Things you thought you'd invented, but you didn't

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I'll start. The disposable toilet brush. Anti spot face masks. Tinting mascara. One day I'll be ahead of the game 😂

@minipie

When I was a teenager I invented a new insult, by mixing together the words Twit and Prat.

Turns out it already existed

I feel like we went to school together lol there was definitely as embarrassed moment with a friend doing the same thing lol. None of us knew it was a word though until she said it in front of a teacher

I've been saying 'Happy Friday', LONG before it caught on and became mainstream! So yes, you've all got me to thank for this amazing phrase! 🤪

I have also invented the recruitment hat to replace interviews and tasks. In the style of Harry Potter, you pop it on the prospective candidates head and it tells you whether to give them the job or not. Now I just have to wait for magic to be real and I'm on to something 🤣

DH genuinely thinks he invented the card game shithead.

Years ago when I was at uni I was making a chicken wrap with sauce, for the sauce I mixed gravy and mayonnaise, my friends were appalled, apparently it 'wasn't a thing' and 'looked and sounded rank' (tasted good tho) anyway, fast forward 6 years, and KFC have bought out 'gravynaise'

I want my money!!!

I invented heelys with my best friend when we were about 7. I sketched out designs, measured wheels.. I begged my parents to help me make them, they told me I was being silly.. My mother didn't know what to say when they came out. I could have been a millionaire haha

Back in 1998, me and two University friends invented Just Eat. (we even went out to a pub to refine our ideas). Don't know if it had already been invented by then, but we abandoned the idea anyway.

I invented fizzy orange when I was 5. I put some orange squash with lemonade and thought I was a genius.

The toaster. We only had a grill at home and I told my parents that when I grew up I would invent a machine that would toast bread on 2 sides at once, to save time.

Was crestfallen when they laughed and told me it already existed! I was about 5 or 6 I think.

In music class at school we had to write our own musical using pop songs, I used lots of Queen songs to tell my story. I was told by the teacher it was a rubbish idea to use just one artist and that it should have been more diverse. A few years later Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You came out. Fuming.

I invented the train (legit) I was walking somewhere and thought we could really do with something a bit like a roller coaster, but flat and with a lid.

@Nutrigrainygoodness

I invented the train (legit) I was walking somewhere and thought we could really do with something a bit like a roller coaster, but flat and with a lid.

Hot stone massage

Turbo trainer

As a child, anti-fog mirrors.

You'd have all had them 20 years earlier if I'd had the £££

@linmanuel Songkick will do this for you 👍

@Nutrigrainygoodness

I invented the train (legit) I was walking somewhere and thought we could really do with something a bit like a roller coaster, but flat and with a lid.

I love that re-framing of a train as a flat rollercoaster.

I invented the iPad. I had an iPod touch which I used in the same way that everyone now uses an iPad. However I remember telling DH that Apple needed to make it four times bigger.

The iPad hadn’t been invented then, but I am happy to forgo my rights and the millions of pounds I deserve when I gave the universe my invention (stated only in my front room to my DH), as I bloody love my iPad and agree that Apple made a better version than I would have made myself!

I have also invented (about 10 yesrs ago) the idea that within areas of specific speed limits, all cars are automatically capped to that as a max speed.

I reckon that this either now exists in concept or will be built in to the next generation of cars which will be even closer to self driving so will need to adhere to street speed limits.

BUT I invented it!

I would like if people could submit their idea to a central bank, and companies would easily be able to access these ideas, make them and pay the inventor. There is a fault in the system, that Mrs Smith who has a brilliant idea, but no way of creating or selling it is unable to bet it made, be heard, be paid for her idea.

Loads. But I've got a new one, look out for it. Laundry facilities in airports. Imagine. You arrive 3 hrs before departure and your dirty laundry is quickly done by experts and nicely folded and returned to your suitcase so when you get home so you have to do is unpack.

Didn't have a toastie machine so invented the cheese and ham toasted sandwich made in a frying pan. It is a croque Monsieur.

Oh, I've invented the notion that petrol companies/electric car manufacturers need to join together and invent removable car batteries, and turn petrol stations into car battery exchanges. So when your battery is running low you pull in and swap it out for a fully charged one. Then they have a storage facility full of chargers to recharge it and get it ready for the next person. That way all the petrol stations up and down the country will be put to good use and people don't have to wait around for hours waiting for their battery to be recharged.

You read it here first!

I hope someone on Mumsnet can make this happen, and I get some sort of award in recognition, like a Nobel prize for great ideas or something

Deliveroo.

About 12 years ago I remember telling people I’d pay bloody good money for a wine/chocolate delivery to the door that I could order from my phone. We even joked that I’d like them run a local franchise of my idea.

why did I not do this??

The fringe wash.. although most people with a fringe probably do it!

In 2003 I went on a solo day trip to a U.K. town as I had the day off and no one else was free. I took a ‘selfie’ with my camera, a quarter of my face was off the photo but it was a selfie none the less. Before it became a thing.