with some pretty handy tools. They’re also pretty ‘non-scary’ to the general public. http://www.victorinox.com/
3)Harrington and Richardson single shot shotguns and rifles. US made economical firearms that come with really good triggers out of the box and are quite accurate. http://www.hr1871.com/
4)Bodyglide Anti-Friction Skin Formula. This stuff works! I used to have a problem with my inner thighs chafing during long walks. I’d wear compression shorts that covered my thighs, but they were always very uncomfortable. But with this stuff, there is no need. I can walk for hours now in comfort. http://www.bodyglide.com/
Lactaid Fast act. This stuff works for me every time.
Performance clothing such as Underarmour. I own Nike pro dri fit and Under armor Turf gear. I gotta give the edge to under armour. You can feel the evaporation by just walking around.
Fast orange hand cleaner: This stuff will get anything off your hands.
Nalgene: Absolutely indestructable water bottles.
Logitech keyboard and mice: They make good, comfortable input peripherals.
For you climbers out there : Stealth C4 rubber. I own a pair of mad rock flash and 5.10 Anasazi velcros. The rubber on the Anasazi Velcros is in a completely different league. It’ll sitck to anything, but unfortunately it wears pretty fast.
Trader Joe’s Refreshing Aloe Vera Shaving Gel - $1.99 for the single best shave I’ve ever had. I’m one of those guys with a face so sensitive that it feels and looks like I shaved with a piece of broken glass even after shaving with a brand-new Gilette Mach 3 in the shower. This stuff really glues to your face - it doesn’t foam at all - and gives you an amazingly slick and smooth shaving experience with a cooling aloe afterglow.
The Proactiv acne system - it’s chemically just the same crap you can buy over the counter, but something about the way that all three components work together in harmony is the closest thing to a miracle cure for acne that I’ve encountered.
Pine pellet cat litter. I actually use Equine Pine, but it’s the same stuff sold under various names as cat litter (Feline Pine, and PetsMart has a house brand) - and much cheaper in 40lb bags. No sharp little clay shards on the floor! And great odor control!! With 8 cats and 4 litter boxes in the cat suite, cheap and odor control are both priorities and hard to find in the same product. This one does both.
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser… wish I could find them here. Those things work amazingly well.
Scrub And Toss? The soap filled pads that you can throw away after using. They were perfect for work where there was never a bottle of detergent or sponge. And I would cut them into quarters - one quarter was perfect for washing lunch dishes.
Diskeeper defragmenting program for Windows 2000, bv Executive Software. The defrag utility that comes with Windows is garbage. Diskeeper will line your files up in contiguous order from the head of the disk(s) out, with NTFS, FAT32 or both. It will do a directory consolidation on boot-up and put all the directories at the start of the disk. You can set it to defrag whenever it needs to, or when your computer goes into screensaver mode, or overnight, or anytime you wish… it works like a charm and I would recommend it to anyone with Win2K or XP.
I had used them on a couple of friends’ porches. When I bought a house recently I ordered one complete with arm and footrests, drink holder, etc. It is hanging in my livingroom. Although most people think it is weird at first, they eventually are sitting in it and are reluctant to leave it. Best hundred bucks I’ve spent in a long time.
Abreva , for cold sores. If I start applying it every few hours at the first tingle that signals an impending eruption, it will often prevent one from even popping out. If it does pop out anyway, it cuts healing time by days for me.
Bisquick- it really does make the best pancakes!
Actually, anything from Trader Joe’s. I’ve never bought a product there that I didn’t love.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware- I know, I know. But it cleaned up a lot of problems I was having a while back, and while I still have to run Spybot along with it, it seems to keep a lot of problems at bay.
“The Works” toilet bowl cleaner, 79 cents at ‘Big Lots’. I’m a slovenly bachelor, and I’m not proud to say it but I let things get really damn bad before I clean them. When nothing else worked I tried this stuff, and it’s so cheap and works so good it must be killing me slowly by having it in my home. Maybe not so slowly.
Trader Joes’s Natural Peanut Butter. I prefer salted, creamy. Just peanuts and salt, for $1.89 a jar. No trans fats. The best tasting peanut butter ever. About half the price (or more) of your Smucker’s or other grocery store natural PBs.
Plus one of the high resolution melters. And three MagNA Pure DNA extraction robots.