Showa are what they use on the ferries. Wear a thin liner glove underneath.

Banana boxes are good, but if you want regular sized boxes - go to Home Depot instead of U-Haul. Same size but much cheaper.

Jetpens has you covered for pretty much any style of pencil sharpener. For a very basic manual one, I like the one that came with my set of Staedtler Lumigraph pencils. It does not catch the shavings, but it gives a good reliable point and they are easy to find at most art stores or online. They make a good mechanical pencil too if you get sick of sharpening, although my own all time fav mechanical is the Uni-Ball Kuri-Toga

I landed up washing stuff by hand to avoid them most of the time! But washing things on gentle does help and also using mesh delicates bags. Even with my own much gentler front loaders, I still like to wash things like leggings in them to keep them from getting tangled up. Also, make sure you sort your stuff by heavy versus light. Our doublefront work pants get their own loads, just like you do with towels.

The Speed Queens just seem to have a very aggressive agitator. Even back in the day when t-shirts were thicker, I went through so many of them!

The firmer foam gives you support so you don't bottom out on the eggshell or memory foam topper

The 50s had loads of junk too! But we mostly only see the good shit due to survivorship bias. And the 20s had kind of a crazy amount of what we would today easily call fast fashion.

The ones people go on about here are the commercial Speed Queens. Be warned these eat clothing for dinner and use more water. You are trading appliance shopping for clothing shopping. Maybe that's cool with you and you like clothing shopping more than me or have amazing thrift stores nearby, but it is something to know.

I think the closest you will find is Lee Valley.

That's pretty much how much wool hoodies like this cost. Even if you look at Smartwool and Icebreaker.

Some of the hiking pants are pretty hard to tell from just casual pants. Kuhl is a good one for that category with lighter fabrics. You might also look at things sold more as travel pants, like Eddie Bauer. I'm sure someone will recommend lightweight "tacticool" pants, but those are not really any cooler than jeans to me and likely not appropriate for an office job. Some of Dickie's stuff is lighter. Not the most stylish and the durability is variable. Uniqlo might also work as being slightly more durable than your average mall store, but don't expect to do hard labour in them. More offbeat suggestion - Utilikilt. There are also some other good sport kilt makers out there, but very much if it seems too cheap to be true, it probably is.

Probably need to resole them. Normal shoe maintenance! You want to do so before it wears into the cork, or the repair will be more expensive.

Lamy Safari

Haha, yeah Star-of-Bethlehem came already planted in our last house. I thinned it out a bit, but it did have some tendencies toward world domination. It was pretty well thwarted by placement next to ostrich ferns and really massive old peonies, but if there had been a garden on the other side of that fence instead of concrete they would have had a hell of time controlling it.

Brecks is part of the "Direct Gardening Association" which are notoriously bad. Once you are on one mailing list, you will get a ton of spam. All of them have poor customer service, terrible shipping issues, and bad quality bulbs. They have rotten BBB and Garden Watchdog ratings, so you don't have to take my word for it:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1787862/anyone-order-from-breck-s-bulbs-before

https://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/183/

https://www.bbb.org/us/in/guilford/profile/catalog-shopping/brecks-0292-90020657/customer-reviews

I use a watch with an hourly chime. Casio has quite a few good sturdy workhourse watches with this feature. Timex has them too, but they switched to plastic watchfaces and now they scratch easily. My watch also has a built in timer. I press the timer button to get a get a 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 minute timer. Use it for my tea at least twice a day! And it is good if you are into Pomodoro method type techniques for time management and to time rest periods between weightlifting sets.

Mine is a Casio 3225 W-214 HC. The plastic watchband is garbage, but was easy to just swap out with a nice black metal flat link one and you'd never know it wasn't stock. There are several variations.

I agree with all of these suggestions: https://www.floretflowers.com/an-update-on-fall-bulbs/

Avoid Brecks! And all the random places owned by the same company.

I would recommend any of the daffodils other than the ones primarily grown for forcing. Some will spread more, but all will be long lived. Your big King Alfred types will eventually make glorious swaths if you don't skimp when you put them in. It takes more than you think to get an impressive show! If you plant them onsie-twosie they will make clumps, but they will always be scattered. Avoid the tulips with deer, they are candy - but if you do have a fenced area they cannot leap, crawl, or shove their snoots into many of the botanical varieties like the rock garden species sort spread well and so do Darwins and many Triumph. Squill of all sorts are an excellent naturalizer. I really love Siberian squill personally. Crocus spread well, may have flowers nibbled off with heavy deer pressure though. Most of the small bulbs will be fine really. Winter aconite, bluebells, lily-of-the-valley, star-of-bethlehem, snow-on-the-mountain, snowdrops, etc. Alliums are also a good pick, but do often take a long time to spread for the larger ones. Dahlias are fab, but need lifting in your climate. Be aware some of the things I have suggested may be invasive in your area, so you might want to be checking on that. Lily of the valley were impossible to remove once established when I lived in Ontario but oddly better behaved where I am in BC. (Probably because they hate the soil, but I'm okay with that)

You might want to put your country and growing zone in your post. Also do you have deer, rabbits, etc and what sort of soil do you have. (Telling you an excellent source of tulips does no good for example if you have hoards of deer like we do)

I have good luck with the "crystal" deodorants. There are a few tricks to using these. One: you just want a solid one, smooth is nice, but it'll round over time. Two: you want to apply this immediately after you shower. If you shower at night, apply it then! Three: you want to spread that rock around like a ferret on crystal meth. Don't just get only the middle of the pit, the sweat glands go our farther than you might think. This will not stop sweat, it just knocks back the BO and doesn't stain shirts. Otherwise I got nothing and avoid wearing either pure white or pure black in my daily farm life xD

Topsy Farms are great. Their blankets are made by Macausland Woolen Mills which is who I suggested, but buying directly from farms is always pretty swell as well if they have any left from last shearing!

Macausland Woolen Mills has a nice lap blanket size and they are super warm. You didn't list what country you are in, but they are in Canada. If you are an American , the exchange rate is in your favour. They are quite a bit cheaper than Hudson's Bay or Pendelton and better quality, using wool local to them from the Maritimes and New England. (Pendelton used to buy local wool and stopped, leaving a lot of Oregonian sheep farmers in the lurch and my fam are all still bitter about it)

Otherwise I agree with the electric throw blanket suggestions, or slipping a heating bad under a blanket to warm your thighs and those big blood vessels. Slippers help too, more than you'd think! But what would probably give you the most bang for your buck is a small portable heater pointed right at you.

I mean, yes and no. The make-up based subreddits are ultra germaphobic in general and not really worried about the waste or longevity. Plus, if you are a member of those subs, chances are you go through stuff a lot faster than OP.

I would advise a mineral make-up in powder form in your situation. All liquid formulas are going to expire on you (and separate out or go all weird eventually even if you don't mind or notice that they expired three years ago). As a bonus, it is very easy to find ethical brands in this space and smaller indie companies. Many sell on Etsy or you can check your local hippie grocers. Even Sephora has some options that meet your criteria. (I would have recommended my favourites but both closed down after over a decade or two acouple years ago. I am going to be sad when I finally need to buy my eyebrow powder though.)

Stay with a corded one then for sure! Cordless can't deal with rock so well.

Yeah, I finally upgraded to one of these and love it. The Mini version is a great fit for smaller hands btw!

I recommend the Land's End Stadium Squall. Great hood, so many pockets, longer length, has the walking slits positioned so that you don't get a wet bum if you sit on something that is still damp, did I mention those pockets? And it comes in colours other than black for better visibility to cars and an easier time at coatchecks as a small bonus. They even come in petite sizing.

I like Poshmark, but here I would be wary because you don't know enough yet about what you need and want in a coat and you can't feel them up to know if the material will work. Some wool looks nice and thick, but is such a loose weave that the wind cuts right through. You are going to land up with more than one coat, so if you see one you like as a fancy dress coat and you forsee that being a need, it might be worth it, but don't expect it to work out as your main coat. You can find lots of nice sweaters, sweater dresses, and cozy cute winter skirts that way though!