Poorly designed things that make using them difficult?

[Whatisthisfuckery]

Spice jars, who in hell has designed the dimensions of spice jars? What measurement of spices does one usually find in a recipe? Teaspoons. What can you not quite fit in a spice jar? A fucking teaspoon. Whose bloody bright idea was it to design a jar that makes it hard to dispense the most common measurement of the ingredient contained within?

Ahh, that’s better, I needed that rant.

Go on, rant away. What poorly designed thing makes you angry inside?

@ptumbi you can't eat it drink 30 mins before taking the test. If your employer says take before work most people won't have eaten! I do mine the night before as like a cuppa in bed before poking a stick down my throat or up my nose 🙄

I have a cat fountain, has hundreds of moulded nooks and crannies. Wash it as best I can, put it in dishwasher then the underside is full of yukky dish washer water so have to carefully lift to sink, turn upside down to drain and then rinse.

Like sandwich toasters. You can never remove the melted cheese from the hinge :(

@Crankley Just for you I have reactivated my Mumsnet account!

Fairy Bio pod plastic boxes - just cut through the hinges with scissors and use that side as the front and the ridiculously stiff, over engineered clips as the hinges.

[quote Qwerty111]@Crankley Just for you I have reactivated my Mumsnet account!

Fairy Bio pod plastic boxes - just cut through the hinges with scissors and use that side as the front and the ridiculously stiff, over engineered clips as the hinges.[/quote]
I thank you!

@IndecentCakes

Like sandwich toasters. You can never remove the melted cheese from the hinge :(

You can get them with removable plates. So much easier.

My husband is defective - able to break pretty much anything meaningful of mine. The one time he hoovered, (I was obviously out that morning) he went over the brand new pre-lit Christmas tree cord and severed it. He then proceeded to tear the lights off the bottom two thirds of the tree, ensuring that I couldn’t simply get the cord fixed. He told me what a fabulous job I had done putting the lights on the bastard thing, while I stared at him with mouth agape. Of course, his golf clubs and baseball gear are treated as though they are newborn children.
Ironically, I have Ehler’s-Danlos Syndrome and my fingers and thumbs dislocate are the drop of a hat. Opening anything is virtually impossible. If he’d put any thought into the lights, he would have known that was completely out of my wheelhouse.
He asked why we didn’t have a tree last year - because he didn’t replace it.
This is only one example.

potless pot noodles - the noodles aren't the right shape, so you either have to put in too much water. or make a mess breaking up the noodles.

Eyedrop bottles (prescription) that are so small they only last a couple of weeks, after which you are once again required to wrestle off massive amounts of packaging and seals. The seals need a sharp knife or scissors. And then the tiny little lid is on so tight I can't budge it even with pliers. Drives me mental.

@LoveFall. For hygiene reasons you are not supposed to use eye drops more than 4 weeks after opening. That's probably why they're so small.

Bottles of spray cleaner where the fucking trigger and nozzle break with about 2 inches of cleaning solution left at the bottom of the bottle.

I actually have an eco refill in the garage but I can’t get a bottle to actually continue working.

Spray bottles that spray but also dribble a bit down the bottle, over your hand and onto the floor or your clothes. I then get random bleach stains on my jeans and my hands are ruined.
Why can't they just spray properly?

Oh yes- Spray cleaners that don't spray but dribble.
More work needed on their design I think.

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay

potless pot noodles - the noodles aren't the right shape, so you either have to put in too much water. or make a mess breaking up the noodles.

Do you mean packet ramen? If so, just use an appropriately sized pan and the correct amount of water. There is no need to break them up.

@jaundicedoutlook no they do pot noodles in packs now like super noodles

[quote JustNotFunAnymore]@jaundicedoutlook no they do pot noodles in packs now like super noodles[/quote]
Jesus - what kind of wrong world is this?!

@Aisforharlot

Buttons instead of poppers on duvet covers. Whoever decided they were smart and a good idea has clearly never changed a duvet.

Oh I prefer buttons. The poppers always unpop when I toss and turn in bed.

My old washing machine filter was at the back of the machine on the drainage hose. What a fucking pain in the arse that was to locate and access. I was pleased when the machine finally broke down.

Since buttons make me furious because of the difficulty undoing them and poppers always seem to unpop, I actually got peeved enough to fit a zip to a favourite duvet cover. It may actually have been worth it, if only because I was so surprised that I did.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Since buttons make me furious because of the difficulty undoing them and poppers always seem to unpop, I actually got peeved enough to fit a zip to a favourite duvet cover. It may actually have been worth it, if only because I was so surprised that I did.

You're a genius, what a solution! My sewing skills have deteriorated so much I'm considering getting rid of all of it - machine, fabric, notions etc - as it takes up so much room and makes so much mess, so I can't even pretend I'd have a go at this. Why aren't zips standard, it makes so much sense?!

I don't mind the really strong poppers but when one comes away for some reason, as happened to an expensive John Lewis cotton duvet cover shortly after buying, there's no way to permanently reattach it. I've tried stitching it back in and it only holds for a short time, kicking myself for not contacting them when it happened.

My linen duvet cover has a hundred little linen ties on it. They're a bit stiff and not really long enough to tie in a bow, and if you knot them you'll never get them undone. My compromise is to do a half bow, but it's fiddly and I suspect it's the bows that get caught on the bed frame at night when I'm trying to pull up the covers. Surely fitting a zip can't cost the manufacturer more than sewing up and attaching all these tiny ties?

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Since buttons make me furious because of the difficulty undoing them and poppers always seem to unpop, I actually got peeved enough to fit a zip to a favourite duvet cover. It may actually have been worth it, if only because I was so surprised that I did.

The last couple of duvet covers I've bought from Ikea have had a long zip instead of daft buttons or poppers.

Their bedding doesn't quite fit any bed or duvet not bought in Ikea, in my experience. I wish it did after reading that.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Their bedding doesn't quite fit any bed or duvet not bought in Ikea, in my experience. I wish it did after reading that.

They did normal sized bedding, as well as the weird Ikea own brand sizes last time I went in (about 18 months ago). I know because I have an Ikea bed and wanted a fitted bottom sheet and got confused as they had regular sized doubles, king and super king.

Also, DS's single mattress from a small local bed shop fits Ikea single fitted sheets.

Actually I'll nominate superking duvets for this award, all other duvets (afaik) are channel stitched from top to bottom but sk are stitched side to side, so it took me an embarrassing number of adult years of life to discover that I'd been putting the duvet sideways in the cover, which is why it never fit properly.
There's a certain logic to it (bigger beds get wider, not necessarily longer) and I'm sure there's a reason they stitch it sideways (the limitations of the size of the machines maybe?) but so many years of pointless frustration...

Poppers for me - I've never had them unpop but buttons always seem to work loose. When my mum had a stroke I realised poppers are the only bedding fastening that someone with only one functioning hand can still do up. All the others assume you have two hands working. It ought to be law that bedding labels tell you what sort of fastening they've used.