cycas Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Apparently some dull household cleaning product has been 'voted product of the year by thousands of you'. I don't know where they get these 'thousands of you' that vote for dishwasher cleaners. Nobody has ever asked me this question. This made me wonder: if someone asked YOU what product you would nominate for 'product of the year' what would you say? Feel free to nominate any kind of product and tell us all why it is worthy of nomination in a comment. You don't have to stick to products that came out this year - it's YOUR product of YOUR year, so it's fine to nominate a product that has been available for ages, as long as you have discovered it during YOUR last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spins4me Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Oust odour killer. Smells ok, clears vile smells. Probably pollutes the atmosphere too but in a smelly emergency it's excellent stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickentikka Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Ok it's in the last 2 and a bit years................but for me it's the iPod, love it, love it , love it . I know they've been around for ages but I take time to get there . Also because I love to go a wandering but never have a map (or perhaps I'm just so carp at map reading ) I luffs my Satmap. I really can't get remotely excited by cleaning products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted June 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 Yeah, I can't either. The past few years I've found myself increasingly getting in touch with my Inner Slob I decided that the best new item in my life over the past 12 months is a book : The City and The City, by China Mieville. I reckon it counts as a 'product' after all, you can go and buy it in a shop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murtle Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 argh........... a cleaning product - cyber clean...goo to clean the keyboard!! I only like it, cause it's goo like stuff and gets all the crap out the keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happylittlegreensquirrel Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 your website service fixing solutions for cyber dense squirrels is my product of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griff Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 can i have 2?? am i allowed 2?? firstly netbooks.....brilliant cheaper alternative to a laptop... does mostly the same stuff (well everything i need) at a fraction of the cost..so light and neat secondly.... those wireless usb connector thingys.... brilliant.. surfing the internet lying in bed during the middle of the night instead of being tethered via cables to the telephone socket oooooo number 3 dog rocks..... my lawn isn't patchy anymore (i was very sceptical) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khanu Posted June 21, 2010 Report Share Posted June 21, 2010 I have a bit of a list and some of them I have used for more than a year, but they have certainly saved my sanity this past year. 1) ipod classic. Massive storage which means I have at my fingertips all my training dvds (and important music). It gets taken everywhere and whenever I get a free few minutes I get to watch the DVDs I've had hanging around for ages and not yet watched. My favourites at this time are seminars by Kathy Sdao - she rocks! 2) ebook reader - same premise as above, I can put journal papers as well as books, and i've found a few free textbooks on line too. Again goes everywhere and I can read for pleasure or for college or even work wherever I am. 3) Garmin - running has never been the same since I bought this gadget. It records everything, heart rate, pace, gps positioning, has sensors for my bike so I can track cadence etc. I get to look at all my stats and see how I'm progressing - my inner geek (that isn't so inner really) loves it. 4) Turbo trainer - although it is a love/hate relationship. It saves me from cycling outside in horrible weather, or from leaving the dogs for hours to go for a ride, but it does mean I often have a bike set up in the middle of the living room, and you do get extraordinarily hot and sweating when riding on one and if I use a fan it means I can't hear the TV - which is another reason I like it, I'm all for multitasking as frankly there aren't enough hours in the day for me. 5) Fizik Arione Tri 2 saddle - it's saved my butt! Plus the red and white goes well with my white frame. 5) Blue roll - we no longer use kitchen roll, we use the enormous rolls of blue paper that you see in garages. Kitchen roll doesn't last 5 mins in this house with all the mess the dogs manage to make. Blue roll is my saviour and has been used so much since Talyn arrived you wouldn't believe. Fortunately he is piddling less now that he is gaining confidence but I did consider buying shares.... I have no feelings about cleaning products, but anit-bac and/or bleach spray gets used in similar amounts to blue roll, I have no allegiances though and get whatever is cheapest when shopping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonbladez Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Ummm it would have to be Fabreeze for me! Or or, Vax Carpet Cleaner solution. The ammount of foster's I have through the door over the years who have had accidents in the early days. Saved my carpets it did! Oh oh... or my Ipod. Nothing better than a summers day walk with the dogs bopping away to AC DC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spins4me Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Errr didn't think to mention my iPhone which is so brilliant cos I can use it as a tiny puter, it has an iPod thingy in it so I can listen obsessively to my favourite music and it has an app called Whatsapp which cost £4.99 and allows me to text and phone anywhere in the world free (as long as the other person also has it on their phone). Brilliant for those I text obsessively. It also has other apps which keep me amused in times of boredom (not v frequent these days!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel n Hardy Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 Real ale - in bottles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celeste Posted June 22, 2010 Report Share Posted June 22, 2010 I second the Febreeze, but would also like to give Asda Floor Cleaning Wipes a mention, excellent for housework phobic 's like me to clean the kitchen floor without all the arsing about . Silicon baking trays were a bit of a revelation, still amazes me they don't melt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad as a catter Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 Never tried Febreeze, cannot in our house, we have birds, and it can kill them! Oust sounds good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kittycat Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 The Furminator! Best thing I've bought this year! I also agree about the Ipod. Saves me having to run the laptop or computer to browse the web at home and waste hours playing on various apps! Though their durability needs to be questioned I'm on my third one due to software failures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merledogs Posted June 24, 2010 Report Share Posted June 24, 2010 Furminator would be better if it had a tiny hoover attached to it to suck up all the tons of hair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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