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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 6:43pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc
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P.S. I haven't posted here in about two years, though I have popped back once in awhile to check the archives. What does it say about me that the first thing I felt compelled to contribute to was a post on impossible home inventions? Anyway, hello everyone!


So good to see you, Susan!

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 6:52pm | IP Logged Quote martinas6
Yes! Yes! An invisible fence! A gentle one of course. I envision an alarm going off when the intruder approaches the banned area.(say like when the toddler makes it into the bathroom and proceeds to squeeze out all the toothpaste?) Then, a net would drop, softly of course, the net would feel like....a hug. It would hold the offender until I am able to waddle over and release him. *sigh*

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 6:59pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Totally agreeing on something that keeps the dirt outside. How to encourage outdoor time without causing more clean up time from me.

Ah, thought of another! We are in a major reorganization of the toys. My biggest need? A Lego magnet/vacuum to pick up ONLY the Legos. Sorting accessory comes separately but would be used often here.

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged Quote Angie Mc
JennGM wrote:
Sorting accessory comes separately but would be used often here.


We have this Lego sorter.. Probably not worth giving your right arm for, but very nice .

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 7:24pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
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, the net would feel like....a hug.




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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 7:45pm | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
In Finland the house we stayed in had the bathroom shower stall idea- connected to a sauna!

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 8:45pm | IP Logged Quote SaraP
I keep asking my boys why they don't hurry up and inventa robot that will fold the laundry already.

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I think the whole bathroom should be set up like a giant shower stall. When you want to clean it, you flip a switch, and a brief high-pressure burst of hot water scours the whole thing and drains out through a drain in the floor. You'd have to take your towels out first. But I could handle that.


I'm pretty sure there are pay toilets in Europe that work exactly like this. If they ever do a whole bathroom version that can be retrofitted into my house you can sign me up!

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oh and I figured out the freezer.. it should work like a vending machine.. you open it and clip the new item to it and it takes it into the freezer and puts it away.. and it retrieves the item you want and drops it into the slot for you to pick up.

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A mop that fills itself and moves all by itself to clean up the mess when my ds3 once again leaves it too late before he heads to the bathroom. When are robots going to be released onto the market??

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 10:39pm | IP Logged Quote stefoodie
i'll take a self-changing diaper please. (been hounding my hubby to design this for YEARS)

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 10:44pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Angie Mc wrote:
JennGM wrote:
Sorting accessory comes separately but would be used often here.


We have this Lego sorter.. Probably not worth giving your right arm for, but very nice .

Love,


Nice, I've wanted that. But we sort by color.

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Posted: Feb 08 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged Quote kristinannie
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A sock wand- to instantly match and fold pairs



I would pay big bucks for this!!!

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I have a pair of gloves Lindsay originally asked for. They are made of neoprene I think. Go to Walmart look in the fishing section think ice fishing They are called PowerGrab Thermo. The hardest part is keeping them by the deep freeze when I carry up the food    Annie    Oh by the way you can keep your right arm
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Jenn - your "impossible" number 2? Well - there's an app for that!

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I thought it might be fun to chat about products we wish someone would invent


The other day doing dishes it came to me...self-cleaning muffin tins! I hate cleaning them - worst kitchen item to wash ever. So I leave mine sitting in the sink often, "until I have more time." So that's what I want to see invented and why I bumped the thread from this time last year.

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Posted: Jan 23 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
Good one! I am embarrassed at how long muffin tins soak in my sink Even when you use paper liners, somehow it is a MESS!

Maybe the silicone ones that pop out the other way are easier?

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you need paper liners with collars.. you know.. a piece that would lay flat on top of the muffin tin so that the drip and the "poof" of the muffin would be on paper too

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I would like a self-organizing house, that also self-purges.
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