35 Products That Are So Bad, It’s Hard To Believe Someone Came Up With Them
Interview With AuthorIf you hate wasting time walking around the mall, online shopping might be right up your alley. It’s fast, it’s efficient, and it has become almost like a lifeline during quarantine. When you have something specific in mind, you often turn to the retail giant Amazon, a go-to site for virtually everything. Yet, once you scroll past the items you need, things take a bizarre turn.
The Worst Things For Sale (TWTFS) is a Twitter account dedicated to the most horrible objects on the web. After all, there’s plenty to choose from. The creator, Drew Fairweather, combs the site and handpicks "one terrible item every day" to make his followers a little baffled and a lot amused.
So if you’re looking for a terrible gift guide, you’ve come to the right place because we have selected some of the weirdest things the account had to offer. Continue scrolling, upvote the ones you enjoyed most, and tell us what you think about them in the comments!
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When people say that all things should have a function and a purpose, they've probably never stumbled upon an enormous USB-compatible Enter Key or a fried chicken phone case. The internet is chock full of items so extreme that they seem unreal. Yet, all it takes is one look at Amazon to recognize that it’s a true treasure trove of weird, strange, and peculiar objects.
We reached out to Drew Fairweather, the founder of the account, to learn more about his project and the inspiration behind it. The artist not only writes The Worst Things For Sale blog but is also the author of the daily comics Toothpaste For Dinner and Married To The Sea.
Fairweather started TWTFS about ten years ago when he was simply looking through Amazon. He noticed that there were many weird and hilarious items "always peeking out from under what I was actually trying to find," he told Bored Panda. Ever since then, the author has faithfully documented the oddest and most pointless objects found online. "Once you realize the breadth of bizarre things available there, you can't un-see them!"
I have seen it, its actualy amazing becase it hugely desexualite woman wearing it, so they arent fpcus of some random boner
When it comes to the Twitter account, it now has more than 11.6K followers. This shows just how many people are drawn in by a desire to discuss and figure out why on earth such things exist in the first place. Also, why some people actually buy them. Well, as they say, one person’s trash is another’s treasure.
"Since buying items is the main creative outlet of most people—most Americans, at least—people enjoy seeing unusual items for sale," he said. Statista reports that Amazon was responsible for 50 percent of US e-commerce spending in 2021. One of the company’s key tools to increase that spending is Amazon Prime, a membership that gives you free and fast shipping, plus extra privileges like streaming music and video.
In 2018, as many as 62 percent of their customers in the US were Prime members. According to Statista, they are highly engaged shoppers who spend a lot of money—more than double the amount of non-Prime members per year—and are relevant to Amazon’s success.
Fairweather also writes about items "that seem normal—branded waffle irons, pink screwdrivers—that have a strange or sinister subtext hidden beneath the sales pitch." When it comes to some of the most bizarre things he has ever come across, it has to be the "BabySaver, a box where you store your child's baby teeth after they fall out."
"The box has holes for each tooth, so you can reassemble your child's teeth into a jaw-shaped curio," he explained. "If that's not enough, it has a slot in the middle for your child's umbilical cord."
When it comes to finding such items floating around Amazon, he revealed that most of them he has dug up on his own, though his followers also help with suggestions. "I tend to stay away from novelty items, which are those intentionally created to be 'wacky,' since there's nothing unusual or sinister about these."
"I'd rather write about something like Extylus, which is a stylus for your smartphone that you strap to your finger, so you can use your finger to control your smartphone."
Not that I'm hating on your God, I really am not, but it does say something if all the comments pointing out that the original bible is, in fact, misogynist are upvoted and all the comments claiming the opposite have been so downvoted they're in the negatives. Just saying.
Load More Replies...They did not need one for girls because we know girls do not read and over stimulation over heats the fragile female brain.
Can't have the ol' uterus implode on us poor females! :')
Load More Replies..."Exciting features" such as incest, slavery, and a vengeful, vengeful God.
Satan is the good guy in the bible. The first thing he does is tell Eve to eat the nondescript fruit which makes people know the difference between good and evil.
Load More Replies...Ezekiel 23:20 “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” My kind of scripture.
I have a Women's Study Biblle. It leaves nothing out from the original, just provides women a better understanding of women in biblical history. I am a Christian but I don't force my beliefs on others. I have my faith and others have their own. I respect other religions. Who am I to judge? No one should be judged or persecuted for their beliefs or forcefully made to believe in something they don't agree with. I can plant a seed but I can't force growth.
I'll judge, because this what I see and it's not good. When someone mentions religion, everyone says "it's private...I don't force my views", when regardless those views end up permeating through society. Religion... influences political decisions concerning such topics as abortion, environmentalism, views on Israel, affects how science is taught in the classrooms, impedes research on stem cells, encourages/allows for discrimination against other "outgroups" such as gays, continues to brainwash children into their viewpoints before they have reasoning skills, often/usually demotes women to a second-class role. This is off the top of my head.
Load More Replies...So do they have a girl's bible that is a violent shade of pink and covered with sparkles and unicorns? FINALLY, a bible just for girls! No smelly boys allowed! Did you know that Jesus loves Unicorns just like you? Jesus says be confident and give your crush that call!
God hated unicorns and didn't let them on the ark though
Load More Replies...And so many cliches...the font, the METAL...I'm laughing and also terrified.
'Rape! Genocide! Slaughter! Incest! Lack of logic!'
Load More Replies...That must be the one with all the bits that justify abusing, killing, taping, and just generally hating women. In other words, The Bible.
Oh i SO wanna see them do a "For girls and young women" version . . . . . . the first page will be "IF YOU CAN READ THIS, YOU ARE A WITCH AND A THREAT TO CHRISTIANITY AND MUST BE BURNED . . .ALSO, SHUT THE F*** UP, NOONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR OPINION AND WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO SPEAK ANYWAY!!!"
Ned says it looks too stimulating. Rod and Todd will just have to stick to the regular bible.
It was written by men so yeah the Bible was always directed at males
My grandmother church has this ridiculous bible AND I HATE IT!
This is a conservative christian marketing gimmick to try and get more conservative christians to actually READ the bible.
They can't actually comprehend what they read.
Load More Replies...Uh ... well, they just mention it on the cover now. But, anyway, being FOR boys should not imply or mean AGAINST girls - therefore, the for-boys-bible is as desperately not needed like a driveshaft to your spare wheel...
If it's anything like the ones I had as a kid, it will have anecdotes and other extra things geared towards boys that make the bible text make more sense.
There's something that makes the bible make sense? fascinating!
Load More Replies...Religion is conplex, but you should never take a 2000 year old book too literally. Sadly, some people can't see symbolism
I think they "mention" plenty of women in the bible and I remember some names. But that's about it. Where I live less than 25% believe in god and my guess very few actually read it or had their teacher read it to them like I did. To make one for boys though.. weird
I actually used to own one of these, they're pretty common. Although I think what you'll find inside is pretty interesting, it's more important that "boys" make the decision to study the bible by their own accord. "Bibles for boys" are more likely to be handed out by youth ministries to teens who were already given several bibles in the past appealing to each stage of their life. This isn't an accident, most people have faith because they were brainwashed into it by means of receiving a bunch of stuff like this, among others. And... yeah. Jesus is "cool" and "rad." I'm afraid some of these bibles' blurbs and annotations distract from the actual substance of the text, otherwise it wouldn't be so much of a sugar-coated method of baiting impressionable minds into something they really have no concern for anyway.
Am I the only one who cringed at this Bible and felt nauseated at reading "deeper" and "all boys will love" considering how many Catholics priests have been in the news for harming altar boys?
Nope it's very cringe worthy. It's a shame how many Christians seem to be comfortable with child molesters.
Load More Replies...You know they have that and it's called bro Bible and they're awful people like Joe Rogan
Its literally, a freaking murder story about 4 people who f****d the world up. Thanks Adam Eve Cain, and Abel.
Yeah but have THEY created a Minecraft Jesus in an effort to reach "the youth" like my local Cathedral has? No? Double fail.
I want it and my friends want it. We are girls stop making everything "boys" or "girls" like "boys color" or "girl's color".
i just want to say to the people calling out Em for his or her religious beliefs, it's not okay. People can have their own beliefs. There's no need to downvote someone for what they believe in. It's good to have religious conversations, but when it gets to the point of people being rude about it, it's just wrong. And sad.
These deranged evangelists will try anything to try to brainwash children into becoming religious sheep
A book written by goat herders. Then a King named James. Then abused by American evangelicals
Yep The Torah, OT and NT were for boys too, Dunno about the Koran because I found it boring beyond measure
I got this for my son way back and he loved it. The margins talked about how bible verses fit with boys needs.
I've also seen bibles for girls, women, and men. Same words, different highlights.
And thus, Jesus spaketh unto the crowd, "let he who is without sin cast the first totally badass kickflip"
It's interesting that the same people who are constantly hate-posting on BP are also avowed Christians. It's true in real life too. The most violent, abusive and wasteful people I've ever met have all been 'active in the church'.
The 1st person to find out that Jesus actually raised from the dead was a woman. If The Bible were to be more "believable" they would have had a man find Jesus 1st because in the culture women had a lesser standing. The fact that The Bible has a woman witnessing the most important aspect of The Bible instead of a man shows how countercultural it really is. This is just one examples but there are many others that exists if you actually take the time to read The Bible and learn it for yourself.
The bible isn't secular history... It is psychological history... I might be down voted for my beliefs lol but.. God lives in all humans.. "he" is not an external being that judges us... God is your own wonderful consciousness... Particularly the imagination... All things were created by him, good bad and indifferent... All things that are.. begin in the imagination.. all things are mental.. and your perspective determines what you see..
I scrolled and scrolled andddd scrolled, then I had to stop. Just wanted to say "How about this" BE KIND. Find happiness and fulfillment where you can. BELIEVE what you want but don't be pissed if everyone else doesn't. Love yourself! Pretty simple life goals I think. Only other thing I could say is .... all you really needed to learn you learned kindergarten. Another "Good Book".
Deeper cooler really more like beat her beat her again..... Unholy woman!!
Tell me more about the exciting features and then go and feel ashamed for this for all eternity.
This is amazing. Speaks a lot about marketing more than anything. Do they have pink frilly ones for girls?
Come on, we all know it's just more Christian grift! It's all about the capitalism.
This is disgusting. "The most read, most trusted"? "Exiting features boys will love"? This cover reeks of Man trying to edit and censor God's Word.
Dude don't even get me started on how many versions of the bible there r
My dirty mind thinks this is a whole other kinda bible.... bring it on 😁
Might want to check the original on that one. Pretty sure they covered that version
Actually both the OT and the NT only say that women are good IF the are submissive to their husbands, Women are their father's or husband's propertý.
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. Anonymous, Graffito
It's sad seeing people misinformed about religion and God and the Bible, when the stuff they see isn't even real Christianity
Call it whatever you want but it is still a bible. I hate crap like this.
I'm guess it starts with: "Praise thee holy Jezez 4 he will save u2!"
This smells like Mankind trying to edit and censor God's Word. Please don't make jokes about this, an alarming amount of christians are "picky" when it comes to the bible.
The Bible was written by "Mankind" anyway. In case of the New Testament the authors even identify themselves (although they almost certainly didn't write their story down, that happened centuries later.)
Load More Replies...That is a valid argument. I do agree. On the other hand, could you censor people venting against their OWN cultural history?
Load More Replies..."As with any items manufactured and sold, these were all created with the purpose of making money! A lot of these companies, I'd imagine, start with someone having an idea they hope will be popular, a niche product that will become the next Beanie Baby or Scrub Daddy," he told us. "They're then put through the wringer of marketing to become one of the abominations I write about, like Bumper Dumper, the toilet you attach to the trailer hitch of your truck."
My family destroyed capitalism and the only thing they brought back was this tee shirt.
The artist revealed that his ultimate goal is to make people think about what they’re buying and why. "These products are mostly made of plastic, manufactured by underpaid factory workers, sold at a premium to people who don't need them," he explained.
"They're a colossal waste of energy and material resources, and it engenders suffering from the human cost of manual labor, the occupational health hazards experienced by the workers, and the ecological damage done by extracting these limited resources from the Earth."
Ok but I NEED this! I have autism and HATE when food touches, and I would buy this is an INSTANT!
Fairweather continued: "The very richest people accumulate wealth and use their power to strip the rest of us of health and happiness, then sell it back to us, one plastic piece at a time. We don't need any of these things! It's all a symptom of a society which has prioritized the accumulation of the wealthy over all other aspects."
So while these awful objects catch our attention and allow us to let out some genuine laughs, they also show a much deeper problem. Remember that each time we consume a product, we support certain businesses and their values. So next time you want to buy a funny-looking thing online, think long and hard whether it's actually worth it.
You can even store the umbilical cord and the lanugo in it. Every proud parent should have one.
Amazing how much american flag apparel there is. I'm sure that there's something written that the flag is not supposed to be worn
Because you can't just use your hands to shape hamburger into any shape you want.
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So... People wasted time, money, resources and energy to make... that?
Capitalism is gross. “Does anyone need this? No. But some people will still pay us for it, so let’s make it.”
Load More Replies...A review on the Shock bracelet site complaining that it started shocking them at random intervals. They didn't figure out that they were being punished for being stupid enough to buy it in the first place.
"35 Products That Are So GOOD, It’s Hard To Believe Someone Came Up With Them"
Curious. Question to all of you. If you were to choose one of these products for yourself. Which one would you buy?
It seems to me that this list offended itself. I'd consider quite a few of these. If uncommongoods.com was a little less uptight, they'd sell some of these things.
Which ones? Seems many like the divider thing for plates.
Load More Replies...Several of these would actually be really useful for ND people or those with motor issues :/
"Fight capitalism, buy my merch! Only 10 uyghers died in the factory, on the day this shirt was made" I'm convinced most gen z'ers are going to cause a new type of willfull dark ages, where the information is there but they care more about their own statement backed by feelings rather than facts.
It's kinda sad that some of the ones being mocked are products made for disabled people.
Advanced techniques in design and mass production supporting an explosion of creativity. There's a book called Post-Scarcity Anarchism that explains how these forces have the potential to create an great utopian anarchy. But looking at products like these, it seems we've got a ways to go yet. We're not yet done wasting time, energy, and resources on drivel like this.
I want to read that book, and I think at least half of these items are not drivel.
Load More Replies...Some of these are dumb, sure. But a lot of these are just fun stuff, or actually helpful for people with mobility issues. Made me laugh a couple times at least.
Cats (as well as dogs) are special because they can usually sense when their owner is pregnant. That product may seem dumb at first, but cats do have very sensitive hearing, so it could be good to get them used to baby noises before the baby truly arrives as they can be very loud, as well as other noises that may result from caring for a baby. So that when the cat meets the actual baby, it won’t be as surprised by the noises it makes or become afraid. Just make sure baby doesn’t play too rough with your cat! Kitties are only animals so if your child pulls their tail, the kitty may give you baby a little swat, so be sure to condition your baby to your cat as well and make sure they know how to properly treat cats and to not harm them!
Wow. I think I upvoted every single one except that product to keep food from touching (which seems legit). I'm impressed with the ability of humans to be complete ridiculous.
*that's* the one you thought seemed the most useful?
Load More Replies...So... People wasted time, money, resources and energy to make... that?
Capitalism is gross. “Does anyone need this? No. But some people will still pay us for it, so let’s make it.”
Load More Replies...A review on the Shock bracelet site complaining that it started shocking them at random intervals. They didn't figure out that they were being punished for being stupid enough to buy it in the first place.
"35 Products That Are So GOOD, It’s Hard To Believe Someone Came Up With Them"
Curious. Question to all of you. If you were to choose one of these products for yourself. Which one would you buy?
It seems to me that this list offended itself. I'd consider quite a few of these. If uncommongoods.com was a little less uptight, they'd sell some of these things.
Which ones? Seems many like the divider thing for plates.
Load More Replies...Several of these would actually be really useful for ND people or those with motor issues :/
"Fight capitalism, buy my merch! Only 10 uyghers died in the factory, on the day this shirt was made" I'm convinced most gen z'ers are going to cause a new type of willfull dark ages, where the information is there but they care more about their own statement backed by feelings rather than facts.
It's kinda sad that some of the ones being mocked are products made for disabled people.
Advanced techniques in design and mass production supporting an explosion of creativity. There's a book called Post-Scarcity Anarchism that explains how these forces have the potential to create an great utopian anarchy. But looking at products like these, it seems we've got a ways to go yet. We're not yet done wasting time, energy, and resources on drivel like this.
I want to read that book, and I think at least half of these items are not drivel.
Load More Replies...Some of these are dumb, sure. But a lot of these are just fun stuff, or actually helpful for people with mobility issues. Made me laugh a couple times at least.
Cats (as well as dogs) are special because they can usually sense when their owner is pregnant. That product may seem dumb at first, but cats do have very sensitive hearing, so it could be good to get them used to baby noises before the baby truly arrives as they can be very loud, as well as other noises that may result from caring for a baby. So that when the cat meets the actual baby, it won’t be as surprised by the noises it makes or become afraid. Just make sure baby doesn’t play too rough with your cat! Kitties are only animals so if your child pulls their tail, the kitty may give you baby a little swat, so be sure to condition your baby to your cat as well and make sure they know how to properly treat cats and to not harm them!
Wow. I think I upvoted every single one except that product to keep food from touching (which seems legit). I'm impressed with the ability of humans to be complete ridiculous.
*that's* the one you thought seemed the most useful?
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