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What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant? (mander.xyz)

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I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!

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[–] Hope 116 points 1 year ago (22 children)

A bidet attachment.
For me, an under-the-sink trash can that hands on the cabinet door has been a huge QoL improvement.
A back scratcher.
Much more situational, but our back gate has a padlock that was originally different from our house keys. Kwikset actually sells "programmable" padlocks so now it is the same key as our front door, which makes life a tad easier.
A computer mouse that fits my hands.
Enough phone and laptop chargers to not have to constantly go to another room to grab one.

[–] grue 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kwikset actually sells “programmable” padlocks

Pretty much all locks are re-keyable. Kwikset's "smart key" system is different only in that you don't have to buy new pins and take the lock apart to do it.

(I'm switching from Kwikset to commercial-grade Schlage because I wanted to upgrade the durability of my interior locks and wanted the exterior ones to match, so I'm about to find out how much more difficult normal re-keying is. Wish me luck!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Normal rekeying is pretty easy, if you're careful - push out the core (the "follower" will hold your spring pins in place), dump out the old key pins, swap to the new key, and put in the new key pins, replace the core. Even when I've completely screwed it up (pushed the follower too far so the springs came out, mixed all the key pins together so I had to work out which was which, and more) it's not been more than a 10-minute job.

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