"His real name is Clitoris, but the nickname is just too cute!"

Tag is on new stuff too

Consumer grade carpet cleaners/extraction units are absolute garbage. You are lucky if you can get a years use out of the $100 - $200 level consumer units. They used to be okay but the new models are like 100% plastic and the brushes tend to seize up and have poor suction even after very moderate use.

The Bissell Big Green Professional Carpet Cleaner is the best unit you can get at a reasonable price that actually will last and works well (~$400). The Big Green is identical to the models that are for rent at hardware/grocery stores.

I've gotta suggest you get them an older "Made in USA" Eastpak off of Poshmark or another app! I have found a lot in near perfect condition and the quality is unmatched compared to modern Jansport and the other's who make similarly styled simple backpacks- they also have some really unique designs if you want something that stands out!

I had to buy them separately when I got my pots

Btw, l.l bean got rid of its lifetime guarantee so and dropped their quality so dont expect the newer stuff to last multiple decades like the old stuff that built their reputation. At this point it's not lifetime, it's just long ass time

I know. I really felt like a visit to this store was self-care. I found it during some of the worst parts of Covid and to see the colors and craftsmanship really meant a lot honestly.

That's a shame because I'm a few decades past being a kid and was never talking about needing a jacket.

REI stuff is also likely to last that long, not so much LLB anymore

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I'm the third owner of an LL bean coat, the first two owners being my older cousin and older sister. I've replaced the zipper once in the 15ish years I've had it but the rest of the coat is still in perfect shape.

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I love seeing all the colors side by side. I want them all.

I have several clothing pieces (specifically a pair of osh kosh overalls size 2T) that my husbands older cousin wore about 30 years ago, and then my husband and his 5 brothers all wore regularly growing up! My toddler wore them super regularly too, the only issue with them is one of the snaps is worn and pops open very easily. I plan to add a snap before my next little one wears them.

You could sell it on Facebook/Craigslist/etc.

I've sold two bikes that way. One was actually broken - was a mountain bike that had one of the rear struts broken by a low root I didn't see on some single track. Some lady still paid me like $200 or so for it since she had a friend who could weld it back together and she figured her son would love it since it was a pretty decent bike (I paid $1500 for it new back in the day, sold it cheaply to get it out of my parents garage and recoup a bit). The other bike was functional and I got like $300 for it. It was an old Dicks Sporting Goods MTB that I had converted into an urban explorer bike during the beginning of the pandemic. I eventually ended up buying like 2 other bikes and didn't need it anymore. Some guy off Facebook wanted it since it had a 3x7 and a rear rack for cargo.

Just list it at whatever you think will sell, or go high and let people low-ball you enough until you get a reasonable price. Put the proceeds towards your next bike. 🚴

Gloves
(https://us.pipglobal.com/en/products/?scID=2560&ccID=11549)

They can be a bit more work to acquire but I've had better luck with those sorts of gloves than the box store mechanics gloves, also provide more options for exactly what features you want.

Allen Edmonds are not a good brand anymore. They look good but their QC is absolute trash. I sent back three pairs of their shoes.

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Its kinda like trying to breathe through a straw with one end clogged. Think of leather like a porous sponge, or like your own skin. It has pores and layers that want to be moisturized, rather than surface coated in plastidip.

The Snowseal or beeswax approach is a legitimate treatment, and will by no means ruin your gloves. People do this all the time to get a true waterproofing. If you are working in the rain or slush constantly, then it is probably best. For typical everyday brush the snow off the car and walk the dog, keeping them properly conditioned with a leather conditioner will be all the "waterproofing" you need and they will shed moisture and natually dry off just fine.

Our sense of appropriate price for clothing and footwear has been massively and perversely warped by our collective tacit acceptance of child and slave labor.

Yeah these were the “it” backpack at my school in the late 90s/early 2000s. Especially when they dropped new colors besides the original navy/hunter/burgundy/black. I had a neon orange one.

I have an LL Bean fleece coat I got for Christmas when I was 14 that I still wear almost every (chilly) day. I’m 41 now.

I’d love another because I feel like almost 30 years of life is enough to justify a new color even, but I’ve never found one half as comfortable or nice. So I just keep wearing it. No one believes me when I tell them how old it is.

For a lot of people, it’s not so much about improving grip so much as it enables people with smaller hands to actually hold their ever enlarging phones.

A lot of bikes that are stolen are quickly abandoned and not everyone files a police report so they store them. And even people who had filed police reports will have often done it for an insurance claim and have a new bike by the time theirs is found, so it doesn’t get claimed . They do the same thing with seized and found cars

Abandoned bikes plus recovered bikes with no identified owner.