the price for the most useless household item goes to...

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... the gravy boat

• always drips
• never big enough
• alwas at the wrong end of the table
• a pain in the drawer as it's not stackable

I'm moving house. gravy boat will stay behind.

The Nutrabullet. Bought by someone with more money than sense - yes, DH, looking at you - and used all of six times. And that might be optimistic.

I can never ever comprehend who has a teabag tidy. Why would you buy a naff novelty little dish specifically to store used teabags on the side???

Just put them in the bin/food waste/waste disposal/compost etc

MitziK I gave an unused mezzaluna away for exactly that reason, and similarly have never been brave enough to try a mandolin slicer.

My DSis bought me a big insulated gravy jug thing. I wish she hadnt as I have never used it in 5 years.

I make gravy about 5 times a year max and theres only two of us.

I can never ever comprehend who has a teabag tidy. Why would you buy a naff novelty little dish specifically to store used teabags on the side???

That'll be me! Brought one - I don't know why. I now hate it (just put the bloody tea bags in the food bin) but DH seems to like to pile them as high as possible!

DH currently working away so I may have to smash it with a hammer accidentally drop and smash it

The chocolate fountain. Not a common household item but we were bought one for our first wedding anniversary. The time it took to clean afterwards just meant that it's stayed in a box for the last decade. You also have to add cooking oil to the chocolate to make it flow. Ugh

This shitty heated airer I bought last year. Absolutely useless, can't fit more than 3 pairs of socks, 2 T-shirts, 3 pairs of underpants, and 2 hand-towels on it at any one time, and it doesn't dry ANYTHING properly.

Jeans, leggings, big towels, jumpers, polo & sweatshirts, cardigans etc, won't dry on it as they're too thick. Basically, the washing dries better just being hung on coat-hangers in the house, with the warmth of the house on it!

Biggest waste of £40 ever.

Never actually seen gravy boat being used I always thought everyone uses the Pyrex jug

Fucking lettuce-cleaning spinners. Enormous stupid things that can be replaced with a tap

chocolate fountains and pasta makers.

We always use gravy boats. When there is just 2 of us, we use the mini one, and the medium one for when there is 4 to 6 of us. Then the grande one when there is 7 or 8.

I have never catered for more than that! On the occasions we have 9+ people, we get take out!

I've got a spiraliser, a pasta maker, a lettuce spinner, a potato ricer AND a masher, a bread-maker, a Sodastream and an egg slicer.

I use them all.

The one thing I won't give houseroom too is a garlic press. Use a bloody knife, ffs!

To clean venetian blinds, use a pair of tongs with a damp microfibre cloth dipped in all purpose cleaner wrapped around the grabby bits. Works in minutes.

I want a gravy boat.
We use a 2 pint jug and it all gets used

Here's a niche use I saw on MN for an ironing board.

I once posted about a Christmas childhood ritual of being given a pretend helicopter ride, where the young "passenger" stood blindfolded on a chair, which was lifted up, while a commentary about tiny houses and fields below was provided. Somebody replied that this happened in their childhood too, but an ironing board was used instead.

Garlic press is used almost daily here. Gravy boat weekly.
My mums egg slicer was only ever used as a tiny harp, and never saw an egg.

My most useless gadget is a spiraliser. Bought when they were all the rage. Used it once. Didn't read instructions. Spiralised the tip of my finger.
Minor injuries sent me to A&E as they couldn't deal with it. The nurse looked aghast and then in walked a junior Dr who said 'oooh I've been waiting to see a spiralised finger'

I looked in my cupboard. I have 5 gravy boats. Big occasions they are all used.

We use this - I have never owned a gravy boat in my life

A sucession of sandwich toasters. Bought one used it twice, shoved it in a cupboard, binned it during a clear out. Now repeat 4 times over the last 10 years.

insulted gravy jug 😂😂😂😂😂😂

A stick blender... Absolutely useless! Could barely blend anything and just ended up spraying liquid everywhere.

Second the Pyrex jug, gravy boat only used for visitors. Would never get rid of the rice cooker, used 2-3 times a week. The pineapple corer thing is rarely used but when it is it's brilliant. The honey jug and spiral stick thing went to the charity shop though!

I can’t wait to try my egg slicer on mozzarella
I never ever use the slush cups I bought the kids
Or my pineapple corer

I don't own one, but I saw a tofu press in Lakeland recently. At £24.99.

£24.99! What's wrong with a clean dishcloth and some heavy books?

we used to have a dyson vacuum cleaner.
what a shit that thing was.

no loss of suction my arse. and each time it needed emptying out you stood in a cloud of dust. you needed a vacuum cleaner to clean your vacuum cleaner. I was sooo glad when it died possibly because I kickedthe useless twat