I need new oven mitts, and I’m annoyed!
Why are manufactueres so disconnected from the real world?
Most of the mitts at Bed Bath and Beyond have just one mitt per, and they’re all right handed. Try picking up a full-sized lasagna pan with one hand. No, don’t. Too risky.
So, lets make a list stoopid products. If we can get enough, I’ll send it off to the NAM. Not Vietnam, but the National Association of Manufacturers.
My start off:
Right-handed only oven mitts.
The infamous ten weiners and eight buns.
Packages of ten things of which nobody ever needs more than one. Look in your junk drawer.
If we make a worthy list, I’ll edit in bullets. Not bullets, but
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Peace,
mangeorge
Call me crazy, but aren’t oven mitts usually ambidextrous? At least the ones I recall seeing could be worn on either hand.
No. many have a “hot stuff” side and a “no hot stuff” side. Have they changed? I have an Ove Glove that is one sided. It’s in my junk drawer.
I remember that. I’m hoping to accumulate many examples in one place.
A one-sided Ove Glove? That must have been a first generation; we have two-sided Ove Gloves that work beautifully. Or would, if my husband would actually use them; he insists on using his elderly cheap, crappy, rapidly thinning potholders.
I’ve been doing MY part by buying the hot dogs in the 8 packs. They’re larger than a standard dog, but they fill the bun so nicely, and I don’t have leftover dogs. On the other hand, I don’t have an excuse to make beanie weenies with the two leftover weiners.
Well, yeah, I bought mine whan they were “not available in stores”. I checked the store’s sites, and now they’re available in pairs. If that turns out to be the norm, I’ll drop oven mitts.
Sorry, Lynn, that doesn’t them off the hook. Wieners shall remain on the list. 
Pork and beans! Dang, I forgot. Now I have to get some. Eaten many beans 'n weenies in my youth.
I have just examined all of my oven mitts, and they’re the same on both sides. Which is good, since I don’t pay attention to which mitt I put on which hand.
The stupid cellphane-like wrapper most bread factories use on rye bread. Why?
The .9 cent price/gal on gasoline. The idiocy of it has been around and around forever, but it’s still there.
But if they changed it, it would mean a price rise of .1 cent per gallon! I can’t afford that.
My bad product – the “green” replacement for styrofoam cups. Someone has just revived paper cups and sold them with a new marketing spin. You can’t hold one with hot coffee without burning your fingers. I dunno, maybe the paper is recycled or something.