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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] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To be fair, most are. At the end of the day, today's economy makes it far more profitable to choose either extremely cheap or extremely expensive, making good, lasting, but not perfect products is just not what consumers seem to want. People eother want something cheap that works okay, or something really well made that justifies the price.

I feel like 99% of products I interact with get me frustrated with their simple-to-fix design flaws.

But as for your question: fucking toothpaste containers! Could you make a more frustrating and intentionally bad design?? Why is it that if I cut them open I can get like another few days to a week of brushing? Why not put tooth paste in a jar with a little spoon? Or an opening that is small so that the amount that is left after squeezing your best, is truly insignificant? Why. Must. I. Suffer?

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

You can get tooth powder in jars.

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

Wow, did not know about that!

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

I think if they just designed the tubes conically, with no rigid end besides the male part of the cap, you'd have barely any waste.

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

Why not put tooth paste in a jar with a little spoon?

Yah, I want a nice crusty jar of toothpaste with a nasty spoon and then I need a spatula to dig out the last bits vs just squeezing a tube. Just push on the tube with you thumb into the back of the opening and the last bits come out.

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

Why would it be crusty? Just close the lid, and a wide and short jar is much better than a tube.