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Air freshners - they stink!
Don't you think them stupid air freshers such as airwick or what ever smell worse than not having anything at all?
Am in the living room and smelling this disgusting sweet smell, was the bloody air freshner. Its nasty!
Any others that stupid?
I must own 15 screwdrivers. Okay, I can understand the need for small screws for eyeglasses, and large screws for things that need more strength. And different size heads for the different size screws so they don't strip. But then they recess screws in the bases of appliances, so you need extralong drivers, or in small places, so you need a stubby screwdriver, or perhaps even an offset screwdriver.
But when I think I have all the screwdrivers I will ever need,the headlamp on my car burns out. And the trim is held by a Torx screw. So another trip to the store for a Torx screwdriver, and I can't use it because of the angle of the trim makes it too long to us, so I need to run around to different stores, and find a shorter driver. And I have now just given up on ever beleiving that I will ever have the proper screwdriver for a particular job, let alone finding it.
Maybe that is part of the appeal of a bike. It has fewer screws than a car.;)
Mary
You need a screw gun! And the big box of Skil bits, or whatever they are called- I have every possible type of screw head that could go in anything!
Plus I have a reversable screwdriver from Kline that has big flat and Phillips on one end of this thing that pulls out, and small on the other- so that one screwdriver fits all normal stuff. And it's very nice and not chintzy.
Nanci
Makeup.
I mean, really....
Bra's hands down for me. I know we need them but really. Underwire? push up? Push out? Why can't they just have something that fits all the time, is comfortable, won't slip off my shoulder's, keep my poor nipples from showing through my shirt's and not cost a fortune! Victoria's secrets bra's are becoming so expensive now. I mean $60.00 for a bra? really that is just silly. Plus i don't look like any of those models when i put it on. If I am going to spend all the money it better make me look better!
Sorry ranted a bit there:o .
When you were a kid what would you have said if someone told you you had to sit at a desk (or whatever) for at least 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for 45 years out of your life? You would have said, "NO WAY!"
I can't wait to retire!! We've got it all wrong. We should all take a few years off in our 20s, 30s, or 40s while were still able to be active without so many aches and pains. Right now there's not enough time to PLAY. IMHO.
single use kitchen gizmos.
Leaf blowers! What in the heck are they for? They pollute the air in an awful way, and landscapers love to blow leaves and dirt in your face when you're riding by on your bike. What is the point of them anyway? They just blow stuff around from one yard into another!!!
It's not exactly an invention; more a concept...
but I hate things that are sets eg salt and pepper,tea-coffee-sugar containers, bed linen; you get the idea
(I have compromised on 5 same dinner plates and a set of cutlery but drinking vessels are an assortment at family meal times.)
The salad shooter....because knives are complicated :D
Lettuce in heads.
I mean, seriously! Why would you go through all that trouble to pull the leaves off, wash them, dry them, tear them up, when you can just buy a bag?
Oh, wait, that's not an invention. They grow that way. Never mind....:p
PS: On behalf of the congenitally pale and blonde, I like makeup!
how about:
electric nose hair trimmer
salad shooter
ok,,,,,,,i know you owned one of these!-----ch, ch, ch chia. the chia pet!
You know what they say about electric nose/ear hair trimmers- buy one before someone buys one for you!! (I think it only applies to men, though, and yes, BF has one. Thank God, because who wants to see ear hair?? I have this ex BF, who had coarse, wavy red hair, and my teenage daughter, who didn't like him very much, called him Goat Boy. She even cut a page out of a kids coloring book, of a goat, and colored it in, and glued sand on it!! and titled it XXXX the Goat Boy. He had some nose hairs that got out of control, and she told him it looked like he had cockroach legs sticking out of his nose!!! Still makes me laugh!)
Lise, for iceberg lettuce- hold the head in both hands, and slam the core down on your counter, and it will pull right out, leaving you with just the leaves.
Nanci
not to mention the tension release: just picture that lettuce as being whomever you are mad at, SLAM - there.....don't you feel Much better now?? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
all those little gizmos and such that are suppose to make your life easier, but they never do. makes things more complicated and i'm short on storage space as it is!
you know nanci i have never gotten that slam down just right. i always have to go back and do some cutting of the core out. i'm sure they have a gizmo to get it out in one shot.