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.

At one stage, several years, I had 3 rescue dogs and 5 rescue cats. I think I kept the lint roller business going and I was just thinking how odd it is not needing to buy a lint roller.

90% of Hobbycraft.

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.

So they obviously didn't want to take them with them, either, then!

I've seen the Greggs clothes in Primark. Anyone know the target market for those?

Ladbaby?!

I think it's sad that the marketing of various substandard ready foodstuffs has been so successful that many people now think that that is what the food is. By all means offer oven chips or frozen roast potatoes as a choice for those who want them, but loads of people now wouldn't even comprehend the idea of starting with some potatoes in order to end up with chips, as opposed to a bag from the freezer.

Even a lot of pubs/restaurants will now serve up convenience food - not talking about dirt cheap Spoons ping meals, but sometimes apparently mid-market establishments. So disappointing when you discover that's what their game is; but the more it becomes accepted that chips or roast potatoes come out of a freezer bag, the weirder you probably seem for expecting them to be prepared on the premises from actual potatoes in the first place.

There used to be one where you added egg and milk. My mother would insist on buying it. It was literally flour in a sachet with some added stabilisers and preservatives. Still drives me mad. Its the reason I learned to make pancakes as a teen (and then got lumbered making them every year)

Lint rollers - you obviously don’t have a pet or anyone idiotic who leaves tissues in the pockets of there clothes… sadly they don’t last decades for some of us.

I've always thought that Readybrek has an uncanny (and unfortunate) resemblance to wallpaper paste.

@SillySausage81 collect breadcrumbs over weeks. You just whack however many slices worth you need in the blender the day you need them.

To the pp who said she had to buy them because she only has brown seedy bread and needs white breadcrumbs. Why not buy a small white loaf for less than a pound and enjoy some.yummy white toast for a couple of days or put what you don't need for breadcrumbs right then in the freezer.

I'll own up, I'm the monster who buys the singing and dancing Christmas ornaments. This year we have a reindeer with a saxophone and a twirling anthropomorphized sprout. I have 8 others in the attic waiting to tastefully grace my home come December.

"The Alan Partridge autobiog is a very excellent exception to the 'fictional character book' one! It is written by the writers though."

Maybe I'm treading a fine line, as I'm a big Partridge fan. I don't have an issue at all when the autobiog/first-person format is the established vehicle for a carefully-crafted, involved comedy character. It's mainly when a one-dimensional character from an advert or whatever gets exploited into a painfully bad cash-in. They actually did it directly in the advert when the Go Compare man started to tell his back-story, and it just seemed so awfully inappropriate. No problem at all with a documentary or book with Wynne Evans telling his life story and of his operatic career - but not at the same time as trying to sell insurance.

Clearly I am missing something in my life......who is this 'Mrs Hinch' everyone keeps talking about???

To the pp who said she had to buy them because she only has brown seedy bread and needs white breadcrumbs. Why not buy a small white loaf for less than a pound and enjoy some.yummy white toast for a couple of days or put what you don't need for breadcrumbs right then in the freezer.

Yep, can do except I then eat it all as toast - anyone know if I make a bunch of white breadcrumbs and froze them in a freezer bag, would they be usable or just defrost into a soggy mush?!

Peter Kay tickets.

Meal replacement shakes

they are good for people on meal plans etc who have to eat every 2 to 3 hours. Especially if you are at work/busy and have no time to sit down and eat a meal.

Nah you just drop a slice of bread into a blender.

Jane Plan, where you apparently stop doing any of your own food shopping and just get them to send you all your food in a box, like you're a child waiting for mummy to plonk something on the table in front of you.

What happens if you have a family - do you all have to switch to Jane Plan? How many variants do they have - doesn't it get tremendously boring? Doesn't it cost a fortune? It can't be healthy if the only possible way you can trust yourself to lose weight is if you self-ban from going into any food shops, like an alcoholic proscribing the pub.

It's definitely a popular cynical marketing plan, where a brand will make a big play about what THEIR brand can do, without pointing out that any brand/make of that item will do the same.

I remember the time when credit cards would furiously stress that THEIR Visa card was accepted at millions of places worldwide, and that's why you had to apply for theirs. Yeah, mate, that's because it's a Visa card - not because it happens to be issued by Happybank!

Shoes from Shoe Zone.Awful things that just fall apart.

I'd pass on the reindeer, but the sprout sounds frigging awesome.

Can I come over?

They smell bad, too. I think it's the glue.

But it's obvious why they sell. They're cheap. They're terrible value, but some people can't afford good value, or to wait shoeless while they save up.

It's an outrage, really.

Dry it out first! Oven on a low heat will work but you need to keep a close eye on it before it starts toasting.

For several years I used to help out with the costumes for dd's dance school shows. A whole aisle of cheap artificial flowers comes in really handy when you have been tasked with making over 100 headdresses and hair pieces in every possible colour combination at the smallest possible cost.

I also like a lint roller or three - we have cats.

They are toxic. I have no idea why they are even allowed. They are bad for our health and bad for the planet as well!

Shoezone - shock news, some people are poor.

Gluegun and glitter shite crafts. If you go to a craft fair now, there might only be a couple of stalls that sell genuine crafts requiring skill. Waste of time.

£15 water bottles.

Corner sofas. If all the seats are used the two people at the corner don't have room for their legs.

ShoeZone aren't even cheap anymore for childrens shoes.