What random purchase of yours do you consider your best and why?

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What random purchase of yours do you consider your best and why? We are NOT considering something someone recommended, or something you researched before buying.
This is something you bought in say an impulse or sometime due to the situation or compulsion.
It doesn't have to be a tech product. It can be anything.
 
PunkX 75 said:
A water flosser. Good stuff.

It was an impulse buy and random. It's made a huge difference in general oral hygiene.
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I looked in to it recently but the price of Oral-B and Philips was too high and I wasn't sure about the other brands. Which one did you buy and can you recommend that brand.
 
roadrash99 said:
I looked in to it recently but the price of Oral-B and Philips was too high and I wasn't sure about the other brands. Which one did you buy and can you recommend that brand.
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This is the one I bought. Been using it for the last 6 months. Works great, with good battery life. Price is right.
 
Afxal said:
Needed a board extension with a few USB ports too for peripherals. I have been using it for 8 months now and never turned the main power off to the board.

The power rated is 2500W so I have no qualms in running multiple devices via it. Absolutely love the product.
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The USB ports say 2.1A TOTAL output. Does it mean that say i connect 6 devices to 6 USB ports, the 2.1A is distributed among all of these so all of them will be charging at excruciatingly slow speed or may be even some won't even charge?
 
raksrules said:
The USB ports say 2.1A TOTAL output. Does it mean that say i connect 6 devices to 6 USB ports, the 2.1A is distributed among all of these so all of them will be charging at excruciatingly slow speed or may be even some won't even charge?
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Haven't used them for charging so I don't know about the claim. I generally use the ports to deliver power to my table lamp and desktop speakers. Sometimes I charge my Samsung watch but that too maxes out at 1amp so that's that.
 
1. Jackly screwdriver set for 99INR many many years back. The handle rubber is off, lid doesnt close well, few bits missing - but still trusty anyday.
2. Philips nose trimmer - You might dismiss this off as useless, but once you use it - just liberates you.
 
hawk128 said:
1. Jackly screwdriver set for 99INR many many years back. The handle rubber is off, lid doesnt close well, few bits missing - but still trusty anyday.
2. Philips nose trimmer - You might dismiss this off as useless, but once you use it - just liberates you.
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Oh man. I am sure you probably got the Jackyl screw driver set from eBay India. Because i did that too.
 
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hawk128 said:
1. Jackly screwdriver set for 99INR many many years back. The handle rubber is off, lid doesnt close well, few bits missing - but still trusty anyday.
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Lol I still have mine. This thing must be 10+ years old. The rubber handle is still there, along with all heads.



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Oh man. I am sure you probably got the Jackyl screw driver set from eBay India. Because i did that too.
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same here. alongwith that i had also purchased a japanese ceramic knife from ebay which has lasted me till now (12-13 yrs i think). couldnt find a ceramic knife and as ergonomic as that one again. both of these are in continuous use. got quite a few such utility items from ebay (and other shopping-portals of the time or a little later like infibeam, shopclues etc etc and then ofcourse amazon happened). there're many such items, usually 'supplementary' stuff which i've found good to keep all these years because i found/find so much use for them, unlike main 'tech' items which we buy & then eventually many of them either keep eating dust or/and find their place here in the classifieds section. not at home currently these days but other useful things which i still use and can recall quickly:

- inalsa vacuum cleaner & hot-air popcorn-maker/roaster (both gotten from starcj....that site was good for many such stuff),
- air blower (amazon...got a really good one with very good build-quality and has variable speed-selector)
- opple bendable LED lamp (very useful when i've to venture into the maze of cables inside my PC cabinet)
- decathlon air pump (got it at the time when there was only one decathlon store in India and had ordered my bike from there)
- weighing scales (one's a generic kitchen weighing digital scale, other is a luggage weighing scale; much better build-quality and accuracy-wise compared to the ones now available online. gotten through the forum here thanks to @Digigear from his earlier avatar/profile!)
 
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Back in 2012s, I was planning to get android phone. Got tablet first. Great decision. Paid huge dividends wrt usecases. Just died. Served 10+ years, with 7+ of those being intensive use. Custom ROM later for speed and only certain apps.

It was due to compulsion- less cash and one shot.

Otherwise randomly would be electric toothbrush, k480 keyboard, M590 Mouse, Mi Air Purifier 3c etc, many things. While some have been success, equal portion is duds too. It is alright when money's good, seems stupid when money's tight xD. But what is life if not experiences.
 
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