…and why?
Excluding the obvious such as clothes and utensils.
Screwdrivers.
Vacuum Cleaners
We have four.
One lives in my backyard shed, for cleanups and dust collection.
One lives in my garage, for cleaning the cars.
Our house is split level, so we have one for upstairs and another one for downstairs. All to save carrying it up and down the six steps that divide the front and back of the house. These two are the same make and model.
Yes! I live with my SO in a 2-bedroom apartment and we have three vacuum cleaners. One is a robot vacuum that vacuums our whole apartment twice a week. One is a push vacuum for rugs and occasional deep cleaning. The last one is a hand vacuum for quick cleanups and tight spaces where the other vacuums can’t reach.
Grills
- propane grill for regular grilling
- pellet grill for smoking
- portable grill for camping
I recently converted my stove from gas to induction, but one of the casualties was my griddle top - steel griddle covering the entire stove. I loved playing short order cook or having all that space to toss around fried rice. I keep telling myself I don’t need something like that but those Blackstone grills keep drawing me in
After a few years with a Blackstone I can confidently say it’s fun, but not for everyone.
I got it thinking it would save some time, money, or effort. It did none of those things.
It’s quick and easy if you have the support of a surrounding kitchen, but if you’re having to drag everything you need with you outside to use it, set up an clean up take just as long or longer.
It’s a huge attractant for rodents, but a clip on the grease drain fixed the problem of the rats getting to and shitting all over the cook top. But I occasionally find rat shit inside the grease bucket. I keep a liner with poison in there now.
It does genuinely make food better in some cases. Bacon and eggs just taste better coming off that thing. Fried rice is fantastic. Steaks an burgers come away with a great sear. I make a chopped cheese that I can’t replicate inside the kitchen.
Cleaning up all of the grease is a pain. It fucking gets everywhere. Even with a lid, the second you open it grease is going to coat every surface within about 10 feet. Not much different than a kitchen griddle but I find that cleaning up the Blackstone takes a bit longer.
It’s also built to fail. The cook top is fine, the burners are fine. The supporting structure might as well be made of paper. I had misaligned holes and don’t dare use the bottle opener. The included gas line had to be replaced after a year as the safety tripped and couldn’t be dislodged.
I enjoy my Blackstone. I really do. It doesn’t do what I wanted it for but it does do a mighty mean breakfast.
Part of that seems like an argument for the more expensive models, LoL
I doubt spending more will fix the build quality issue. Just get you a bigger griddle. I have a 4 burner and it’s fine. But it’s also required more maintenance in it’s few years with me than my mother in law’s gas grill did over 20 years. It’s just cheaply built. If that’s important to you I’d look at other options. Id even go so far as to suggest, since you already have a gas grill, just getting a plate to fit inside it. Works exactly the same way, doesn’t add an appliance.
I might get a plate. I’ve been looking at them!
The downside is they are custom sized and every grill is different. You can’t really expect a plate for one grill to work n the next. Historically I’ve had grills last only 4-6 years. This one is more expensive so I hope it’ll last but is already five years old
Smol keyboards. Each one was my endgame, but I still like them 🤗
Earbuds. They’re absolutely essential and have the durability of wet toilet paper
Back in the vinyl phase a few years ago, I bought both a regular cover and an alternate cover of an album.
It was so cool for about 3 seconds, when I realised the record/music were the same. Realised I paid double JUST for a different picture.
Last record I ever bought
Guess.
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Have you by chance joined the pocket knife community?I’m adding a parallel comment addressing your edit.
Is this the part where I finally get to say, “Do you know who I am?” I’ve been waiting years for that one.
Ah, now I see. It all makes sense now.
Usually I don’t look at usernames and thought I found your soulmate.
This line is uttered about three times a day in my household.
Gabe is that you?
I never quite wrapped my mind around knife/flashlight collecting. I have one of each that I EDC and I did quite a bit research to find the ones I like the best (Benchmade Bugout and Wurkkos TS22 - both in green). Carrying anything else would mean leaving home the one I like the most which doesn’t make any sense.
I don’t judge. It’s just one of those things I have no theory of mind for.
To each their own. I mean, some people collect spoons of all things.
Spoons. Not knives. Madness. (Next you’re telling me it’ll be forks.)
I can’t really wrap my head around collecting anything, be it knives, Pokémon cards, video games, or classic cars.
Maybe the closest thing I have to a collection is seeds, but I plant those to grow stuff. Is that a collection? Maybe! I guess you’re not disqualified for using the things in your collection.
I collect cool rocks.
Maybe collecting is a mental illness.
There have been times when I’ve thought that but I think the test has to be based on how much it affects or doesn’t affect the rest of your life. If you’re spending huge amounts of time and money on it while the rest of your life and relationships suffer, it’s probably an issue. If it’s mostly a hobby that occupies a reasonable portion of your life, it’s fine.
It does bother me though that some collecting hobbies seem to be mostly about spending money and trying to achieve a complete set rather than a mixture of stuff of collecting, repairing, researching, and visiting people, and going to shows etc. I’m all about variety in life though, so that may be a personal bias of mine.
You collect knife boxes, and you have them filled with knives just so they’re not empty.
What is that fancy shelf system? 😮
The backplane is the rather popular 3D printable Honeycomb Wall system. The angled divider trays are my own design which is compatible with the same.
Oh wow, you’re not kidding about it being popular. That page of add ons went on forever!
Very cool, and your design looks great as well.
I only have my faithful Ontario Rat, but we’re practically inseparable!
Another popular storage solution is Gridfinity
Oh I went down the rabbit hole all day yesterday on this stuff!
Multiboard was pretty cool too.
If I had a 3d printer it’d be running non-stop right now 😄
I got like 15 different sharpening stones. We should hang out sometime.
I suspect that would result in a lot of sharpened knives.
Lol. Oh for sure. Knife and straight razor sharpening has been my hobby for the past 30 years. My daily driver EDC is currently a red Microtech Ultratech knife and an Olight ArkPro in zombie green.
So many shelves!
I studied the blade
No, those are all necessary.
writing tools
Game consoles.
I enjoy collecting and modding them more than actually playing lol. Generally I suck at games.
Now I do play them. But I spend a lot more time figuring out better ways to use them and getting the best quality out of them possible, or trying to use og hardware but playing any game (like ps2 over ethernet)
This is so wholesome.
I just like to dink around with things, its fun!
Hand lotion, lip balm.
I buy my hair gel in liters when the price goes low enough, not when I need it, so have two or three liters sometimes.
Two dogs and two cats because people left them with us. I’d be good with one cat.
This is how I’m envisioning you! :D
Can openers, they’re cheap, I keep losing them, buying them, and finding them.
After thinking about this a bit and reading through this thread, I realized I might have a problem about always wanting spare things. I have more than one of a lot of things - lip balm, battery banks, phone & watch charging docks, dogs, headphones and earbuds (even two of the same kind), computers, pillows (I have spares of my main and body pillows), and the list goes on. I apparently need to re-evaluate my habits.
I have two teeshirts, but strictly speaking only one is required. This is because of social pressure
Knives, I have a lot of knives. Always looking for that new look or different blade geometry. New fancy metal or accessories. Just always been a blade or edged weapon kind of guy.
I have a bunch of bows too. Into archery as well…
Arrowheads are knives too if you really think about it.
Classic cars. Triples is best.
I was gonna say mine aren’t “classic” but the newest vehicle I have is a 2007…. One junk class daily driver plus a mega-hauler truck to tow around my track-day car.
Well you need three to be sure that you have one that’s actually running at any given point.
Yup. Don’t even need one. But three? Peak useless (but fun).
E: don’t take me for a hater. Cars are my hobby. I’d have a fleet of unique and interesting cars if I could. But there’s no way you can’t have a little self awareness that having multiple cars is kinda useless.
I like to have a special car for every occasion. Twisty backroads, or a track day? Roadster. Long highway cruise, or maybe moving some bulky stuff? I have a hearse, which sits on an '80s Cadillac limo chassis. Aside from commutes, I only drive my daily on the rare occasion I have more than one passenger.
If I ever get a third “fun” car, it’ll probably something like a Jeep for off-roading.
