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I thought it might be fun to chat about products we wish someone would invent (or that they have invented, maybe?) that are just SO useful.
In general, I like to simplify, but sometimes, just the right tool for something we do frequently is SUCH a time saver!
I just finished "shopping" our freezer, and UGH! I HATE my hands getting cold and bitten like that. I'm such a baby, sometimes I flake out on dinner because I just can't bear the thought of digging through the freezer.  I think I would actually pay money for a pair of gloves to keep conveniently near the freezer that would work well for sifting through frozen goods. Regular cloth gloves sort of stick to everything, and anything overstuffed would make it awkward to handle the items, but has anyone invented the perfect "freezer gloves???" 
Now, I know that Jen would appreciate some super-duper garlic peeling thing that would insure her fingers never get sticky or smelly, but she's solved that with her bulk garlic buying habit So, if you have SOLVED one of your most annoying household grievances, I want to hear about that too! 
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One of those things in Dr. Seuss that goes through your house putting everything back in place
Oh, and a device that channels certain things straight into the toilet (the joy of having boys) and not onto the sides 
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I wish I had something that I could load dirty dishes into, and they'd come out clean. Has anyone invented one of those yet?
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Lindsay, I know they have gloves for freezers, because I see the guys in the grocery freezer section using them all the time.
I'd love some kind of scanner that I could program to look for certain ingredients and it could 1) scan labels and alert me if it finds these ingredients (HFCS, wheat, gluten, eggs, dairy, soy, vegetable oils, hydrogenated, artificial food coloring and flavoring, preservatives, etc.) and 2) scan an actual food item and alert me if there are chemicals and what kind on a food (like fruits and veggies).
First might work, but second...long shot.
And then even more long shot is something to read my mind of merging my grocery list, pantry, and recipes and make my meal plan.
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A "cat hair magnet" rod I could wave over my furniture, bedspread, etc. to quickly pick up all the cat hair my fuzzy friends leave behind!
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An invisible fence that would allow those with permission to walk through but NOT those without permission. like the 2 and 3 and 4 years old 
ETA and while we're at it.. it could keep out animals that would eat the garden but not those beneficial or harmless and keep in pets too so that maybe we could get a dog again without worrying about an escapee.
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A sock wand- to instantly match and fold pairs
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JodieLyn wrote:
An invisible fence that would allow those with permission to walk through but NOT those without permission. like the 2 and 3 and 4 years old
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Like a retinal scanner for the kitchen door
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Definitely could use an automatic laundry folder. Bonus if it delivers it to the correct room and puts it away.
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I have one of those today Theresa- he is nine and saving up for a ukulele!
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I'd love a vacuum vent home system that just sucked up all the dirt the kids track in and then cleaned it off the kids too  Oh, that would be nice!!
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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.
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organiclilac wrote:
| 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. |
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Except that even though my shower IS set up like a shower stall, and it is STILL a pain to scrub
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I want some sort of automatic tracking device for glasses. My special needs ds is often losing his glasses and can't ever remember where they are! Might be good for the elderly, too...like me and my glasses!
I want a self-cleaning oven that actually finishes the job and doesn't leave black ash residue for me to wipe up.
I want an automatic mop that sweeps, too.
I want Theresa's automatic clothes folder.
I want the moon!!!!
But I do have an in-house, automatic-Saturday-morning-coffee-and-breakfast-in-bed maker---my dear husband!
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CrunchyMom wrote:
| Now, I know that Jen would appreciate some super-duper garlic peeling thing that would insure her fingers never get sticky or smelly, but she's solved that with her bulk garlic buying habit |
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Always looking for solutions to sticky-smelly fingers!!
My *if-I-could-invent-anything-to-help-with-household-ickiness- what-would-it-be* invention?
Some kind of highly effective BOMB that I could drop in showers that would literally melt all the soap scum and nasty, icky, yuckyness from walls and shower/tub floors, rendering them squeaky clean, disinfected, and smelling fresh.
An automatic paint machine that would get to work painting while you sleep, quietly moving furniture, patching smallish divets that *might* be in your wall after a small boy drove his tractor down the wall cutting grooves in it, doing all the cutting in work, and rolling out the rest.
A small laser that I could use to touch a piece of bermuda grass and send a shock through its tendrils of roots that would kill it. I.loathe.bermuda.grass. 
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I would like to open a big deep drawer under the kitchen counter that you throw in Tupperware storage containers and such into one side. You close the drawer and it matches bottoms and lids and stacks them nicely on the other side. This side has a rotating apparatus (like commercial chicken roasters) so that you can rotate the organized ones and choose the correct size for your current need.
Swoon...
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ooohhhh, I want one of everything mentioned....
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My dd's godparents' bathroom in Korea was just like the one organiclilac described!
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oh! I've been dreaming of a drain in the bathroomm floor (maybe a narrow long one along the outside of the tub) since my oldest kids could take a bath.. a bathroom that power sprays itself down is even better.
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organiclilac wrote:
| 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. |
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This would be at the top of my list as well. I HATE cleaning the bathroom.
And Lindsay, couldn't you just get some of those thin leather driving gloves? They used to always be sold at department stores around Christmas time. We use them and cut the fingers down to make wheeling gloves for my son.
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!
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