Electric screwdriver. Have used mine so much over the years it was well worth the £35 I paid. It won’t do what an impact driver does, but the same can be said the other way around too.
You could also get some running shoes, shorts an T and become a runner.
Air Fryer. You can find basic models for under 100.
Been obsessed with Galaxy Tab A9 recently which is around 75-100$. You can root it and turn it into a lot of general purpose devices for automation or just an e-reader. The only problem is battery so you need a plug for it full time if used in automation environment.
I rather have a foldable. You can find a nice Samsung that’s a couple generations old for around $400. Once you get used to having a tablet in your pocket everywhere you go, there’s no turning back. Having a large portable screen is especially useful for games and restaurant menus.
If you’re like me and either don’t have enough space or don’t like moving a normal computer mouse around, a good trackball mouse is probably gonna be real good.
I originally got a cheap enough ergonomic wireless Logitech one from walmart for my then new laptop I got for college. Then, just maybe a month or two ago, I got an ergonomic one from Elecom to replace my standard mouse because it was having some click problems and scroll wheel issues. The only problem I have with either is how the ball on the Elecom one doesn’t always move super smooth and I can’t be as precise as I can with the Logitech one.
A power bank is pretty useful to keep yourself tethered to the internet (via your phone)
Or you can puncture it and throw it at a cop and 🔋💥 and you end up with bullet holes in you like a swiss cheese, pretty life changing I’d say
(For legal purposes, that was a joke, calm the fuck down FBI 👀)
A good knife sharpener. For 100 USD you can get very good ones, but even a 10 USD/EUR one can make a huge difference.
I found a great one and bought multiple of THESE, it is truly amazing. The suction cup design is genius.
As someone who was chronically constipated: A year’s supply of psyllium husks.
As someone who was overweight, depressed and had severe back pain, a yoga mat.
A USB-charged battery-powered pump. I use it to top up my bicycle tyres, it makes cycling a breeze.
Just got one on Friday, and man, did it make it so much easier!
A bidet
Honestly I go on awesome vacations and then hear the price is right fail song when I go to the bathroom and my bidet is not there…
File + sanding paper.
Just use it on your dice, and it’s game changing.
I’m afraid I don’t follow you. Why would you sand down your dice? Wouldn’t that bias them?
I think biasing the dice might be the point
Changes your game hehue
Joke (whoosh)
My head
A bicycle (with a lock)
A raincoat or umbrella
A smartphone
Shoes
A reliable electric light source, like a lamp.
Maybe an electric fan, if you’re in a hot environment
A multimeter. There’s so much you can do and learn with a decent multimeter. Extech is a good cheaper brand, as is BK Precision and Brymen. Just make sure it has a built-in fuse for the Amperage reading, and ideally, it should be true RMS.
A pentel twist erase pencil… best pencil 10/10
If you wear contacts, use dailies. It’s so liberating to not care if you waste one because it fell in a dirty sink or remove them right before bed without a mirror.
Automatic plant watering systems. They’re dirt cheap, can run on batteries or USB, and work great.
A detachable base wood clamp for recycling cardboard. Pierce all your boxes with the end and then put the base back on and haul more boxes at once than you thought was humanly possible.
I got my robot vacuum with lidar for $60. Not typical, but still possible to grab a refurbished unit.
Ratchet belt. What a great invention.
High thread-count sheets.
