Looking for some neat ideas/quality of life improvements aka lifehacks I guess
I got a multimeter for DIY electrical stuff.
Not really bought but I was gifted a used 3D printer (Ender 3 pro) from a print farm. Great starter printer and it’s solid and totally upgradable. It’s like a manual Jeep Wrangler from the in line six days and before. I can print anything to improve my life.
First great functional print was a wall socket cover plate with a HomePod mini shelf above it to get it off our kitchen counter. Projects sound much better since it’s no longer surrounded by stuff.
My wife then wanted a handle for a 20oz Yeti tumbler. Printed that and she loves it.
Little things, printed a tool holder for my 3D printer tools that fits on it and keeps them neat and out of the way.
Recently printed a computer monitor stand VESA mount to lift it up (I only have a short monitor stand). Spent $2.63 on the filament to print that. It’s freaking awesome.
Easily the best gift I’ve received in decades.
I was in the right place, right time, found a solid, hardwood dresser at Goodwill for $30!
A breadmaker which also makes jam.
If it can give hugs too, you basically got a whole gramma there.
A spray bottle for oil to easily coat a pan or food in oil without using huge amounts of it.
be sure to get one of those metal/opaque ones specifically made for oil, as it degrades when exposed to sunlight (btw, that’s why oil bottles are coloured and not transparent)
It won’t make you sick of you dont, but exposure to light will get rid of its health benefits
I did not know that, thanks!
We have a new recycling system brought in by the council so we have 2 massive sacks to store somewhere. I bought some large hooks from Screwfix and mounted them to the garage wall so they’re off the ground and out of the way. Fun fact: we now have 6 different bins!
Six? That sounds excessive, even compared to some of Germany‘s complicated recycling systems.
Metal, glass, paper, plastic, compost and other?
German recycling isn’t complex, it could be way more complex, for example with including different plastic types.
Yeah saw that in South Korea. Separate bins for clear foil, coloured foil, clear hard plastic, coloured hard plastic, tins, and so on. Really made me appreciate the yellow bag in Germany.
Open ear bone conduction headphones. Light, affordable, waterproof and safe to bike with. Also good in the office as you can still hear what’s going on whilst listening. Only drawback is they’re pretty quiet and easily defeated by heavy traffic/loud kids etc.
Also not recent but as someone who suffers from tinnitus, a Bluetooth audio sleep mask has improved my quality of life more than any other minor purchase I’ve ever made.
I absolutly love open ear bone conduction headphones. Really help getting to your surrounding without any audio leak from your headphones. Too bad that i never found one who didn’t broke. Shockz ones broke the neck security thing and the left ear headphone. JBL ones can’t be recharged anymore onto the right one, as it seems that the earphone doesn’t connect fine with the pins in the charging case anymore. And i even tried a cabled one, hoping this one would break as easily. The cable broke connection and it only work if you hold the cable at a specific angle (unusuable in most usages)
Worried now as I only got mine last week from a no-brand seller
I mean, it could also just be me too. I forgot the ticket for the shokz. Bought it “reconditioned” by Amazon for the JBL (and not possible to be repaired by JBL in that case). I would suggest you one tip from those with a back ring security thing, don’t lay on the back with it. Even if you rotate it to the entire back of your neck. I didn’t broke it there for those that obviously, but i feel it may have loosened it.
Thanks for the tip. I was sitting on a train today and I hit the back security ring against the headrest and the whole headset nearly came off. I was wondering how sturdy it might be. Now I know, thanks!
The new ones are made out of titanium. They are difficult to break. The old ones… yeah…thats why they switched.
I own 3 different pairs. Between a hobby for running/biking and having a toddler - these are the only headphones I can use anymore.
We have this little rechargeable night light that shaped like a slug. I think it’s for little kids, but we use it on the bathroom at night so you don’t have to turn the main light on, but you can still hit the toilet.
It’s a dumb little thing. But it works so well and keeps a charge FOREVER. We got it on Amazon for like $15.
Plus you turn it on/off by clacking the eyes together.
you can still hit the toilet.
My world was changed when in my thirties, I realized that if you sit to pee, you don’t have to even open your eyes to aim.
No more missing, no more having to bother with lights. Game changer.
Ninja stars.
A good life hack is when you are being pursued place them into the ground in key spots where a pursuer might step.
Also work on throwing two ninja stars at once so you can increase DPS.
Cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet!
Fermenting everything I can find in every discarded glass jar I come across.
So far, I turned blueberries into olives, and lemons into… they stayed lemons… So far!
Old Pico de Gallo seems slightly more promising.
Actually QoL improvements in a purchase? The last one was a computer for running offline AI. It lead me to blueberry alchemy… yrmv
Blueberries aren’t olives… You just mean you fermented blueberries and they taste like olives?
A Bidet has got to be the most life changing purchase ever. Not even expensive either.
While in our family we hate them and we’ll get rid of them to make the space more efficient 😅
Usually in North America bidet refers to a modified insert or toilet seat that includes a sprayer and a lever to control. It doesn’t take up any space at all. Definitely a stand alone bidet takes up a lot of space but they’re visually non existent in North America, although I certainly would prefer that to the sprayers.
Indeed, I’ve only seen one standalone bidet ever in the US. It was in an old mansion. Far more awkward than the modern ones that attach to an existing toilet.
I don’t buy anything
