10 Worthless Consumer Products or Do Not Mess With Windex

Call me crazy, but I love the supermarket. Since I was a kid, the appearance of a new product or new packaging–or even advertising for that new product–has fascinated me. This being the American Independence Day weekend, I found myself in our local giNOURmous store quite a bit.

There are some products which have been “improved” by crack research and development folks that have been designed to do nothing but trick and lull the consumer into purchase mode, and nothing else. And PC green cleaning products do not clean.

Here is my current list, to which you are more than welcome to add or you can just snicker and critique:

Windex Surface Wipes: total rubbish and makes streaks so you have to go out again and by real Windex.

Mayonnaise with flip top lid: useless mid-way through the container, unless you don’t mind Hellman’s all over your sleeve.

Wet Swiffer: Those are just Huggies — you could have invented those, they are really just Huggies diapers, upside down–and the liquid makes animals sick.

Press-n-Seal Glad Wrap: a confounded way to wrap food…and noone wants to look at food wrapped in blue plastic.

Nabisco calorie packs: those are just cookie (or biscuit) crumbs.

Clothes detergent with fabric softener: No. Just no, do not buy…regular Tide is the best.

Any celebrity endorsed product (Rachael Ray’s knife? Please. She’s NOT a chef.)

Reynold’s Release Non-Stick Foil for grilling. Don’t even get me started on how dumb this product is. Clean your grill! lol

Jarred pasta sauces: if you make tomato sauce yourself, you will save lots of money. Really…there are only 4 ingredients in home made sauce.

Pre-packaged cheese…just by the hunk and use your grater.

Low-fat ice cream…for obvious reasons.

This is a total non-sequitr, but who the hell invented those kid shopping carts that look like cars? They take up entire aisles!

And why, oh why, can’t someone invent re-sealable pasta packages.

Happy Fourth!