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.
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Swing-a-way can openers. They work better and smoother than any other can opener and it's not close. They also last for fucking ever. I had one from before I was born and kept for most of my life until it finally rusted out a couple of years ago. The original company went out of business, but after some research, I found the EZ-DUZ-IT can opener which is the exact same design and works exactly as well. I've had this one for a few years now and it's going strong, so I think I'm good for another 20+ years.
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!
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!
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.
I would like to advocate for straight razors instead of any brand name proprietary razor head.
Straight blades cost almost nothing and it takes about 5 shaves to get the hang of it, but I cannot go back to the Gillette ones now.
Ford cars feels like a hot take. Seems like they're issuing a deluge of recalls on their vehicles right now, no?
Can I ask what specifically has you beaded in on them as the specific car brand to swear by?
Ford has always issued a ton of recalls.
Not making the fuck up in the first place is best. But better to own up to it and fix it than pull a Toyota and deny it’s existence.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Scott Bonnar reel mowers. One of mine has been running every week from before I was born and I'm 45.
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.
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.