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What gadgets do you use at home that saves a lot of time?

Posted on 10/22/2020 8:15:34 AM PDT by Jonty30

I have a breadmaker, a Zojirishi model. You just throw the ingredients and press the settings. It is that easy and and you can set a time for it to start, so you have fresh loaf for breakfast.

I also use a Starfrit manual food processor. Very eash to clean and I think it's faster than an electric one. Especially for small meals.


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To: varina davis

I have an 8 burner gas range with double convection oven. Even with that, my best time saver is the plancha I use on it.


61 posted on 10/22/2020 8:48:34 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven is finally upon us.)
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To: amnestynone
My daughter recently bought a home with controls similar to yours. She hasn't figured out how to turn on the outside spotlights or big fan yet. Other than that, she loves the convenience!


62 posted on 10/22/2020 8:48:52 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Professional
“I’ll compare your CLEANING LADY to my WIFE/wOCD any day.”

Well, I also have a backup. It's called a Mother-in-Law. Sounds like she is similar to your wife. She won't sit down. She will come over for dinner, have to help make it, clean up after, sit down to watch a movie, get up 10 minutes later to start doing our laundry, then clean out our refrigerator,...... It is really quite annoying. How can I be lazy when my MIL is working. It's rough, but I manage.

63 posted on 10/22/2020 8:49:02 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Jonty30

I moved this last year. My old house had a lawn irrigation system. My new house does not. I miss it. I hate dragging hose. The sprinkler system doesn’t miss a day, you can schedule watering around city time restrictions, actually saves water because it always remembers to shut off the water when the time is over.


64 posted on 10/22/2020 8:50:09 AM PDT by toast
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To: Jonty30

I would love to trade in my washboard and tub for one of those new fangled agitator doohickeys.


65 posted on 10/22/2020 8:54:59 AM PDT by Scarpetta (I)
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To: Jonty30

* gadget bump *


66 posted on 10/22/2020 8:56:34 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: All

I’m not big on kitchen gadgetry. A toaster and an air fryer (and room mate’s coffee maker). I found I much prefer the old metal box grater to a food processor. I can just rinse it in the sink when done and place in the drainer and put away. No taking apart cleaning parts and reassembling. And finding a place to put it.


67 posted on 10/22/2020 8:58:43 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Jonty30

Moving out to the garage, they have been around awhile but I just started using an oscillating tool - A LOT! How did I ever get along without one?


68 posted on 10/22/2020 9:00:28 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Joe Biden: Showing his leadership by cowering in the basement like a scared child.)
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To: FLT-bird
I’ve thought about getting a Roomba or other robot vacuum cleaner. Does anybody have one? Are they worth it?

Not for me, after all the time I spend making sure there is nothing on the ground that it will choke itself to death on I could have been done with a cordless vac.

Its constantly gets stuck and has to be rescued. I don't think the AI is advanced enough at this stage.

Its does seem to know to close the door after it goes into the bathroom then it bumps around until someone comes to free it.

69 posted on 10/22/2020 9:01:20 AM PDT by usurper ( version)
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To: be-baw

Salad shooter. Best cheese grater ever. As God is my witness...I’ll never hand grate cheese again! lol


70 posted on 10/22/2020 9:03:47 AM PDT by sheana
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To: FLT-bird
I’ve thought about getting a Roomba or other robot vacuum cleaner. Does anybody have one? Are they worth it?

Do you have dogs?

71 posted on 10/22/2020 9:08:07 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Jonty30

Pressure cooker


72 posted on 10/22/2020 9:12:48 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Jonty30
Mine are more about convenience than strict time saving.For me it's smart outlets. Examples:

At Christmas I use two. I have one used to cotrol the lights outside, another to control the tree. They are timed to automatically turn on/off on a schedule (sunset to midnight). For times when I want them on at a time outside that schedule I have three verbal commands wired into my phone and Alexa (yeah yeah, I know people here hate Alexa): "turn on the outside lights", "Turn on the tree" and 'turn on the christmas lights' which turns them all on. Never need to walk around turning lights on / off every day.

I also use one to turn on a portable heater in my home office, which is in my garage and has no HVAC. In winter it gets frigid in there so when I wake up I just say 'warm up the office heater' which will turn it on for twenty minutes only and then turn it off. For really cold days I say 'deep warm the office' and it will run for 40 minutes. Either way, when I go out to it after my shower, it's nice and warm. But I did have to find a good heater that had a mechanical switch that I could leave in the 'on' position and control power to it via the smart switch.

When I go away I use them to turn on lights in the house at a randomized time and then off a few hours later, I can also remotely turn them on/off from wherever in the world I am if I want it to seem even more random.

I just use them for lots of things, way more than I expected to.

73 posted on 10/22/2020 9:14:01 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: FLT-bird; Jonty30
Vacuum cleaner, yes. Mopping robot might be useful as an adjunct, but definitely not good as primary mopping method.

I forget what you call it, but Zojirushi also produced a slow-cooker-type pot that requires no electricity. You boil water in the outer pot, insert inner pot containing meat and veggies, seal it and in eight hours you have perfectly cooked stew. It was very useful during our cross-country RV trips. At home, it uses minimal electricity and you don't have to be concerned about electrical misadventures if you're away from home.

74 posted on 10/22/2020 9:26:31 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
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To: FLT-bird

We have a rumba. Works great. We call him walter.


75 posted on 10/22/2020 9:29:12 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Jonty30
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76 posted on 10/22/2020 9:34:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Silentgypsy

If you can figure out what you used, I’d apreciate it. I assume it is a thermos of some form. I like to read up on these things.


77 posted on 10/22/2020 9:36:48 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Wood chipper. My neighborhood is now almost completely clear of Democrats.”

Love this!!!


78 posted on 10/22/2020 9:37:54 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: central_va

That is criminal. I try to tell people, who support open borders, that America would become essentially a prison country, because where could you go, and their eyes glaze over and they think they will be fine.


79 posted on 10/22/2020 9:40:50 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: Jonty30

I like and use my gas stove and toaster oven, but if I only had the m’wave, I would get along and be happy.


80 posted on 10/22/2020 9:46:53 AM PDT by Exit148
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