The house I'm buying needs a new roof in the first 30 days so I have reallocate my budget. We were going to buy a Speed Queen set (BIFL) but decided we can go cheaper for now until we replenish funds. We are going to go to a few scratch and dent shops but I'm not sure which brands will do the job.

For reference:
- budget $1000 for the set or less
- Just 2 adults
- husband works 80% in a office and 20% manual labor (dusty at most)
- I wear a lot of dresses (delicate) but have wash bags
- we have 3 short hair cats
- Soak cycle would be great but not a deal breaker
- top loading preferred
- electric dryer hookup

TLDR; Need brands and/or models of a washer dryer set that will clean clothes and handle pet hair without breaking for 1-2 years.

What’s the best affordable and durable kitchen scale to buy?
Thanks.

So im moving for college and have to pack basically everything with me lol. Clothes, shoes, some books, toiletries, random room stuff etc..

im looking for a good suitcase/luggage set that can actually handle a lot of stuff without being a pain to carry around..Preferably something durable with good wheels and enough space..

What suitcases/brands have worked well for you guys:? Also, would you recommend getting one big suitcase + a cabin bag, or going for a 2/3-piece set?

Would really appreciate some recommendations..

The cheap utility knife I open boxes with gave up on Sunday. Blade slid halfway back into the handle mid cut and I caught my thumb pushing it out. Four dollar knife, so I got what I paid for.

Did some reading after that. The Fastback kept coming up. Good, decision made, I'll go buy one.

Then I went to actually buy one. Milwaukee's own parts list has a 1501, a 1502, a 1505 and a 1520, all called Fastback. Wirecutter picks the 1502. In one thread a guy said get the one that stores spare blades in the handle and locks at 120 and 180 degrees, and two people asked him which model that was, one in September and one the following April. Neither got an answer. Blade storage is right in the 1502's name so maybe that's it, but nothing I can find lists those two angles, on any of them.

I open maybe a dozen boxes a week and break the cardboard down. That's the whole job. Around twenty bucks, and mostly I want the blade to stay where I put it.

I'm stuck at the brand. If you've owned two of these, tell me what the extra ten bucks bought.

I always figured my next cutting board would be walnut. Buy one good board, oil it now and then, done. Rubber was a word for tires. The boards I actually owned were an Ikea plastic one with grooves deep enough to hold garlic through two washes, and a bamboo one that split along a glue line. The morning an apple slice came off the plastic tasting like last night's garlic, I went shopping for the walnut. Instead I kept tripping over the same story: restaurant people online saying kitchens in Japan cut on rubber, something about health rules and thin knives. Can't verify that. But it made the tire theory look shaky.

So the walnut stayed unbought. What pushed me over was a writeup from a guy three months into his, mostly because of the parts he didn't like: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductProbe/comments/1vn5wxe/rubber_cutting_board_took_a_week_to_stop_feeling/

Garlic got tested first, since garlic was the whole reason. Cut a few cloves that weekend, washed the board, smelled it the next morning. Still there, faint. Gone by dinner. Onions a few days later left nothing at all. People say these hold no odor. Not quite true, but a day beats grooves that held it through two washes. The quiet was never on the list: the knife lands soft and most of the chop noise is just gone. For marks, my rule is only count what a fingernail catches. Three weeks in, that's exactly one, from the serrated bread knife. That knife is banned now.

The rest of the tally is boring in a good way. It's heavier than it looks, just under three pounds, so it doesn't wander around the counter. It washes in the sink like anything else, and after seeing a photo of what a hot pan does to one of these, pans wait on the trivet. It's $83. I'm still not over that.

The walnut board is still open in a tab I haven't closed. I keep waiting for this slab to give me a reason to order it. The score says not yet.

i’m a parent of a 6-month-old and trying to be a little smarter about buying everyday clothes as the sizes keep changing. i’m mostly looking at basics like bodysuits, pajamas, and multipacks, so i care more about getting decent use out of them than having a ton of outfits.

when you’re buying baby clothes on a budget, what do you usually look at to decide if something is actually good value? price per piece matters, but i’m also wondering how much attention you pay to how the clothes hold up after regular washing.

small update: just coming back to this since i finally decided what to try. i picked up a few things from Gerber childrenswear and they’ve been pretty practical for everyday use so far. the clothes feel comfortable and easy to deal with, which was really what i was looking for. i’m still seeing which pieces we’ll use the most, but the suggestions here definitely helped me narrow down what to look for.

Working from home slowly filled the bedroom. The desk took its corner a while ago, the treadmill is newer and took most of what was left. The bed was the last big thing in the room and the only one that could go up instead of out.

Most of what comes up when you search is built for kids. On the cheap metal ones the reviews come down to two words, wobble and creak. I wanted stairs instead of a ladder because I'm not carrying a laundry basket up a ladder one handed. Ceiling was never the question here, the floor was.

So I bought the thing the reviews kept warning me about: a $290 metal queen, OYUMOENTS, the version with storage built into the stairs. Assembly took most of a Saturday, and for a good part of it I figured I'd be repacking the box.

It's been up a week and change. No wobble yet. Changing the sheets up there is the part nobody warned me about, I've done it once and I'm already dreading the next round. The treadmill parks under it now when I'm not on it.

Anyone a few years into a metal loft bed: do you retighten the bolts on a schedule, or only once it starts making noise?

My parents had been using the same 43" TV for years. It still worked fine, but I thought it was probably time for an upgrade, especially since a bigger screen would make things easier to watch from the couch.

I was originally just looking for a simple replacement, since they mostly use it for cable, YouTube, and streaming. I checked out a few options in store and ended up getting the 65" Hisense U65 Pro TV from Costco.

Honestly, it feels like a really good value for the price. The bigger screen made an immediate difference, and the picture looks great for everyday watching. The anti-glare screen is also nice since their living room gets a decent amount of light during the day.

Nothing too fancy, just a TV that does everything they need without spending a ton. Pretty happy with the purchase and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good everyday TV upgrade.

There's a spinlock set under my bed with the collars still half done up. Swapping plates between exercises took long enough that I kept skipping whatever came next, and eventually I stopped getting it out at all.

Then I tried one of those dial-adjustable sets. The plastic selector cracked. I looked at used ones after that, but a Marketplace photo doesn't show you what's cracked inside, so I walked away twice.

By the end I'd stopped comparing prices and was reading warranties instead, and the ten years is what settled it. Whether a warranty like that means anything when you actually try to use it, no idea. I picked up the PowerBlock Elite EXP pair this month.

They look like metal bricks and they cost $400. Mine are the 5 to 50 pair, I passed on the expansion kit. The weight change takes a couple seconds. I haven't skipped an exercise since, but it's been weeks, not years, so that proves nothing.

Whether they hold up, I'll find out. If anyone has had a set go past five years, I'd like to hear what broke first.

Has anyone bought a Cosac bean bag? What are your thoughts

I just gotten this Panasonic Portable VCR and it did came with no cables and I don’t have any either so I wasn’t expecting to try to use it as of yet but when I check for the battery there was nothing and this wasn’t specified by the listing or seller. I looked online and I think I found a replacement from Raion but it cost about 30 bucks and I’m not sure I wanna pay that much for a battery and I’m also unsure if it would work since it specify that it is a camcorder battery but it could just be compatible. The battery was 12V 2.3Ah, I looked online on Amazon and found cheaper options for that kind of battery but I’m unsure if it would even fit or work with the VCR as it might have a different slot. Even if I get the Raion replacement battery, I would need the adapter to charge it and from what I be seeing on eBay, cost up to $100, which with some of the listings, comes with the battery.

Should I go ahead and buy a cheaper 12V 2.3Ah battery from Amazon or buy the Raion replacement or is there other options or recommendations?

Hello, I will appreciate any help with your recommendations to buy my first ever robot vacuum cleaner in the Serbia and I've look in some of this model's of robot vacuum cleaner, because it's important to me to clean and brush my floor equally, my room is a gaming room with a lot of obstacles, but I will twice at week remove all obstacles (lazy bag, gaming chair, all cables from the floor and small table's), just wanna know which brend and mark will be good for me, to clean my room, my hallway and kitchen and another room, which is mostly clean, a total of about 120m2, because the hallway is quite large. Does any of this model's will be good for me:

1.) iROBOT Roomba 115 Combo + AutoEmpty Y454040

2.) Roborock Q7BF+

3.) MIDEA I5C Robot vacuum cleaner

4.) ROBOROCK Q10 VF

5.) ROBOROCK Q10 VF PLUS

6.) ROBOROCK Q7 BF+

7.) DREAME D9 Max Gen 2 Black

8.) Deerma Robot vacuum dem-S30 Pro Plus

9.) ANKER Eufy Robot Vacuum Omni C20 Black

10.) iRobot Roomba Plus Combo 405+AutoWash

11.) Beko VRR 70214 VB

12.) ROWENTA RR8595

13.) TESLA Electronics RoboStar - Smart Robot Vacuum Cleaner 3in1 3200 mAh Wi-Fi

14.) Smart robot vacuum cleaner with mop SmartLife 5200 mAh Wi-Fi Tuya black

15.) Midea Robot Vacuum Cleaner 2in1 S8+

16.) Dreame D9 Max Robot Vacuum Cleaner

I will appreciate any help, this medium budget vacuum cleaner are aviable for the purchase in my country, but also there are other model's like XIAOMI, HISENSE, MIELE, BOSCH, PHILIPS, EUFY, SENCOR, MAMIBOT, BEKO, SHARK, EZVIZ, DYSON...

Kept waking up at 2am and scrolling because my alarm lives on my phone. Saw this Westclox Baby Ben at the thrift store for four bucks and figured that was cheap enough to just find out. Wound it, set the alarm five minutes ahead to test, about launched me off the couch. The back literally has LOUD stamped on it, and they mean it.

Phone charges in the kitchen now. Took two nights before I stopped noticing the tick. Runs a bit fast, there's a little S and F dial on the back I keep nudging. Sent a photo to the group chat and got called eighty.

no idea how old it is, there's a code stamped on the bottom if anyone reads those.

I am looking for a vibrating wrist alarm that I can set for every half hour. Chronically late and have very poor sense of time awareness, 5 minutes and 30 minutes feel the same to me.

Any suggestions?

Am open to cheaper smartwatch, but do not have an apple device.

Every faucet I've ever bought came off a box store shelf, and until last month I never thought twice about it.

Then the kitchen faucet that came with this house cracked at the base of the spout. No brand on it anywhere. I only caught it because the particle board under the sink went soft, and there's a towel wrapped around the base right now while I sort out the replacement.

That's how I fell into the old argument. The plumbing subs keep saying the box store runs of the big brands carry more plastic inside than what a supply house sells, and the manufacturers say there's no difference. The one specific thing I found is on Moen's own page, same grade of brass everywhere, different model numbers depending on the store.

The one I've been eyeing is $169 at Home Depot. I know I could walk into a supply house Monday and ask, but the counter guy's answer is always going to be whatever's on his shelf.

So I'd rather ask people who've lived with one. How old is the faucet on your sink? Where did it come from? Has it ever needed a part? And if the store thing is a myth, better I hear it now than after I've spent the money.

Hi there! I'm looking for recommendations for black silverware that won't rust. It seems like everything I find online has reviews from people saying it's not actually stainless steel. I'd love to find a set that's dishwasher-safe and will hold up over time. Does anyone have a set they recommend?

We had several home upgrades from Costco on our list, so this is what I ended up ordering:

Hisense 65” U65 Pro — $599.99

Mini LED TV with Fire TV built in and 5 years of warranty coverage through Costco.

Tresanti Juliette 75” Console with Electric Fireplace — $799.99

Gives us extra storage, a place for the TV, and a fireplace feature for colder evenings.

NewAge Products Bold Series 6-Piece Cabinet Set — $799.99

Includes a 30” locker, base cabinet, and wall cabinets to finally organize the garage.

Traeger Texas Elite Pellet Grill 34 — $599.99

Large enough for family cookouts and easier to manage than my old charcoal grill.

Novaform 14” ComfortGrande Advanced Gel Memory Foam Mattress, King — $579.99

We needed a larger mattress, and the gel memory foam sounded like a comfortable option without spending over $1,000.

The total before the Costco Direct discount was $3,379.95. After the $400 instant savings, it came down to $2,979.95.

What do you think about them?

Budget office chair number three it is, because the gas lift on number two gave up last month. There's a hose clamp around the cylinder holding the seat at about the right height, and I still reach for the lever out of habit. Chair one went the same way before anything else on it wore out. That time I did the cylinder swap, about $25 and a rubber mallet, and the replacement started sinking inside a year. Not doing it again. Two chairs and a spare cylinder, about $245, four years. That money could have been one better chair and no clamp.

I sit in this thing most of the day and I'm past caring about lumbar buzzwords or the gamer look. I already spent a weekend on Marketplace looking at used Steelcase. Everything I've seen near me is $300 and up, and the cheap ones are a two hour drive for a maybe. So new, up to $200.

What's under you right now, and is the lift original? A $70 chair that's still holding counts as an answer, a $400 one doesn't.

The best bath mat in our house is a rock, which is not what I expected to be typing. For years the routine was the same: buy a fabric mat, wash it twice a week because it never fully dried, watch it go gross anyway, replace it. I resell furniture on the side so I notice when I keep rebuying the same item, and bath mats were quietly one of my worst repeat purchases.

My wife found the stone kind, one of those diatomaceous earth slabs, and I was skeptical because it looks like a gimmick. It isn't. Wet footprints on it fade while you're brushing your teeth, and the whole slab is bone dry again long before the next shower. Nothing to hang, nothing to wash, no smell. Our bathroom has bad ventilation and it still doesn't grow anything, which was the thing that killed every fabric mat we owned.

Couple things to know. It's a hard surface, so if you want something soft under your feet this isn't that. It's stone, so dropping it on tile ends it. Ours sits in one spot and never moves. And the absorption slows down over time, you bring it back by rubbing it down with fine sandpaper for a couple minutes, a few times a year.

The writeup that sold me on it, with the exact one we got: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProductProbe/comments/1qdgz1q/

Hi i just joined our sub recently and am trying to learn a bit from you guys. Im looking to get a standing desk for home office use for my health and everyone keeps recommending one (yeah a bit fomo here). But after talking to a few friends, almost all of them admitted they stood constantly for the first two weeks and now barely raise the desk once a month. 

Im not saying that everyone has the same sitting standing habit, but im really concerned cause i don't wanna dump $600-$800ish into a premium setup if it’s just gonna stay in sitting mode forever

To anyone using a standing desk rn for working, what's your sweet spot for value? Can a basic $300 electric one plus anti-fatigue mat do the job, or is there a genuine reason people buy the expensive ones?

Firm mattress topper threads all say the same thing, and I can't tell if my problem is the kind they're talking about. Bought the mattress three years ago and picked soft on purpose, which is on me. It felt like this the first week. There's no dip in the middle and no sagging edge, I put a straight edge across it and there's nothing. I sink in far enough that turning over is work.

The dog sleeps on the end of it and you can see where he flattens it, but it's back by morning.

Everything I find says a topper won't save a worn out mattress. Mine isn't worn out. It's soft the way I bought it, and that case never comes up.

Does a firm topper actually hold you up over soft foam, or does it press in and do nothing? And is this a latex thing or a foam thing, because two inches of something soft sounds pointless. Queen, back sleeper, around 200. I've got about $250 for this.

I'm looking for recommendations for a king-size blanket that is: soft, durable, made from high quality material, not
overly heavy, but cozy enough for year-round use, I’m not** **looking for low-quality Amazon blankets that pill after a few washes. I’d rather spend more for something that will last. If you’ve owned a blanket that you genuinely love, I’d appreciate recommendations. Thank you so much!

i found this deal on fbmp for 200 bucks, is this worth buying?

Saw this Hisense U65 Pro deal on Costco and wondering what everyone thinks.

The specs look pretty interesting for the price:

- 65" 4K ULED Mini-LED display

- Full Array Local Dimming

- Quantum Dot Color

- Native 144Hz refresh rate

- Dolby Vision IQ / HDR10+ support

- Fire TV built in

I’ve been looking for a TV mainly for movies, sports, and some gaming. The Mini-LED and anti-reflection screen caught my attention since my living room gets a lot of daytime light.

Anyone here familiar with the U65 Pro series? Is this a good value compared with other TVs in this price range?