Things that just shouldn't exist/ be made...

[mamapants]

I have recently been decluttering the house and despair at some of the crap we've accumulated, either bought ourselves or been given.
I am ebaying and charity shopping as I go but some stuff has to go in bin/ recycling. It made me think about all the things that should just never have existed in the first place.
Worst culprits in our house:
Children's magazines
Annuals
Running magazines--same stuff in all of them.
Other things I can think of that just have no real purpose include balloons and Xmas crackers.
What else should never have been invented?

Bluetooth speakers, make the beach, train journeys, picnics etc intolerable.

Smartphones, have sucked so much joy from the world (she says hypocritically, writing from her smartphone!).

Disposable anything: cups, cutlery, plates, straws, tablecloths.

Plastic loops that hold beer cans together - in fact, plastic anything.

We rarely buy children's magazines, but those have been Lego it Playmobil and DS has still got all the pieces, plus it has encouraged him to read and he likes the puzzles. Around 4 years ago we bought him a Peppa Pig magazine at Christmas which had a little free torch with interchanging lenses, so you could see FC or a snowman etc. He's just turning 8yo and the torch comes out every Christmas.

Netflix/Amazon prime - so much time wasted on my bum!

Electric scooters for adults - dangerous fucking things that go too fucking fast.

I could go on

Children's character toys and collectables that go out of fashion. We have tonnes of moshi monsters and shopkins in our loft, that my kids want to keep, but I probably couldn't re-sell them anyway. There are so many 'surprise' toys with all that packaging. Like the dreadful lol dolls and poopsie slime!

Sharknado

Cushions. My sofas are both overloaded with cushions, I can't stop buying the damn things but have to throw most of them on the floor just to be able to sit down! And then the dog carries them about, or burrows underneath them and they're all over the floor and the coffee table.

Cushions. Just, why?

Totally agree user about the surprise toys. Drives me crazy, you end up with loads of duplicates until you give up in frustration. If you could just buy the set properly I imagine they'd make more money in the long run and you could get a nice set of toys.