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.

Laundering, I’ve heard 😎

Ahh, so it doesn’t get bruised during transportation. Thought it was just to store at home 😊

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Bamboo plants. The stuff is incredibly invasive, grows at high speed, spreads like mad and once you've got it you can never get rid of it. Something that grows so easily should be dirt cheap, so how come it is so ridiculously expensive in garden centres?

I always assume they're money laundering...

My kids loved them when they were younger. There are loads in my house. Have stopped getting them now but they were always good for a Christmas present.

I've never understood the point of dedicated spoon rests. Surely, you must have work surface, various plates, pans, draining board, whatever where you could perch your spoon - what's the point of an extra piece of highly-specific clutter getting in the way? Yes, you might have to wash wherever you put it, but you'd otherwise have to wash the spoon rest anyway.

Also, I would love to know who actually buys those things they advertise in the magazines that come inside weekend papers - things like a gaudy trinket box that says something generic like "Always my daughter; now also a true friend" or "My granddaughter, my treasure". Do they ever sell any of them? Are they received by the 'lucky' recipient with quite as much delight as they are given?!

Absolutely - my MIL bought them (plus a pillow and duvet) for when we visited her house with our newborn. Couldn't believe such things were still sold/marketed for babies.

The problem with those Princess Consuela banana holders is surely that bananas vary quite considerably in size and curvature. You'd have to have quite an assortment from which to choose, to make sure your choice of banana could be amply and snugly contained.

Also, wouldn't most people take sandwiches or other lunch as well as the banana? If so, just a big-enough lunchbox will contain the lot; why does the banana get special treatment/enforced isolation from its lunchtime buddies?

Yes!! There are a couple of clothes shops in our town that sell very fancy (but quite horrible) clothes at great expense. I've literally never seen anyone enter the shops or anyone wearing the sort of clothes they sell. And yet they've been there a decade or more!

Would you want to be shoved in a small box with an increasingly sweaty sandwich and a slowly melting penguin biscuit? No?

Well, neither does your banana. Tch.

A banana will pollute all other food stuffs even if they're wrapped up. A work colleague sometimes puts a banana in the fridge and I can guarantee my sandwiches will taste vaguely banana-ey that day. Even though the sandwiches are wrapped in foil.

Chris de Burgh records. I realise tastes vary, but WTAF? If I ever got to be in charge of such a thing the first amendment to the Geneva convention would be to add music of such piss poor quality to the list of crimes against humanity.

Oddly enough, in 'Say Goodbye To It All', he begins with the line 'Took a boat over Lake Geneva' - maybe he was off to nobble the convention to ensure that he would be spared on a technicality?!

To be fair, how many of his songs have you heard? Whether they appeal to you or not, like a lot of artists many of his (at least arguably) much better songs have never received a fraction of the same attention as 'Lady In Red' and 'A Spaceman Came Travelling'. I'd at least have a listen to 'No Borderline', if you haven't already heard it; if you do and still hate it, I think it's safe to say that, indeed, you can't stand any of his music and report him to the ECHR!

Cliff Richard Calendars. Who buys them?

Yes!! There are a couple of clothes shops in our town that sell very fancy (but quite horrible) clothes at great expense. I've literally never seen anyone enter the shops or anyone wearing the sort of clothes they sell. And yet they've been there a decade or more!

I think there are quite a few shops out there that are run as hobbies by people of comfortable independent means. They like to be able to call themselves a business owner and also have a place where their friends can find them for a chat and a coffee. Some of them have extremely limited opening hours - 2-4pm on a Tuesday and Thursday or similar. They'd probably keel over in shock if a stranger came in for a serious browse with their purse out!

Would you want to be shoved in a small box with an increasingly sweaty sandwich and a slowly melting penguin biscuit? No?

Well, neither does your banana. Tch.

It's still in prison, though (on death row) - just in solitary confinement, that's all.

A banana will pollute all other food stuffs even if they're wrapped up. A work colleague sometimes puts a banana in the fridge and I can guarantee my sandwiches will taste vaguely banana-ey that day. Even though the sandwiches are wrapped in foil.

That makes sense, but (your work colleague and communal fridges notwithstanding - why would they even put a banana in a fridge anyway?!) - if you've already brought a banana in with you and are intending to have it as part of your lunch.... you must like the taste of bananas, so where's the issue?! Maybe Coronation chicken sandwiches are the solution - they could really hold their own in any banana-odour fight.

Yes! Although I'm extending it to all scented bog roll not just Asda's
Just whyyyy?!
Not only does it fucking stink, it's like a bout of thrush just waiting to happen! 😂

Roll mop and herring, eels etc in glass jars with jelly 🤢
Rustlers burgers you put in the microwave
Roses, quality street, hero's and celebrations, I am not a chocolate snob but they are so bad now.

However we love spam in our house! My girls love it fried with eggs and toast.

Cliff Richard Calendars. Who buys them?

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Glittery wine? I’ve heard of polishing a turd but that’s ridiculous.

Expensive jewellery and watches.I really don’t see the appeal. £5000 for a watch, when instead you can spend £50 on one that keeps the time just as well, you don’t have to worry about losing it or it getting stolen, and you still have £4950 to spend on a new car/house/pay it off the mortgage etc

I bought multiple lint rollers and replacement sticky refills as we have a very hairy dog - his fur gets everywhere even though he's not allowed in bedrooms or on furniture.

They do when it's the only thing the local shop sells and you really need something but don't want to drive to town.
I'm more organised these days. Captive market. It's probably the same in service stations and airports.

Fig rolls.

Expensive jewellery and watches.I really don’t see the appeal. £5000 for a watch, when instead you can spend £50 on one that keeps the time just as well, you don’t have to worry about losing it or it getting stolen, and you still have £4950 to spend on a new car/house/pay it off the mortgage etc

Baffling, isn't it? And you're supposed to send them off to the manufacturers for an expensive 'service' every year too. My £20 Casio has never needed a 'service' in the 15 or so years that I've had it!

Cliff Richard Calendars. Who buys them?

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