Do you run into buy products and wonder afterwards, what the hell were they thinking?! Here is my beginning of a list:
1-NEW CAR SALES-- that do not come with Rain Science on the outside of the windows and rear view mirrors,,,so that when you first get the car splashed with road salt and grime, the windows are permanently damaged with hard water spots !! Permaplate is such a waste i have found, when you are told after,,, you have to do a refresher coat ever year. So do your own Rain Science gel coat,,,first thing !!
2-OPTICIANS--carbonfiber frames that are light and thin, but break on the first drop,,,and can not be glued or mended,,,there goes $300 !! Also the fishing line under the lens frames, that ever time you touch the corner of your eye, the lens falls out and scratches on the ground !! Bad bad bad design,,,and they are still selling this schlock.
3-NEW HOMES--When you get that new home , look down your rain gutters and downspouts to see the built in restriction ,which means more leaves getting stuck, the raingutters filling with water,and overflowing not just to the outside but to the inside ,inside your roof!! Talk about common "traditional" bad home design,,,The downspout is usually rectangular, i just measured ours, and 1.75" x 2.75" for a area of 4.8 square inches. But inside is a smaller round pipe about 2" in diameter or (A=Pi x r squared) 3.14". And nowadays i notice that home builders and remodelers are putting wire bonnets over the 2" downspout entrance, making sure you clog you rain gutters with even more leaves !!
Then there is the standard shower stall,,,Millions of these were sold in dimensions of about 31"x 34"x 80" tall, but not even a yard square !! That may be big enough for a child or a small person, but not an adult American !
And the combination freezer-refrigerator that just can not contain a weeks worth of food for a family of 5-6 !! I recommend a stand alone refrigerator in the kitchen space,,,and put the vertical freezer in the garage or pantry.
And the water heater,,,'designed and built' into an interior closet so small you can not or can just barely get a fiberglass insulation blanket around the water heater. Of course now there are more efficient inline water heaters and also better inline water softeners.
