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

submitted 1 day 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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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Everyone seems to have a cup plunger made for sinks next to their toilet instead of a toilet plunger near their toilet.

A toilet plunger has flanges:

I have seen this plunger close to zero times when visiting people and using their bathroom.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen a plunger of any kind kept in someone's toilet.

Is this an American thing?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like it's a more middle class/poor US thing. They often also keep their toilet cleaning brush out in the open, displayed in a fancy caddy.

Might just be lack of closet space? Perhaps the plumbing is so shoddy it makes sense to keep it out for easy access.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

I think most places keep a brush in the toilet in a fancy caddy. That's because the expectation is that everyone scrubs any skid marks before leaving.

I suspect that the plunger is to do with standard sewage pipe guage rather than just "shoddy" workmanship or whatever. That's why bidet spray is more or less mandatory in South East Asia, the sewage pipes just aren't wide enough to handle toilet paper.

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