Welcome to the BDGB! Barely Domesticated Gorilla Brotherhood.
I teach CPR and First Aid and I always try to find out what real life experience my students have had. I tell them that I myself have had to (so far) perform First Aid in a dire emergency two times in my life. I was once asked if that was on other people or myself. I explained that those two times were on other people. They then asked how many times I’d had to do first aid on myself. All I could do was laugh… I never did answer them!
Could you point me out where to get some? I ought to eat more vegetables, but all it takes is a few hectic days and I have a big head of lettuce wilting in my fridge and mild disgust with the whole thing.
Ooh, ooh I’ve got one ! Free AirMiles collected on the credit card (I always pay the balance before getting charged interest) took me on a trip to Madrid this year = massive culture hit !
Reynolds “Release” foil. It has a Teflon side and food won’t stick to it. Expensive, but worth it. I keep the cheap stuff for everyday foil jobs and use the good stuff for baking chicken, etc.
Movie popcorn. When I go out with friends who don’t eat it, and don’t get any for myself (since I could never finish a bag on my own), I always end up regretting it. It makes the movie experience so much better.
Sadly, I have a Tacoma truck I’m pretty unhappy with. It’s sluggish. The bench seat can’t be replaced with separate seats. The hood and window supports appear to be placed where they will most impede vision. Huge driver’s side blindspot. I am a long-time Toyota consumer but if I get another truck I’m going back to the Ford 150.
Ecco footwear, especially their sandals intended for a lot of all-terrain walking. I literally don’t care what they cost, or whether they are more expensive than other comparable brands. I just know that they made a HUGE difference to my feet and how I felt after doing a lot of walking. Plus they seem to last forever and to be more or less indestructable. I’ve got Ecco sandals that have been baked dry in the desert sun, more or less soaked in seawater, and would still be good for a few more years’ use (although in practice I tend to replace them every 2 years or so).
I can’t remember now if anyone’s mentioned bagged salads, but I will now if not. If not for bagged salads and frozen vegetables, we would eat hardly any veggies, and that’s not from not liking them or not wanting to eat them. When I get home at 5:30 and we want to eat right away, I’m never, ever in a vegetable preparing mood. This way, we eat at least one salad a week, with frozen veggies nearly every day, with almost no waste. Oh, let me add frozen fish to this, too - we should all eat more fish, probably, but if it’s more trouble than putting frozen fillets in the oven, it’s just not going to happen.
This cervical pillow. I bought one the weekend before Christmas and it retains its shape nicely. Previous to this I went through 3-4 pillows a year because they quickly lost their firmness. (a while ago we had a thread about us side sleepers: some of us are very picky/hard on pillows) I had one of these pillows as a teenager, actually, and I think it took about 5 years before it wasn’t good any more so I hope to have this one for a while to come. I’d long been looking for a duplicate when I finally stumbled across one at the pharmacy.
I third Missy2U’s recommendation of The Works. Nothing cleans the bathroom better. Nothing.
I ran out and bought some Green Bags because of this thread
Some products I can recommend
Never scrub - You really won’t need to clean your toilet again. Well, maybe once or twice a year.
The Absorber - great for drying after washing the car, or the floor, or for soaking up spills on carpet. Unlike a sponge or towel, you can use it until it’s saturated, wring it out, and it will still work.
Mr Clean Magic Erasers - Work as advertised.
Those copper scouring pads you can get - good for getting burnt on crud off your stove trim.
Want to agree with the people who recommended Tivo and Ipod - they are life-changing.
A good, tough, multi-function wristwatch. I own this one, loaded with features I use quite often. Alarms, Timer, Stopwatch, Altimeter, Barometer, Thermometer, Compass, Heart Rate Monitor, Dual Time, Waterproof, etc…all with a USB/PC link.
The compass is great in unfamiliar cities or large buildings…
Huh. Excepting impossible-to-find-otherwise merchandise, my experience with eBay is that to actually win an auction you have to shell out more – often lots more – than you’d pay if you thoroughly shopped online. I guess YMMV.
This is exactly why I don’t participate in the eBay auctions. I can find products I want on eBay at decent prices, but only when I search the “Buy It Now” items. For instance, I got some Patricia Wexler lip plumper that sells at Bath and Body Works for $18.00 on eBay for $12.00 including shipping.
R. M. Williams stockman boots. Expensive, they take about three months of blistering limping to break in, but they’re practically indestructable: mine are about 15 years old, have been around the world and back twice, I walk a lot in 'em every day, and they’re only just starting to wear on the soles - the leather uppers will probably outlast me, as long as I dubbin them every week. Best boots ever. Oh, and beer.
Amen!! I don’t fly very frequently, but do tend to spend a lot of time in the hospital (damned kidneys!) and hospital time has become immensely more tolerable with the advent of the portable DVD player and my mp3 player! Also, we have family that lives 2 and 1/2 hours away (by car), and the DVD player makes the trip with out 7-year-old much more tolerable.
collected on the credit card (I always pay the balance before getting charged interest) took me on a trip to Madrid this year = massive culture hit !