Analog solutions to problems are often simpler at the cost of precision, which is a feature.

I would let my coffee brew for 2 minutes. I used my watch sometimes even digital timers and they would beep.

But I would never service the timer right away, it was more like oh thanks for letting me know.

I switched to this sand timer. It's 2 ish minutes. Turns out, what I really wanted to know was has it been at least 2 minutes and this works perfectly.

I'm appreciating more of these analog life hacks each day.