What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected? - eviltoast

I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn’t work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.

Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!

It went from stupid purchase to something I’d gladly replace if it broke.

  • AThing4String@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Bed sheet suspenders. Dumb problem, stupidly cheap, horribly made, and ABSOLUTELY fixed the friggin sheets being yanked off the corner of the bed twice a night by my tumble-dry-medium sleeper of a spouse.

    When they finally broke after almost 2 years I sewed some that’ll last 10 years and I don’t regret them at all.

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      1 year ago

      Hello, I am the tumble dry spouse and the number of times I’ve been thwapped in the face with elastic in the middle of the night is too damn high. I’m going to get some of these. Do you have a tutorial or explanation of how you sewed some?

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      1 year ago

      This one I can absolutely agree with. Takes an extra couple seconds when you’re changing sheets but you will never have to redo the corners ever again.

      However, I haven’t been needing them since I started using Threshold sheets from Target. The corners are deep and have a ton of stretch. Of course I keep the suspenders around for when I need them because they’re so small that the footprint is negligible.