An anvil.....................
Great title.
CCC - Cheap Chinese Crap is a curse upon civilization
Japan & Germany still have pretty good quality, but you gotta pay ...
I want to give books, but nobody in the family wants them anymore.
We should do like Hobbits and just keep passing around the same gifts LOL. Remember Bilbo’s birthday
A cousin of mine doesn’t want anything from her very nice home or other stuff.
I kind of feel the same.
A cousin of mine doesn’t want anything from her very nice home or other stuff.
I kind of feel the same.
Fruitcake doesn’t break.
Herpes is hard to break
One thing that really pisses me off these days is all the integrated LED lights/fixtures for both homes and cars. Gone are the days of simply replacing a bulb. Now you have to chuck the whole thing. And they inevitably go out and aren’t worth trying to fix. So, instead of a bulb winding up in a landfill, the whole fricking fixture or headlamp enclosure will.
If you want beautiful and well made toy cars for your children or grandchildren...look at the cars on Playforever.us You get what you pay for...they are not inexpensive...but they will last a long time.
Sea Monkeys, Flarp, and Slinkys for all!
I still use silverware that my sister got using S&H Green Stamps in the 80s. Good enough, and at this point it has a pretty decent story behind them.
I was actually filling out a form the other day and it took 4 ball point pens to finish a one-page form. All out of a new box of pens.
When I was in school back in the 70’s, a good BIC pen would last me a full school year and then some.
I got sick of defective manual can openers....
Then I found the only that I know of USA opener:
Google:
ez-duz-it-can-opener
Awesome!
To add insult to injury, the time-stealing super-packaging that encases much of this junk is typically littered with all of the envirowackoly-correct slogans and seals of approval.
Look, I just want a normal, stainless steel dish drainer, okay? Stainless steel... to drain and dry wet cookware and utensils and stuff.
It’s not complicated.
Too many people go for quantity rather than quality, and would rather buy oodles of cheap plastic junk rather than a few quality pieces.
For almost every consumer product there is a high quality alternative, but they sell in small numbers.
Some i am looking for but can’t find:
-made in the First World electric kettle
-made in the first world toaster/toaster oven
-my Mom wants a decent meat thermometer
-new car with minimal plastic in the interior that doesn’t cost $500,000
The appliance and tool short-livedness is due to regulation forcing manufacturers to build unreliable crap. The definitely don't build them like they used to. The best materials and adhesives are outlawed.
I don't know what to say about the dishes. Maybe they thing they're supposed to withstand being thrown on the floor.