I paid way too much for an ionizer/electrostatic air purifier, through an MLM-sort of affair. I had too much money at the time, and bought it from a former co-worker who’d been let go some months before, so I wasn’t necessarily a credulous sucker. Just a soft touch.
That thing didn’t work for beans, much less >$200.00
hair removal by what looked like sand-paper. ouch
You obviouly skimped on the sticky-back plastic…
(That’ll really confuse them… 
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that was meant to be ‘Obviously’…obviously
Where did you buy it? I had one from the Body Shop. It was GREAT for migraines. You could put it in the fridge for an hour, the freezer for ten minutes, or else you could microwave it for a few seconds or so and then it would work warm.
My mom used it even more than I did. Eventually, it tore when she was using it. I still want a new one.
And um, as far as the Topsy Tail goes-my mother was doing that with my hair long before the wand came out-and she didn’t even need a wand or anything else.
Those suction hooks (that you’d hold up to the wall and then flip the one piece and it supposedly would create suction strong enough to hold a bowling ball) that were selling on TV ads. No, I didn’t buy them off the TV ad; I found them in a $5 throwaway bin at Home Depot or some such, and gave them a try. They’d stay up for all of 30 seconds, if that, even if you didn’t hang anything heavier than a hair on them.
I think the person on the TV commercial with the bowling ball also used a drop of Super Glue[sup]TM[/sup].
I know someone that still has those magic laundry balls (you know a small plastic ball with blue colored water in the middle) she swears up and down they work. In spite of my many attempts to inform her that they have zero value and the company that made them was sued for fraud.
Um, I think with some of those laundry balls, you put the detergent in them and then it dispenses it or something.
So why was the company sued?
False claims, you might think. as The master had his doubts.
Oregon sued for fraud. partly because it was a MLM scam, but mostly cause it didn’t work.
Well Mr. Miskatonic already covered most of the info but just to be clear this thing is sealed there’s no interaction with the blue water inside and the clothes outside.
LOL I really ought to have made it from an egg box and a washing up liquid bottle and some double sided sticky tape. Just like the one I made earlier! (do they still do that stuff on BP?)
Oh, so it’s not a dispenser? I thought those Downey Balls and stuff were dispensers.
H’uh. That’s weird.
Guinastasia, The Downy Ball is a fabric softener dispenser (you fill it each time you use it). The magic laundry balls were just plastic balls full of blue water. Two very different things.
i have the microwave omlette maker, i like it! as long as you only cook the eggs (2) for only 1 minute, turn over, and cook for another 15 seconds. more than that will be A Bad Thing. I bought it after using the microwave poacher, cause it was much, much cheaper than a real poacher, and i wanted to make my own egg mcmuffin.
i also have the towel wrap for your head (2 actually) and love them.
i have an ionic hairdryer that i cannot tell any difference from a regular hairdryer.
i did fall for the guy at the mall hocking those rainbow paints for kids. you know, the sponges that you roll over hard lumps of colors that turn to watercolors when wet? not nearly as much fun as fingerpaint (which i can’t find anywhere!).
oh, and i will soon be buying a ‘perfect pancake’ maker, if only to make hot ham and cheese sandwiches at work!
jujuju, if you’re looking for fingerpaint, try teaching supply stores. As a preschool teacher, I was always able to find it at those. Usually a peanut butter sized jar for around $5.
I can’t think of any store names off-hand, but your kid’s teacher or day-care provider would probably know of one in your area.
I’m not sure… the last presenter that I remember has been too busy allegedly raping Ulrika Jonssen…
The chances of obtaining some of the legendary ‘sticky back plastic’ when I was a kid were about the same as obtaining some weapons grade plutonium…
Bleep and Booster.
Lobelia, you have to come to a dopefest in Ireland, if only to show off your homemade topsytail.
Last time I was watching it was being presented by the fella who said the fabulous “lovely pair of knockers” line … Dog called Goldie. It’s just not the same since Shep died …
Tell me when and where!!
I bought that OxyClean crap. Din’t work any better than any other detergent, and not as good as most.
I bought some type of abdominal crunch machine that, much like the equipment mentioned by ChefGuy and LifeonWry, failed to do much of anything. The exception was that I did atually use it for a short while. Until I noticed my back was hurting more than my abs.
The wife and I also bought a Rocket Chef, which was a hand cranked food slicer/processor. This one actually worked pretty well, but it was such a PITA to clean that we decided it was easier to chop by hand.