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.

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

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

Thanks, I'll look there for some alternative.

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