Asklemmy

Do free things count?

Sleeping masks. They are so underrated fr

I bought a straw hat for a dollar at a yard sale as I walked past during my job delivering packages

Coming in second is a goofy novelty cane I got from a dollar store and used for a while for a leg injury

Third is a box fan for 20.

Plastic cutlery. Not the single use kind, but more like normal cutlery. Originally bought when my oldest was a baby, but now I'm the one using them the most.

I travel a lot for a living, and I often find myself arriving late, after any eateries in the area have closed. I started by packing a metal fork and some cup noodles in my checked luggage, but it didn't take me long to instead start keeping cup noodles and plastic cutlery in my carry-on. This way I can go to bed without being hungry even if/when United (why is it always United?) misplace my luggage.

I bought a fancy US made spatula for my grill. They make a smaller cheaper one that I added on impulse. That little guy is a champ and gets 5x the use of the big fancy one.

My Logitech G203 is still alive after 8 years of constant use. Never tried to fix, but it autorepaired itself of double click (both buttons) , miss click and bad contact. At this point I am afraid of opening it to clean inside and it just cease to exist, I still clean outside tho.

For me, it was probably the Yakuza games series on sale at the PlayStation store. I don't game very much, so I wait to get things until I find them near free, and during the start of Covid I went looking for a game and got Yakuza 0 for $5. Got probably 100 hours in that game, and I picked up all the others (1-7) all for about the same price, so I've gotten hundreds of hours of gameplay for less than $50.

It's sort of GTA-like, but the protagonist is actually a good person, so I enjoy it more for that, and it's more minigame centric. There's some great story, and lots of funny gags throughout.

I bought a RoboGrip, self adjusting wrench, maybe 35 years ago a a Sears iirc. One of the best tools I ever brought and still going strong.

Ski goggles, and they're still good. I got them like 10ish years ago after having to walk put in some serious sub-zero harsh January wind that was making my eyes hurt. $40, now my eyes are fine and my glasses stay nice and snow-free.

I've lived in Chicagoland all my life and sometimes the winters can get almost Minnesotan, so it pays to have some quality eye protection.

I have some Shoes for Crews boots I bought back in roughly 2001-2. They're a little less waterproof higher up now due to some cracking (probably because they sat in a hot storage unit for a while), but I still frequently wear them today when working outside.