How willing are you to try new things?

Very much so!

Depends entirely on the product. If I like the concept, first I research it to death (you can’t count on gov’mint regulations to protect you from harm). Then if I have the money I try it.

Edit: The last time I bought something, it was a supplement for my husband recovering from an accident. I already had a similar product that I knew worked well, but the one they were offering wasn’t expensive so I got it too. Hubby wouldn’t take it though, so it’s still in the cupboard waiting for the first try.

My problem, @snowberry, is that I tend to try the new products when they are at discount stores (like Big Lots) or clearanced, and have already gotten the kiss of death.

I’m a little slow to follow new technology. I usually wait a while. But food/travel/adventure/experiences, yes, definitely.

Yeah, I’m with you on the tech, @syz. Facebooks scared/scares the beejeezus out of me. I can’t even text on my phone and I’ve never aspired to be a twit Twitter.

I’m telling you, though, there have been some amazing bandages come and go! lol

I’m always willing to try new things. I think if you don’t try it you don’t know in my mind and dive in. Sometimes you hit a homerun, sometimes you get hosed. But you don’t know until you try.

Very much so. I am getting older but have an extroverted and adventurious personality. I have gone hot air ballooning, was quite the little white water babe in my younger years, living in premiere river rafting country here in the Sierra Nevada mountain zone. Have been a lifelong horsey girl and have some hardware in my joints from my escapades in epic horse wrecks. I fear no animal or insect but respect the rattlesnakes and cougars in my zone.lol

I am not so much into new products and high tech stuff, I am more the nature girl type and while I love my computer I am not tethered to technology. I like rural living and being able to check out whenever I want. I am a foodie to the 10th power and like to try new things in the world of taste. haha
Otherwise I am mellowing these days, gettin’ older now and while my mind still feels like I am 19 my body is starting to rebel at almost 55. I’ve had a good run, I don;t feel the need to be on the cutting edge of everything anymore.

My answer is pretty much with @syz . I like to have a friend’s review first of restaurants though.
With electronics, I need research, word of mouth, and after I have made a decision, skywriting telling me it is okay to go ahead.

Much the same @53, @Coloma. Cutting edge = everything old is new again.

Oh, crap, I’ll do a uuie for a new-to-me restaurant, @Here2_4.

I am fascinated by new things but I’m not very interested in new products. Maybe I’m cynical but most are old products with new packaging.

My husband is much more into that than I am. He’s a sucker!

Sometimes, @flutherother. But I can testify that there have been great strides in both the bandage and deodorant markets in the last few years. I write off the losses and find the wins to be worth the risk.

sucker/innovator @Dutchess_III.
:-P poor Rick

Very. Variety is the spice of life.

Daughters are allergic to the adhesives in bandages. So when they got cut, it was an interesting proposition to put on a dressing. Then we found Tegaderm which acts like a second skin, but will not wash off. It is awesome for a weeping wound, but it’s expensive. For non-infected non-weeping wounds that still need a bandage, New-Skin (liquid bandage) is the affordable answer. When New-Skin first came out, I wasn’t sure. Now I’m sold.. http://www.newskinproducts.com/products/liquid_bandage.aspx and similar products.

@snowberry don’t know if it would work for your girls but a lot of guys in construction/military/etc. will use superglue to close a cut.

My son and I prefer to call trying new things as ‘Adventures’. We go on adventure lunches, take adventure drives, all kinds of stuff to seek out new things. I like to believe I have instilled in him the desire to try the road less traveled.

I’m not an early adopter anymore. I’m an enthusiastic next day informed on sale buyer. Last years tech is 75% off with 95% of the functionality, especially smartphones.

Food, yes. Experiences, yes. Technology; I’d rather wait til evidence suggests it’s stable first.

I love trying out new things. I can’t afford to do it as often as I like, but if I see something unusual that catches my eye and the price is good, I’ll likely buy it to try it.

This winter, I want to try out this shovel .

Yea, spice, @dxs!

I’m sold on New Skin, too, @snowberry. Never heard of Tegaderm, but it’s Googling as I type.

New Skin is better, @rojo. Medicated with a lovely smell and dauber applicator.

Excellent, @majorrich. He’ll never be bored. Never lost…just on an extended “adventure”.
Unless he runs out of gas.

I’m still holding onto my Razr, @ARE_you_kidding_me. I just hate the learning curve of new tech that is obsolete tomorrow. My TV is still in a BBB. (Big Black Box) When my electronics die, I tend to replicate them. And @downtide. Dicey purchases have to be cheap.

Big Lots, @keobooks! lol Isn’t that shovel going to be really heavy when full? Even if you fill, reverse, and have to dump?

Speaking of Big Lots, I went there today. In the clearance section they had a cool looking drink in a glass bottle, $1 marked down to 50¢. Dilemma: “What if I get home and it’s superfragilistically delicious?” So I pop the top and take a swig. When I get to the check-out, the cashier says, “Would you like your drink left out?” To which I respond, “Good lord, NO, I would like it put in the trash! I can do it or you can do it, but it needs to go in the trash.” Obviously, he’s the one that has to take the trash out, because he tells me there’s a trash can right outside the door then mumbles something about under the counter. Good man. Outside the door goes my deposit.

I love Big Lots! It’s been too long since I’ve walked their isles.

I try to resist, @dxs. I’m certain that there are things buried in my pantry that were purchased there a decade ago!

Today I scored 5 bags of Bumble Beans, Grey Poupon mild and creamy in a squeeze bottle and lattice fry potato chips.

*aisles
Dammitall! It’s such a steal there. Second only to Job Lot, a RI chain.

I’m usually slow to try new technology. Mostly because I am cheap.

I’ll try new foods. New packaged foods, especially if I have a coupon. Not just anything, but if it sounds interesting I’ll try.

New adventures I am usually up for. Seeing a new place, new museum, new store.

If I already am very happy with a product I might be reluctant to try a direct competitor. Like Stouffer’s Lasagna is delicious, and there is no point in trying another lasagna.

I am allergic to latex and a lot of adhesives and Tagaderm is awesome.

I am always willing to try new things except food. I am pretty set in my ways about that.

Food and household products, yes. Tech, I like to wait and see.

My problem is that I tend to try the new products when they are at discount stores (like Big Lots) or clearanced, and have already gotten the kiss of death.

Haha! So true! This Q makes me want to go to “Big Lots!”. (Though I liked it better when they were called Pic ‘N’ Save.)

@rojo Thank you. Yes, I know and have actually used super glue to close a cut. You must be very careful to only use it on clean cuts. Otherwise you’ll seal in the infection. It’s also not appropriate to use on a joint unless you stabilize it, because it’ll break open again if you bend it.

It also must be used only immediately after the injury. Once the edges of the wound begin to coagulate, it’s too late.

I have met better frozen lasagna than Stouffer’s, @JLeslie, but it’s been a while. I think Kroger’s store brand, maybe?

I love adventures in food eating, @rojo. Still one of my chief delights in life.

Hit the Bog Lots!, @fluthernutter

I love the smell of New Skin, @snowberry. lol

@rojo My medical box contains super glue and duct tape.

Masking tape is good, too. Or even scotch. Some tape and a Kleenex and you can patch a sweaty split knuckle and be back at work in 3 minutes.

A good tip for fingers is using 2 bandaids. Put one on, then a second wrapped the opposite direction. They adhere to each other much better than they ever will to you.

Oh I never thought of that Turbo, I HEAR they are good for your cardiovascular system because you don’t ever have to lift the shovel. But you may be right.

I think I got my adventurousness from my grandfather. He’d come home from work and scan the grocery store for unusual stuff for us to try. His favorite haunts were the Asian grocery stores and the scratch and dent shops. He brought home canned octopus and several produce items nobody could identify. It was all in good fun.

My family had scratch and dent, railroad salvage adventures. I remember the wormy Au Gratin potato boxes we opened and took the cheese packet from, and then the experimentation of re-purposing the cheese powder. I don’t remember why, but for a long time it was “All the Bugles and Pizza Spins you can eat” around our house. I don’t remember what the cheesy ones were called?

Has anyone tried Mock Turtle Soup? I have a can of it in my cupboard.

I have tried Mock Turtle Soup, however, it’s been so long I cannot recall if I liked it or not. Before I tried real turtle soup, which I was not fond of.

It depends. I will try new foods, beverages, products but I am also product loyal. If I am happy with a product more than likely I will stick with it and not even try the newest, no reason to if I am satisfied with the current one. I don’t just try new things because they are new, they also have to be better.

I do try things just because they’re new or different, @Katz22. It either reinforces my bias or adds a new dimension. The biggest drawback is the low success rate of new products. Disappointing to love something new, only to see it taken off the market 3 months later.

Has anyone ever eaten snapping turtle? Thirty years ago hubby caught one on a fishing line. It had swallowed the hook, and the way it was embedded, it never would have survived had he simply cut the line. So he brought it home and we ate it. In those days we were so poor there isn’t much we wouldn’t eat.

It turns out that every single muscle in that turtle tasted differently. One bite tasted like pork, the next like mud, another was very fishy, and the next was like chicken, and on and on. It was the strangest meal ever.

I agree, @snowberry. I once cooked at a restaurant that had turtle soup on the menu. We’d get turtle meat, and as it cooked I would taste it. Chewy/tender. gamey/chicken. Overall, I hated cooking it and found the taste of the soup not to my taste.

Maybe if it’s boiled to death/broth?

@ibstubro I’m adventuresome, I suppose, but not that much. Going to the work of making a broth out of all that, with all those flavors just didn’t sound…appetizing. Not at all.