Have you ever put off using a popular product for years, only to try it later and like it?

Burt’s Bees lipbalm. I used to see it all the time and write it off as some new packaged ChapStick but when I broke down and bought one, I was hooked. That was 5 years ago.

@Neizvestnaya I did that too. I love Burt’s Bees now!

I think it’s hilarious that 3 people gave this a GQ, but there’s only 1 comment. :P

DVR. It took me years to finally pay the extra money to my cable company and get a DVR. Flippin’ thing changed my life. I love it.

@JLeslie: Yeah, I was that way about getting a celly back in 2003 but now it’s a wonderful gizmo and cheap for what it can do.

@WillWorkForChocolate: I understand, I’ve often hesitated to comment on agreed stuff because how creative can I get with ditto that, uh yep, me too, that kind of thing. The Burt’s Bees is amazing though, it’s not like ChapStick at all. I buy it for my mom and fiancee so they got addicted too.

Tonight I played my first DVD on my first DVD player on my first 42” flat screen in my very own living room.

This may not quite count, but I put off reading any of the Harry Potter books for years – I eventually gave in when the final one was released, and read them in a job lot! __Well, Harry Potter is a bit of a product these days…__

Yes .. happened for a lot of products… I felt embarased ^^

A microwave. A friend gave me his old one when he bought a new one that could be mounted to the underside of a cabinet.

@harple That’s what I was going to say! I was in high school, and such a book snob, and didn’t want to “lower” myself to anything so popular. But right after the fourth book was released, my nephew asked me to read them with him because he really wanted to but he isn’t a good reader. So I gave in. He left his copies with me so I could familiarize myself with them before helping him. I wound up reading all four in three days and have been hooked ever since.

@MacBean It’s funny what we deny ourselves in our book-snobbery isn’t it?! I’m a terrible one for saying – Everyone else is into it, therefore I shall NOT be… Thank goodness I didn’t do the same with the Stieg Laarson Millenium Trilogy; great reads!

iPod. When it came out I thought it was dumb (I don’t remember why). But when the 1st Gen. Nano came out, I was intrigued. It was AWESOME. That gave me the confidence to get my first Mac . . . the rest is history, LOL.

BRB, gotta go check my iPhone 4 (to see when the 5 is coming out), hehehe

I avoided PC based computers for years after they first appeared because my Z80a based microcomputer ran faster and there was more shareware software available. That was from 1978 to somewhere in the mid 1980’s. I still have no use for Apple / MacIntosh computers.

I tried to avoid Apple products for a long time until I was introduced to the iPod touch a year or so ago.