Glass Tupperware, if you look all your plastic ones I bet they are scratched - melted or otherwise damaged. All those missing parts end up in the food.
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Quick Release garden hose fittings.
You can get them for about $8 at harbor freight and it makes switching hose attachments easy!
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This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It's fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It's still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you'll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I've used it in a pinch when I didn't have cable ties. I dunno. It's just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.
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Cooking thermometer probe. Take the guesswork out of cooking and never overcook and dry out your meats again.
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Cheap plastic bowl scrapers. Like these:
I use these every time I cook. I use them every time I clean the kitchen.
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Baby wipes are really useful to just have sitting in your car, and next to your bed for those lucky enough to have nocturnal company.
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An oil sprayer. I was looking for gift ideas and came across a "misto" brand oil sprayer and now I use it all the time! No more spray cans of oil and God knows what else, you just fill it half way with whatever oil you want (except coconut oil for some reason) and you pump it to pressurize the oil so you can spray whatever you want.
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A shoehorn.
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A portable power bank.
My work gave me one a few years ago, and while I only end up using it a few times a year, when you're in an airport or on the road somewhere and you need to charge a device, it is glorious to have. Cheap and exceedingly useful.
I'm actually planning to get a bigger portable generator, just as planning for climate change, as I expect more outages in the future and want to have access to power regardless.
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French press. Didn't even know what one was until I was around 50, thought it was some fancy, complicated thing I wouldn't care about.
My wife drinks coffee day and night so we have 4 methods of making it. The cheapo French press is the best IMHO. Use whatever coffee grounds you like, make it as strong or light as you like.
Mine was $11 on Amazon. Finish wore off, looks like shit, works fine.
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Rope.
Buy some rope, like 3 different sizes: 1-2mm, 4-6mm and 10-12mm. Watch a few rope videos and then throw the ropes in some drawer. Every now and again you will have an issue that the ropes can fix.
As a kid I once got a 15mm*40m rope for my birthday from my uncle, I thought it was the weirdest thing, but over the years I used it so much that these days I consider it to be one of the best gifts I've ever received. And as long as you don't need them for anything related to safety, they basically cant expire.
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A bidet
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Silk pillowcase. Absolute game changer for my hair and face.
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Head lamp with both red and white light, a game changer for walking the dogs. Red light preserves night vision
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I bought an LED customizable marquee nametag for $30 at a convention. It makes sense for a con; but it also works at any function where you'd have a nametag even better than those stickers since it can cycle through 8 messages (it holds up to 4097 bytes) and can even display images (though it is only a monochrome display so B&W pixel art works best) in a myriad of patterns as well as flash.
A 10,000 mAh power bank with attachments to jump start your car or charge your phone. Also has a built in flashlight. It's come in handy on a few occasions now.
I understand that there are new ones now that also have a built in air compressor for pumping up your car tires, but I don't know how good they are.
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Various I²C compatible chips from Adafruit + a raspberry pi zero. Endless possibilities.
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A leatherman multitool.
There are really nice ones over $100, but they also make versions under that price as well. I’ve used them in a pinch on cars or other random projects.
zinc oxide paste(diaper rash), . they are used for baby rashes, and also adult rash. but they are also useful for certain kinds of dermatitis, weeping atopic dermatitis rash it stops it from weeping and dries it out in between topical medication regimens so you dont get too used to a topical medication, this can help extend that.
and helps with sweating in areas with alot of friction too from getting irritated like your crotch (aka swampballs or boob sweat rash)area. allegedly people have used it on perioral dermatitis, but it works on some but not others, because the highest percentage is very drying so dont use when your skin is already dry, also the brand name ones or equilvalent has Talc, get the non-talc versions instead.
originally i never considered buying sonic or electric toothbrush until it was reccommended by a dentist, and i was super excited how well it clean without aggressive or inefficient brushing of a manual toothbrush, i opted for generic toothbrushes since the brand names were quite expensive, generic toothbrush head replacements over brand name replacements which are fraction of the cost, any electric or sonic toothbrush over 100 is just pure marketing holds no real benefit over the cheaper ones, especially the "smart" ones.
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