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Half of this is expensive, but the higher quality stuff usually is.
I highly recommend trying to buy good cookware (if you cook a lot). Even just one good stainless steel pan is a game changer. I've had some for 20 years and they still look new and aren't even coated in poison. I have no idea how much they cost these days, but I expect a lot more than a cheap one. Cast iron is a good alternative to stainless steel, but harder to maintain and can retain tastes/smells
An air filter if you live anywhere with air pollution (every city) or a fire season. The cheap option is to get a box fan and put a big central AC filter on it.
A plunger for the toilet and one for the sink/shower/tub.
Something to trap hair before it goes down the drain and maybe you won't need a plunger
A fire extinguisher
Yeah I've cycled through around 4 pans at this point they all go to shit. Definitely should invest in a good one.. Will look for BIFL essentially
Yeah I live in hazardous pollution all the time and nobody gives a fuck (I wear a mask, also for covid). How would it work, need to mount on windows? Never tried sorry for silly question
For hair down the drain I just use toxic chemicals that burn it overnight
For the air filters, the lowest cost but least effective is to literally just tape a square/rectangular filter to the intake of the fan, turn it up a notch, and put it in the room you spend the most time in or that gets the worst of it.
More effective is setting up a Corsi-Rosenthal box with the fan, a few filters, and some duct tape.
After that, you can buy something like a cheap a Levoit purifier with the smoke filters. Sorry for Amazon link. I use one of these though and turn it up to high on days when the smoke is bad, but just run it 24/7 on low otherwise.
For real big ones, you usually need to mount them in the window and have large ducts/block off the rest of the window, etc. They're way more expensive and complicated/limiting. More effective too, but only marginally so over something like the Corsi unless you live in a very large space.
For hair in the drain, a dollar drain catch like this is great.
Woah thank you, amazingly useful I'll check this out later thanks!!