Because brushing your teeth is just too hard.

[lemon_says]

I hate those commercials where they use ineptitude as justification for the existence of their product. Like when they try to sell the pasta pot with the holes in the lid, they show all these people dumping their spaghetti into the sink, or on the floor, or anywhere but into the colander.

It's not that hard to drain spaghetti.

There's one where the person is trying to cut a straight line to separate some photos, and the scissors veer off across one photo to show how she needs the straight-line-chopper. The can tops all drop into cans, contaminating tuna or splashing soup, because these people didn't have the magnetized can opener. People chopping vegetables cut their fingers and fling zucchini hither and yon. Eggs are burned, pancakes folded. I just now saw a commercial for a spinning toothbrush because brushing your teeth manually is "a lot of work." I don't personally consider brushing my teeth to be particularly taxing, but maybe it's just me.

The banana slicer is, I'm sure, one of the most necessary inventions known to man.

What is the least-necessary gadget that you own?

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[wolfmare.livejournal.com]

Gods, this is a tough one. I'm an artist, name it. I actually just finished tossing about half of my paintbrushes because I had so many of the exact same thing.

Dip pen, useless since I get better control with a brush.

Garlic press, since we started buying the pre-minced jars of the stuff.

Not one, but TWO blenders, which we never actually use.

Um... Yeah, the list goes on.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

I also started buying the minced garlic too because I hated chopping it or pressing it. I think I still have two garlic presses, though. When I was little we used to put play-doh through my mom's. She would get so annoyed because she'd find it and have to use a toothpick to poke the dried play-doh out of it.