Prejudices against innocent everyday items

[PolkaDotMankini]

I realised when picking a substitution yesterday that I consider lemon-scented cleaning products "common". I have no idea why I think this, but I've always avoided them. I now have over 100 lemon-scented dishwasher tablets that I'll be hiding from visitors.

Anyone else have weird prejudices against innocent everyday items?

Anything with hearts or inspirational messages, brings my inner Hyacinth straight out 😁

I rage against tea bags IN a bag WITH a tag.
No matter how carefully I dangle the tag over the side of mu mug, it throws itself into the brewing tea the moment my back is turned.

Golf balls any colour other than white. So so wrong.

Hotel coat hangers with the ring on the hanging bar and a stump on the hanger itself. They are not an innocent object - they are blatantly saying I am a potential thief and not to be trusted, the judgemental fuckers.

My niece has "Live laugh love" individual letters on a shelf, I like to rearrange them when she's not looking. There are loads of combinations.

I think Laugh Evil Vole was one of the first but eventually I had to Google for inspiration.

https://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=livelaughlove&t=1000&a=n

I particularly like Vulvae Leg Hi Lo.

Duvet covers with buttons instead of poppers. HATE THEM. They’re so flipping fiddly, and they take ages to do up. Plus my husband insists they be buttoned up before they go in the wash “so socks don’t get stuck inside”, creating twice the work. Noooooo!

Magic tree air fresheners are the devil’s work.

Anything glittery!

Eyelet curtains. Awful

Hahaha. I came on to say I have a real prejudice against pleated curtains . To me they are in that same category as chintzy net curtains, pelmets, valances, those doilies that go over chair arms and headrests, pot pourri etc. they look so fussy and old fashioned somehow.

I also put rose, lavender and peach scented air fresheners in that same category.

I LOVE the blue water toilet things! And am sad I can't have them in my other toilet as the basin thing (?) is in accessible.

I especially love it in the morning when it's really really blue after soaking all night!

However I can't stand plug in air fresheners! Boak!

There's an awful font / typeface which looks like cursive writing with extra curly bits. Crops up everywhere (there are several varieties so not just one font). I've no objection to Comic Sans (actually pretty readable) or Curlz (used in the film Elf) though.

Jo

Same re the loo bloo stuff. Makes me think of pub toilets. All that unnecessary dye.

I love citrus scents about the house though.

I can't stand tiny teaspoons that almost disappear in a cup of tea when stirring. I use long latte spoons all the time. Even when they're twice the height of the cup.

Detest Oxford pillowcases and pointless frills on bedlinen.

Those twee kitchen signs that say things like "please ignore the mess, we're busy making memories". Bleurgh.

I sympathise with the hotels re coathangers. My parents used to do B&B and kitted out the wardrobes with wooden coathangers with the name of the B&B written clearly on them. By the end of the season about 2/3 of them had gone - though we acquired quite a lot of wire ones! Parents gace up replacing the wooden ones after 3 seasons.

I absolutely hate it when you walk into someone's house and yours hit with a veritable wall of fabric detergent/conditioner smell. Awful. It does feel very common; perhaps the posher people I knew growing up scented their homes with pot pourri!

I agree with you 100% @CharlottenBurger

Washing powders absolutely stink these days. It's like walking past a Lush, they make me feel ill too.

Loop the tag line around the mug handle a couple of times, it won't fall in.

The plastic film on milk bottles.Always filled with fresh dread whenever I open a fresh milk.They never rip clean off.

And if you freeze milk, the foil thing gets more fragile in the freezer so it's guaranteed to rip in half or the little tab rips off the leaves the top intact

I agree.

Mirrored finish furniture
I stayed in a hotel in Florence where everything in the room was mirror finished - it was a nightmare trying to find the door

-Any body wash/shampoo/soap/air freshener that is coconut scented. My childhood best friend lived in a dirty, smelly house and her mum tried to cover the scent with coconut products. She also cleaned the bathroom with coconut shampoo on a bath sponge.

-Crysanthemums- I was a florist and knew when a customer was cheap/had bad taste when they picked them.

-patterned kitchen roll reminds me of another smelly woman I knew as a child, she used it for plates, cleaning and washing herself.

-Bin bags that aren't black- they're common because they show your rubbish!

I’m not keen on lemon scent generally, but make an exception for washing-up stuff.

Lemon liquid is the best for boiling up in water in a ramekin in the microwave to generate squeaky clean steam to wipe down, and I always get the Fairy lemon d/w pods because the plain ones leave a faintly not-quite-clean odour behind to me.

PEOPLE ARE WEIRD.

Copper Coins especially if left out on a surface - no I don't know why

Many of these are rational and justified. Please report yourselves! Irrational prejudices only.

How does that work in winter when the radiators are on?

I hate anything rose scented, not keen on lavender either and anything apple scented smells like wee to me. Like pp said, I also am unreasonably fussy about teaspoons if they are of the cheaper variety and don't even start on cheap forks, they are disgusting. I also find kitchen towel very common and have never bought it.

Teabags