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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 [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] 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I had some plastic clothes-pins that became severely degraded from uv sunlight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Wait until you hear about PEX piping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

UV light breaks the polymer bonds. You now have monomer dust.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Soak them in vinegar for 15 minutes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If they're anything like the pegs I got, vinegar won't help, they basically crumbled to dust!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stainless steel ones are the way to go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I prefer wooden pegs with a stainless spring, but plastic has to be pretty much the worst choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I found the wooden one degrade after a while and break, yer 100% agree plastic is rubbish

[–] Bocky 2 points 2 days ago

Microplastics dust