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

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When I was a kid cereal didn't have no zippas! We rolled up the one end of the bag and watched it partially unfurl when we let go, and we were satisfied with that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Roll the bag. Flip the box upside down. Put it in going up. Hold it in place and flip the box back over. Gravity holds the bag closed. This is a bad idea if anyone else accesses the box and isn't on the same page as you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I just fold it up and use a clothes peg ha ha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Y'know, I bought a bag of bag clips from Ikea years ago and I'm only now realising that they're less suited to the job than a clothes peg. Smart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

How do you hold closed the bag that holds the bag clips?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Stupid question. With a bag clip bag bag clip, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

The gravity-assisted bag roll is a staple for me. Cereal, bread, veggies, anything too big for a bag clip.