What gimmicky gadget have you been sucked into recently?

Anything that hadn’t been used for six months or so was sold or given away when we had our kitchen refitted three years ago. They’re not missed and nothing has replaced them, it’s so easy to buy ‘stuff’.

😂🤣😂 I’m a gadget person too…

Gave way bread maker because we kept eating too much bread.

I happily inherited a panasonuc breadmaker . I knew they were good because I gave DD one. She lives in the middle of nowhere and loves it.

I hardly used mine as I'm on my own and don't get through much bread.
It was huge and took up workspace.

I gave it to a friend who also lives way out in the sticks country
She has just finished reupholstering a chair for me. Win win

I k ow I’ve got a bee in my bonnet about Must Have Ideas but when I bought the useless table from them I bought several other things that are rubbish. One is a gadget that reveals plastic bags which basically just melts the plastic. I also bought some dryer balls ( and this was my fault) that are made of lambs wool. They do work but I’d forgotten that wool of any kind makes me itch ( even thinking about wool makes me itch) and the fibres rub off onto the clothes defeating the object of me always buying cotton.

Mine was only a cheapy, but it certainly "keeps it down".

I must charge it up (talk about lazy!)

I bought a robot vacuum cleaner that mops hard floors as well. It differentiates between our rugs and the hard floor. It's brilliant. I do move furniture around for it a bit so there is planning required and of course use the edging tool to get to little spaces it can't reach but honestly it's been well worth the money.

I liked my hard boiled egg slicer.
It was my mum's, then my daughter's and then mine.

And then a certain person who shall remain nameless moved in, and all the wires got bent out of shape.

I don't think my magimix was top of the range and was just taking up space.

Other gadgets I have just noticed taking up drawer space:
A hardboiled egg slicer
A garlic clove peeler
A herb chopper
Various icing pipers I never make icing nowadays
Stoppers for wine bottles. I surely don't need 6.

Janetashbolt Sorry to hear about your husband’s addiction to Temu - that’s very bad. It’s cheap Chinese junk and crap, and they have you where they want you. Pictures always look good.
NEVER click on Temu!

Does anyone have a sandwich toaster still; the Breville one?

MissAdventure

Does anyone use their George Forman grill?

Mine went to recycling . The hot plates can not be removed for cleaning and grease covers the work surface. It was a gift so didn’t feel bad about ditching it

Oh, I have a robot vac.
How terrible, I've forgotten all about it, I've been so busy whizzing up crumbs in my keyboard vacuum.

I love:-

-My Omega watch bought for my fiftieth birthday and only off my wrist for baths

-All the rest of my jewellery as I am shallow and pleased by shiny things

As for gadgets

-My Panasonic breadmaker which makes delicious loaves

-The Karcher window vac which removes the copious amounts of water our single pane windows produce when it's cold

-'Jeeves', the Eufy robovac, who makes such a lovely job of the floors while I eat my breakfast like Lady Muck.
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My husband is addicted to Temu, the junk in house is horrendous

I bought a gadget to get my socks on. Too fiddly.

Grammaretto

I have given away gadgets recently which I never use
A herb scissors
A bread maker
A magimix food processor
I still have a fruit press for juicing and winemaking which I've not used for 2 years.
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Ooh I want a bread maker! What made you get rid of yours?

Oh, really? I really couldn't manage without my Magimix. Had my first one when I married in 1982 and the wonderful cook Marika Hanbury Tennison was their UK ambassador.

Love my George Foreman grill. But it’s so awkward to clean; so big. Therefore love it when use it but alas do not use often as dread the cleaning.

I used to use breadmaker to make gluten free bread but now can buy decent bread. Yes my George used to go in garden too! I use small bags to put sambo's in to toast them in regular toaster.

I used to have one (it eventually died after a number of years) it was good though and saved me the job of squatting down to clean the oven grill

Coloured toilet rolls were frowned upon as the colouring was bad for the environment.

Hence all white ones.

Cannot live without an electric knife !
Husband loves his Ninja soup maker
A friend swears by the veg cutter with string. Have not succumbed as yet
Think we all live our gadgets

What ever happened to

What ever happened to coloured toilet rolls ?
Am I missing them in toilet roll aisle- or ha be they been discontinued

I replaced an old Kenwood food processor with a Kitchen Aid. Loathed the Kitchen Aid as my cakes never rose with it so gave it away. Replaced it with another food processor. Now I'm a happy baker again.