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What purchase of $100 or less has most improved your life in the last six months?
A.J. Jacobs

Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically

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That is a good question. Well, one thing I do love is my elastic shoelaces. ... So, you just replace the cloth shoelaces with these elastic… I think it’s called “Lace Lock” is the brand I use. And, yeah, shoelaces seem like such 18th century technology.

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 20 June 2018 source ↗

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Soman Chainani Novelist and screenwriter; author of The School for Good and Evil
This is easy. It’s called Mother Dirt. It clears your skin, and it cost $49.00. My skin was a hot mess for most of my adolescence and into my 20’s.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 February 2018 source ↗
Graham Duncan Investor; co-founder of East Rock Capital
So, I recently bought the FINIS, F-I-N-I-S, swim paddles. They somewhat magically lengthen out my freestyle stroke. And when I combined them with some fins, I use the ones Cressi, C-R-E-S-S-I, I feel sometimes like I’m almost flying through the water.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 February 2018 source ↗
Cheryl Strayed Author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things
Okay, let me tell you guys. I didn’t know this until last week. There’s a thing called a boot box for your long boots. You put your long boots in them instead of them draping all over the floor of your closet, and then you put a bump on the shelf.
Recorded Cheryl Strayed, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 22 June 2018 source ↗
Mark Bell Powerlifter; founder of Slingshot and Super Training Gym
Initially I was going to say a pair of Groucho Marx glasses that I bought in Japan. I got a lot of legs out of those.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗

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