# What are some things you just can't live w/o? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 29, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688 "2011-12-29T01:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/1 "2011-12-29T01:10:13Z")
For me it’s water, my hair straightener and eyeliner! I’d die w/o these things:eek:! ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/2 "2011-12-29T01:28:43Z")
Really? Seriously, you would _die_ without hair straightener and eye liner? (Water, I get.) But hair straightener and eye liner are that important to you? Wow. I really can’t think of anything that I literally couldn’t live without. Besides water, air, food, that sort of thing. My morning coffee come close. But if it were to go away, I’d live just fine. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/3 "2011-12-29T01:31:14Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Really? Seriously, you would _die_ without hair straightener and eye liner? (Water, I get.) But hair straightener and eye liner are that important to you? Wow. > > I really can’t think of anything that I literally couldn’t live without. Besides water, air, food, that sort of thing. > My morning coffee come close. But if it were to go away, I’d live just fine. LOL yes! I know it sound extremely superficial but w/o them I’d be looking a mess! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/4 "2011-12-29T01:35:51Z")
Reading material. If anyone ever wanted to break me, all they’d have to do is lock me in a room without anything to read for a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/5 "2011-12-29T01:39:46Z")
> [@slm2955](#): > > LOL yes! I know it sound extremely superficial but w/o them I’d be looking a mess! Ha! I love your honesty. 😃 Fine. I’ll add: Chapstick. I’m addicted to the stupid stuff. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/6 "2011-12-29T01:44:06Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Ha! > I love your honesty. 😃 > Fine. I’ll add: Chapstick. I’m addicted to the stupid stuff. LOL awesome:). ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/7 "2011-12-29T01:44:54Z")
Coffee, something to read, and (as much as I hate to admit it,) a smart phone. And I could live, but not happily, without Aveeno (or store brand equivalent) cleanser and moisturizer and Aquafina lip balm, and my stand mixer. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/8 "2011-12-29T01:49:25Z")
Paracetamol. I have a toothache and my dentist is away. ---
**Author:** ![Tracyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tracyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracyfish)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/9 "2011-12-29T03:03:37Z")
JIF peanut butter. It’s an important staple of my diet. ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/10 "2011-12-29T03:05:53Z")
Books, oxygen, and my favorite blue jeans…i am simple in my wants and needs ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/11 "2011-12-29T04:05:50Z")
Intelligent and engaging conversation. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/12 "2011-12-29T04:49:10Z")
Lotion, black cherry water and my dog. I think everything else is pretty much negotiable. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/13 "2011-12-29T04:51:12Z")
My organs. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/14 "2011-12-29T04:58:27Z")
Other humans. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/15 "2011-12-29T05:57:45Z")
Books, music, and kitties! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/16 "2011-12-29T06:19:22Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Reading material. > > If anyone ever wanted to break me, all they’d have to do is lock me in a room without anything to read for a couple of days. Reading material and internet access. And kitties. When I travel, I’m all a-twitch because even if I have some reading material, and maybe some wifi, I don’t have my kitties, and I don’t have my preferred computer. My husband occasionally asks me if I wouldn’t like to take a vacation out of town, and my standard reply is that I’ve got pretty much exactly what I want here at home. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/17 "2011-12-29T12:37:07Z")
Reading material - books - definitely. I don’t think there’s been a day in my life that I haven’t had at least one book going. Count me as another who’d go batshit locked away with nothing to read. And my dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/18 "2011-12-29T12:53:57Z")
Insulin. The convenience of having a driver’s license. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/19 "2011-12-29T13:22:57Z")
Cats. And books. And tea. ---
**Author:** ![LaurenIpsum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@LaurenIpsum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LaurenIpsum)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/20 "2011-12-29T14:08:24Z")
Lotion. For most of my adult life, I have been somewhat “addicted” to lotion, with Suave Cocoa Butter being my product of choice. Every single time I wash my hands, I have to rub lotion on them, because I absolutely hate how dry they feel otherwise. I keep a bottle in my desk at work and a small one in my purse so that I am never without it. Yes, I am crazy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688.md?page=2)