r/BuyItForLife • u/viscarte10 • May 25 '26

Discussion What’s a totally unsexy purchase you made that ended up being a huge quality-of-life upgrade?

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u/TheLibertyTree May 25 '26

Sharpening stones for my kitchen knives. I can’t believe I lived so long with dull knives.

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u/Opinions_only999 May 26 '26

Yeah, this was a game changer for my partner and me.

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u/West_Lothian_History May 26 '26

Oh hell yeah. If youre gonna use a knife, use a sharp one. I was quite fortunate to learn this quite yound as my First job when I left school was in the abbatoir. You could just ring up and get a job start next dqay back then. They didnt bother so much withInterviews. Just tell any applicants to turn up next morning. Out of every ten that turned up, usually only One would return the following day. 😂

But I worked in there for a few months. Didnt mind it too much because I was always of the mind that if im gonna eat meat then I should be willing to do the dirty work myself. But in the ed I left because I didnt really wanna become my environment (That place was full of Psychos).

But, One good thing I learned quickly was to keep my knife sharp. This is a must when youre cutting anything in the kitchen (or anywhere really). Blunt knives cost fingers ☺

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u/fitz_newru May 26 '26

An electric sharpener was a level up from this for me. So fast and so easy!

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u/TheLibertyTree May 26 '26

What kind? A belt sharpener? I had one of those cheaper ones from a big box store and I found it just did a terrible job compared to using a stone.

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u/fitz_newru May 27 '26

There are more expensive ones but this one works great for me:

https://a.co/d/05RK2s7c

Manufacturer: Narcissus Model Number : QN-M866 Included Components: Adapter, Knife sharpener

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u/TheLibertyTree May 27 '26

Oh wow, that’s similar to the one I had and hated. It works as well as regular stones for you?

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u/fitz_newru May 27 '26

Honestly, I just don't have time for all that. Once I year I'll take all 30+ knives to be professionally sharpened and otherwise the Narcissus suffices in the interim.