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?

Scented toilet paper, pads etc can do one!

I hate tan stockings or tights. Any other colour but those!

Sellotape that doesn't have a dispenser can do one as well. I hate never being able to find the end

cling film. Gives me the heebies

Scented toilet paper, pads etc can do one!

They aren't innocent though! They cause numerous people yeast infections, eczema and aggravates lichen sclerosus.

Good point...

Ok, something innocent:

I hate nail polish that goes lumpy as soon as you apply it

I hate old lifts and paternosters are another thing that give me the creeps

Speedos on men. On anyone. Yuk.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say this but I kind of like some of the inspirational quotes. However, those little plaques with Live Laugh Love on them need to die. I can't see them without thinking of Tena Lady.

This is also me. I don't find mixed bouquets pleasing.

Tinsel is a minefield I am staying firmly out of.

Comic sans was considered helpful for people who have dyslexia apparently.

Potato masher!

my mum wouldn’t have one in the house and would use a fork. My grandma the same.

when I married my first husband 36 yrs ago we set up house and again I continued the ‘anti potato masher’ prejudice.
2nd husband - again no masher

3rd and present Mr Fart had his own home so he came with lots of stuff …. Including a fucking potato masher

I use it - reluctantly

the present Mr Fart has a thing about our hand held hoover - he said it was a waste of money and we wouldn’t use it.

he grumbles everyday when he uses it to hoover his crumbs/budgie feathers/ fluff

Washing up bowls (always look greasy)

Eyelet curtains. DP’s flat has these and I moved in so now I have them, too. Huge windows, would cost a bomb to change.

‘Live, Laugh, Drink Prosecco’ type wording on anything.

Grey decor

Most dining chairs

You can wrestle my black Harpic from my cold dead hands, but J also hate carpet and bedding plants.

Also new build gardens that are grey slabs, green grass and a gas barbecue. That's not minimalism that's soulessness.

Pine scented anything. Cheap and nasty

• Too-large TVs
• TVs mounted on the wall
• 4x4s in non-rural areas
• Fake tan
• Fake eyelashes
• Noticeable Botox
• Filler
• Long nails
• Tinsel
• Cold lights in the home
• Christmas lights outside the house (unless warm white and quite minimal)
• Flashing lights
• People who overly enunciate the letter S
• Buns mounted at or above the crown
• Overly styled hair
• Men in skinny jeans
• Grey decor, if not used sparingly
• Instagram-perfect interiors
• Flat-faced dogs bought on purpose for their appearance (e.g. not rescued)
• People who don’t neuter their pets
• People who idle their cars outside shops
• People who play music loud enough that others (not in their home) can hear it

CharlottenBurger · Today 18:23

Sorry, I wasn't having a go at you. It's more something I see in the papers, they really should know better.

Normal people making a spelling mistake, or whatever, doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Chrysanthemums.

• Hot tubs
• Artificial grass
• Plastic plants

I’m very common as i love the smell of bio washing powder and liquids. Also love strong fabric conditioner like Lenor. I have a strong aversion to non bio products like Ecover . I’m convinced they don’t clean clothes/dishes efficiently. Better for the planet of course but not for my smalls imo.

Ecover washing up liquid is virtually useless and smells like mildew. My OH got a huge catering jug of laundry liquid and I spent ages surreptitiously pouring it down the sink, a little bit at a time.

For me it's nothing to do with being 'common' (whatever that means). It's just something I don't like that sets off my asthma. A lot of expensive posh smells do that too. People like what they like and don't like what they don't like. That's all.

Ecoleaf, on the other hand, very foamy here where the water is hard, cuts the grease a treat. You don't need much. Not scented at all. I don't mind some scented washing up liquid, but it's not a deciding factor one way or the other.

I don't mind lemon scented ones, which I tend to buy, as my daughter insists. I may look out for Ecoleaf.

I don't like artificial scents, especially candles. I don't have asthma, but they make me wheeze, as do plug in air fresheners and walking past Lush.

Body mist, body butter etc. With renewed dislike since I was given a Body Shop gift set of the above (strawberry scented) for Christmas by DSIL with the slogan "Jolly and Juicy" on it, which I find vaguely inappropriately suggestive.

I agree with so, so many of the points raised.
To add
Oven gloves where the 2 are connected. Hate them, feel like I can not be safe with them, I use the 2 seperate ones.
Glass chopping boards. The sound puts my teeth on edge
Not using a top sheet on a bed. Always have a top sheet at home and do not enjoy a B&B either traditional or Air without them.
Short charging cables
Sponges. Utterly detest them. Especially the yellow ones with a green scrubby side. I use a dish cloth and throw them in the wash.
Spreadable butter, it has oils and water in it and it doesn't taste like butter. I use a butter dish and real butter

Anything artificial. This includes air fresheners, scented laundry liquid, body sprays and especially sweeteners. The only acceptable fizzy drink is regular coke.

• Bunting
• The photos from family photoshoots
• Wedding videos (the kind where the B&G walk through a cornfield in slow motion with sappy music in the background, whilst looking wistfully into the distance)
• Coffee table books
• The sound of suitcase wheels on cobblestones

@Bovrilla I bought a mirrored tall wall-mounted bathroom cabinet. What was I thinking? Fortunately it's in a bathroom I rarely use that my kids mainly use so no need for me to catch sight of all wobbly middle-aged naked body when I step out of the shower 🤣🙈🤷‍♀️ lesson learned!

I used to have a whole load of these when I taught French in primary - I considered them a learning resource and it was In No Way because I wanted to wear a comfy t-shirt instead of a blouse.
(Am I excused? 😉)