<p>Earplugs: changed my life. My husband snores.</p>
<p>Golden Retriever: dogs do not have to be difficult</p>
<p>Me too on the ear plugs!</p>
<p>I’d also add Iphone (from having my camera always with me, to being able to pay for a parking meter, to looking up the restaurant when I forgot the address…the list goes on and on with that one but I do not know how I lived without it!). </p>
<p>Our once-a-week cleaning person who we’ve had for almost a decade. </p>
<p>A very supportive spouse who is no stranger to the carpet cleaner, the dishwasher, or power tools :).</p>
<p>Earplugs! My husband snores too and I have a skylight over my bed and chirping, croaking, screaming things in my backyard!</p>
<p>Trash compactor: it operates hands-free so I don’t have to touch a yucky trash receptacle and it limits my trips to the trash can to once a week for a family of four.</p>
<p>Ed, the man who picks up dirty shirts and delivers them clean twice a week.</p>
<p>^Oooh, Ed. I need an Ed. </p>
<p>Great people are the BEST, aren’t they?</p>
<p>I have a new lightweight cross-body, small purse that I have been using when shopping. It’s amazingly freeing not to drag a heavy, big purse around with me, especially grocery shopping, and have to keep your eye on it every second. I’ve been thinking, why didn’t I do this years ago?</p>
<p>Ed’s service is included in the cost of the cleaning of the shirts–same price if I drop off. I am about to move and I am going to sorely miss Ed. I truly hope his ilk exists in my new city.</p>
<p>Gotta try that purse thing…</p>
<p>As I said on another thread: Toto toilets. That doesn’t need to be difficult either. That’s all I have to say about that.</p>
<p>Oh yes! Tivo.</p>
<p>You know, for what it’s worth, I never got into the purse thing. I bought with a friend a leather purse with a parrot on it at 15 (okay, it was the 70s!), then I realized I had to go around the house to find stuff to put in it. Somehow that was the turning point…I realized I would be carrying around stuff the rest of my life so I never used the leather parrot purse and managed to get through my whole life without one. Men do it, why not me? </p>
<p>I do carry a tiny leather 5 in X 8 in bag on occasion to contain my wallet, iphone and keys but that is it (and if I can fit a few cards and a $20 into a pocket with my iphone and key, and leave any semblance of a bag at home, even better!)</p>
<p>I highly recommend coming over to the light side :)</p>
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<p>I have an Ed! Only my Ed isn’t named Ed. :)</p>
<p>I’ve had a small purse that goes in my big purse for years. It works great. Sometimes though I use even less.</p>
<p>My favorite thing is a little plastic wallet thingie that can hold some money, driver’s license and one credit card that even tiny little women’s pant pockets can manage. It folds over the money and is made of plastic that sticks to itself.</p>
<p>^ where can I get one?</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so glad to hear there are other Eds!</p>
<p>My Keurig Coffee maker. I love it!</p>
<p>My auto-start car engine on cold days.</p>
<p>My Mac laptop.</p>
<p>Computer, microwave, washer/dryer, garage, garage door opener, instant hot water, remote door opener for car, auto window opener for car, digital camera, photoshop, home copy machine, cell phone.</p>
<p>Fast internet connection.
TIVO type TV delay so we don’t have to watch on their schedule.</p>
<p>My husband. My two boys. Everything else pales in comparison.</p>
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<p>Me too! I bought one about 5 years ago for my hubby, as I wasn’t a coffee drinker…and well, this little machine got me hooked! I still love it to bits.</p>
<p>Electricity. I don’t know how I got along without it.</p>
<p>The guy with the truck who comes to shovel snow at 5 a.m. (I promise to find out his name this year.)</p>
<p>The seatwarmer in my car. Cupholders. And speaking of that: bras that clip in the front.</p>
<p>The park where I can let my dog run loose as long as I go when nobody’s there. He’s gorgeous when he runs free.</p>
<p>My battery-powered bug zapper that looks like a tennis racquet. You just swing it at the bug and ~pop~ the bug is toast ! It looks like a toy but it works great–even on large bugs like wasps.</p>
<p>The little cap thing that goes on top of opened champagne bottles. Used to be we had to think twice about opening a bottle, because we had to drink it all at one sitting. This little $6 device changed my life. I can open a bottle, have a glass, put the bottle in the fridge, repeat tomorrow. . .</p>