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.

Thank you!
Yes, a 5 yr old can make their own Ready Brek every wintery morning after a few minor catastrophes. Porridge would be a disaster every day for eternity (or until they turn 7).

@thethejadefish I work as a supermarket online shop picker. You'd be surprised how many of the supermarkets own brand jam tarts get picked 🤣

I agree with this one. What is the point?

Funko pops.

This is a staple part of my sons diet - fortified with loads I struggle to get in him otherwise, thanks to bloody allergies.
Ready Brek is brilliant!

Any scented sanitary pads unless they are bought by mistake. They are not healthy on top of the fact it's saying that how women smell is disgusting and we need to have foul fake odours on top of the blood.

Mirror furniture

Glittery ornaments

Or the best of both worlds...

Glittery mirror furniture

Aren't they just a magnet for dust and fingerprints? I'm sure I'd be polishing them every day.

Individual pots of oats, so expensive! Just buy a big bag, chuck some in a pot that seals properly with milk, and microwave at work. If you don’t have a microwave at work but have a kettle, add some milk powder instead. Literally the same thing

I buy a load every week.

We have porridge oats here that get used on weekends etc - but a just-add-water porridge pot and a piece of fruit is the only breakfast that my older 2 dc will reliably grab themselves on school days. They have their place, like most convenience food - having to mix and microwave your own then wash your container doesn't really compare in terms of absolute ease!

You've not see Muppets Christmas Carol, have you?!

Any of the stuff that is posted over on the Christmas tat thread. 😁

Sainsburys tall bin liners are thin enough to spit through too @SuperGinger.

They didn’t used to be. They’ve thinned them down progressively and they’re now completely useless.

Omg yeah!
I see them in the toy shop and think what a boring load of shit.

I was walking past Five Guys earlier and saw an advert for their Christmas milkshake - Pigs in Blankets flavour. 🤑Literally a vanilla and bacon shake. Who on earth would that appeal to?

Celebrity branded stuff, especially influencers. Mrs hinch cloths and Joe wicks Tupperware for example. It's so cringe.

@ShirleyPhallus I also love Ready Brek. I have it for breakfast every morning in the winter with a bit of golden syrup.

Haha, yep, I think this is an American thing, putting bacon in everything.

And Disney mercy for adults. Always think you must be a sandwich short of a picnic to spend hard earned cash on a Minnie Mouse backpack.

I thought this was going to be FB market place.
It's the:
"Generic hoover. Been sitting in the garage for 5 years and didn't really work before that. Good for spare parts. £30" and you see 15 replies desperately begging for it. You can get a new one for not much more.

Agree with scented sanitary pads too. You can smell them half an aisle away. Yuck!

Bathbombs!!! If I’m going to fill my bath full of hot water, I want bubbles!! That makes it luxurious- not some cheap, made in a China, wrapped in plastic bath fizz!

Only skim read so far, so might be some overlap...
Things I don't get are
pop tarts (yuk)
Cold shoulder tops especially jumpers (I really don't get it these)
Heeled boots that have toes and heel bits cut out and wait for it, mesh as the fabric (so everything has holes in it essentially)

Agree with scented sanitary pads too. You can smell them half an aisle away. Yuck!

I occasionally buy them in error and am so, so pissed off about it. They should have the word scented in HUGE letters so that you can avoid them like the plague.

Lego

These plastic gold sets seem to go into most homes to disappear amongst other sets in box's,tubs etc never to be built again.

Might as well just buy an assortment of random lego bricks and let the kids have at it.

Can you recommend a good brand that isn’t scented? Always are great but the scent is horrendous.

i hate body form because they are so sticky I struggle to pull them off!

Or missing question marks, even worse.

(Sorry)

First thing I do when I go around my sisters house is turn them all off. They give me a headache!