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Category Archives: Gifts for Anyone
If You Get A Quality Umbrella, You Won’t Leave It Behind
As I write this, eastern North America is bracing for a wallop from yet another hurricane with a girl’s name that is tearing up the coast, having somehow gone rogue and escaped from her natural home in the Caribbean. So rain … Continue reading
Posted in Gifts for Anyone, Outdoors
Tagged caribbean, failure, hurricane, northeastern north america, rain, rainstorm, trashcans, umbrella, umbrellas, wallop
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Comply Tx Foam Earbud Tips – Ear Luxury!
If you’ve listened to great recorded audio, you won’t have forgotten it. Hearing all the instruments, the vocals, the fingers sliding on the strings, the drum and bass lines the way they were meant to sound – I can’t describe … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Gifts for Anyone
Tagged bass lines, drawback, drum and bass, ear canals, fingers, foam, memory foam, quality headphones, shape, Shure
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Fenix E21, the Best 21st Century LED Flashlight
What do you need flashlights for? Camping, looking in small spaces, seeing in the car at night, going out in the dark, living through power blackouts – when you need them, you really need them. Or do you? Is the … Continue reading
Posted in Gadgets, Gifts for Anyone, Outdoors, Tools
Tagged 21st century, camping, cells, electricity, fenix, flashlight, flashlights, power blackouts, small spaces, sweet spot
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The iRobot Roomba Is the Vacuum Cleaner for the 21st Century
Here’s the problem for me: how to keep the kitchen floor and the bathroom floor clean every day. The kitchen floor collects crumbs and the stuff that just ends up as a result of the time we spend there (which … Continue reading
Posted in Appliances, Gadgets, Gifts for Anyone, Household
Tagged irobot roomba, robot vacuum cleaner, roomba, roomba 400, roomba 500
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SmartMouth Mouthwash Is 12 Times Better Than Any Other Kind … Really
I don’t think bad breath is as prevalent as the big consumer products corporations would have us believe, but Daisy does. In fact, Daisy doesn’t think enough people remember those “morning breath: the worst breath of the day” commercials from … Continue reading
Go Smile Toothpaste Will Brighten Your Morning, Evening … and Teeth
You go to buy toothpaste, and you see vast aisles of toothpaste in the supermarket, Target or giant drugstore, but you don’t really want any of them. Crest, Colgate, Tom’s and Rembrandt with every mathematical combination of features – why … Continue reading
Brome Squirrel Buster Plus Feeds the Birds … Just the Birds
It may still be unseasonably balmy in much of North America, without too much snow on the ground yet, but it’s nearly winter as far as wild birds are concerned. It’s nowhere near too soon to start feeding them. It … Continue reading
Gill Tube-Wringer Gets Every Last Molecule of Toothpaste
The Gill Tube-Wringer #401 is designed for heavy-duty use; it’s not necessarily supposed to be for toothpaste. When I saw it, I immediately wanted one for its serious industrial look and its Made in America status. Squeezing out the toothpaste is … Continue reading
Posted in Gifts for Anyone, Grooming
Tagged crimps, fingers, Gill #401, Gill Tube-Wringer, heavy-duty tube-wringer, rollers, toothpaste dispenser, tube squeezer, Tube-Wringer
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Palomino Blackwing 602 Is Closer to the Original Blackwing
Almost exactly a year ago, I posted about the revival of Eberhard Faber’s classic Blackwing 602 pencil by California Cedar Products, who had started making the Palomino Blackwing. It was a quality pencil, with the timeless design and unique replaceable … Continue reading
2009 Beaujolais Cru Is NOT Beaujolais Nouveau … It’s WAY Better
I admit it – I was in Europe in November back in the late ’80s and I got all caught up in the Beaujolais Nouveau hype. It seemed important and festive to be among the first to try the newest … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gifts for Anyone
Tagged Beaujolais, Beaujolais 2009, Cru Beaujolais, Cru Beaujolais 2009, red wine, Wine
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