[Closed] What things (consumer goods) could we all live without?

My pet hate is people that can't spell porage.

A Gold Star to you sir!

Chip shops that charge for poxy little pots of ketchup.

Cling film
Fabric softener
Air freshener
Low fat cheese ( its just cheese and water)
tumble dryers
dishwashers

Old films on Bluray

microwaves

microwaves

I find mine very handy. Defrosting at the last minute, reheating left over pizza ect...

dishwashers
ready meals
airfresheners
pre-chopped vegetables!!!!!!!!!!! 😈
Dairy "lunchables"
satnavs
margarine
mobile phones(we used manage somehow 🙄 )

Geared bicycles with suspension.
Microwaves.
Digital cameras.
Mobile phones.
Computers.
Tesco/Asda.

satnavs are brilliant - on your own in a car in a strange city no more getting lost.

Agree with dishwashers/tumble dryers

Convenience food twice the price, 8 x as bad for you & none of the flavour.

I can spell porage, I just can't spell porridge.

Come on, some of these are too controversial (usefull). I think a very good argument could be made for a dishwasher or a microwave.

I'm thinking more about things like de-icing aerosols.

satnavs are brilliant - on your own in a car in a strange city no more getting lost.

car
mobile phones
tumble drier
dishwasher
supermarkets

TV,
dishwasher,
mobile phone,
tumble dryer,
car,
juicer,
toaster,
gaggia,
low fat anything,
cheap flights,
estate agents,

David Cameron,
football,
rugby,
skiing,
telesales,

Sat-navs aren't just something we can live without but something we [i]should[/i] live without!

How many SN users have to use the it everytime they go somewhere now, even to the same place they went last week, never ever learning the route just moronically following the instructions of Homer Simpson, Mr T, choose your annoying voice.

If people are going to post lists of objects, it would also be interesting if they also said if they do or don't live without them.

The ones that annoy me are the silly kitchen objects...
doughnut maker, popcorn maker, chocolate fountain etc (of which I have none)

:edit: and I just found you can buy...
http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/P~147912~Giles+Posner+Peanut+Butter+Maker 🙄

Dishwashers I could live without I guess, don't want to though, thanks all the same. You could say the same thing about most household appliances I suppose.

You have seen my list on the thread that started this, all mentioned above.

I hate Sat Navs too, moronic, and I have travelled loads. Stopping to ask for directions in a foreign country is just part of the fun. And have seen some amusing signs out venturing on my road bike in Scotland. On the roads around Selkirk "Sat Navs incorrect, road unsuitable for motor vehicles" so followed it and can confirm, you would have to have your brain removed to follow a Sat Nav up there in a car. Wonder why they put the sign up ?

I nearly got rid of my TV a few years ago, if it wasn't for Battlestar Galactica I might have done it. Gave up that battle, but the microwave is out the door as soon as it breaks.

Can't bring myself to but anything overpackaged, or overpriced cleaning products. Yes I am one of those annoying people that goes up to the supermarket counter with my fruit and veg unrestrained... weirdo !

No microwave, no sat-nav.

I'll fight to the death for my dishwasher though!

nuke...the only things I use on my list are a mobile and margarine.
I hate marg., but it's sometimes easier to spread on sarnies than butter when it's cold! (See, we don't have the heating on in the morning, when we get up and out of the house!!) 8)

I still don't think you're trying hard enough.

Chocolate fountain is a good one, but most of the other things might be thought useful by someone.

Also, most generic items like "toaster" don't get pushed at us by marketeers, although a closely related item that should definitely be on the list is the George Foreman grill. It serves no purpose. The simpler and just as effective griddle pan was already available when it was introduced.

Hell's teeth...it's chuffin' Sunday morning...I don't want to have to try hard at all!! 🙄

😆

haha hels i do that - fruit and veg rolling all over the conveyor belt 😀

I do like my microwave though for heating stuff quickly (that ive made previously and froze) after rides

I would have been tvless (has been for past 5 years ) but the girlfriend wanted tv for when im out riding haha

pressure washers - they did keep me in a job for years though 😀

Here's another one I can't believe nobody has mentioned:

Bottled water (although do buy it for camping/races but keep the bottles and refill them heaps)

Flavored drinks e.g. coke etc (rot your teeth and the water tastes nice in Scotland)

Interesting to see who has a family and who's single or just a couple.

14 litres of tesco value water under the seat in my van - doesnt go off .

people slag me for buying it "comes out the tap free i can fill bottles" - leave it under the seat for long time(between races) and it will taste nasty and have plenty bacteria in it !

pod coffee machines should be destroyed !

Quite like the dishwasher, like a magic cupboard where you store dirty dishes until it's full, press a button and hey presto! Clean stuff! Didn't I also read somewhere that it, if used in this way, it is also much more efficient than washing your two plates, two forks, two knives, two spoons and two cups every time you use them. I also find my tumble drier very handy too thank you very much.

Sat-navs however I don't see the point of. Quick bit of research before setting off will assist you to find your destination with ease and also help develop your sense of direction thereby enabling the process next time.

Satnavs,
Satnavs,
Lady Gaga,
Ready grated cheese,
Breast implants,
All gossip magazines and lads mags.

I'll give you my tumble drier (well washer/drier to be precise) when you take it from my cold dead hands 🙂

This thread should be dedicated to [url= http://www.rb.com/Our-brands ]Reckitt Benckiser[/url] the advertising blurb is makers of products that 'delight as they make life's daily routine easier and better'.

The truth, as told in an interview there, is we create consumer desire for things that people don't really need.

I'l not buy any dishwasher tabs without a powerball now FFS.

With Coyote on the dishwasher.

Ditched microwave years ago.

Ready meals and processed foods.
Low fat options.

Bottled water is an absolute pet hate.
Children taking all these packaged items to school in their lunch box. In my day ( oh no here we go again) a lunch box contained, sandwiches, a piece of fruit, maybe a small chocolate bar and we were all given a plastic cup for tap water at the table. The children now have so much junk, fruit juices in cartons and bottles, cheese dippers in containers, dairylea type things in foil etc.

Hels - I'm with you, all my fruit and veg is bought loose at the greengrocers, put straight into my bag at the checkout. What is it with these people who put bananas, pineapples, mangoes, in fact anything with a natural skin on, into a thin plastic bag before they get to the counter.

ddmonkey - it is strange watching films from the mid 1980's and anything before, as most of the women don't have breast implants and look normal.

Any cosmetic surgery that is performed to make one look younger, IMO is something we could all live without.

Bunnyhop - Member

Any cosmetic surgery that is performed to make one look younger, IMO is something we could all live without.

Agree - especially as some of us just don't need it.

What's wrong with dishwashers? Lots of studies have shown that they are significantly more efficient (i.e. use less energy, water and detergents) than had washing, but only if they are used full and you don't use the
drying cycle.

Sat Navs vs trying to use an A-Z? not hard to see which one is safer and quicker.

btw - Sat Navs also help reduce fuel use.

Supermarkets that want to charge you 5p for a bag,just after youve spent £200 with them
Is that a pisstake or what.
and
Adverts
for instance- Activia
they say its sooo good for you and prove it with a study that says 'Based upon two pots daily'
So we have to buy 14 pots a week to stay healthy
What utter tosh 😡
Eat a sandwich with a microscopic bit of mould on it and you've achieved the same thing.
Anything antibacterial 😈
Thats a F***ing joke too.

So the weather's so bad that people are reduced to talking about useless consumer goods on a Sunday morning!

Mrs R is a fan of Lakeland who seem to be an emporium of consumer goods you didn't realise you didn't need. I'd nominate half of the content of their shops. Recent consignees to the back of a drawer include a toothpaste tube squeezer. Who thought of that?

Don't understand people's aversions to dishwashers - what's wrong with something that does a job better than you could do by hand using less water and energy?

how about you just dont use carrier bags then ? then you wont feel bad about paying 5p a bag for them

my shopping goes straight into my panniers

my, you guys must live dull lives if you can be bothered to wash dishes by hand, go to every little specialised shop to avoid a supermarket, buy inefficient cleaning materials, cook everything by hand all the time, hang out all your washing every time, spend hours pouring over maps and then ask random people where on earth you are when you get lost, before driving around trying to remember what they said, be able to call people whenever you want, from where ever you are...

hungry monkey - Member
my, you guys must live dull lives if you can be bothered to wash dishes by hand, go to every little specialised shop to avoid a supermarket, buy inefficient cleaning materials, cook everything by hand all the time, hang out all your washing every time, spend hours pouring over maps and then ask random people where on earth you are when you get lost, before driving around trying to remember what they said, be able to call people whenever you want, from where ever you are...

Hoorah for common sense.

Least useful modern gadget: electricity consumption gauges. Will a little monitor telling you how much you are using make any difference? Surely you only use as much as you need anyway - or do some folk just switch stuff on for the hell of it?

Vacume cleeners

Spellcheckers.

Oh no - wait....

Most of the gadgets in my car, but it's ok, it's a Renault, they don't work anyway.

I don't find asking for directions dull - I find it interesting and you meet new people !

Dishwashers shown to be more efficient by "studies" come on people I thought this forum was more knowing and cynical than that ? Would this be the same kind of "studies" that show that 75% of mindless women that buy celebrity magazines thought product A made their hair shinier, bouncier and easier to manage ?

I do believe in useful modern technology such as mobile phones. It's the pointless stuff I object to - e.g. electric room deodorisers that started this whole thing off...

Use less fuel with a satnav? Coblers. Buy a map, look at it before you leave and then use road signs. The alternative is disengage brain upon entering car and end up in the wrong country becuase you didn't bother to look of the windows and notice that the satnav is taking you to the wrong place with the right name....

(I exagerated a bit there for effect but it happens). Is like people who drive through swollen rivers and wonder why their car floats away, just not engaged with the environment in which they live at all.

And don't start me on pointless frills in cars. ABS - good. Power steering - good. Electric windows - why ? Too lazy to wind a window down ? Just more electrical stuff to go wrong and create huge mechanics bills. Air conditioning ?? Central locking hasn't worked in my van (a Renault !) for years and I prefer it that way. Bring back analog !

(showing my age here, but my second car - a Ford Falcon - had neither power steering nor ABS. It taught me to drive smoothly and well back from traffic, and slightly prone to cornering like a bus driver)

You're really complaining about electric windows? Really? Nothing better to think about?

I manage fine without a satnav, but it helps having no car. I don't have a telly, microwave or an electric screwdriver. But iphone, computer and dishwasher are essentials for me, as is my cat feeding bowl with a timer. I'm sure I could live without all of the items in my house, but I wouldn't want to.

enormous flatscreen tellies most of which have a terrible terrible picture compared to CRT and totally dominate a room. especially when the owner has gotten used to a stretched image instead of a cropped one.

and the consequent easy creation of the HD market to suck more money out of people keen to get a decent image

I don't have SatNav, no dishwasher, no tumble drier, no central heating, don't use carrier bags, no microwave, no TV, only kitchen 'gadget' is the kettle, only a small freezer section in the fridge (don't buy frozen processed foods). All things we [i]can[/i] do without; I do by choice as I regress to a simpler life but there is no real reason to shun technical innovation if it makes peoples' busy lives easier 🙂

There's a clever ****er, possibly retired, sipping cold cocktails on his own island somewhere, who around ten years ago came up with the idea for WIPES. Is there any cleaning process for which there isn't a "wipe" these days...including wiping your arse??

Just cleaned a 2 year old arse covered in icky, sticky gloop, used 3 wipes, wouldn't fancy attacking it without them...

i'm getting given a freezer later for the first time in years. still dont have a microwave or dishwasher.

i am mostly looking forward to ice cream and peas.

I'm happy enough for parents to have baby wipes so that the shitty arses about which the rest of us have to hear can be cleaned. It's the rest of the wipes industry...

horses - ****in useless

cheese - never works

pianos - never sound right