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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The EZ-DUZ-It can opener. You don't know you need a good can opener in your life until you have one.
I have a few. Bose noise canceling EarPods. Bosch power tools. Ford cars. Gillette Mach 6 (or is it 5?). It looks like I may consume a lot; in fact these help me to consume much less.
A swear jar, it helps me save. /S
Honestly tho, I've had the same pair of wired Apple earpods for over a decade and they're still working perfectly and the cable sheath only has a small cut 5cm of length away from the jack, and that's with the abuse I gave it when I was younger, like swinging it into the desk or accidentally pulling it by forgetting I had them on.
There were even pop up stores around me that basically sold earpods with official internals but coloured plastics for like $2AUD each, though the store I've seen in person closed a few years ago after having been in my local shopping centre for like 3 weeks.
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.
I don't always swear, but when I do I swear by my Stevens 301.
Perfect Aire 5000 btu window air conditioner. Its rated to work down to 18c outside.
I had another ac that pushed warm air when the temperature dripped to 18c
But this one keeps pushing cool air when the outside temps are as low as 13c.
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