What infomercial item from our generation, did you really want?

Posted by themrsfreeze@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 47 comments

I begged for Butterfly Ladder! I was going to make my own valence out of sheet and they were going to be amazing! Never got one but always think about what might had been. I could had been an amazing interior decorator, thanks for nothing Mom & Dad!

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WendyPortledge@reddit

The Red Devil Grill. I don’t know why, but that infomercial got me! Of course I never successfully convinced my grilling dad that we needed one of these to replace either of his propane grills.

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Icy_Prior_5825@reddit

The wondermop! I was so disappointed that my parents didn’t agree.

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Ancient-Hawk3698@reddit

I have probably watched the Showtime Rotisserie Oven infomercial 100 times. It has been years since I've watched it, and I assume it isn't still on the air. But I wanted one so bad! I heard that they took a lot of space and were difficult to clean, so I never took the plunge.

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im_confused_always@reddit

I bought one that had never been used last year for $10!!! I use it at least once a week and its very loud and puts out a lot of heat so it's wonderful to use in the winter! The summer not so much.

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kumf@reddit

My parents had one and it was awesome. My husband and I found one at a thrift store and used the hell out of it until it finally died.

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Puglet_7@reddit

I mentioned this on another post.

My ex’s aunt had one. Maybe they really liked Swiss Chalet here in Canada.

It’s way larger than you would imagine. So absurd.

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themrsfreeze@reddit (OP)

There was just a TikTok of one somebody still uses that moans every time it turns! Lol This

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Diligent-Resist8271@reddit

Um excuse me. I have the rolly organizer thing from the second picture. My dad bought it for me when I was...in high school? Maybe college? I still have it and JUST took out the sewing supplies I had in it to move them to a larger more convenient sewing supply space.

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amindfulloffire@reddit

The Bedazzler, Topsy Tail, the Rotisserie oven, the glow-in-the-dark Better Blocks.

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civilSurvivorMum@reddit

Sweet Pickles (the school bus collection) and Mortimer Icabod Marker from Picture Pages.

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caramelpupcorn@reddit

I forgot about the Butterfly Ladder but I definitely wanted this as well. I went through a huuuuuge arts and crafts phase as a kid and my parents never let me try any of the things. I also wanted to do faux stained glass with Gallery Glass but I'm not sure if that was necessarily an infomercial item.

I remember also being obsessed with some kind of food dehydrator infomercial where they made watermelon jerky and were going nuts about how it "tastes like candy!!!" I forgot about it and then a few years back Trader Joe's came out with watermelon jerky and everyone said it sucked 😂

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MaestroLogical@reddit

As a really lazy kid, I wanted a Clapper so bad.

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junietwohundred@reddit

My grandma had one. The lights turned off whenever someone sneezed.

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ihatecatboys@reddit

Better Blocks, have you ssen those fuckers, you can make things that BEND! And they GLOW IN THE DARK!

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ChristelynneMatrix@reddit

A bedazzler 🤷🤦. Don't boo me out of the channel. 🤣

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robhatescomputers@reddit

I bought a sobakawa pillow with the buckwheat husk after accidentally falling asleep on one at my cousins house

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

Time-Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown. I had about 7 of them, lost in a move. My friend Josh had the whole set in his mom’s book cabinet

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seriouslysocks@reddit

My aunt had all of those in the same room as her exercise trampoline and her foam chairs that unfolded into beds. She was obviously the Cool Aunt.

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

Weird tangential story here: a couple of years out of high school I was hitchhiking and got picked up by a couple I had graduated with and the guy was telling me about how they had just seen Independence Day and how it’s got all this stuff about Area 51 in it and if I had ever heard anything about that. I had to look him in the eye and say “You do remember me, right? I was the alien conspiracy kid in 8th grade who read all those Mysteries of the Unknown books?” Then he laughed. “Oh yeah, but you were still cool in your own way!”

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PicklesAndRyeOhMy@reddit

Topsy Tail

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AvocadoToastFailure@reddit

LMAO I got that thing stuck in my hair, was too embarrassed to ask for help, struggled all afternoon until I HAD to go up for dinner. And that’s when I learned what a “pixie cut” is.

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PicklesAndRyeOhMy@reddit

Oh noooooo

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AvocadoToastFailure@reddit

Better than my brother, who hobbled around with a Moon Boot-induced “sprained ankle” for three days before our incredibly perceptive parents made a PCP appointment and found out he had 2 broken bones. But gawd forbid we watch The Simpsons: 90s “parenting”.

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PlagueDrWily@reddit

Catch-it, the wire litterbox scoop; they knew what they were doing.

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Biddy_Impeccadillo@reddit

I actually went and secretly bought that honey leg waxing stuff, with the peach exfoliating scrub. Not NADS “you can even eat it” this was something else and god was it painful and messy.

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crazycatlady331@reddit

The only thing from an infomercial I had was the Bump-it (yes more of a later millennial thing). I needed it for a Halloween costume (Sarah Palin) and I found one at the Dollar Tree.

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absentlyric@reddit

Ronco Food Dehydrator.

The idea of being able to make my own fruit rollups was a fantasy to me as a kid.

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rangeghost@reddit

Not gonna lie, I kinda wanted the Zoobooks

But also quite a few of the song compilation albums. What was that one that always used Ooga Chaka/Hooked on a Feeling?

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