This is an update to my deodorant recommendation post of five years ago.
I now use Alaffia’s Everyday Coconut Charcoal Deodorant - Purely Coconut … it smells good, I think it works, and it has this pleasing gray color. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
I tried a bunch of different herbal teas recently, and the best one I found was Paromi’s detox with me. Pricey at 60 cents a sachet, but worth it. I need a caffeine-free tea since any amount of caffeine I have during the day screws up my sleep cycle.
If you know of a better brand, please tell me about it.
I wore Teva Mush flip-flops for many years and loved them, but they had one big problem: they stained the soles of my feet black. (I wear them all day every day from June to September.) The girl in my local shoe shop, disgusted by the look of my soles, suggested I switch to OluKai flip-flops instead. These ‘Ohana are the bottom of the line for OluKai and cost $65 (well over two times what I paid for Teva Mush), but they’re comfortable (nice footbed) and water-resistant.
If you had trouble with stained feet with the Teva Mush, I recommend you check out these OluKais instead.
Been awhile since I’ve done a Chairman Recommended post … this is the kitchen scale (“Ozeri Pronto Digital Multifunction Kitchen and Food Scale, White“) that I use. It has a nice big surface and a tare button and shows ounces, grams, milliliters, etc. It shuts itself off. Can’t go wrong for $13. No, that isn’t an “affiliate” link … I don’t need pennies from my dozen loyal followers … I send these recos from the heart (or stomach).
I eat a lot of olives and did a big study on whether it was better to buy pitted or unpitted olives. My conclusion after exhaustive research eating thousands of olives was you should always buy unpitted olives and pit them yourself.
I had been using this cherry pitter to pit my olives, but of course it didn't work very well. Then my wife bought this Cherry & Olive Pitter from Oxo and it is the bomb; it works beautifully! No splatter, easy to clean, and consistently smooth pitting.
I eat $13 worth of unpitted olives a week, so this thing is a steal at $13.
UPDATE (Jan. 2018): I'm on my third one of these as the previous two broke, so expect to replace it every quarter if you pit a lot of olives like I do.
I am almost completely housebound during the winter here in Appalachia and only leave to:
So my indoor footwear is very important and I use LL Bean's aptly named Wicked Good Scuffs III. I love them because they:
I'm at the advanced stage of laziness where all my footwear must be easily slipped on and off, so I slip out of these moccasins and into my slip-on boots when I go outside (to get the paper or put out the trash) and then back in again when I come inside. I wear them all day every day -- highly recommended by the Chairman!
(See this post for my recommended summertime footwear.)
I had my semi-annual teeth cleaning yesterday and the hygienist spent the entire time oohing and aahing over my pearly whites. Of course I've had a dozen root canals done and an equal number of crowns put in over the years, so it's more like pearly off-whites.
Anyway, it's doubly important that you keep things clean if you have a lot of fake teeth, and I highly recommend the Waterpik Ultra Water Flosser ($60) for this purpose. Used together with the floss picks that I recommended earlier, you should be able to deny your dentist the many Mercedes payments that you'd otherwise be making for him.
The Chairman's body odor has been described by his friends as "incredible" and that's even before I have consumed any dairy products (which kicks my B.O. up to B.B.O (an old Seinfeld joke)). Nevertheless I don't like using deodorant in general and would never ever smear any aluminum compound "anti-perspirant" in my armpits. But this spray deodorant from Burt's Bees is quite pleasant, masks the Chairman's natural manly scent fairly well, and has the added benefit of acting as a mosquito repellent.
I don't think Clorox has added any bleach to the original formula since buying out old Burt. I pay $7 for a 4 fluid ounce bottle, which lasts several months.
I used to use Glide floss, which was the best floss around, even after Procter & Gamble bought it from W.L. Gore and changed the product a bit (I suspect). For some reason somewhere along the line I stopped using floss and started using these floss picks, even though they're not friendly to Mother (Earth).
I can imagine millions of them gathering together in some mile-wide flotsam in the ocean, or scattering the beaches of Polynesian islands ... Paul Gauguin's famous Tahitian landscape littered with used floss picks. I pay $2 for a pack of 75, which lasts a couple of months.
