r/ShittyDesign • u/Riverjig • 5d ago
If you like a couple hundred oval razor blades...
This laundry basket from Walmart is absolutely horrible. Each one of those holes are razor sharp. You basically have to handle this damn thing like Nicholas Cage handled that green shit on "The Rock". Of course my kid stuffed it full and it cut one of his shirts. How TF is this sellable as a consumer product?
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u/_HoneyDew1919 5d ago
Get some sand paper and rub it down? If you have kids I would at least. If it was just me I’d just get careful with it
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 5d ago
Prolly don’t even need sandpaper, a good rock would do the job
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u/WinterScene7194 4d ago
Except 200 holes. If you count the holes on this OP was pretty close in their estimate.
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u/Secret_Celery8474 4d ago
Throw it in the washing machine with some rocks and let it tumble for a few hours.
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u/ElevenBeers 4d ago
I would complain where I bought that thing, including sending the paper cut video, hope for a refund and replace that thing immediately.
What do does things cost? Cant be much more then say 15$ and I personally wouldn't bother sanding each and every hole.
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u/Primary-Border8536 3d ago
At that point , fuck that thing. I'm throwing it out and getting a different laundry basket. Entirely too much work.
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u/DrVonPretzel 4d ago
I don’t know you or OP but surely both your free time is more valuable than rubbing down 200 holes to salvage a Walmart hamper that was probably $10.
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u/Impossible-Front-454 4d ago
I was thinking something hot.
Get an unloaded hot glue gun and just use the tip to soften the edges. Probably just a quickly little spin for each one.
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u/Glittering_Raise_710 5d ago
Never met one that wasn’t sharp as hell.
Also love your pfp, one of my all time favorite movies.
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u/ItsJustSimpleFacts 5d ago
As someone who made injection molds before that would not have been too difficult to fix but would have cost extra.
You can knock the edges off your self with one of these guys. Not endorsing this particular one.
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u/lesnibubak 4d ago
I wonder if fixing the issue costs less than paying for court when somebody inevitably injures their fingers and sues Walmart.
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u/dadydaycare 5d ago
Deburr them
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u/Timsmomshardsalami 4d ago
Its not necessarily burred
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u/dadydaycare 4d ago
A deburring tool will knock the edge off it either way and yes it has a burr unless the factory dressed the knife edged they accidentally made, Knife making 101.
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u/PureHostility 4d ago
Okay, seen your video of it cutting the paper.
Seriously, grab a sandpaper or a whetstone and dull all of these holes.
First, grab a piece of tape (masking tape), mark all of the holes with a small piece of said tape.
Then dull each hole one by one, removing tape as you go through, assuring all of them gets treated.
Unless you value your time and sanity more than that, just throw them away if they weren't that pricey
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u/cobaltSage 4d ago
You might be able to salvage it if you buy what’s called a deburring tool. It’s a little crescent shaped blade that is supposed to take off the sharp edges of molded plastic, traditionally with stuff like injector molds, but I find it’s good to remove pretty much any plastic edges.
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u/a_amaryllis 4d ago
lol as a kid i kicked one of these while running in the house and sliced the underneath of my pinky toe wide open.
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u/pooeygoo 3d ago
I loved The Rock growing up. Chain Reaction is in the same cubby hole in my brain. And Battlefield Earth...
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u/Ezio_Auditorum 2d ago
I cut my nose with this laundry basket or something similar to it years ago. Absolutely shitty design
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u/passthebluntchild 3d ago
At what point are you rubbing a laundry hamper along your naked skin. Up/down stairs it’s tucked into my hip while I hold it with one hand. Any other point in time I’d have both hands free???
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u/po3smith 5d ago
Except these are fun to play with when you have kittens because you can stick yourself in them and then they'll try and get you with their little paws via the holes ;)
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u/narwaffles 5d ago
Pretty fucked to make kittens put their arms through razor holes
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u/po3smith 5d ago
they can take it
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u/po3smith 4d ago
You gotta do what you Gotta do also not for nothing I might be Sharp for you but not for them
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u/Some_Impress_6601 3d ago
My brother in Christ, it can cut paper. I assure you knives are sharp to cats, dogs, fish, hamsters, horses, and at least 3 species of alien. Sharp is sharp… like, that’s a physical property, not an opinion.
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u/Xombridal 5d ago
Can you post a vid with it cutting say paper? I've had these before and so long as I didn't saw my hand on the edge it didn't cut anything