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What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected? (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

There's a small tea retailer in the UK, What-Cha.com, and the owner does a "mystery tea" option which he uses to get rid of slower-moving teas, or teas he might have had to buy to get a better choice on a tea he wanted to get from a wholesaler. Or sometimes teas he just wants people to try.

"Mystery tea" sounds dodgy, but it did a great deal to expand my horizons, because even these mystery teas were really, really good (far better than ANY grocery store tea in the USA) and opened me to teas I might not have otherwise tried.

I'm TOTALLY a snob importing teas from the UK...but what can you do? America is a coffee-culture country, not a tea-drinking place, and the local stores just have tisanes or crappy bottom-tier tea (basically, tea dust from processing higher grades of tea is packaged into teabags and sold in grocery stores--and people don't know how crap a tier of tea that is!)

[-] dondelelcaro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've had great luck with Upton teas for the past decade or more in the US. Great selection, teas at multiple price points from broken leaf to first flush single estate.

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