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Life Gear 12-in-1 Multi-Tool with Rechargeable LED Flashlight
- The 12 in this 1 are: pliers, flathead screwdriver, Phillips screwdriver, knife, saw, ruler, coarse file, fine file, wirecutters, bottle opener, scaler, and LED flashlight
- The LED flashlight runs for 3 hours on a 1-hour microUSB charge
- We’re going to mention the LED flashlight one more time because it’s weird
- Model: BA37-60597-BLA (that’s a lot of numbers, letters, and hyphens for something that’s four inches long)
Just add hammer.
Some of you will be exceptions. Some of your lives are large and protean enough to encompass both extensive handyman skills and arguing online about Barenaked Ladies songs. For you, this multi-tool flashlight may or may not be a necessary addition to your tool arsenal, but it could never be your only tool.
Now, for the rest of our audience. For the - we suspect - majority of you who wouldn’t embarrass yourselves changing a drawer pull or tightening a hinge, but who are never going to single-handedly remodel your basement into a tiki bar or install a home golf simulator. Be honest with yourself here.
We know you want to think of yourself as a handy, effective person, capable of shaping the world around you to suit your vision. Or at least shaping the split-level ranch around you. But if you can accept your limitations, if you can be comfortable in your unhandy skin, here’s your consolation prize:
This is almost the only tool you’ll ever have to buy.
Pliers, both kinds of screwdrivers, a knife, a two-sided file, wirecutters, an adorable tiny saw (aww look at its little teeth), and a flashlight: all it’s missing is a hammer. Get yourself a hammer and you’re done.
And if you run into some problem you can’t snip, ply, screw, or mini-saw your way out of, just get ahold of one of your fellow Mehtizens complaining about this story in the forum and pay them to fix it. Just don’t get them started about the Barenaked Ladies.