When my mother had hip replacement surgery she had to get one of these because she was not allowed to bend past a certain amount. But the sock thing didn’t really work out for her that well. She also had to have a bunch of bars installed and a weirdo thing to put on top of the toilet so she basically didn’t have to sit down. That thing was nasty.
I don’t remember the name Monkey Hook (had to look it up), but I used a bunch of these to hang pictures and stuff. Never had a single problem with them, and they were easy to use. I haven’t removed any of the pictures, but I would think that the hole left behind is a smaller than with most picture hangers.
The one item that (I believe) was originally advertised “as seen on TV” that really works are furniture sliders. We’ve moved dressers, desks, tables, couches and all sorts of things with those.
Nice idea, and I generally like Alton Brown, but what a terrible video. It’s basically Alton saying “here’s a kitchen gadget, it’s bad”. And just when I start wondering what’s so bad about it, and why doesn’t it work, he’s on to the next one. And he reads Amazon reviews to me, which I’m capable of reading for myself.
Those are them. They have them at Home Depot. Their main benefit is that they’re super hard and resilient.
I received a Lint Wizard as a gift, and to my amazement, it worked surprisingly well. I liked it better than those sticky-tape lint rollers.
Like most ASOTV products, the build quality wasn’t great—it broke after a few years of use—but the damn thing worked exactly as depicted in the advertisement.
And you can clean your spoons in the smile!
Forever Comfy. I’ve had two, neither lasted more than seven months before the gel insert leaked.
Don’t remember the name of the product, but years ago there was an infomercial for spray-on hair. The idea was that you used the gunk in the aerosol can to fill in any bald spots on your head.
IIRC they had an audience full of balding men and went around and sprayed this stuff on them and everyone oohed and aahed.
I cannot imagine how this would fool anyone who saw you from several feet away, let alone someone close to you. And what happened if you got caught in the rain?
We got the spray-on hair for my brother’s 40th birthday party. Believe me, it wouldn’t fool anyone within a 30-foot radius. And, yeah, it started running down his forehead when he started sweating. Funny as could be.
In the immortal words of Legends of the Fall, “Forever turned out to be too long.”
I’ve never bought those, but I believe they were presented on the ABC program Shark Tank.
Does anyone else think that Shamwow is a rather unfortunate name for a product?
“It’s a Sham! Wow!”
Wow, $100 for that piece o’ crap? As Rosvirein said, children’s ‘toy’ poles are better. I have a 4-piece rod that is about 20 inches long when disassembled. Works fine, too. Throw in a couple bobbers, a few hooks, some split-shot and a small reel, and you’ve got a great fishing tool that’s compact as well. It probably cost me $50 in today’s money, but worth it.
I saw that item at Bed Bath and Beyond a few weeks ago. I’m toying with the idea of picking it up. My two concerns are: that it looks like if might overstress the elastic in the socks and shorten their useful life, and that having it to rely on removes a certain amount of personal incentive for me to drop about a hundred pounds.
In the months leading up to my hip replacement in 2015, the joint was physically incapable of flexing that far, regardless of my weight, and it would have been a VERY welcome addition to my collection of knickknacks, gewgaws, and gadgets. Especially for my daughter, who got dragooned into dressing my right foot once a day.
I didn’t have that problem with mine.
I had the problem of “you can only cook one pancake at a time.” When it takes half an hour to make three short stacks for your family’s breakfast, you’ve reached a point of diminishing returns.
I do still use the batter dispenser for making uniformly-sized pancakes on my standard griddle (my griddle technique is successful because I know to wait for the bubbles on the surface to pop before I try flipping the pancakes. And because I never flip pancakes in black-and-white).
It would be interesting to compare a 1972 Pocket Fisherman with a current-day one. Is the earlier one better-made and more reliable? Or do modern plastics allow the newer one to be better quality?
actually I still have a few items that are still head together by mighty putty…
The self-draining garden hose (I want to say – “Pocket Hose?”) works a treat. It doesn’t really fit in my pocket, though.
Sheepishly raises hand But, in my defense, that was a very long time ago and we realized our error shortly after acquiring it. :smack: I don’t think I’ve ever purchased an As-Seen-On-TV product since.
I was going to say exactly the same thing about my mom, who broke her hip a couple of years ago and had it replaced. Dad isn’t always there to pick things up when she drops them, or help her with her socks and slip-on shoes, so she has this little clippy thing on a stick she uses. She also has that toilet-top thing. You’re not one of my siblings, are you?