I bought a piece of 1.5 inch stiff foam to try to fix a sag in a bed. It didn’t work but having that thick piece of solid foam around has been a life saver.

Need something flat to put a laptop on? Throw it on the foam. Going to be doing something that requires you to be on your knees for a while? Get the foam!

It went from stupid purchase to something I’d gladly replace if it broke.

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    Maybe not stupid, but I purchased a pair of bone conducting headphones just because I thought they would be better for running, and harder for me to lose. I wasn’t expecting much, but damn, they have been so much better than I expected. Even though the sound quality isn’t quite as good, they work so much better with my sensory processing issues, and I can just leave them on all day without concern. Because I’ve got curly hair, people don’t even know I’m wearing them, and because they don’t go in my ear canal, they don’t impact my ability to hear/talk/interact with the world around me.

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      I love my bone conducting headphones. You don’t have to take them off to hear anything else. I can hear traffic and feel safer when crossing the street when out for a run

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        I pretty much live in mine now, even when I’m not running or cycling. I just have low level music playing all day, and I can still interact with the world. And for whatever reason, it’s easy to process the music and people talking to me without my brain getting overloaded like it does when I try and do that with regular headphones (even those with sound passthrough)

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      Uhhh I have sensory issues but am uncomfortable while wearing headphones. What’s this? Do what now? What kind of headphones? I NEED ALL THE INFORMATION WITHOUT OPENING A SECOND APP THAT IS FULL OF ADS AND NO USEFUL INFORMATION!

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        To be clear, these don’t reduce my sensory issues. It’s more accurate to say that they enable me to wear headphones with background music etc, without adding to my sensory issues

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        Look up “Aftershokz” headphones. That’s almost certainly what he’s talking about.

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      Man i had the opposite experience. Bought some great ones for running and lab work but when i set them at a volume i could hear they were basically just normal headphones and everyone else could hear them too.

      Im a skinny dude with no hearing issues, wish they worked better for me.

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        That makes me wonder if they were sitting properly on your bone. The reading I’ve been doing (mine are on the way as we speak) says that they should be silent to others at normal volume for yourself.

        Or maybe you got ripped off?

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      I’m looking at getting some at the moment. Do you mind sharing which ones you have? Prices where I’m at seem to be all over the shop.

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        Shokz “OpenRun Pro”

        I did zero research on them, so I have no idea how they compare to other options out there. I bought them after losing my 3rd set of in ear buds…

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          Sweet, I have those on the way right now. Or maybe, they are called shokz openrun pro mini and I’m not entirely clear if they are the same thing or different models.

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      Bought mine for work. Need a second pair for around the house. I LOVE them.

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      Are there any that work off of Aux cable only? Couldn’t seem to find one that would be good for a desktop setup

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      These look amazing!! I even came across a couple of water proof ones. This will help me big time in my preps for triathlons