I never thought Id be excited for a garbage can, but after going through multiple plastic cans and having the lid mechanism fail on cheaper metal cans, I broke down and got a more expensive one from Simple Human. I feel the quality everytime I use the step to toss something. It sounds so dumb, but I’m really blown away after years of crappy cans.
Aside from that, my python water changer for aquariums. That thing has been the goat for years at this point.
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the SmokeBuddy is fuckin magical if you vape or smoke weed and need to keep the smell under wraps
i could blow the biggest fuckin cloud of dank live resin cartridge vape through it and literally nothing would come out the other side
no smell. no vapor. nothing
they come in so many colors and a few different sizes
absolute life saver
it’s like a sploof on steroids. or as someone on mastodon put it, “it’s a sploof with an R&D department”
I swear by none, because I don’t want to be some corporate sponsor goodie consumer who builds trust with certain companies.
I can only swear by my preferences, if it’s affordable, can do what I need or want it to do, whatever it is, that’s what I get.
Bloody Farm red fife flour is for sure the tops in the red fife flour game.
Arm And Hammer products. I use their toothpaste, laundry detergent and deodorant, all top notch while not having a premium price tag. Don’t have a cat ATM, but I used to use their kitty litter.
They’ve had the same few products for as long as I’ve been aware of the brand. They only do a few things, but they do them right. Praying they never enshittify or start spreading themselves thin.
This is why I think its important for advanced economies that the average person have actual discretionary income of a decent level. so that people can make decisions to spend more for things they believe are quality. otherwise all products become a race to the bottom.
A bidet with a heated seat and water. The water doesn’t get very hot but at least it’s not freezing in the winter. The heated seat is underrated until you go somewhere without one and remember how cold a toilet seat can get.
I actually prefer the shockingly cold bidet water. It helps my whores immensely.
It’s invigorating
I have the two chamber simple human trash can (one recycling, one trash), and honestly have quite a few complaints…
- the interior volume is way lower than the exterior volume that it takes up (including the top rim), it feels like it’s wasting a lot of space
- the hinge sticks further out the back limiting its ability to go flat against a wall
- after a couple years the pedal mechanism is very loud and squeaky but hard to access
- theres a removable recycling bin but no removable garbage bin
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still better built than most and nicely designed for the most part, but to me it feels like a bunch of what you’re paying for is the design and not necessarily robustness.
Like in many ways I have more respect for those $10 white Rubbermaid kitchen trash cans with the spinning lid. They get you 90% of the way to a simple human for 10% of the cost. Toss a couple brick in the bottom and it gets hard to push over.
Not a brand, but natural fibers. 100% cotton sweats and t-shirts, cotton/hemp blend shirts, wool sweaters. I can’t deal with plastic against my skin anymore, at least not when I’m trying to be comfortable.
Personally my preference is like 85-95% cotton, but with some kind elastane in them.
I can’t go back to non stretchy clothes, they just feel so much more limiting, but I’d take 100% cotton over 100% polyester every day of the week.
Bone conduction headphones, specifically Aftershokz.
Running, cycling, walking whatever activity I’m doing outside I can listen to music or audiobooks and still be aware of my surroundings.
Taking an acid trip? Now I can hear the birds and have a nice background soundtrack to the day whilst I trip in the woods!
Working with heavy machinery, I can wear ear protection and also listen to what ever I want to pass the time. No more blasting headphones in an attempt to drown out the machine noise and fucking my ears up.
Fucking love these things!
For your last one, I use just regular ANC earbuds with over ear hearing protection and it works great without cranking the piss out if them. Never tried bone induction or whatever. What’s the big difference? Also sometimes I do like the block out the noise so I can hear the audio book or whatever I’m listening to…
Bone conduction headphones don’t touch your ears directly. They transmit sound vibrations through your skull, so it sounds like the music is inside your head. It also leaves your ears open to hearing outside sounds normally instead of muted… There’s no noise cancellation, but it allows you to use earplugs or other ear protection and still have music.
Aftershokz were my first headphones of that type, and I loved them. A big bonus point was that they were the only type of headphones that were watertight enough for running in Irish weather.
Then they died on me a month out of warranty. I did some research and found many others with the same experience. Since then I’m buying no-name brands of bone conducting headphones. Even if they last only half as long, their cost is much lower.
That is fair enough. I use mine in all weathers and have been so drenched many times I may as well have jumped in the sea and never had issues with water ingress.
I haven’t really looked at what others have said about them so only have my own experiences. My first pair did eventually stop charging but that was when they were still using micro USB for their charging ports, I have never had an issue with charging since they started using the magnetic charging connection.
I am now on my 6th pair in the last 12 years but the reason I change them is due to battery life. I use them 10 - 12 hours 6 days a week and then usually 3 or 4 on the 7th day. That amount of constant charging is bound to degrade the battery so I’m never annoyed and think that is worth the money for me. They usually still have plenty of life left in them when I switch but I like being able to have 12 hours of use on a charge ans not have to worry about charging them during the day.
Fly swatter of the brand Plastiken. That thing is fast, accurate and durable.
Laundry machines and dish washer machines. I know that Technology Connections says they’re all the same, but I disagree.
Knipex pliers and Wera screwdrivers. Especially Pozi drive.
Anything made by Knipex. Why cheap out and pay 10 euros for shitty waterpump pliers when you could spend 30 and get the absolute best ones money can buy. I think everyone should own at least one pair of 180mm Cobras.
The first thing that came to mind were the Knipex Electrician’s Shears, so good!
Dewitt D20 diamond shape scuffle hoe with the 72" pistol grip handle. If you keep the blade nice and sharp it makes controlling weeds and prepping planting areas so much easier. It slices parralllel to the soil surface so you can cut weeds at the root without a lot of effort, and it’s one of the only tools I’ve found that can break up dense mats of vines.
Bucket style towel warmer. No specific brand recommendation here. I got mine from the Aldi aisle of shame. You just throw your towel in before getting in the shower and 10 minutes later it’s nice and warm like it just came out of the dryer.
Kobalt shovel. I had to tear up roots, rocks, dig new gardens where none had existed, and i decided to dig up a small pond (5 feet deep, 10 across) on new property and I kept breaking my old shovels, new shovels, and then I bought this kobalt. I was frustrated at the various shovels breaking in various ways and spent like 20 minutes in the shovel aisle at Lowe’s studying them all like a lunatic and begrudgingly bought this expensive one that looked the most sturdy and well built in the places all the others broke. It’s a beast. I’ll never need to buy another. It finished the jobs and has doubled the amount of work I did with all those broken ones.
This story sounds familiar. Allow me to offer a couple suggestions.
Water the ground about a half hour before you need to dig. Use plenty of water but don’t make it muddy.
Sharpen the edge of your shovels with a file or grindstone. It makes a world of difference for reducing the effort it takes to cut through even small roots.
Get a mattock and a long handle ice chopper for large roots. Keep those tools sharp as well.
I broke two wood handled shovels within 3 weeks of buying my first house that had heavy clay soils. I also resorted to buying the metal handled kobalt shovel. These days I’m back to mostly using a wood shovel with these tips and only break out the metal handled shovel for really demanding work. The wood handled shovel is much lighter and therefore less fatigueing to use.
Shovel sharpening is one of those things that you never hear about, but is absolutely vital.
I bought a shovel and my partner bent it the first time out. It wasn’t even hard ground. The handle is fine, but the actual shovel is made of tissue paper. it’s frustrating when a very simple tool just can’t handle standard use.
Never thought we’d be talking about the enshittification of shovels
My dogs can’t get into/knock over the SimpleHuman ones, so they’re what we’ve got. It took a heck of a ketchup-strewn garbage mess across the living room to justify one, but it’s been great.
