I ordered a carbon eyeglass cleaner. It was ok. Did it work? Yes. Was it easy, sort of. But it took up more space in my purse than my little eyeglass cleaning cloth and didn't work significantly better. I also ordered a similar item for cleaning the screen on my phone. As with the eyeglass cleaner it worked, but not significantly better than the cloth I use.
We have two shedding dogs and when I saw they had animal grooming gloves that worked as brushes I had to try them. Our older dog HATES being brushed. These really worked! While the older dog still doesn't love being brushed, he's more tolerant of these than a regular brush. Our lab, well, she just can't get enough. She begs for more when we stop! Does it get the undercoat out? No. But does it do a good job of regular brushing? Absolutely.
I ordered a Firebiner: Flint Multi-Tool Carabiner for my nephew who is into survival. He said it looked cool and might review it on his YouTube Channel. If you want to see some fun videos by a 12 year old (now, he was 11 when he started) check out "Survival Kid TV" on YouTube. I think he does really well, but I'm sure there's just a little bias there!
Recently I bought two more items, a "Guac Lock" and some "Spot Stuff." I had better luck with these purchases.
Let's start with the Guac Lock. There are just two of us in the house. We both like guacamole, but we throw a lot out because we don't eat it fast enough. I thought if this gadget worked, we might get through an entire batch of guacamole (or hummus, or any other dip that makes a enough that you're going to have leftovers.
There are four parts to this gadget. There is the serving/storage bowl with movable bottom, a "plunger" and a special lid.
You place your guacamole in the bowl and serve it up with your favorite chips! If you're like us, there will be leftovers (though I know folks for whom this is a single serving) and as you know leftover guac turns brown pretty quickly. Will this help keep it better longer?
When you're done snacking, you simply flatten out the guac and use the plunger to push the dip to the top of the bowl and place the lid on it. Then push the dip up a little more until it's popping through the hole in the lid.
You can see a few air bubbles in there so I wasn't sure how this was going to work, but I closed the flap and put it in the frig. As a control, I put a little guacamole in a bowl, topped it with a little lemon juice and put plastic wrap over it, how I would normally store leftovers.
After 24 hours both bowls still looked fine. You can see just a little darkening of the guacamole in my "control" bowl.
After 48 hours the guacamole in the Guac Lock looked much better than my control.
So it works! It looks nice on the table and it keeps things fresh, so I'll call it a win!
I will say that the base of the bowl is a little looser than I expected it to be and some guacamole did seep into that seal and got a little nasty looking, but overall I'm happy with this purchase.
If you want to see my review of "Spot Stuff, go HERE.
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