What item do you always find to be lacking quality?

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1. lower backs

2. Most things manufactured after about 1970.

3. Can openers. Maybe it’s cus my boss buys the cheap ones. But we use them where we work quite often and they break every other months it’s annoying af. It’s either that or they don’t cut and you have a soar arm after 3 cans.

4. Food

   It’s ridiculous how cheap it is to eat poorly

   Should be cheap to eat healthy and expensive to eat unhealthy not the other way around

5. Chargers ofc everything but the charger be getting updated every year. When the charger is just as important as the product. I feel as the chargers in phones are a big one there ain’t no way nowadays a charger can’t be better made.

6. Socks. Always squeezing the shit out my my shins

7. CD Jewel Cases

8. Ear/nose hair trimmers.

9. Most new tools. I don’t know how often we bought tools from companies which used to be good, only to be disappointed by their new products.

   As an example: One of my co-workers got a 25+ year old screwdriver that never seems to break, we bought a new co-worker the “new and improved” version of that screwdriver, and that crap broke within 5 weeks. And they use it the same way.

10. Cables. Particularly charger cables and anything that you have to transport and plug/unplug often. Those stress relief bits always seem to break or connections go bad somewhere in there. MicroUSB is the worst.

11. Anything that comes with a rechargable battery older than Li-ion techbology. It’s not the manufacturing quality, but the memory effect is just outdated. I bought an electric toothbrush about a year ago, always charged it only when it didn’t turn on again, but now it takes about a week for it to be empty instead of two to three weeks in the beginning.

12. Toasters.

    Went through a surprising amount of crappy toasters in a relatively short time before getting the one I’ve now had for years. So many of them were inconsistent on the same setting. Not like they are that overly complex or some new technology; parents had one for decades – before I was born and for much of my youth.

13. Screwdrivers and driver bits for drills. Like yeah, I get it, cheap ones need to be mass produced so everyone can have one in their junk drawer to use twice a year. But nothing burns my balls quite the same as stripping a driver or bit on a stuck screw. At least strip the screw first, let me use that thing as a pry bar. Like fuck, give me a set made to last through nuclear warfare and I’ll pay top dollar for them.

14. Based on what they expect me to pay, most things