What a funny thread!! I often find myself glued to the TV when infomercials come on and then blush a little and look around like I am being silly Some I laugh at and others are interesting enough that I wonder if they really do work and have bought assorted products in stores.

in the 80's I HAD to have the smooth legs that the Epilady promised and so bought one of those. My neighbors (other young moms) and I tried it, screamed in pain and then joked about it for years.

There was a chopping gadget that had blades inside a cylinder - can't remember the name of it, but used it for years to chop and dice veggies and it worked really well - though hard on the palm of the hand. Chop and Dice maybe?

A few years ago I bought (at store) a cylinder to cook pasta on the counter and threw it away after one use because I did not want to clean all the pasta glue from the inside and hated that thing!

The upside down tomato planter (Topsy Turvy?) - we saw in a newspaper or magazine add a few years back and hubby made several of them - think we googled like Richard did and found some ideas. We did ours in plastic cat litter buckets - just cut a hole in the bottom, used a coffee filter and used the handles to hang in trees. They produced tomatos for us but we found it hard to keep them in the sun enough because they needed a tree limb to hang on. Pretty clever concept though!!

I just bought a Pledge product fabric eraser and it works GREAT!! Too pricey to use all the time but terrific to get every last hair off pillows and lamp shades and bedpreads. I got tired of putting lipbalm on my lips and getting furry lips It is wonderful for getting cathair off and works even better than the tape rollers.

The Oxy-Clean is fabulous - anything "Oxy" has been wonderful I think - something about the oxygen action I guess? I keep the stuff in a spray bottle and it cleans cat throwup stains, etc off the carpet and upholstery like magic

oops - gotta run now - there's a really fascinating infomercial on!!