1. Emergency Fire Starter
2. Ultra lightweight: 0.6 ounces
3. Size: 2 3/4" long

Editorial Review :

Campers' Magnesium Emergency Fire Starter

Customer Review :

Great survival item at a great price! As seen on Survivor!

These really work, and this is the best price I have seen. Get several, so you can keep one in your pocket when hiking, your daypack, your purse and your briefcase even.

Order an extra so you can try it out. Some practice is an excellent idea, and at this price, you can afford to get an extra one just to practice with.

Carry one with you, and hopefully we'll never have to see your name and the phrase "...his body was later found" together!

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Great emergency necessity

I bought this to update my personal survival kits. I was looking for something that would be rugged enough to handle actually being used, but also be able to sit for long periods. I am very happy with this as it soothes my mind as I live in an area prone to flooding.

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Hot!

Get it. Works great. Replaced the dog-tag chain with paracord and wrapped it around the file for added grip.

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Excellent value and works great!

I received this today, and it works great. I would suggest using the back (non-serrated) edge of the steel to shave the magnesium and the serrated edge for striking the flint. The magnesium block and flint both have some kind of coating, so the first time you use it it'll take a few extra tries. I've seen these selling for double or triple the price and people were happy to pay it, so this is an excellent deal!

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Make sure you try it before relying on it. Takes effort and practice.

Lets start off with saying the ingredients are there, using magnesium and flint is a great way to get a hot start, but shaving the magnesium bar takes more effort than its worth. I ended up grinding my bar with a file until it was gone and saved the filings into a cigar tube, this took nearly four hours!

If you were hypothermic this would make fire starting very difficult. I try to plan for several scenarios while building a fire kit, I want at least three methods for fire and an emergency quick fire, this won't work for that. Try to plan for wind, weather, and outside temperature. It's the hypothermia that scares me, as strength and dexterity are severely compromised in this situation.

Get a couple of water proof tins and build firekits so you can save yourself! It's cheap and simple, use your head! Plan ahead! Practice!

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1. Just plant it and hang it up -- on a patio, balcony, terrace or tree
2. No need to dig holes, use stakes or cages, tie up tomatoes or get down on your knees to pull weeds
3. "Sucker" and harvest your tomatoes in a standing position
4. Eliminates cutworms, ground insects, and ground fungus
5. All the taste and freshness of vine ripened tomatoes without bending or getting down on your knees¿or even getting your hands dirty

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Ingenious tomato planter turns gardening upside down! Thanks to a whole new direction in growing tomatoes, your crop will be bigger, better tasting, healthier, and easier to grow than ever before. You can water, feed, trim and harvest without bending or kneeling--and since your crop is upside down and will never touch the ground, staking, caging, bacteria, ground rotting, fungus and small animals become problems of the past. It's the perfect gift for any gardener. Great for those who live in apartments or who have small backyards. Water and fertilize through the built-in top funnel; trim and harvest at chest height! Also for cukes, peppers, flowers. Just add your soil and plants. Topsy-Turvy¿ Planter makes it easy to grow tomatoes and vegetables because it eliminates the need for a backyard garden plot.

Customer Review :

2 Words ... Don't Bother!!

If you're thinking at all about buying this product, I strongly suggest you don't. I thought I would give it a try. Not having to stake my plants sounded great. Next year, I'm going back to planting my tomatoes right side up.

The planter itself is kind of a spendy investment. Especially if you plan to have more that just one plant. If you're like me and don't have the option of hanging them on your house or from your porch, you also have to invest in shepherds hooks. But the planters were so heavy that I ended up having to sandwhich the hooks between a couple fence posts to keep them from bending. Then I also had to buy bricks to try to keep them from coming out of the ground. And the first stiff breeze (or squirrel) that comes along, downs the whole thing, breaking the plants off at the base. Which means having to start over again with all new plants. In the end, I ended up investing a lot more money than I had ever intended.

Supposedly this planter helps you get bigger plants with higher yields. That is not the case. What plants I had that survived, looked terrible and produced little. Some never bore fruit at all. I think part of the problem is that they dry out too fast. The sun may warm the soil (which supposedly helps that plants grow better,) but all the moisture evaporates and escapes through the big opening in the top. The soil inside bakes into a nice brick. Which doesn't help the plant to grow.

The package says that you can use the Topsy Turvys for multiple years. Not so! They were so deteriorated at the end of the season, that when I went to pull them down, my fingers went right through the sides. All that money for 3 months.

Skip the Topsy-Turvy. They are too much cost for too little benefit. Buy a pot, a cage, and a spool of twine. Then use the money you save to take your family to the movies.

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What a rip off, 10 dollars at Home Depot!

I bought two of these YESTERDAY and they cost me $12.98 each, TODAY they are under $10. I checked with Home Depot last night and realized they have them for $10. Dumb me, I should have read the reviews. We'll see how they work for me in our hot and humid summers.

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topsy turvy is groovy

Had great results with both cherry and regular tomatoes last year, so going to only go upside down this year.

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5 Gallon Bucket Works Better

Like other reviewers have said, you can make a better one out of one of those reusable grocery bags. There is a reason the new upside down planters have openings on the sides. The water drains down the plant causing rot. The cables and hardware rusted. The green printed bag faded in the sun.

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Terrible!

We planted 3 tomato plants and got 4 cherry tomatos from one of them. The planter itself completely disintergrated before the season was through. I won't even bother to plant the strawberries in the "free" hanging planter. This was a horrible investment. Also it needs to be watered very often. Certainly didn't work for us as advertised.

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1. Reduces chlorine taste and order as well as sediment
2. Removes 99% of Cysts, Lead and Turbidity. This Frigidaire filter does not remove Fluoride
3. Features slide in - out technology for easy replacement

Editorial Review :

Frigidiare's "front cassette" style water filter. This filter's unique appearance makes it easy to differentiate. Alternate part numbers: 240396402, 9911, 46-9911, FC100

Customer Review :

Expensive but needed

I use this filter for the fridge at my rental unit. Unfortunately the tenants drink a lot of water so I have to replace every 5 months or so and they are not cheap.

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New design is faulty and leaks constantly

I have had my Frigidare refrigerator for about 5 years now. The filters used to have a thick housing over the two smaller cylinders and it worked wonderfully. I never experienced any problems with those filters. About 2 years ago they changed the design taking away the outer housing leaving only the two smaller cylinders. Since then I have been through 8 filters in two years. When you cover the outlet hole and blow into the inlet hole, you can see the water spirt out of the side of the cartridge. It doesn't always occur at the top seal; however, many times the leak is in the plastic but you can see where the seam glue has run down to the spot where it's leaking. It appears that the glue they are using is dissolving the weak plastic and causing it to leak. I'm not sure what you can do about it but I just save my receipts and take them back about every 2-4 months when they fail. It's a pain but the manufacturer won't do anything about it. I just won't buy another Frigidare in the future!

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Frigidaire Water Filter

I have been using these for nearly 8 years now, and find them to be very effective both in cleaning my water as well as improving the taste.

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No problems

Purchased filter worked fine no problems needed one for a kenmore refrigeator and works great .

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Good filter!

It takes about 3-4 cycles for the filter to be activated in your fridge. Make sure to run your filter until you don't see anymore specks and you should be good to go. This filter usually lasts longer than usual too, so you don't have to waste too much money replacing them.

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1. Quick and easy replacement
2. Reduces unpleasant odor
3. Improves water taste
4. Reduces lead, chlorine taste and odor, Cryptosporidium and Giardia cysts
5. Filter life of up to 2 months or 200-Gallons

Editorial Review :

Model No. FM15R replacement taste, odor, and sediment filter cartridge reduces 99% lead, 99.95% cryptosporidium and giardia cyst, chlorine, bad taste and odor, and sediment. Filter life up to 2 months or 200 gallon. Use with model No. FM 15 filter.

Customer Review :

Grants

I love my Culligan filter. I am saving a ton of money and also helping the planet by using fewer plastic bottles.

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Great For Awhile

The good: the filter is quite easy to install(although I needed pliers,which the instructions said were not needed). The water quality is really great.
The not-so-good: You must change the cartridge every 2 months. The company claims you simply turn the
old cartridge counterclockwise and install the new replacement cartridge. I tried it,and found that the original
cartridge would not turn at all. Now the unit leaks slightly,and I must buy the entire unit if I am to continue
filtering water with this product.
My bottom line: a new unit every 2 months.

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Saves us $10/mo on bottled water

We had an old GE faucet filter whose element had long since worn out and we went to buying bottled water. So, we recently tried to buy refills for it and couldn't, but found out that the Culligan FM-15RA refills would fit it. So, we bought five of them.

Now, we are drinking Culligan-filtered water with dinner and refilling our used bottles again. The water tastes better than the originals! We're sold on Culligan refills from now on.

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great

We have water with strong chlorine taste, these filters take that away well. It's easy to install, cheap, and surprisingly high quality!!! We also use them for longer than the recommended 2 months, it still filters it just gets slow.

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Best faucet filter I have tried

This makes tap water bearable to drink. Very easy to replace. Much better than other brands I have tried.

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1. 8 Rotating and 4 stationary Surge-Protected Outlets provide convenience and flexibility; 1-in, 2-out RJ11 telephone/fax surge protection, and coaxial protection
2. Allows room for large block space outlets
3. 4320 Joule energy rating provides maximum protection of all your sensitive electronic devices
4. 8' cord delivers optimal, safe AC power through a 14-gauge heavy-duty cord
5. Belkin Lifetime Warranty and $300,000 Connected Equipment Warranty

Customer Review :

Perfect Find

This is exactly what I was looking for.... I just replaced 2 of my normal extension power cord adapters with my new Belkin Pivot!!!! Nice, clean and Right Price for the Right Product

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Best surge protector

Best surge protector. I like the 12 outlets and the outlets on the side swivel to make it easy with the big plugs. Wish I had purchased this long ago.

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Impressed!

I'll have to say that I was impressed in the enginnering of this item.
Mainly because you're able to add "bulky" power supplies and still have space for more connections.
One warning: make sure you do NOT overload your MAIN plug.
I havent had any problems but I'm avoiding plugging any load that will drain too much electricity

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Short and to the point

Most of the surge protectors that I have I am only able to connect a plug into about half of them - if I'm lucky. With this surge protector every outlet can be used because 2/3s of them swivel. Where I used to use two surge protectors now I only need one. Good product for a reasonable price.

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Belkin Pivot-Plug

Belkin Pivot-Plug Surge Protectors
Purchased about a month ago and want to buy more for other components around the house. The surge protector lights up green to let you know everything is working properly and red to let you know when there is a problem. Excellent performance from the pivoting plugs allowing me to utilize bulky transformers with standard plugs adjacent to each other. The extra long cord provides great flexibility when placing the unit out of site yet still being able to access it to add or unplug items.

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