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?

Comments

[blakdove.livejournal.com]

My mom loves useless gadgets. This Christmas, we got two! One was a lighted magnifying eyebrow tweezer. Now, the light and the magnifyer are great, but the actual tweezers don't tweeze.

The second one was a plastic tube for cooking spaghetti. You put spaghetti into it, add boiling water, and add ten minutes. How that saves us any time or energy over boiling water in a pot and adding the pasta to that and waiting 7 minutes, I'm still not sure. But, here we are.

I break spinning toothbrushes because I brush too vigorously anyway. They're for wimps.

[lemon-says.livejournal.com]

We saw the commercial for the pasta tube, and P said, "Why is that easier?" We tried to think of a reason, but came up with none.

[blakdove.livejournal.com]

It'd be great for a dorm, where all you have is an electric kettle and no stove (or a heavily-shared stove). But in a house?