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?

Corner baths and clacky shoes

Dado rails, freezes, wallpaper borders, coving. My parents were obsessed with all of these - making the walls as busy as possible. I was in the box room - 5 ft by 7ft - dad put a dado in there, made all the furniture jump 2 inches into the middle of the room, could only open the cupboard doors enough to stick my arm in.

Just why?! Maybe in stately home, but not in a Victorian terrace.

I have this vision of your husband buried in a mountain of Yankee candles, clawing his perfumed way out of his office, @Beseen22!

Same with Rhodedendrons - remind me of walks with my parents who despised each other.

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!

I'm with your husband on this one. So annoying when the duvet cover.comes.out full of other stuff! And I actually prefer buttons to poppers. The poppers drive me mad and they always seem to stop popping together after a while.

I don't think mine is particularly irrational but cartoon characters on adult clothing. Correction, cartoon characters on women's clothing, because I don't see it so often men's clothes. It seems to me it's all about the infantilisation of women. And I don't understand women who want to go around with Dumbo or Mickey on their torso but each to their own I guess.

Austrian blinds. They look like frilly underwear draped over the curtain rail.
Coloured loo roll, though that is now vanishingly rare, thank goodness.
Coloured bathroom suites.
Built in bedroom furniture.
Built in kitchen appliances.

Think it's time I lived in a tent!

I've just seen a patterned kitchen roll that was lemon-scented. I guess it would set some people off 🤣

Btw, fascinating to lear about these things! Great thread 👍🏻

The Radley Scottie dog. Something about the twee little fucker makes me feel stabby. I'm not entirely sure what it did to provoke such a reaction!

Black and white photos of Kate Moss. Unless you are Kate Moss.

Air freshener.

Carpets.

Bar carts.

Terrazzo.

Bar stools.

I despise cheese and onion crisps. Vile things that make your fingers and breath stink. I also do not understand cans of energy drink - just have a coffee?

Fake tan and obvious false eyelashes. The tan is never ever the right colour, or the lashes the right length for the face that’s wearing them.

1980s version in my schooldays: blue kohl eyeliner under the lower lashes. Looked especially ‘common’ on hazel-eyed brunettes.

Smoking, at any age and in any era. Yes, it’s bad for you. But it also stinks and looks filthy and makes the smoker look like something dragged off the back streets at 3 am.

Dish cloths left in a wet heap.

Net curtains.

I don't think mine is particularly irrational but cartoon characters on adult clothing. Correction, cartoon characters on women's clothing, because I don't see it so often men's clothes.

You forgot about the cringey Homer Simpson ties and Star Wars socks that litter the shops come Christmas. Plenty of that sort of tat for men, if you know where to look. But yes - agreed.

Haha I’ll take the Yankees off your hands 🤣

To my shame I love them and so does DD but they’re so expensive nowadays!

I am another one who things any toilet roll colour other than white should be banned.
I won't have prawn cocktail crisps in the house. Anyone who wants to eat them has to go outside.
I also get very annoyed if condiments are left on the table after a meal. This is a paranoia inherited from my mother who would make us dash into the kitchen with anything that was left out if we had unexpected visitors. I recall her being particularly distraught one evening when the Minister from our Church called and there was still a bottle of tomato ketchup on the table. I don't think he even noticed, and there certainly were no lightening bolts from heaven to punish us for this travesty, but it is ingrained into me that visible condiments are a Very Bad Thing and they must be returned to the kitchen as soon as the last mouthful of a meal is consumed. (Yes, I know it's ridiculous.)

Any food smelling candles or perfume (vanilla, berry, chocolate etc.)
”christmas” earrings
leather sofas
feature walls
drab grey everything decor
toting around a big black bag no matter what you are wearing.
motif sports wear

Any flower that has had something done to it to change its colour artificially, and yes, carnations are often the victims, and then they get trafficked in garages by people who only see them as a cash crop.

The majority of items that irk people seem to be related to cleaning.....

It is it the majority of fragrances etc are stuffed into cleaning products?

Actually I was on the hunt for it yesterday! 😁

We have a toilet bowl that is old but works fine. The porcelain bowl is water marked from the really hard water. It has a RIM!

I though the blue would "hide" it until I get around to changing it out. It is an extra loo, not used very often - so not an urgent job.

Duvets?

Do you use blankets?

Or eiderdowns?

Not an item but a shop. Asda makes me cringe and I can't really explain it. It's not snobbery exactly as I'll happily go to Lidl or Aldi.

Collage photo frames, especially ones with that godawful curly text somewhere in them.

oooh no. I always hang out front way so no one has to touch their pooey hands on the wall.

I used to think this, but then I lived in a rental which had them in the sitting room. All the other rooms had Venetian blinds. When I moved out they were the only blinds I didn’t have to clean so I was delighted about them.