What are your favourite useful gadgets?

The needle threader I found in one of the ancestral sewing boxes, it's not electric though.

I'm not really a gadget person, I've got rid of most of them and gone back to basics, as I find they just clutter up cupboards, I supose the ones I use the most are my kindle, a bread machine and a food processor.

I have a thin metal needle threader which is not electric. It is very handy due to poor eye sight. 

On a similar not electric theme, I invested in a non electric lawn mower this year. It is much lighter than the old one I had years ago. I now prefer it to an electric one as no cable needed or charging. I can get it out whenever I have time and it is much easier between flower beds and particularly relaxing on a warm day, listening to birdsong and waiting for ladybirds and spiders to move.

Homebird said:

I have a thin metal needle threader which is not electric

Would you mind posting the url? I use the wire loops but they break too easily. My eyes are getting worse too - must be all the reading.

Homebird said:

I have a thin metal needle threader which is not electric

Would you mind posting the url? I use the wire loops but they break too easily. My eyes are getting worse too - must be all the reading.

Yes that looks good. I love getting craft things from there.

Thanks, I'll look there for some alternative.

I'm fond of Etsy too - brilliant stuff. I love my social battery brooch.

Found them! This one with a cover looks good as the wires get tangled in the sewing box.

To add, just looked on the craft site for Hobby ( not sure if I can advertise). Packs of 3 hemline needle threaders on there are like mine.

I am sorry, but mine is thin metal plate in a key shape with a kite shaped piece of wire attached. I have had it for years and I think it came from a Christmas cracker. I think haberdashers used to sell them, you might find one on a craft site 

Etsy has loads of different ones depeding on what thickness of thread you're using