# What are some things you just can't live w/o?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/41 "2011-12-31T06:16:03Z")

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> [@StuffLikeThatThere](#):
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> I am more attached to my **sinus rinse** than I ever thought possible. Could I live without it? Yes. But I really don’t want to.

I hear you need mind ameba.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/42 "2011-12-31T07:39:20Z")

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> [@VOW](#):
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> To Ambivalid:
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> No, I get my Vicodin via prescription, and I rue the day the FDA took Darvocet off the market. Vicodin doesn’t hold a candle to the Almighty Darvocet.  
> ~VOW

Then why differentiate between _prescriptions_ and _vicodin_ when listing what you can’t live without? The latter _is_ the former. lol

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**Author:** ![Sam\_I\_Am](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sam\_I\_Am](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_I_Am)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2011, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-things-you-just-cant-live-w-o/607688/43 "2011-12-31T08:23:45Z")

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Bare minimum:

My family.  
Physical comforts (heating/aircon, indoor plumbing, comfortable bed, ice water/hot tea, migraine meds).  
Pen and paper.

Other things I would be much happier with: friends, pets, more art supplies, books, video games.

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