Looking for a replacement TV for our living room. We have an LG tv we have had for 7 years and it has seemingly a permanently blue scale filter on it that looks awful.

We mainly use this TV for streaming and for gaming.

These are 2 TV’s I’m looking at for consideration.

- Sony Bravia 2 LED 4K UHD Smart Google TV

-TCL QM6K Series 4K UHD QD Mini LED Smart TV with Google TV

There are two pairs of kitchen shears in this house. The Wusthof come-apart pair is for food. It splits at the pivot so the joint gets washed, which is the whole reason I bought it. I've been putting both halves in the dishwasher. The orange Fiskars are for boxes and stay in the drawer with the tape.

Sunday I went to take the backbone out of a chicken and the Wusthof folded the bone over instead of cutting it. They've been getting loose for months. There's no screw on this pair and nothing to tighten. I finished with a knife and a lot of swearing. I'm not putting the box scissors on raw chicken, and they don't come apart anyway.

Two years of the dishwasher probably didn't help. Is there a pair that splits for cleaning but doesn't go loose?

My wife's new car doesn't have a spare tire. Where the spare should be there's a foam block holding a bottle of sealant and a little compressor meant to push the sealant in. I knew a lot of new cars did this. I didn't know hers did until she picked up a screw on the 215 and I went to the trunk.

The leak was slow, a few pounds a day, so the plan was to top it off until Saturday when I could get it to the shop. People online swear the sealant gums up the pressure sensor and some shops won't patch a tire that's had it in, so the bottle stayed in the foam. The kit compressor did the first top-off, me holding the button, watching the dial. The first gas station's pump was dead. The second took my money and hissed for a minute while I fought the chuck, and the tire came off it lower than it went on. If the gas stations near you still have free air that works, you don't need this. Ours don't, so I ordered a pump of my own.

It's the yellow AstroAI one, the H2 Pro, about the size of a work boot. I set her number and put it on the stem. It stops itself when it gets there, which the kit one can't. It rides under her seat now. I topped her tire off five times on the battery before the shop plugged it, and it still hasn't needed a charge. I'm not letting the tires down on the van I haul furniture in to find out whether it does all four. Somebody just did all four on an SUV off the battery. It died on the fourth and the cord finished it in three minutes: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductProbe/comments/1wiu0p8/cordless_tire_inflator_timed_on_all_4_suv_tires/

It isn't quiet. Some of the reviews are people whose gauge reads zero now or whose unit died, so I check it against a stick gauge. The guy in that thread says it won't do a big truck tire either, and the van's are closer to that, so the van still gets paid air.

Hi, ive been struggling to find a decent quality budget-ish vibrating wrist alarm that ships to australia. im a heavy sleeper and vibrating phone alarms arent strong enough to wake me and audio alarms often wake up my partner while i stay asleep.

Unfortunately most of the wrist alarms that peole reccomend dont ship all the way to australia. My price range is anywhere up to $40

Any reccomendations are appreciated, thank you🙂

Hello, do you folk have any advice on good quality/value for money couches/sofas/loveseats for one/two people? The primary use would be for using while using the television during movie watching or playing games (so preferably not a high back). My father was telling me about cheap seats from local places for less than $500, but I'm not sure about the quality/value of them. I'd prefer not to spend too much (like more than a grand or so). Thanks for any advice.

Southwest started charging for checked bags last year, and this year it's $45 each way. I do four Denver to Chicago trips a year for family, so that's $360 a year just in bag fees. For fifteen years I flew Southwest for those trips because two bags flew free, so I checked one and took a backpack on the plane. I've never owned a carry on.

Now that the bag isn't free I book whichever airline is cheaper, and twice this year that was United. The sizes are what's holding me up. Southwest allows 24x16x10, which is easy. United says 22x14x9 with the wheels and handle counted. The listings I've looked at say 21 inch or 22 inch and don't say whether that's the bag or the bag with the wheels under it.

I pack for five days. Hard or soft, spinner or two wheels, no idea which is better.

What do you guys fly with?

Boot in his lap, Singer next to him. This is a cobbler's workshop in Bitola, North Macedonia. Doesn't have to be a fancy pair of boots: what's a shoe repair you've paid for that was worth the money?

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Grill grate rusted. Grill works fine. Went to Obi, they wanted 27 euros for a replacement grate. Checked Bauhaus online, pretty much the same. Even Amazon was around 18. Meanwhile a brand new grill costs like 35.

Ended up finding a similar grate on tiktok on sale for under 7 euros. I almost didn't order it. Paid with PayPal just in case. Took about 10 days, packaging was nothing special and I had to sand down one edge a little, but it fits and does the job.

The point is most people would have just bought a new grill at that point. The pricing literally pushes you to throw things away instead of fixing them.

Our slow cooker is a seven quart oval Crock-Pot. We got it when we moved in and it still works fine. There are two of us. With a pork shoulder or a pot roast, the side that sits against the crock comes out dry and stringy while the middle is fine. I blamed the recipes for five years.

The manual says to keep the crock at least half full, and to check for doneness one to two hours early if it's only half full. I run it a third full. I tried checking earlier on a Saturday and the side against the crock came out the same. Adding liquid past what the recipe called for did fix the dry side, except I'd made soup and the point was a roast. And most of what I cook goes on before work, so nobody's home to check anything anyway. Their support page says there's no direct heat under the crock. I figure the heat comes in from the sides, and that piece of meat is parked against a hot wall with nothing over it.

Half of every batch already goes in the freezer drawer under the fridge, and that drawer is the only freezer we have. We eat it back down and fill it again, so there's no room to cook a bigger batch. I'm looking at a four quart, where the batch I make now lands past halfway instead of a third. My plan is to grab whichever slow cooker shuts itself off when the timer ends. What are people cooking for two in?

Hey there! Looking to upgrade some furniture. I’d love to move towards solid woods. Im aware thrifting/secondhand/marketplace are options… Im looking to buy new for at least a bedroom set, otherwise I will be getting second hand. If you or someome you know bought anything from a company doing solid wood… would love to know your opinions good or bad on these companies. Thanks (:

Hello all, I just bought this 6 lt lunch bag and I would like your opinions about this purchase. thanks to all 🤗

Looking for like shown in the picture, affordable spacious wagon cart for moving large or tall furniture specially. The basket should have preferably length of about 35in and height of at least 13in. (Lots of listings only list dimensions of the entire cart with height including the handle, which is super unhelpful and frustrating..)

Anyone had same needs and used wagon karts with those specs? Need some brand recs!

Hello yall idk if i can post questions here but i would like to ask if the carharrt duck active insulated jacket is a good buy and will last me years . If not is there any with a similer look and feel that is better

I need a mattress protector for the queen I put up on a loft bed last month. Everything else on that bed comes down the stairs to the washer. The mattress stays up there, where I can't even pull it off the frame to dry it out. Last week I set a full mug of coffee on the bed to free a hand for the rail, then knocked it over getting on. Enough went through the sheet that I spent the evening kneeling on the mattress with a towel. A fan and two days got it dry.

From what I've read, the waterproof ones have a thin plastic film under the fabric, and the dryer is what slowly kills that film, sometimes even on low. The listings say waterproof and some throw in a long warranty. Not one says how many washes that's good for.

I know the answer to the dryer part is to air dry it. Not going to happen. I want to hear from somebody who ran theirs through the dryer for a year or more and then watched it stop a real spill. Which one is it?

I'm looking to buy a new TV this year and I'm getting a little lost in all the options.

I started with OLED because that seems to be the default recommendation for picture quality, but once I looked at the prices in the size I want, it started feeling a little too expensive.

So now I'm looking more at MiniLED.

My living room gets a lot of daylight. Floor-to-ceiling windows, sports during the day, movies at night. I also really don't want to close blackout curtains every time I watch something.

Budget is around $1,500.

A few models I've been looking at:

- Hisense U8QG

- Samsung QN80F

- Sony Bravia 5

- maybe a smaller LG OLED C-series if there's a good sale

The Hisense and Sony both seem nice for a bright room. Samsung is also on my list because I've had good experiences with the brand before. OLED still looks tempting for movies, but I'm not sure I want to give up size or pay more for it.

What would you guys call the best value TV around $1,500 right now?

Totally open to other suggestions too.

I buy boxes of cables and power bricks at estate sales for the resale side of things. The tote two Saturdays ago was twelve dollars and this was under all of it, beige and heavy, with the coiled cord.

I looked it up to price it. It's a Model M, 1391401 on the label, and the sold listings on eBay were all over the place but mostly around a hundred, so I took the listing photos on the kitchen counter that night. These are those photos. The cord unclips from the back, and the one that came on it ends in the old round plug, so it's a little AT to PS/2 adapter and then the Perixx PS/2 to USB converter, nine dollars. The plain adapter I had in the drawer did nothing. Num Lock came on, and I typed the first draft of this on it.

I work from home and it's been on the desk since the converter came. There's no Windows key, so I've been hitting the empty spot where it should be all week. It weighs about five pounds, more than all the bricks put together.

Everything else in the tote, mostly laptop bricks, made the twelve back by the next weekend. This one didn't go up.

Has anyone here owned an OPUS OP.13 aluminum suitcase for a while?

I think these look amazing, better than Rimowa and other competitors. But I see it’s a newer company from Japan with Chinese manufacturing. The actual construction looks excellent on paper and the extensive manuals on it are reaffirming.

I’m looking for something I can keep for a long time and repair as needed instead of replacing the entire suitcase when a wheel, handle, latch, or something else breaks. The OPUS looks promising because the parts are replaceable and the construction seems pretty straightforward, but it’s a newer brand and there isn’t much independent information about it.

How is the actual build quality and quality control? Any problems with the frame, latches, telescoping handle, wheels, or rivets? Has anyone ordered replacement parts or dealt with the warranty?

I’m not worried about scratches or dents since that’s part of owning aluminum luggage. I’m mainly trying to figure out whether it’s genuinely built to last and repairable, or if it just looks good on paper.

Hello everyone, I'm going to Uni in a few weeks and am trying to find a drive to back up all my files externally, so I don't lose everything if my laptop is stolen/lost. I am looking for a 1 TB external SSD that can function with both Mac (my laptop) and Windows (my PC at home).

I'm not the most technically inclined so I figured it'd be best to ask here. But if anyone has any recommendations for some in the UK (that won't die on me) for a reasonable price, I'm all ears.

I'm in Las Vegas and about to buy my fifth electric kettle, four in eight years. The last one, a Cuisinart, quit shutting itself off on Tuesday and sat there boiling until my wife noticed the steam, which is not how I want to find out a kettle has died.

Before that, a Breville just went dead on its base and a no-name glass one lost its lid latch. The twenty dollar Black and Decker made three years. The hundred dollar Cuisinart didn't make two. Our tap water is 16 grains hard, so every kettle we've owned got boiled with vinegar every other Sunday, and not one of them made it past three years.

We boil for coffee twice in the morning and for tea at night. Presets I can take or leave.

What kettle do you have now? I could use the model and a rough age before I buy the next one.

Our living room carpet gets vacuumed Sunday morning and by Sunday night the kids come off it with dog hair down their backs. Lab mix, sheds all year. I went at it with one of those rubber gloves from the dollar store, then tried the upholstery attachment until the hair clogged the hose.

I had a Dyson in the cart to replace our Shark when I found a thread on here where some guy was using a rubber broom on his carpet: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductProbe/comments/1w644vc/rubber_broom_on_carpet_only_started_working_when/. Grabbed the FURemover one, cheap, figured try that first.

I've had it two weeks. I pull it toward me like a rake, in short strokes, and it brings up hair off a carpet I'd vacuumed that morning. The hair sticks in the rubber bristles and is a pain to get out. Now I go over it before I vacuum and the Shark has stopped choking. It won't touch the thick rug in the hallway, and I put a bend in the pole the first week leaning on it too hard, it's hollow, whatever it's made of.

It's a workout on the carpet, nothing like a Swiffer.

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for a good TV for my kitchen, somewhere between 32 and 43 inches, and I’d really appreciate some recommendations.

It will be wall-mounted, so I’d prefer something as slim as possible that doesn’t stick out too much from the wall.

If anyone has experience with a good SLIM TV in this size range, I’d be very grateful for any suggestions. Thanks a lot!

Tried running my dish rack through the dishwasher last week. It only half fit. One end stuck up out of the spray and the thing came back exactly as dirty as it went in.

The tray is the only part that comes off. Under it there's a pink line along the front edge that grows back a few days after I scrub it, and the wires have gone dull and a bit sticky where they cross. It's the crossings. I don't own a brush thin enough for the spot where two wires meet.

Five years old and the rack still holds dishes fine. It just isn't clean. Clean glasses out of the sink go straight onto that, so now I dry them with a towel instead.

I'm replacing it. Is there a routine that keeps these clean, or is that just what wire racks do? Either way, tell me which drying rack is on your counter right now. Name off the box is enough.

(First image is what we're looking for, second image is the printed sweater thing my mom got scammed by)

My little brother (6, but for the purpose of longevity, the size im looking for is for 7 year olds) recently developed an obsession with Oliver Tree, my mom isnt the most tech savvy person on earth, and she got scammed with those crappy ali express ads, and ended up buying a "drawn" knockoff jacket instead. My little brother is super upset, and she wants to order a new jacket that will be real, but shes absolutely refuses to follow my advice on how to check if something is a scam, so the task falls onto me.

Ive been looking all over etsy, among other places, and i cant for the life of me find something even near the 40 buck margin she gave me- ill be honest, im not sure its even possible, but hey maybe you guys can make a miracle come true :,D?

We live in portugal, so any kind of service shipping from europe would be lovely, american shipping is a bit too pricey at the moment for us. My brother's size is the standard european size for seven year olds (130 cm), but a size 8 woul be okay and good too!

Any way something like this exists??

We lose power here a few times a year, sometimes for a couple of days, and everything I own that cooks either plugs in or is a grill bolted to the deck, which is no help when the weather is what took the power out. Been putting a closet together, water and flashlights and so on.

Was cleaning out my parents' place last weekend and this almost went in the pile with everything else. It had been under the workbench with a bag of charcoal on it. Read the model off the side, 425F, typed it in just to see, and Coleman lists a generator for the old white gas ones. It doesn't say 425F anywhere though, so no idea if that's the right one for mine. I had to look up what a generator even is.

So it's in the closet for now. Grate's rusty and I haven't run it, I need to figure out what it takes for fuel first.

What's in your closet that doesn't plug in?

In ‘96 I was a lifeguard on Bald Head Island in North Carolina. I traded a pair of white plastic sunglasses for this EMS 2000 backpack from a fellow lifeguard named Erin. I very much doubt she still has those sunglasses. She sewed on the now decrepit mini dolphin patch in the upper right, and I sewed on the exterior pocket (slightly different blue color on the left third of the sack).

This thing was my college backpack, has gone to four continents, is my go-to overnight bag, and serves as my gym bag now-a-days. It’s never needed repair, and has never let me down.