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LED Faucet Light
☝🏻️Screenshot of Product Offering on Wish App☝🏻
Rating - C&G (for Cheap and Great!)
What is it? It's a simple twist-on attachment for your sink faucet that glows blue when the water is cold, red when it's hot and green when it's warm. I bought mine from Alliexpress. Several sellers have the same product, so just search the site for LED faucet. Inexpensive, easy to install, bright at night and still visible during the day. The kids love it!
Where can you get it? AliExpress, BangGoods, or the Wish App, which currently has the product listed at $1
Shower Head Water Filters
☝🏻️ My Choice: The Culligan WSH-C125 from Amazon☝🏻️
I never thought I'd be obsessed with the specifics of water quality. Yet, here I am.
One thing I cannot stand is when a seller claims their shower head water filter softens water when it doesn't. I have seen so many vague filtering descriptions and a couple of downright lies.
As far as I'm aware, all that a shower head filter can do is reduce chlorine- which is NOT what most people understand to be softening water. According to my research, the only way to get soft water throughout a house is to install a large and expensive filtering system that uses salt packets. Electronic and magnetic pipe descaler attachments exist that supposedly remove hard deposits from your pipes, but these are not backed by science, so I cannot recommend them.
Are shower head filters still worth it? I think so, if you have chlorine in your water.
Before you buy this type of filter, first check to see if your water district adds chlorine to your water supply. If the answer is no, you don't need one of these filters. If the answer is yes, some of these filters are great- the only two I recommend are Culligan and Aquasana.
These filters will remove chlorine from your water, which helps a lot of people suffering from dry skin and hair. My son's eczema cleared up after I installed a filter (I use Culligan). Of course, it's impossible to prove causation, but I believe the cure was getting rid of chlorine in the bath water.
It's frustrating to buy a product when you really can't tell if it's working or not, which is why I recently purchased a water tester. These are available on Amazon and they're not too expensive, if you want to get some visibility into what's actually going on with your water.
If you can't afford a home water softener, but you want to wash your hair in beneficial water (not soft, sorry) try Googling rice water. It's easy to make a bucketful of rice water, and it really does have benefits for your hair and skin.
Bike Lights
There are a few things in life I won't tolerate—for example, the crappy bike light accessories that some of these big box stores have the fucking nerve to sell for $10 and up.
If there's one thing that Chinese online suppliers excel at, it's lights, and their bike lights blow all the commonly available products in the US out of the water.
Check Aliexpress (again I made sure to buy mine at the 11.11 price) for the 3000 lm Cree bike lanterns and also the super cool attachable brake lights that shine your own laser bike lane on the road, in stable or flashing mode.
These lights are not only awesome, they are a safety game changer. The shipping can take a long time (one month), but I find it's worth it.
Below are pics of the products I bought and the price I paid.
If there's one thing that Chinese online suppliers excel at, it's lights, and their bike lights blow all the commonly available products in the US out of the water.
Check Aliexpress (again I made sure to buy mine at the 11.11 price) for the 3000 lm Cree bike lanterns and also the super cool attachable brake lights that shine your own laser bike lane on the road, in stable or flashing mode.
These lights are not only awesome, they are a safety game changer. The shipping can take a long time (one month), but I find it's worth it.
Below are pics of the products I bought and the price I paid.