If only someone would invent...........

Luckygirl I have eczema and had a very bad spell with my hands and feet some years ago. Compeed plasters were the only thing which stuck properly and gave me relief from the soreness. I had PUVA treatment for 3 months, which helped. As to inventions, I'd like a self-cleaning car!

I recommend cling film to cover cream when you sleep overnight and then cover with clothing or a sock to keep it on. Keeps cream on longer and prevents absorption by plaster.

Rosina

Jaylucy it must be at least twenty years ago that I saw an item on TV about an ironing 'cupboard'. (Tomorrow's World perhaps?) Clothes were placed inside on hangers, and after a sort of 'hey presto' interval would be crease free. I'm not imagining this because several friends saw the item and we got so excited that we had almost agreed to buy one between us. We heard nothing more about this wonderful liberating invention - does anyone else remember it?

Rosina, my sister is nearly 50 and my mum had one of them when she was a baby! She kept it until it fell apart after 20 years of service to 4 children..

Jaylucy it must be at least twenty years ago that I saw an item on TV about an ironing 'cupboard'. (Tomorrow's World perhaps?) Clothes were placed inside on hangers, and after a sort of 'hey presto' interval would be crease free. I'm not imagining this because several friends saw the item and we got so excited that we had almost agreed to buy one between us. We heard nothing more about this wonderful liberating invention - does anyone else remember it?

If you go to the disability shows, they do make showers with warm air driers. but, as with anything that carries the 'disability' label, they cost the earth!

Petra, some of the asleep/short sighted drivers following others don't see brake lights - I've been rear-end shunted by such, despite having braked gradually in good time.

Wish someone would invent quilt covers that were easy to put on. One’s with zips on three sides to get the damn quilt inside the cover. You have to be a contortionist to do it otherwise ?

I am shocked kathsue that there is no left handed microwave. I checked after reading your post and sure enough you are correct but there is a drop down door type available though it would take up a lot of counter space.

merlotgran

Ditto plasters and also freezer labels that actually stick and don't end up in the bottom of the freezer drawer.

?? I think you bought the same labels as me Merlotgran! Flaming nuisance aren't they?

grandtanteJE65 have you tried Viakal? I use it around taps etc, just leave to soak then wipe off, gloves essential.

Revolving car seats are available and are used by people with mobility problems.

I have never understood why showers cannot also incorporate a warm-air blowing facility, to use when the water is turned off.

A revolving turntable like a lazy Susan for my electric oven. I could then forget about hotspots and have evenly browned bread.

A left-handed microwave oven. I have a very small 3 sided kitchen and the only place I can fit the microwave is in one corner. It has to go in diagonally, otherwise I'd need to reach over the door to get stuff out. If the door opened the other way it would be SO much easier.
They make fridges, freezers, washing machines , ovens etc opening the other way so why not microwaves?

An industrial sewing machine that has a warning light to let you know the bobbins run out. Working for many years as a machinist that was quite often the topic of conversation.

They have swivel baby car seats already so surely it would be easy enough to make these for adults sizes. Are you listening manufacturers?

My idea is quite easy I imagine:
A waterproof magnifier for the bath or shower so you can read the print on the shampoo and other bottles without your specs.

As another struggler with duvet covers, I am determined to go over to single duvets as they do in Denmark, Charleygirl. The problem is I have a lifetimes supply of the large size and hate waste.

I first bought left handed scissors over 40 years ago Ramola when my DC came out left handed. The local Chemist sneered at my suggestion then but I still have a pair. There was a wonderful shop in Soho where we made pilgrimages to get all the gadgets for left handed people.
Another shop here in Edinburgh, but probably closed due to the pandemic and online competitors, sold all you could want for elderly and disabled.
Long handled shoe horns, trays with cushions, bottle top removers. etc.

Lastly Luckygirl it's a shame your hands have to be so long in water. I recommend a dishwasher and a personal attendant.
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1.Those great things the medics use in Star Trek, which they point over even deep wounds and it heals and seals it it in a flash.

2. Lovely tasting food that is nil calories!!!!

Please could I have linen clothes that don't crease hopelessly? Then I might stand a chance of looking well presented in hot weather... not like something the cat dragged in.

moggie57

Sound proof flats

I think the rich and famous probably have them moggie.

A decent sized walk in bath, with a normal height seat, and a Jaccuzi function, but not so narrow that your hips touch each side of it, and your knees are pressed right up to the tap end! Oh, and a nice wide door that you can walk forward into and not have to squeeze sideways! They make some lovely ones for the American market, but for some strange reason they are not available in the Uk!
Swivel car seats that allow you to sit down straight into the seat, without having to struggle to sit and pull yourself in and straighten up sideways afterwards. I say watching people arriving and departing at our Local Covid vaccination centre yesterday, and felt really sorry for the elderly people struggling to get in and out of a car and straighten up into the seat sideways themselves, a swivel seat would be so much simpler.

Sound proof flats

DWM WG, I so agree, I have tried for years to find something as enjoyable as wine, but why do they always make the alternatives so very very SWEET!

A low alcohol/non alcohol wine that tastes like wine?

Romola They have them on Amazon.

Not really an invention, but I wish it was possible to get left-handed nail scissors. It's easy to cut the nails on the left hand, using right-handed scissors, but using them with the left hand to cut the nails on the right hand is really awkward. (I'm left-handed and used to left-handed scissors for dressmaking etc.)

A time stretcher and/or shrinker...