Things you are amazed actually sell

[SuperGinger]

Waitrose own brand bin liners, and they always break, and when you get them out it's super easy to poke a hole in them.

Anything from Lush. Repulsive stench. Even the street outside the shop stinks.

My mum. Or, more accurately, my Dad, for my Mum. She's got a collection of them going back decades!!

He always includes at least one month where he's shirtless, doesn't he? Does your DM stand there agog, saying "Ooh, Cliff, if only both of us were 55 years younger....!" ?!

Leylandii conifers. Saw a load in the garden centre. So 80s. All the housing estates built on the 80s pit them up like massive tower walls round their postage stamp garden. Ugly to look at too, as well as the height problem which means they end up looking hacked at.

Billy Bear ham. Can’t believe people still buy it.

@ApolloandDaphne

Check the rules but most do not allow fake flowers on environmental grounds. We allow plants though eg winter pansy is good currently

Re the ice cubes - they're generally bought for parties aren't they? As it would be sooo much time and effort to make hundreds in trays at home if you want to fill 2/3 (or more) ice boxes / buckets outside for a BBQ to fill with beers, bottles of wine etc. Surely nobody buys them for home?! We might have a small portion of one bag left in the freezer for home use after a party, but aren't they pretty much designed for use at parties/outdoor events where loads of ice is needed?

Air freshener - headache in a can that doesn't even mask the smells it's supposed to. Those scent plugins and wax melts are just as bad, why do some people's homes smell so awful that they need them?!

OMG yes! There is one i am fascinated by in shopping centre near us - the fashion is like the late 80s - utterly cheap awful crap - I have absolutely no idea how it survives in a shopping arcade and joke it is a front for something else! No one is ever in there. The smell of the cheapness hits you just walking past. The clothes are horrid. There has to be something else going on.....

I think some of these are known fronts for money laundering. The American sweet shops where the sweets are hideously overpriced and they're only open a couple of days, limited hours, a week.

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Surely nobody buys them for home?!

I know people who do just that!

Mind, all you need to do is be a bit less disciplined in your freezer care routine and, before long, there'll be plenty of it that you can chisel off the sides for free

Are you sure it isn’t the entrance to St Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies? Look carefully next time - are there strangely dressed people there one minute, gone the next? Are there doors in odd places? Do people seem to disappear through walls? 🤣

Just bought a new home furnished with previous owners stuff and they had an abundance of these signs. Everywhere. Some were about three feet tall. Got rid of them all on our first day in.

PP have said it already, but all the godawful cheap nasty scented candles.

You're obviously not a pet owner 😂

Always buy bags of ice cubes have small freezer and no room for icecube trays as have to stuff everything else in and they get knocked over and would need to do loads and can't be bothered as takes too long, we put them in ice crusher for mojitos other cocktails and slushy type summer drinks we get through loads they are fabulous.

When I started reading the thread I was
going to add scented sanitary towels but saw I was beaten to it. As others have said, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll end up with thrush or some
other irritation down below because of it (and the scent is t even particularly nice!) but I also end up with a flare up of HS if I’m ever unfortunate enough to end up with scented ones substituted for non scented brands.

Ready Brek is absolutely rank and has a weird
flavour for something which is meant to just be partly processed porridge oats. It’s the worst thing when you order porridge in at a hotel or B&B and get served Ready Brek (happened to my
mum a couple of times). Much nicer to make porridge on the hob or in the microwave even if it takes a bit longer!!

My other one is cheap tinned hotdogs - Ye Olde Oake type ones that are about 25% meat and the rest is cereals. Whoever spent the hours in an R&D lab coming up with the formula for the minimum amount of meat you can add to a meat product!! We buy the ones in a vacuum pack from
the local Spar/Co-op and they’re sooo much nicer - and have a much higher meat content so aren’t quite so crap!!

shaving foam and razors marketed at women for twice the price

Those upholstered dining chair with massive ha does on the back. What are those handles for?

@TheSnugglyDuckling I use half Ready Brek and half whole meal flour to make pancakes- they are the best and I've fried putting oats in a blender but just can't get them as fine, even in quite a good blender.

Pasta Evangelists, utterly disgusting, had a 50% offer last Xmas, no bloody wonder!

I had the truffle filled pasta from there. I can honestly say it was awful, one of the worst things I've ever tried. The other stuff wasn't too bad, but quite expensive really.

Fresh soups.

So cheap and easy to make yourself

Disney outfits for adults.

I don't think so. I use jumbo oats that supposedly need a longer cooking time and they only take up to 7 or 8 minutes.

However my grandson prefers Readybrek because it's smoother.

We buy loads of bags of ice. We use it to fill several eskys for garden parties to keep drinks cold. Or the bath when the fridge is full. When we go fishing. When a group is coming over and it's a hot day. The freezer ice cube maker can't keep up with the demand. People love a shit tonne of ice in everything here.