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Muncie4 t1_j2c5lqu wrote

You DO NOT want to be looking at brands with footwear ever. The super majority of brands sell both BIFL and normal footwear and you are not informed enough to know the difference and may buy XXX Brand boots based on internet advice and find out 18 months from now you stepped into a bear trap. You want Goodyear welted Chelsea boots. We also don't have a sex or budget as they come in heeled versions for women and $10,000 versions through John Lobb.

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Muncie4 t1_j26jf3c wrote

You can't ask worth on the internet ever. Worth speaks to how much you make vs. how much an item is and a relative knowledge of the amount one should spend on an item. We know none of that. If you like and can afford the knife and dad wants it and can use it, get it. I can list 30 knives that are cheaper and the same quality and 300 that are more expensive and the same quality.

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Muncie4 t1_j26iz2j wrote

If you are hard on vacuums you will wreck any suggestions given here unless you stop being an asshat to your vacuum. Stop kicking the shit out of your vacuum, yanking the cord out of the socket from 20 feet away and slamming the filter closed with the Wrath of Khan.

Or likely the issue is your previous vacuums were the $89 specials from Walmart as there are many BIFL plastic vacuums as long as you don't make it a habit of giving them the People's Elbow when the head gets wedged under the couch.

Riccar and Miele are the kings really and feature a lot of plastic, but they are NOT your $89 Walmart stick vac plastic. Your bigger failure points are we don't know your budget and floor type as those are the #1 and #2 metrics of purchase and we know neither.

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Muncie4 t1_j26i1ks wrote

Care is the easy part you have ultimate control over. Tap cold water use with all the things. So many think you have to boil your clothing in hot water. Detergent. If you are doing a normal load, use the recommended amount. Don't be like my wife who Kobes 32 laundry pods into the drum with each load regardless of the clothing or soil amount. Use the shortest cycle and use a front load washer as front loaders clean better (haters will say I'm wrong) and are easier on clothes than an old school agitator toploader. Know that bleach, Oxiclean, Borax, Baking Soda are not required for most things. If you get a legit stain, pretreat and 99% of the time it will come out. Hang to dry or low heat....least invasive drying as you can get.

I use the Consumer Reports best pretreater on all stains. OxiClean MaxForce is the current winner, though this may change one day....in any event, get and use it. I keep the bottle 6 inches from the laundry basket. Remove shirt, spray taco stain, drop in basket. 1 to 14 days later, that stain is loose as shit. I use the Consumer Reports best laundry detergent. Persil ProClean is the current winner, though this may change one day....in any event, get and use it. I was all the things in tap cold and other than wool things, I dry all on low because too lazy to hang dry stuff other than my Darn Tough socks.

Wear is the next thing you have control over and this comes with personal metrics. Underwear, socks, and undershirts are daily change items. Full stop. Everything else, can/should be worn several times to extend the lifespan and reduce waste unless you get a taco stain on it or there is an odor due to *.reasons. And no....the hipster kids who say you can put your jeans in the freezer to kill germs and eliminate odors are wrong. The personal side is knowing your role and brain. Some just can't wear a shirt without washing from a mental perspective. Great. We all have our things in life. Some need to recognize that you can't wear a shirt again after rebuilding a transmission and/or pulling a 12 hour shift at the onion ring factory. Otherwise, you can wear items several times before laundering.

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Muncie4 t1_j22m06p wrote

You are conclusion shopping when you should first visit the search engine and review the results based on many previous conversations based on this topic. There is no BIFL brand, but there are BIFL mattress types and the #1 most touted one is latex. If you want a BIFL mattress, you want a latex one. Will you like it as they are heavy as hell, tend to be pricey and hot? Those are you questions as most mattress questions are you questions vice internet questions.

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Muncie4 t1_j22awbb wrote

You first need to learn the metrics of shirting as you don't know them. Shirts give zero fucks about your height and weight. Shirts care about your chest measurement, your neck measurement and your sleeve measurement. This is probably why you are currently unhappy with CT as you are buying randomly vice specifically. I'd recommend you go to the closest CT location and get fitted and then try on an example of their fits to determine what you like.

Now if you live too far, another option is custom. https://www.moderntailor.com/ and https://www.itailor.com/designshirts/ being options though there are others.

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Muncie4 t1_j1zll3y wrote

The answer is not one that you will like, but you need to hear it. Rubbermaid Commercial. These are brutes. The big yellow bucket with wringer. The handle. The mop heads, which you can wash. All bulletproof. They make some "Swiffer" type commercial heads now too, but you said mop.

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Muncie4 t1_j1zf3g3 wrote

The best would be to look at the Mohs Hardness Scale and/or the Rockwell Scale and start at the top and work your way down. The best would be a diamond table top. Tungsten would be the logical choice.

Snark aside, the internet can't help as we don't know your budget, whether this is a DIY venture or a pre-built venture and what meets your definition of neutral and inviting/fits with Japandi.

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Muncie4 t1_j1ze3lb wrote

  1. 0 people can tell you online what kind of leather this is. Online leather diagnosis, like online cancer diagnosis, is not a thing. The texture bears no role as you can emboss any leather like substance with any texture. With diagnosis of material, you cannot speak to quality online either. With diagnosis of material, you cannot speak to authenticity online either.
  2. You can condition any leather with any texture. But, you are likely better to take these to a cobbler and have them do it. White is tricky. Using Product A might change the color. Using Product B might work great. Leather care products require testing in an inconspicuous area first and/or knowledge....a cobbler will likely know what works without you having to do trial and error.
  3. The cut is for laces and as long as you don't lace them using this and/or snugging them up with the strength of five gorillas, it will not be an issue. Though a cobbler could put in a courtesy stitch at the top and bottom if you like.
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Muncie4 t1_j1xhx9s wrote

You need to read more online as what you've posted so far shows a lack of research. One example: Timberland. Timberland makes over 100 different types of footwear for men. Some of them are terrific. Some of them are normal and are meant to be tossed after say a year. People often disparage brands such as this because they purchase the on sale $50 Timberland glued construction boots and expect the lifespan of the $250 Timberland PRO goodyear welt construction boots. Repeat this with other brands like Red Wing, Allen Edmonds, etc. There are many footwear ignorant people on the internet.

Here is your help and please listen with an open mind as I know stuffs:

  1. You don't know your shoe size. You need to correct this or you will fail hard. https://www.newbalance.com/on/demandware.static/-/Library-Sites-NBUS-NBCA/default/dwc8bbcac1/pdf/Womens_Printable_Sizing_Tool.pdf is one method, but you should use a Brannock Device for best results. You will find out that you have, say, 10EE feet. EE is important as there is not such thing as "wide" as that varies from maker to maker with no solid size. And many quality shoemakers make 10EE boots which will be 100% better fitting than a nebulous "wide".
  2. The hallmark of BIFL footwear is goodyear welt construction so you can have them resoled later. You must know this as part of the looking process. And know that not all makers make 100% quality footwear. For example: Timberland and Red Wing make super quality BIFL boots and they also have some normal boots which are not super quality. If you buy without knowing if they are goodyear welt construction....you may step in the bear trap.
  3. Know your men's size. As part of item 1 above, perhaps measure with the men's Brannock and write this down. This expands the pond of purchase as, generally, there are more men's boots than women's....and respectfully, since you have large feet, this works greatly in your favor!
  4. Lastly budget. $800 boots are a thing and we don't know your budget. For some $800 is a yawn figure, for others its a hard pass. So we can't recommend without this metric. Very generally BIFL boots start at $200ish and anything south of that should be looked at hard, unless there is a terrific sale.
  5. Since you are in 'Merica, the easy button is to walk into a Red Wing store and get a real fitting from Al Bundy in the store via a Brannock Device and tell him your budget and you only want to see goodyear welted non-safety toe boots.
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Muncie4 t1_j1xe41c wrote

You are confused as this is not an upkeep question. The question is which sharpening brand/type he should use/what types there are. I provided one answer. You should provide another answer vice grading my answer....OP needs help and I didn't ask for yours.

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Muncie4 t1_j1krfa2 wrote

You cannot ask the internet sizing questions. Full stop. Quit it. Sweaters are especially terrible in this regard as they can stretch. You got questions about that? You try it on in person or refer to the website for fitment help.

There are technically zero trustworthy sites as every site can feature fraud. Don't look at amazon, look at EVERY site.

Genuine Aran. There is no such thing. Aran is not a Vidalia Onion where its a specific type of onion grown in a specific region. Aran means many things to many people. A holy shit red cardigan dress from Burkina Faso could be called an Aran Sweater and feature a large Irish flag tag stating so. And it would be fine. Aran can refer to:

  1. A country of origin (or not)
  2. A color palette (or not)
  3. A weave type (or not)
  4. A style (or not)
  5. A wool fabric (or not)

So using the above, ANYTHING can be called an Aran Sweater as there is no standard. In fact, what I had for dinner this evening, I'm now going to call an Aran Sweater because I can.

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Muncie4 t1_j1kqj6q wrote

This is BIFL, not the internet safe shopping subreddit. There are 690 billion websites. We cannot list the reliable and unreliable ones. And zero retailers have a 100% legit rating as fraud is always a possibility. Literally the only way is to buy nothing and that's not possible so do what you can.

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Muncie4 t1_j1hscda wrote

And as no one as read Rule 1 here, this is not a literal sub. There is Dollar General teflon cookware there is Chemours Teflon Platinum Plus cookware. There is BIFL nonstick, you just don't know about it or think every item discussed here has a minimum lifespan of 100 years.

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Muncie4 t1_j15q45p wrote

I don't believe it, I know it. I personally know the supplier for several Ralph Lauren wallpapers. Ralph Lauren purple label suiting is supplied by Caruso. Ralph Lauren shoes are supplied by Allen Edmonds. Ralph Lauren furniture is supplied by Henredon. And these aren't exclusive as they often have several companies who OEM for them.

I'd recommend you climb down from the cynical mountain. There are examples and shortcuts to meet what you say. Ralph Lauren suits at Macy's are bottom tier for example. But every brand has levels and to say that every designer item is terrible is false.

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Muncie4 t1_j141lq5 wrote

Experiences of others has near zero value to you. If you want BIFL footwear, the general rules are:

$100/Euro will not get you BIFL footwear.

Goodyear welt construction is BIFL material, there are other types, but those tend to be the $1000 shoes.

You don't buy based on Brand Name, you buy based on construction. For example, the boots you linked to are not BIFL as they are glued construction. Maybe Tommy has BIFL boots of another type.

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Muncie4 t1_j1410ea wrote

Stares in Brooks Brothers and Tom Ford. Look chief, don't throw blanket opinions out there. One of the reason why designer brands are so expensive is they use the very best makers to OEM for them. Those "overpriced" Tom Ford longwings? They are neither cheaply made nor throwaway.

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Muncie4 t1_j13lbrd wrote

Well, go on with your bad self. I posted an amazon link as courtesy to non-Sams people. Please post your spreadsheet of every dishwasher pod ever on a $/pod basis. This is not the cheapest subreddit, it is BIFL, and I post the best pod based on testing that I am aware of. Now if you have cost/quality data, please post it.

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