It may be an extravagance, but the option to stay cool through the summer makes a tangible difference in life day by day. They keep houses warmer and eliminate the biannual struggle with storm windows. Decent cheap furniture. I wish they'd had Ikeas and their ilk when I was a young lad. The stuff they sell won't last forever, but it is sensible, smartly designed and affordable.
Greasy tissues seem pretty superfluous, except on the fifth day of a nasty cold.
Clearly a superior fastener. We own them. It's hard to imagine, but phones were once the property of the phone company, which only leased them to consumers. The number of phones you could have, their functions and their locations, were totally controlled by the Bell System. We pocket them.