13 horribly designed everyday products that need to be reinvented

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We shouldn't have to worry that our simplest household products will let us down.

But plenty of them do - on a daily basis.

For every perfectly crafted Dixon-Ticonderoga pencil, there's a shampoo bottle that will never get completely empty.

Here are the everyday products we've been using for decades that - somehow - have withstood innovation.