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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can't see what you're doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who's idea was that?

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[–] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've taken to using an old cake pan, a desk fan, and a towel. Fill up the pan with water, stick one end of the towel in the water, drape and clip the other end to the fan and let it sit running for a few days. Before the towel gets gross, toss it in the laundry when it's dry and grab another towel

It works so well I'm completely confused as to how/why there isn't a commercialized product like that, it completely solves the cleaning/highschool biology experiments problem

[–] eatfudd@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

This is how the humidifier I used in the 90s worked. Tub with water, vertical sponge and a fan blowing over the sponge. I'm sure these are still out there but the little misters they call humidifiers now don't work well.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's pretty much a swamp cooler

[–] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Lol yup, got the idea from a Technology Connections video on how one of the common humidifier designs are literally just large swamp coolers