What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 1032 points –

I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn't work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.

Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!

It went from stupid purchase to something I'd gladly replace if it broke.

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Our house has all gold colored fixtures and normal knobs.

I got really fed up with having to drop everything to open the garage door that I purchased a black lever type knob so now can open the door with my elbow/foot/bags

Doesn’t match anything else in the house right now but it’s my single favorite change I’ve made to our house

I've never understood why so many places insist on using the round knows, they're worse in basically every way.

My old house has door handles instead of knobs. Replacing the garage door knob in the new house with a door handle is on my to-do list.