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A mastery of physics. A shape that serves exactly one purpose. It‘s singular like a ringing crystal glass. It‘s stubborn like a key. The arguments for and against a shoehorn are exactly the same: it’ll make each day just a little easier. It offers a frictionless on ramp to the rest of the world. You don't need to gnash your heel into your shoe, you don't need to pause and sit and lace and unlace. You can just slide into the shoe and out the front door before you even have time to think.
Sep 30, 2024
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Small little plastic thing that makes my life a little easier and saves the backs of my shoes
Jan 16, 2024
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a step outside the comfort zone to step inside the comfort zone
May 23, 2024
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biking shoes, boxing shoes, climbing shoes, etc. aesthetics are sharpened by purpose
Dec 22, 2023
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This is long because it’s the one thing I bought off an IG ad that has actually been life changing. For years I wanted a dumb phone to fight my phone slash online shopping addiction, but I didn’t wanna lose maps and a good camera and the iMessage “echo” effect. This does that. My Brick lives on my fridge, and once I tap my phone to it, any app I haven’t whitelisted is blocked. And you can block anything. Even the calculator! Which it deserves…after I blocked the obvious ones like IG and shopping, I realized how addicted I was to *information itself*
Occasionally, I’d need to Google something of import, but mostly, I used it to scratch my gnawing, itchy brain. I’d habitually fact-check conversations as I had them, to look up interior photos of the restaurant I’d soon be going to, to search, for the hundredth time, whether fish can feel pain. So anyway I blocked Chrome and Safari and it was nuts. I can’t really get stuck in my bed in a phone hole because the phone fun dries up real fast. I have to just.. get up? Read a book? Incredible. When I do unbrick, usually because I need to do promo for my book, I feel feral and off leash, I turn into a zombie ipad kid, and it’s sobering but makes me glad I have something to stop it. It’s nice being able to purchase a personal quality that you lack.
Sep 30, 2024
I don’t like having lots of pill bottles displayed on my bathroom shelf or nightstand. My pharmacy doesn’t even use the iconic orange ones, and besides, it all feels a bit too Girl Interrupted for a woman of 33.
To find a pill box that could hold multiple bottle’s worth of pills—that also wasn’t ugly and plastic—I had to find boxes not meant for pills. Ebay has tons ofc, and all you need to do is get the measurements and find a velvet jewelry organizer insert that’ll fit. There are a billion.
Sep 30, 2024
I actually think the Skims nipple bra was genius, but I’m here to tell you that you don’t need it. I got these during a slightly manic phase, though not in the service of sexual pleasure or counterculture. It was fashion. My nipples never showed through shirts and frankly, I felt like I was missing an accessory. Now, they always stand at attention. It’s great.
Sep 30, 2024