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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] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Light bulbs! I thought when we moved away from the traditional incandescent the new stuff was supposed to last forever. Why do they die all the time!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Can I ask where everyone is from? I'm in the UK, which uses 230v, and even cheap-ass LED bulbs last forever. But a lot of the bulbs are rated for both 230v and 115v so I'm wondering if those same bulbs are being sold in the US. If that's the case, they'll need to pull double the current to manage the same output which is far more stressful on the electronics than higher voltage with lower current.

[–] ooterness 8 points 1 day ago

It's usually because of cheap electrolytic capacitors. Letting a $10+ item die because they were too cheap to pay $0.25 instead of $0.15 for a properly rated component.

[–] dustyData 5 points 1 day ago

It's usually the electronic drivers. They overoverheat and degrade. Most burned LED bulbs still have working LEDs and just need to replace some component of the driver board.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

thanks capitalism

[–] bradboimler 4 points 1 day ago

When I replaced a set the other day I learned that some of them are not rated for enclosures

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I use the Phillips Hue bulbs and spots and I’m yet to have one die on me. Some of the bulbs has been in use for more than 10 years. However, I see my fair share of other LED spots that dies too soon.