Infomercial products that are actually good

Seconding Showtime Grill. Makes an awesome roast chicken.

We sent off for our Snuggies before they hit the stores. Also, we ordered an X-Press Cooker off TV also. We’ve never seen any related junk mail.

Order it off ebay, instead. Ebay has some amazingly strict rules for their sellers against using customers’ email addresses or home addresses for anything other than the transaction itself. In short, you just can’t do it, and if someone complains to them that you did, your accounts can be shut down. In the latest software, the seller can’t even *see *your email address if you don’t use Paypal to pay (and the Paypal exception is going to change soon so even Paypal users’ email addresses can’t be seen.)

Back in the catalog only days, my mom would use a different middle initial on her order for each vendor. To Jim’s Sales, for example, she’s Jane J Doe, and to Booty Boutique, Jane B Doe. If she got mail from anyone else addressed to Jane J Doe, heads at Jim’s Sales would roll.
Oh, and as for the OP, I’ll nth the Ped Egg and the Forman Grill, and add Wonder Hangers. Not good for heavy things like the purses and winter coats they show in the ad, but great for tees, blouses, light blazers, etc. And the “free” stick on LED push lights are the best design I’ve ever found (the lights are arranged in a horizontal row, instead of a ring, and it gives really good light.

I have them. My mom gave me a set. They work fine. I’ve put liquids in them and put them in the refrigerator, but I haven’t taken a liquid-filled container on a trip or anything. The lids snap on and are pretty tight. My sister put one in the dishwasher, though, and said it didn’t survive the wash very well, so I hand-wash them.

I am ashamedly admitting here for the first time anywhere that I purchased a Shake-weight last week. I have been working out in the gym with weights for my arms for 10+ years with poor results, so I thought I’d give this thing a shot. It’s kind of embarrassing. They are really light–lighter than my five-pound weights–but I haven’t read the directions or made them “shake” or anything. I will report back, but I am keeping the box in case I need to send them back.

My mom had a set of those and said they absolutely do leak if they get tipped over.

Bare Minerals makes the best makeup I’ve ever used. It stays put and feels like you’re wearing no makeup at all, and really does cover blemishes and tired eyes as well as the commercials show it to.

One of my aunts started using it, then my mom and the rest of them followed, then they got me a kit. It was like they were crack dealers–I was hooked from day one.

I met the inventor of the Flowbee at an invention show. He cut my hair. It was a fast, good cut and zero hair on my shirt or down my back.

I didn’t realize that was an “infomercial product”, but yeah, absolutely. Love that stuff! I can even put it on in the dark in my tent and it looks fabulous, it blends and covers so well.

We’ve had them a good four years and they work great. I typically use them for lunch the next day and I’ve had NO problems with casseroles, green chili, stir fry, etc.

I wouldn’t use it with liquids, but leftover stewish glop or dry stuff is ok [stew tends to solidify when cold and not slop out]

the smallest one holds a portion of nuts, m n ms, or little candies, the medium ones are great for cut up veggies, the large ones are great for carrot or celery sticks, or chips.

I bought “The Wave” fitness system by The Firm off of amazon after being hooked in by an infomercial. I really like it, it makes my thighs burn! :wink:

Back about 15-17 years ago, off of QVC, which isn’t Infomercial but it is the Mother Ship of SHIT YOU REALLY DON’T NEED, I bought two things and only two things.

The Buckwheat Hull pillow, which I still use to this day ( and have expanded my pillow empire considerably.)

And, I don’t know what it was called or if it is still out there somewhere, but it was for a pickup truck bed. A conveyor belt kinda gizmo that when you had a heavy load you needed to offload, you cranked it off the end. It took a several hour job of moving wood chips and made it about 10 minutes of unloading. It was FARKTASTICALLY AWESOME!!!111!! and Mr. Ujest said it probably would never work. HAH! In your FACE! When we donated the truck, the thingie went with it.

Are they comfortable, though? I went with Happy Straps instead since Strap Perfect looked uncomfortable. I loooove Happy Straps, though.

This set rocks. I wish I’d picked up the refill kit I saw in Big Lots 2-3 years ago for less than $10, since I’ve never seen it again.

Mrs. Slug loves the snuggie. I don’t know that the thing is warmer than any other blanket, but having the sleeves allows her to do stuff with her hands that would normally require her to remove a regular blanket.

I like the Bare Minerals makeup, but I don’t get why they also use the brand name “Bare Escentuals” and frankly, that purposeful misspelling makes my teeth itch. I switched to Everyday Minerals, 'cause it’s WAY cheaper, and they don’t do any automatic billing crap (although of course you can buy Bare Minerals products at places like Ulta and Sephora).

If you’ve ever unloaded your pickup truck by backing up real fast and then jamming on the brakes … you might be a redneck! :smiley:

Well, noooooow you tell me. :smiley:

Check out this site:

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/category.asp?C=12373

Good, down home, unscientific evaluations of all of the crap that gets advertised on infomercials. It can save you a lot of aggravation and money.

Based on the site, there was one product I saw in a store and I did buy it. It’s the Windshield Wonder.

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=10539753

I haven’t used it often but it does seem to work well.

This is another good site for reviews of infomercial products.

Proactiv skin care is really good, especially if you’re under 35 or so. Now that I’m getting toward my mid-30s, my skin is more delicate than it used to be, so the cleanser is kind of irritating and I think I’ll have to discontinue it. I don’t know if it’s hormones or age or what. But when my skin was more elastic, that stuff eliminated any acne I had and made my face incredibly smooth. It even worked better than Retin-A, which I had by prescription.