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Tiny purchases that improve life<\/strong>
\nAsk Metafilter asked its users: \u201cWhat tiny purchases changed your life drastically?<\/a>\u201d The dozens of answers provide a wealth of useful tools and gear recommended by users. Example: \u201cA cheap low-feature MP3 player, like they sell for $30 for exercising with. They have way longer battery life than a phone, so when you\u2019re traveling you can have music the whole time without risking draining your phone and getting yourself stranded somewhere.\u201d After reading this, I bought this\u00a0tiny<\/em>\u00a0SanDisk 8GB Clip Jam MP3\/FM Radio Player<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Visual toolkit for grief<\/strong>
\nGrief Deck<\/a>\u00a0is a free visual resource for grief support. All the cards were made by artists or caregivers or someone who has lost someone. Anyone can contribute if you have something to say about processing loss. You scroll seemingly endlessly for an image card that resonates with you, when you click on it, it flips to deliver a prompt or meditation to focus on and let your feelings arise. Grief has never been something I expect to go away, but it is something I learned to coexist with. The best advice I ever received regarding grief was to schedule it \u2014 daily if you need to. For a month, I would hold in my tears until I was alone and then I would cry until I was exhausted. After a month, it became less and less, but I never stop making space for it. Here is\u00a0the card I contributed to Grief Deck<\/a>, inspired by my father-in-law who we lost last year. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Retractable electric cords<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m in love with retractable extension cords that work like the retractable cord in a vacuum cleaner. You pull it out to use it and then yank it to slurp up the cord when done. So fast and tidy. The awkward alternative is to try to untangle long extension cords and wrestle them back again. I\u2019ve put a retractable cord reel in my studio, one in my workshop, and one in my garage that extends to the driveway and street \u2014 anywhere I find myself needing power temporarily. You can mount it on a ceiling or wall. I like this\u00a0Dewenwils reel<\/a>, which is 30 foot long, and inexpensive ($44). I also use a longer and heavy duty (12 gauge) for my shop offered by\u00a0Amazon\u2019s own<\/a>\u00a0generic brand. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

Earbud extension cable<\/strong>
\nIt seems like Zoom and Google Hangouts will be permanent fixtures in my life. My Bluetooth earbuds have not worked well for me. The wired earbuds I use are foolproof. It\u2019s just that the cable is too short for comfort.\u00a0KabelDirekt\u2019s 3-foot extension cable<\/a>\u00a0solved the problem for me. While Zooming, I can now stretch comfortably in my chair without having to worry about the earbuds falling out. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n

Largest database on rocks and minerals<\/strong>
\nMindat.org<\/a>\u00a0is a great website to lose time if you\u2019re an amateur rockhound. It is a nonprofit project by The Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, and the \u201cleading authority on minerals and their localities, deposits, and mines worldwide.\u201d There\u2019s a lot of ways to search for and discover new rocks, including a cool\u00a0color search<\/a>. If you\u2019re more of a \u201cpro\u201d than an amateur you can contribute your own photos and data. My husband likes to bring home rocks from river beds and hikes and I gravitate more toward crystals, but it\u2019s one thing to admire the natural beauty and wonder of our earth\u2019s materials and another to learn about it\u2019s importance and use in our world. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n

Daily art<\/strong>
\nBeeple is the artist who famously sold a digital NFT of his artwork for $69 million. While that is crazy and hard to believe, what I find more remarkable is that the art piece was a montage of 5,000 paintings he did over 5,000 days. Without fail, he created a piece of art for 5,000 consecutive days and shared it. I found this short YouTube\u00a0video of Beeple talking about this daily habit<\/a>, before he was rich and a celebrity, so inspirational that I began making a piece of art everyday myself. (You can see my first 60 pieces\u00a0archived here<\/a>, or posted on\u00a0my Instagram<\/a>.) \u2014 KK<\/p>\n

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