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These are great! For less than $10 each, I’ve bought a bunch of them and left them scattered around my apartment and various other places so I can always find a
by bbqmaster999 6y ago
These are great! For less than $10 each, I’ve bought a bunch of them and left them scattered around my apartment and various other places so I can always find a watch. If it’s starting to take me too long to find a watch then the watch density must be getting too low, so I order some more.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoHave you considered a clock or perhaps wearing your watches
- mssundaram 6y agoYeah interesting - I always keep my watch on, even showering - it cleans the watch and I have a water resistant one. I only take my watch off to put on a different one for style.
- Smoosh 6y agoAt this point, are you wearing the watch, or is the watch wearing you?
- mssundaram 6y agoWe're symbiotic
- top_post 6y agoWhat?
- throwhypothetic 6y agoI do the same with clip-on guitar tuners.
- gorkish 6y agoSnark? There are easily 20 of them kicking around my house haha
- asddubs 6y agoi keep 5 watches in each pocket of my jacket, in case some of them fall out.
- redler 6y agoSurely every jacket, and not just the one?
- st1x7 6y agoWhy would your pockets fall out?
- FartyMcFarter 6y agoBecause they have too many watches inside them.
- systemvoltage 6y agoThis is genius and a great quality of life improvement. $50, I have a watch somewhere in my house that I can find and wear.
- Nition 6y agoHere I am designating a place for my watch and always putting it away in that same spot like a pleb.
- Angostura 6y agoI must be odd. My designated place is my wrist.
- ce4 6y agoThat's hard unless you're Buzz Aldrin and wear multiple watches at once :-) https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/opinion-being-one-watch-guy https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/opinion-being-one-watch-gu...
- sbierwagen 6y agoThe linked article does not mention Buzz Aldrin, or wearing multiple watches?
- nicky0 6y agoI guess they probably intended to link this: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/buzz-aldrin-rocking-three-omega-watches-at-once https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/buzz-aldrin-rocking-three-...
- tosh 6y agoat first I had to laugh, but then I realized I do apply the same strategy to chocolate
- Sunspark 6y agoIt's all about the quality of life.
- topspin 6y agoThat's my box cutter strategy.
- dvtrn 6y agoHow often are you (A) needing to know the time and/or (B) misplacing your time pieces?
- shoo 6y agoI am afflicted by (B), which impedes measuring (A).
- HPsquared 6y agoWhat do you do when the hour changes?
- myself248 6y agoIf the BIPM redefines how long an hour is, I guess we'll just have to ditch our Casios and start using Swatch internet time.
- tomcooks 6y agoOne can only hope, it's a beautiful concept that would make life easier for non Americans consuming a lot of live media produced in the US
- myself248 6y agoHonestly, if it'd been UTC-centered instead of UTC+1 where Swatch is headquartered, I'd probably have pushed harder for it. I really like the concept.
- abiogenesis 6y agoSome countries/states don't have that issue.
- nicky0 6y agoMy grandmother had severe arthritis and her fingers lacked the fine control needed to set her watch. So she simply kept it set to the same time zone all year round and made a mental note to subtract one hour for half the year.
- devindotcom 6y agoThe others laugh, but this is great (my house isn't big enough to bother though). Another baby game changer along these lines - buy a 20 pack of small microfiber cloths and hide them in all your coin and inside jacket pockets. Never be without a glasses wipe when you need one. I even give them away to people who forgot theirs, since frequently I'll have two on my person.
- sand500 6y agoSupposedly microfiber cloths are awful for the environment as they leach microplastics if you ever wash them. https://www.wired.com/story/microfibers-are-the-new-microbeads/ https://www.wired.com/story/microfibers-are-the-new-microbea...
- WanderPanda 6y agoSo just not wash them?
- adrianN 6y agoAll synthetic fibers are awful for the same reason, microfibers just start out smaller.
- cbsks 6y agoI always just use my cotton shirt. Is there really that much advantage to using microfiber?
- rkagerer 6y agoWith all those dangerous F-91W's arriving at your door, have you been paid a visit yet from the bomb disposal squad?
- forgotmypw17 6y agoI call this Object Saturation. I don't do it with watches, but I do it with charging cables, socks, and toothbrushes. (Of course, I avoid buying things, so I don't buy them.)
- aidenn0 6y agoI do it with mechanical pencils.
- danielheath 6y agoMakes sense; watches are harder to steal (/s).
- Rapzid 6y agoNail clippers. You never know in what room, in what car, or with which pack you'll be when you realize it can't wait any longer.
- 0_____0 6y agooh my god i'm not alone
- boogies 6y agodollar store earbuds
- myself248 6y agoI've done this with laptop power bricks. I'm laying on my couch right now, with my laptop plugged into a brick perched permanently at the end thereof. There are two more at the table (sometimes work and personal laptop are up at the same time), and one on my nightstand, and one in the kitchen for when I'm using a recipe from online or just youtubing while cooking. All my old Thinkpad bricks with the gray round plug have little converter cables on 'em, so they work with the modern yellow rectangular socket now. I got a new brick with the work lappy, a new one with the personal, and I think there's one knockoff cheapie in the mix somewhere.
- mfkp 6y agoI do this same thing, except now with USB-C chargers it's even better. Charge my laptop or my phone. There's some great charger bricks that go on sale for ~$10, so I have a lot of those.
- ce4 6y agoYou can also convert usb-c charger into specific laptop chargers with the appropriate barrel/rectangle adapter (search for usb-c pd trigger + laptop model on aliexpress). Caveat: the laptop doesnt know the max wattage of the charger, it's your job to make sure it gets 60W or 90W from the USB PD adapter
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoHistorically USB chargers have consumed power when connected to the wall socket, even when not connected to a phone. Some phones have even displayed an alert "Disconnect power supply from wall to save energy" when you unplugged the USB cable from the phone. Do modern USB-C chargers suffer from the same drawback and so shouldn’t be left plugged in all the time?
- mfkp 6y agoI'll have to plug in a power meter to check, but I'd assume the ghost power draw is negligible.
- ijidak 6y agoHAHA! I do this with pens! The Pilot G-2. If it takes me too long to find one, then I up the number of pens scattered around the house. Nothing irritates me more than being unable to find a pen when inspiration strikes. I guess I'm not the only one to maintain a specific density of a specific item I want on hand.
- tiku 6y agoPerhaps you are now on some watchlist.
- jacquesm 6y agoSame here but with reading glasses.
- szemet 6y agoAnother, but much cheaper trick is to always leave the alarm on: then you have around 10 seconds of chance every morning to find it, if not - then better luck next day!
- high_priest 6y agoImagine the symphony of 50 Casios playing the same tune, scattered around the house :D
- 2038AD 6y agoReminds me how shortly after losing mine I found another on the ground to wear
- WorldMaker 6y agoI have them scattered around my place for a different reason in that I keep finding the watch itself far out lasts the cheap plastic band (especially because I use them almost primarily for swimming and other places a "disposable" watch makes more sense than wearing a smartwatch like I more regularly wear), so I keep leaving the band-less watches in interesting spots where I haven't bothered to put a clock or wouldn't otherwise need to have a clock.
- vram22 6y agoGood idea. See this Matt Might post - he had the same; I've started doing it some: End artificial scarcities to increase productivity http://matt.might.net/articles/artific http://matt.might.net/articles/artific