u/acoffeetablebook

The mat under my chair has been catching my heel on its split edge for weeks, and I wasn't about to pay chair money for a glass one. A thread I read a while back said to stop buying mats and put rollerblade casters on the chair instead, and that they don't damage hardwood. On Monday a set of rubber office chair casters went on and the mat went out to the hall. The chair is cheap and years old, so there was no warranty to think about when I pulled the originals out. On a newer one I would have left them alone, because a base that cracks with somebody else's wheels under it is an argument I would lose.

First thing I noticed sitting down was that the chair rides higher and the desk feels low. I still haven't worked out whether I fix that or get used to it. This chair also runs so freely on bare wood that a push I used to make without thinking puts the keyboard out of reach. I've taken to pushing off at about half strength, which looks about as stupid as it sounds.

It's too soon to say anything about the wood, which is the only reason I ever had a mat down. Someone else has written up how their floor looks after more than a year on the same kind of wheels. Theirs is laminate rather than wood, and they name the set they used: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1x0qkuk/

If we had a cat I would still have a mat down. The grit that comes out of a litter box gets walked all over a room, and sharp bits like that work into a floor whatever is rolling over them. We don't have one.

The best bread machine deal is usually a used one from a thrift store for $10 to $20. A replacement pan costs $50 to $100, so on a machine like that it's cheaper to grab another one. The pan only matters on a machine you'd want to keep, and whether you can still buy one goes model by model.

Zojirushi still sells the pan and paddles for a BBCC-X20 someone bought in 2004, but the owner of another Zojirushi, a BBCC-S15A, said last year that the pan for that model wasn't made anymore. For the Oster Expressbake, one person was told the pan was obsolete, and a Breadman Ultimate owner could only find one on eBay.

What bread machines still have pans for sale?

The best laundry hamper in this house is one my mom bought sometime in the 90s, and that's kind of the problem.

She handed it to me when I moved out. Plastic, brand worn off the bottom, older than some of my coworkers, not a crack on it. Two years ago I felt like a proper adult and bought myself a new Sterilite, and last week its handle split while the basket was full. The edge it left is sharp enough that there's tape over it now, and the old basket is back on duty like nothing happened.

I figured I got a bad one, but the Walmart reviews under the model I was about to rebuy are full of the same handle story. And the big thread Google serves up is mostly people bragging about hampers they've had since college. Good for them. Nobody sells the 90s anymore.

The tall fabric ones on a frame worry me too. The one detailed review I read said the fabric pulls off the frame and the poles don't stay put, and I'm not spending $100 to find that out myself. I want to stay under $30, it's a box for dirty socks. So what's held up for you? Bought new in the last few years and still in one piece.