Do NOT click the link if you DON'T want a 10 page slideshow.
I excerpted a small bit of info of each item. But if you want more info (good info at that), then click the slideshow.
Usually I can find sales on non-Gillette brands at CVS and I joined Harry’s. A freeper gave a tip about drying the razor with a paper towel.
Certainly an interesting collection.
Thanks for making it easy for us.
I wonder why about #4 ?
6 and 7 are still buys for me.
I don’t like cloud storage for everything. Gotta have that hard back-up.
Mini tablets are dirt cheap and handy.
I really don’t get this. Somebody explain it to me?
Never buy a CD again? What if you aren’t into the whole internet streaming thing???
Never pay for cable TV? Well, what if you don’t have a place to put a satellite dish, and you aren’t into the internet streaming thing here either???
Don’t do internet dating??? Are there free sites which somehow screen out the riff raff?? I met a delightful female companion from a paid online site. It was money well spent, in my opinion. Everyone I met on that site was a quality female.
Are we saying technology is always changing?? I think we all know that. VHS and Beta recorders are obsolete. But if you had a bunch of old tapes, wouldn’t you still perhaps want to buy a machine for them??
What about all of your old records?? I still have a nice turntable to play my old record collection.
I disagree with 5 and 6.
I still buy CDs, because I like to read the lyrics and notes, I enjoy the sound through my ancient but quality music system speakers and although you can scratch it you can’t accidentally delete a CD or have your songs trapped inside a crashed hard drive.
And as for “online storage”...yeah, what could possibly go wrong with uploading your personal files into the hands of others?
Have to disagree with respect to thumb drives. They’ll change form and go to greater density, but nothing says “security” like an air gap.
Folks who don't read labels. I went through this exercise one day with a shopper picking up several cases of a popular brand of water. I asked if she had read the label. She seemed perplexed. Suggested she check the source, clearly labeled on each bottle. She was shocked to discover that it was from the local municipal water source but bottled and sold by a major company. Read the label!!
If a piece of data is important to me I want to be able to hold it in my hand.I won't trust it to some “cloud”.
If a video is important to me I want to be able to hold it in my hand...in its “purest” form.Today,that means bluray,
Cut the cable cord 2 years ago.
I buy my razors and blades from Harry’s
I only buy bottled water when necessary . . . usually fill my own bottle. Having water bottle fillers/drinking fountains combination at work makes this very easy.
I got a year’s worth of credit monitoring a few years ago. My bank paid for it after my debit card got compromised.
Compact discs?
Still use USB sticks. They’re cheap and high capacity. I use them to transfer files at work and between work and home.
Bought my wife an iPad mini a few years ago. Haven’t even thought about another one.
Thank God I am already married and don’t need a dating service.
Don’t need to lose weight. Do need to get in shape though.
Got a BluRay player a few years ago . . . rarely use it since I have Netflix and Hulu.
Cable, it really depends on what you watch. Not everything is on the stream, unless you feel like crawling around the dark corners of the internet, and if you subscribe to enough streaming services to get all your show you’ll find that cost starts approaching your cable bill. Plus there’s the bundles, my cable company is also my phone company, internet company, and home security company.
I don’t do blades but I’m not switch from Braun to offbrand.
Bottled water really depends on where you live, a lot of tap is gross. And filters aren’t that cheap, and some make the water worse (anything that softens, yuck that’s nasty).
Agree on the monitoring.
CDs, depends on what you listen to, and how. Yeah pretty much the only thing I do with CDs is rip them and listen to the MP3 but if you listen to weird music CDs are your best source. Plus you get liner notes, a dying art but still cool. Also like the TV stream, that cost adds up faster than you think.
Memory sticks are cheap and handy, and frankly faster than the cloud. Also more secure.
I don’t do tablets of any size.
I know a lot of marriages that started with online dating. It still can work.
The new wave in meal replacement actually involves delivering the ingredients with cooking instruction. Pretty cool stuff. Much more oriented to helping you eat well (healthy and tasty) fast, some of them even bring you in for cooking lessons, handy if your parents skipped some of those useful skills.
If you have the blurays and DVDs why would you not have the player? Most of them are also smart devices and do streaming which really helps with their item 1. And really they’re so cheap, less than $100 gives you streaming and makes all the stuff you bought already not trash, and it’ll last years.
I love these lists, largely because they’re always from a narrow tunnel and generally wrong.
I don’t need advice from some jackass with a slide show.
If I want it/need it/gotta have it... I’m gonna get it. LOL
Razor blades - while you might be able to feel a difference between gillette multi blade extravaganzas and a good to high quality double-edge safety razor, it’s not visible. 100 weeks of high quality shaves with Derby blades in a basic safety razor costs $15-$20. $40 if you go for ultra-high quality blades like Feather.
So no, gillette lost my business a long time ago when 3 pack started hitting $12 and I realized the multi blades cut below the skin surface leading to ingrown hairs and acne.
It’s disturbing how they keep trying to force us to give over control of our data/media to cloud companies. No thanks. I’ll retain ownership and control of my files. No cloud storage for me. If it’s important to you, you keep local copies and a way to access it without anyone else’s OK required.
Cut the cable cord last July.
Buy the big package of 3 blade razors at Costco pretty much in line with Harry’s
Bottled water for prep purposes.
Credit monitoring for free like another upthread.
I’ll buy a CD if its in the super discount box if its a good one.
Like having a USB
Have a couple of minis for the kids. They get used every day.
Married...although a dating service would have been cheaper ;)
I like to cook and have an Italian MIL.
BluRay player but never buy disks. Kids do just fine with Netflix and Hulu.
Same is true for Blu-rays. there is not presently enough bandwidth to support the resolution and bitrate we get on Blu-rays. They may stream or broadcast in HD, but there are pockets of missing information in every stream and broadcast. and the sound is not HD.
These kinds of list always irritate me, in which some know-it-all tries to convince us to give up something of quality for something that is merely convenient. He may as well have said give up our TVs - we can stream and watch Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur on our phones.
I’m still not into storing my info into some “cloud”. I like cd’s & DVD’s, I don’t have to worry about having an internet connection to watch or listen to them. They’ll still be making them for a while & are cheap enough to buy back ups. If they each last 10 years, I’ll only need 2 or 3. Of course I still like my records and I plan on getting a couple of backups while they’ve started making them again. I’m looking for an 8 track player just for fun.
The GOP...........