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Things I really wish manufacturers would sort out...

30 replies

JiminyCricket · 05/12/2005 21:30

Probably only me and my dd, but please could the manufacturers take note:

It is way too easy for determined small child to get her arms out of most car seat straps

Tops are impossible to put back on on Anyway Up Cups

Tops are impossible to get off boots baby cups (OK they have added a small lip but they are still difficult)

any more?

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TurkeyGang · 05/12/2005 21:33

I think most things to do with car seats could do with re-designing. We don't need to use them now thank goodness, but they used to make me soo mad!

teeavee · 05/12/2005 21:33

there is WAY TOO MUCH INNECESSARY PACKAGING on EVERYTHING

teeavee · 05/12/2005 21:34

i mean unnecassary - !

teeavee · 05/12/2005 21:35

alright then, useless (I can spell that)

shepherdswatchedtheirflockets · 05/12/2005 21:36

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MaddhurJaffrey · 05/12/2005 21:36

anyway up cups are the devils work
get em normal ones

teeavee · 05/12/2005 21:36

toys that talk - should be banned

colditz · 05/12/2005 21:38

Jigsaw pieces should be on string. There is not one whole jigsaw in my house!

chjlly · 05/12/2005 21:40

a carseat easy to fit in a w door car in the dark would be nice!!

Just been fighting with mind for last ten mins

chjlly · 05/12/2005 21:40

3 door that should be!

LIZS · 05/12/2005 21:54

There was a gizmo in one of the weekend motoring supplements to stop the arms out of straps scenario. Hug-It

longwaytogo · 05/12/2005 21:55

those stupid tie things on all new toys

ditto the highchair thing, we have taken the comfy cover off ours and he just sits on the plastic (poor child) lol

expatinscotland · 05/12/2005 21:58

Not all babies and children are chubby cherubs. Some are thin. Please design clothes that don't fall off them.

TreeFuses · 05/12/2005 22:02

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longwaytogo · 05/12/2005 22:04

expatins totally agree, my nearly 3 yr old needs to move into 18-24 month for length but they just falling off her.

will she ever grow?

PantomimEDAMe · 05/12/2005 22:04

PMSL at Teeavee - great comic timing there! (which is quite hard to achieve when you are writing something on a website...).

Expat, you need Gap - the arms and legs are always far too skinny for ds who is, honestly, quite a slender boy.

My plea would be could they please make stuff that is easy to put together? Thank God we had my sister and BIL round last Christmas, took three people all evening to put ds's toy kitchen up!

PantomimEDAMe · 05/12/2005 22:06

(sister, BIL and dh put it together - I helpfully stood on the sidelines laughing at them and going 'oh, you've missed a bit' whenever they thought they'd finished.)

1980cat · 05/12/2005 22:07

I would like one to design a perfect buggy so I don't have to buy any mre.
Agree with the clothes all made for nice chubby babies, although more and more seem to be catching on with expanders in trousers (baby gap and even Tescos now) so my Dd can now get trousers to fit at last and doesn't have to wear dresses all the time. Can't buy clothes from Marks and Spencer, most Tesco clothes and even Debenhams now due to nothing fitting her(wish I ahd the same problem )

gingerbear · 05/12/2005 22:08

small rubbish bins in cars - there aren't any, and they would be sooo useful.

moondog · 05/12/2005 22:31

The Antelop highchair from IKEA is cheap (£20) looks good,and as it is basically one piece of plastic,is very easy to clean.

You can even take it outside and hose it down.

I love it!

Teeavee,if something has excessive packaging,I give it back to the cashier and ask them to get rid of it.Make it their problem,not yours!

shepherdswatchedtheirflockets · 05/12/2005 22:34

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moondog · 05/12/2005 22:35

Hmmmmmm,good point.
Hook on the wall then???

expatinscotland · 05/12/2005 22:50

That's it, I'm headed for the Gap! DD is the height of a 4 year old at 2.5 and skinny as a whippet. Just like her gran - who is 5ft., 10in. and thin even now in her 60s. Jeans or trousers! OMG, NOTHING fits her waist that will also fit her long legs. Then there are her long, narrow feet, size 6D. Just stumped up £33 for a pair of boots and £25 for a pair of dress shoes b/c Start Rite is about the only brand that makes shoes for children who don't have wide, chubby feet.

PantomimEDAMe · 05/12/2005 23:20

Gap gap gap gap.

Had to order my shoes specially from Clarks when I was little as nowhere, but nowhere, stocked C width-fittings. Shoe shopping was awful. And now I'm grown up and would like slender feet, have I got them? No. WTF is that all about, then?

foundintransleightion · 06/12/2005 06:50

Am with expat on the baby clothes thing.
On shoes - I wish someone apart from Clarks would do the H fittngs I need! I survive by buying a couple of pairs of Clarks children's shoes, as simply designed as poss, whenever I'm in England. Germans clearly don't have wide feet. I don't even fit ino Birkenstocks ffs.