Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly?
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Water bottles for bikes suffer from this.
You gotta get them really dried out really regularly.
Like if you only have one that you use every day it's just going to get gross no matter what.
It needs to be bone dry for a few days to kill everything.
If you have 2 and switch once a week, the one that's out of rotation will dry out and any funk will just die off.
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Any time there's a ready meal from the supermarket and for some reason the adhesive is way stronger than the plastic film. You end up with loads of bits of film just sort of stuck to the rim of it. Super annoying.
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That's pretty much a swamp cooler
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Shower curtains
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I am tallish for a woman, at least where I live, but not for a person. Countertops are too low for the average height person, they are still built at the 36" height that was in my old house, built in the 1920s. We are taller on average now, and both men and women use the kitchen now.
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You literally just use a sponge and some bleach spray and like a minute of your time. If you replenish it daily your normal water chlorine should keep most of the bad shit at bay.
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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.
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Twist them round half a turn (after loosening) one of the two plastic straps will break off and you have more maneuvering space to screw the cap back on. Twist and tear again to get the entire cap off and fasten the old fashioned way.
My expierence is that most (european) bottles this helps.
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Kitchen sinks. Instead of doing the dishes they just sit there.
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Twist them round half a turn (after loosening) one of the two plastic straps will break off and you have more maneuvering space to screw the cap back on. Twist and tear again to get the entire cap off and fasten the old fashioned way (more hassle).
My expierence is that most (european) bottles this helps.
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I've no problem with breaking them off, I just think they're a foolish idea that doesn't solve a problem. They just make life more difficult (my kids and wife can't close them tightly enough, and half of each bottle goes flat).
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Those are gravity operated. Point the thongs grippers downward to open, point them to the ceiling to close.
Was a while before I found out. I like them better now.
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Lawd I did an actual laughing out loud.
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That doesn't work. - former barkeep
Hand pump from a sauce dispencer might work though
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I agree on the dumbness of the design.
The half twist does solve the problem of getting it back on, give it a try!
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I've dropped brands for that shit
Got a local one that puffs up to like 3x height in the microwave though and that pulls off a lot of the adhesive.
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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.
After pouring the detergent into the appropriate receptacle, toss the cap in with your laundry to be washed like everything else. No mess.
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My last wiper change was a couple years ago and the first wiper took 20 minutes. The second was like 40 seconds but that first one made me mad.
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I stopped using my water bottle for a while til they made a new cap where the rubber gaskets have a pull tab for easy removal and cleaning.
Easy removal of the gasket solves the entire problem for me.
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I have, just weight based. Heavier item harder to pick up, needs longer teeth. If for some reason you are eating chips with a Spork instead of a fork, not a big difference really.
