Badly-Designed Products

[dfey]

Is there something about a certain kind of product that always annoys you, or always causes problems? Is there an object that you wish was designed differently? (For example, I use water bottles a lot, but I hate washing them. I wish I could find a water bottle that's easy to clean.)

[Tilly2]

Those supposedly pull-off tops on the underside of the lid on plastic milk bottles. I cannot grip them and end up stabbing them in fury!

[Buenchico]

I learned long ago that "Tear hear to open" is never printed anywhere near to the right place on packaging!

[bednobs]

normal baby clothes - i cant do poppers and the zip ones or magnetic ones are so expensive!

[Prudie]

I agree with Tilly on those awful pull things on milk, also the bottles of liquid Ariel etc that squeeze out the bottom through a hole with a membrane. Once below half full it kills to get the liquid out at a reasonable rate.

[tamborine]

tear off on corner of mini tomato sauce sachets. I cant tear them so bite them open & always spill it over me

[marval]

I have tablets to take, they have a sealed plastic ring round them. Because of my RA they are dreadful to open, I sometimes have to use a knife carefully to break the seal.

[4candles]

Marmite jars!

[jourdain2]

I buy rape-seed oil and under the screw-off top is a plastic cover with a plastic loop on it which you are supposed to pull to remove the cover. 9 times out of 10 it breaks off and I end up stabbing the plastic cover with a knife before I an extract the oil! Another pet hate is cling-film boxes which collapse and the serrated edge peels off grrrr.