Top 10 most useless items of crapola

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Fucking consumerism. Who needs a butt wipe warmer? I grew up fine without one.

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Our yard is HUGH and it takes three solid 8 hour days to rake it (thanks to the numerous maple trees).

My allergies and asthma prevent me from such an undertaking. Mr MB breaks out the leaf blower, and we get the yard done in one day.

I remember raising five kids on almost an acre of land in Massachusetts. They were asked to rake in mid-October, but we never got it done. Then, it slipped into November, and sometimes they had to rake on Thanksgiving weekend, if the weather was good.

Of course, that's when all their friends are eating turkey and going to football games. We had maple and pine in the heavily wooded backyard with an inground swimming pool that had to be cleaned and covered before winter. Once we got caught with an unraked backyard on December 10 and a snowfall (it's my son's birthday). That was a total mess!

And by the way, we paid the little devils for their household help, too!

for moving organic junk out of gardens such as leaves, seed husks, twigs, etc. If you try raking, plants get broken.

A leaf blower may not be necessary, but it is useful.

Now for my money the creme de creme of useless items was the coffee filter remover. It was a big plastic tweezer to pull the paper filter out of the basket without getting your fingers all icky. Don't know about you all, but in morning I have just enough hand/eye coordination to dump the filter into the garbage can. Trying pick out the paper filter with tweezer would only result in a nasty mess ... or worse.

I think all people who use leaf blowers should be forced to listen to them at 3 in the morning

It cleans my patio and around all the furniture. i use to to blow the worms from a certain tree off the car. I blows off my screens in the porch so I don't have to use water to do it. Blows the dust out of the garage and makes cleaning downspouts in spring and fall a 15 minute job. It used to take hours handful by handful on the 32 ft ladder.

Oh yeah, I forgot:




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Really, I agree with all the other items, but an egg cracker? Where can I get one?

I HATE hate hate hate breaking eggs, because always, somehow, at least one piece of eggshell manages to get by, and then I have to stick my finger in the bowl of egg and fish that little sucker out. Clearly I just lack the skill necessary to properly crack eggs.

But of course, maybe this device does not prevent shell pieces from coming along, I haven't seen the infomercial yet.

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Even though I dont own one, much less has the use for one, they are really handy. I mainly see them being used by landscape workers where I work at the Outerbanks NC. When your in this kind of business, you gotta have things done fast and effeciently, and for clearing leafs and grass, the leaf blower takes the cake.

It's almost a necessity to clear the live oak. You still have to rake, but it takes DAYS off of that chore!

The health of my trees and landscape more than makes up for the carbon footprint.

I actually own three of those items, I'm so ashamed :dunce:

Reminds me of the time when I discovered they finally got the warmer thing at the hospital for the goop they used for breast ultrasounds. That cold shit just added insult to injury, after having your tits squished in a cold vise.

I was happy before I knew of them, but now I feel empty and deprived... :cry:

I couldn't begin to tell you how many times that automatic wrench would have been handy. Too many times I've had an unusual size bolt/nut in such a tight spot I couldn't get my finger on it.

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I've seen people use them to blow the sand from winter road treatment off their driveways, even though a broom is faster and tidier -- not to mention less noisy -- for that task.

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to do my lawn. If you saw my yard, you would understand why.

It took two kids all day to rake *most* of it, and there was no way I would subject anyone to that hard labor again.

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Now get back to work!

She clearly has never felt the coldness of a wipe in the middle of winter (though we don't have one of those) the adjustable wrench is just smart (inventor made a fortune as it has other applications) and she must not have a yard or be familiar with the lawnkeeping business.

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I even like the banana holder but I never bought one cuz I couldn't figure out what to do if I had just one banana left. It would look pretty pathetic to have a banana lying on the counter next to an empty banana holder.

"have an invention?" at the bottom of the page.

There is not one picture of an electronic voting machine on there. Not one!

and I sure wish I had one when my babies were little. My son actually had an aversion to diaper changes because of the cold wipes. I finally learned to stick them in the microwave for 10 seconds before I started the change, and he was perfectly happy.

for clearing the neighbors' leaves from our lawn and bushes. I think my husband may own an adjustable wrench for working on his car. So, we own 2 of the 10 items. But man, let me tell you, I want me that egg cracker! No more fishing in the eggs for little bits of shell - I am so there!

What better way to dry the motorcycle after washing? It gets all the water out of those countless nooks & crannies.

it was just annoying to make the wrench fit what you were wrenching with it.

I even gave it away as gifts.

when I read the subject line!

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You could always take the wipes out and use it as a rectangular fondue pot!

I've read dozens of online screeds about these devices, and every single screed chuckles to itself about the unlikeliness of a huge gust of wind blowing through one's office.

Well, that's fine, but that's not the paper weight's only function. It also serves to hold down creased or stapled papers, as well as to hold books open while keeping your hands free. Sure, you could use a stapler, another book, or your coffee mug to hold the paper down, but the weight is simply a specific-purpose device.



Much of the rest of the list is right on the money IMO...