I’m late to this thread… which particular flosser do you have?
Coincidentally, I bought a similar gizmo (this one) and it arrived on Tuesday. I had been meaning to try it out on my tires just to top them off and never got to it. Earlier this morning I got a call from a friend who had a flat and needed help. Lucky timing for her. It worked great. It cost $30 and everyone should have one.
I have something similar to one of these as well. It was around $100. It’s a lifesaver. Everyone should have one of these too.
99% of AAA or whatever calls wouldn’t be needed if you have those two items.
I remember seeing a gizmo at Costco that combines both; it includes an air compressor/tire inflator and battery jump start. It was quite a bit larger though.
Sorry for being late to reply. I just bought the one on the shelf at the grocery store - no particular brand. After a few months, it got wonky so I bought another one. I get the handheld cordless kind; they seem to come weatherproofed (so the water in the shower isn’t an issue) and are powered by batteries that come pre-installed.
That’s okay. I brushed in the meantime. 
Likewise. After using it my teeth feel like the dentist just cleaned them. And dentist visits are quicker now.
I don’t know if you could really call this a ‘product’ because of how expensive it was, but a 4x4 Kubota tractor with a loader on the front and a scrapper on the back. I use if for all kinds of stuff.
It’s smaller and more maneuverable than my truck, but big enough to haul 1000 lbs in the bucket. Dirt, gravel, snow, pavers for walks, rocks to keep our dogs from digging under the fence, mix concrete in the bucket, grade my gravel drive, you name it.
It’s invaluable.
Same experience. I really wanted it to work to.
Seconding the back scratcher. A nephew gave me one with a telescoping handle, and it sat idle for years. I don’t know if my arms have gotten shorter or my back has gotten itchier, but now I couldn’t make it through a day without the thing.
My other two pleasant surprise were also gifts, rather than purchases.
My wife gave me a case for my Kindle, with a tiny lamp built in. At first I couldn’t imagine using it; now I can’t do without. It lets me read late into the night. A small fold of the top blanket shading the device, gives me the double pleasure of not waking my wife, and feeling like a kid who’s taken a flashlight under the covers to read what/when he shouldn’t.
The other is an early model GE microwave, a gift from my uncle in the mid- to late-80s when they weren’t so common. Mine has lost a little bit of its power, but I’m amazed at its durability. Here it is, maybe 35 years later, and it’s still cooking food, making tea and heating bedwarmers for the cold winter nights.
I was under the impression that all Kindles had backlighting. Maybe I’m out of touch. It’s certainly the case that every Kindle I’ve had to date (four) has had backlighting. I could read them perfectly well with the lights out.
The earliest Kindles did not have a built-in light. (Thus, you could not read them in the dark, any more than you could read a regular book in the dark.)
Then, for a while, the cheapest Kindles did not have a light, but more expensive models (the Paperwhite et al) did.
Nowadays, all the Kindles have built-in frontlighting (not backlighting!).
Note: I use “Kindle” here to refer to Amazon’s line of e-ink e-readers. Their first tablets were called “Kindle Fire” (and did, of course, have lit screens), but were later rebranded simply “Fire” tablets.
There may well be other brands of ereaders (not made by Amazon) that do not have lights.
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This glove and boot dryer has been a godsend for me. We got it a few weeks ago. I bike year 'round in Montreal and body temperature management is a huge challenge, usually resulting in sweat-soaked gloves and boots. This machine is really effective at quickly drying things out.
Yes indeed.
Of course if my old Kindle weren’t so eminently satisfactory I would probably have checked out other models and learned about the built-in lighting long ago. I just assumed they were all like mine.
My ignorance was simply lack of experience. I’ve bought four Kindles, mostly paperwhites, and they all had lights. Never looked or checked to see if that was an optional feature.
I rarely use rubber gloves but I’ve always found it annoyig to try to dry them so that the inside doesn’t get funky… until I found this rubber glove drying stand.
Out of perversity or frugality or curiosity, I’ve been cutting up my old credit cards to custom-make guitar picks.
I just bought an air pump on Amazon (a different brand) that I’m extremely unhappy with. it worked ok the first few times, a little glitchy because poorly written instructions, but now it’s gone completely insane, giving me non-existent readings, skipping straight from 10.0 PSI to 40.0 PSI with nothing possible between those settings etc. I’m thinking it was made in China, so unreliable. I’m looking for one manufactured in the USA, thinking maybe better quality or at least clearer instructions. Do you know where that one was made, and how long have you used it?