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Are there any common household items or products that you think are designed incredibly poorly? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, I'm incredibly confused about how you're supposedly to measure liquid laundry detergent with the cap. At least the kind that I have sits on it's side, so if you measure it with the cap it just leaks everywhere and makes a mess.

Or at my parents house they have a bag of captain crunch berries that has a new design, where instead of zipping along the top of the bag like normal, it has a zipper in the front slightly beneath the top. That way when you poor it you can't see what you're doing cuz the bag is in the way. Like what the heck who's idea was that?

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah women's socks don't make sense to me. They're socks. Why are they gendered?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Women tend to have narrower feet.

We would all be better off if we just included foot width in shoe sizes though.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wide foot owner here - can confirm shoe and sock should come in multiple widths not just lengths

[–] dx1@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Shoe sizes need to go too. Just measure it in centimeters. List all the measurements - length, width at forefoot, midfoot, rearfoot. Let people go online and look up a list of shoes that actually fit perfectly. Instead we have three or four different variants of shoe size numbers, gendered, that don't even work with width, and half the time are too big or too small.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I've bought women's socks for a long time if they were cheaper never had any issues with the fit

[–] qisope@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no pockets

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow, those really exist

[–] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

That should be called a socket.