FWIW, I’ve perfected the method: Punch a hole in the top of the container and refill, plug it up with some silly putty or something so if it tips it won’t leak everywhere. I did find that if you remove the bottle and replace it multiple times, it will develop a leak, so it’s best if you can leave it in place and just funnel in your solution, avoiding re-piercing the bottle at the insertion point.
Also FWIW to those that don’t like the WetJet, it’s not meant to be a total cleaning tool, it’s meant for loose dirt/hair free floors in the place of mopping. I love it for in between actual mopping jobs.
I’m fine with the Epilady - though yes, you do have to be careful about getting it near your tenderest parts. However, I will agree with you on the Epil Stop. I got nasty chemical burns from it too - the worst part was feeling a tingle, looking down, and seeing that the foam was pink (yes, from blood). :eek:
That would have to be buying a mutual fund that invests in financials. There goes a third of a year’s pay right off the top of my retirement account, thankyouverymuch.
That ought to make you feel like a freakin genius.
Cat toys. Some work, some don’t. Feliway didn’t make much of a difference in the neurotic cat.
Or the inkjet printer which I don’t use all that often so the ink tends to have fossilized by the time I need something printed. :smack: Don’t laserjets have less of that problem?
My mom just bought a cat leash, they sell them at petsmart or petco or something and make your cat think its being hanged. Just dont get it unless you can catch up with a cat(dont mock me, theyre fast)
A Canon 4 in 1 combination printer, fax, scanner, copier. It did all of the jobs equally bad and the price of the ink cartridges bordered on extortion. This was about ten years ago so maybe they have improved but no more Canon products for me except maybe a camera.
Under the category of some things can’t be improved on: I saw this neat looking fiberglass leaf rake with all of these extra tines along the side. Extra tines = less raking, right? Wrong. All it did was grab the grass and edging and made the job three times harder. Give me the old fashioned springy metal rake any day.
The worst purchase I’ve made recently was a resin figure kit I bought for an incredibly low price from a guy at a swap meet. There was a reason for the low price; it’s a copy of somebody else’s kit (a “recast”), and it’s malformed and incompletely cast. The details are “soft” and the resin is full of bubbles, and the parts don’t fit right. I took a first crack at making it useable, but essentially, it’d take me so long to fix it that I’d be better off getting a part-time job and using the money to buy an original.
Plus, it has the ethical stigma of being a recast. Sigh.
At a garage sale, I picked up one of those devices that uses a garden hose to help clean your gutters. It’s basically a wand with a U-bend on the end. The idea is that it emits a strong jet of water and drives the leaves and crap towards the drain where it can be easily removed.
Nice theory and maybe it works if you have a low roof with gutters easily accessible from the ground. But the mechanics of balancing on a ladder 20 feet up while dragging a heavy hose are suboptimal. Further, like most hoses, the fittings were not watertight and there was sloshing from the gutter, so as you used it you got doused with a constant stream of water.
One cold wet morning of experimentation with the wand and it went back into the garage for some future garage sale of my own.
Okay, the automatic cat feeder gets better every day. The kitties are learning how to use it properly and it is helping me get some much needed sleep. I will amend my worst purchase ever to the time my ex and I went out to dinner on Valentine’s Day at a somewhat ritzy restaurant in town, ran up $100 in food, drinks and dessert, and then at the end of the evening he looked at me and said he didn’t have any money. I didn’t expect him to pay for the whole thing but I expected him to pay for half! We broke up not long after that. That was the biggest waste of $100 ever.
I was waiting outside an electrical goods shop for some mates that I was going for a pint with when I spotted a metal detector in the window and went in and bought one on impulse.
After I got it home I tried it around the house to hear the bleep and never ever used it again.
I agree. I liked the Wetjet just fine, but didn’t use it until after sweeping or dry swiffering first. Wet dust and fur, yuck. I also loved my Roomba. I miss these things.
My “as advertised on television” product was the Egg Wave, which was supposed to make scrambled eggs in the microwave oven. What a great idea! I needed more protein in the mornings without having to mess up a frying pan 'cause I’m lazy as dirt - easy and quick, right? Hah. Every single egg I tried exploded. Within seconds. Every single time. No matter what I did, I was cleaning up scrambled egg. I gave up and threw 'em away. I’ve learned my lesson. Never again.
But … Magic Bullet? Doper’s mother loves it? Hmmmmm.
Days prior I’d barely scuffed part of my leg; it was merely a little pink at that time. By the time I used the Epilstop it wasn’t even noticeable. So I can only assume that part of the epilation effect is to remove the outer layer of skin. In other words, if I’d done a normal exfoliation on my legs I might have had that everywhere. :eek:
