Recently in Just Plain Unnecessary Category

This "sexy girl" doorstop is so trashy! I don't need to explain why, as I figure the outline of a girl in the doggie-style position makes it pretty obvious. Would the type of person that would like this even use a doorstop?

After showing you this stupid doorstop, I'd like to redeem myself and show you a pretty darn cool (non "sexy") doorstop. Check out the Golfer's Doorstop! It comes with a golf ball so you can start practicing your putting skills immediately...while keeping a door propped open.

I feel like I've been trashing a lot of products lately, but I could not pass these up.

They are called Phone Fingers, and you're supposed to wear them when using your touch screen phone in order to keep the precious screen fingerprint-free. Now I don't have a touch screen phone, so maybe I can't fully understand how necessary these are. But really, is a smudge-free screen important enough that you walk around with rubber protectors on your fingers? Who has the time to roll these suckers on every time they need to make a phone call or send a text?

If you want to keep your touch screen nice and shiny, I suggest investing in a pair of Ultimate Cloths. They clean tons of surfaces with ease and you won't look lame using them.

The Somen Home Shop is basically a Japanese noodle slide. You put water and somen noodles in the top and try to catch them with chopsticks as they slide down. This takes playing with your food to a brand new level. Too bad there isn't a product demonstration video for this so we could see exactly how it works.

At Vat19, we like to have fun with food, but we prefer to play with the Japanese Food Eraser Sets. And we bet parents thank us for selling those rather than the noodle slide! Oh, and we also have over 250 awesome product demonstration videos for most of our products so you never have to wonder how a product works.

Are we serious, folks? Do we really need to purchase a $55.00 machine that dispenses paper towels for us? We've covered a few products for the lazy folk, and I think this one ranks pretty high. Grabbing a paper towel is not difficult; this is not an action that needs electronic assistance.

Also, most of us use too many paper towels anyway. I'd think people would get paper-towel-happy with this machine, especially kids. "Look, Mom! I just wave my hand and here comes a towel! Look, here comes another one. And another! La la la..."

Save yourself $55.00 and buy yourself something truly useful (and green!), like the Ultimate Cloth from Vat19. You'll spend 1/5 the money and end up with two reusable cleaning cloths that work amazingly well (with just water!).

Initially, I thought these Chair Socks by Chris & Ruby were a really cute idea. They're way more interesting and fashion-forward than those beige stick-ums you usually put on the bottom of chair legs, right? And it'd be a good way to add a little decorative kick to your dining area, right?

Then I looked at my dining chairs and imagined them with these pink "Flashdance" socks on them, and I realized how lame it would look. It's like putting a scarf around your refrigerator or something. It just doesn't go.

Let's file this one under "Just Plain Unnecessary".

Yes, I understand that some people have trouble applying mascara to their lashes and subsequently get black stuff on their eyelids or under their eyes. However, I'm thinking that having to hold the Mascara Shield with one hand while wielding your mascara wand with the other would make things even more difficult. Notice how the gal in the photo isn't applying her mascara and therefore isn't really demonstrating the usefulness of the product?

Plus, it's $7.50, and it appears only to be a dinky piece of plastic. My advice is to save yourself some dollars and clean up any mascara boo-boos with a trusty household staple - Q-Tips.

Wow, how sad are your lifestyle and eating habits if you need one of these? It's one thing to eat while you're driving every now and then, but to do it so often that you need to buy an in-car eating bib is just crazy. This product should not be necessary. Don't try to eat messy foods in your car or don't miss your mouth.

I would love to see someone driving down the road scarfing down some messy fast food while wearing this...just so I can confirm that someone bought one.

I know that baking enthusiasts just love all of the different pans and molds out there, such as the Brownie Pop Mold. It's neat to make baked goods in cool shapes. However, I don't think a Brownie Bite on a stick is a cool shape. It's actually kind of weird looking, like a giant brown gumdrop.

Do you want to see a really cool brownie pan? Check out the Edge Brownie Pan. This odd looking brownie pan makes normal looking brownies, each with two or more edges.

One word: Obnoxious.

Three reasons:

1) These Ice Cream Sundae Speakers are BIG. 17" high and 17" wide. That's a heck of a lot of shelf or counter space that you're losing with these babies.

2) They're $1250.00 for a pair. I assume you're paying for excellent speakers, although the specs on the product page are jibberish to me, so I can't say for sure. But if you're enough of an audiophile to drop $1250 on speakers, do you really want them disguised as ice cream?

3) These faux sundaes don't even look good. If you want to make a great fake sundae, put a couple of "scoops" of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry together with some colorful sprinkles and a fudge drizzle. Don't build a random mound of lumpy, melty vanilla and put veins of chocolate on it. Ew.