Eww… Maybe they come with free nits (headlice)? 🤔
In one case it was selected by default (“used - very good condition” for a whopping $1 discount!), so be careful to anyone reading this.
The only problem is having to buy it blind. You can’t examine out and see what, if anything, is wrong with it.
Mind you, as others have said, this isn’t someone selling something they used to you, it’s a return. It may have been used, it is possible. It just isn’t likely.
Besides, used bedding needs a wash, that’s it. You gonna turn your nose up at granny’s quilt when you visit someone’s house? No. Because the assumption is they’ve washed it. If you buy damn near anything like that, even new, you can wash it just the same as you would anything you already bought, and it’ll be just as cootie free as the stuff already on your bed.
It ain’t underwear. And even that isn’t some kind of health risk once washed properly. It’s just icky.
I mean, if this mildly irritated you, it’s a good post. Just not sure why something you aren’t obligated to buy would irritate you. Since its also ick the ick factor that keeps it from being as good as anything used ever is, I’m not even sure irritated is not an over reaction to just being presented the option
On some other items it was selected by default, in worse condition as well.
I don’t trust some stranger I never met before to meet any standard of clean and hygienic. In contrast, I do trust grandma, especially because if she shits on my bed we’ll be having words. Can’t have words with the previous owner of my second-hand Amazon return item. Since words cannot be had if the unspoken bedding rules are broken, therefore, I refuse to take that risk.
I think I fucked up that whole paragraph but I’m pretty tired sorry
Edit: also it was more like mildly horrified but I don’t think that community exists. Infuriated is close enough on the emotional spectrum if you squint.
Textile products often come out of the factory with an insane amount of synthetic chemicals that get absorbed through the skin, so washing clothes, bedsheets, etc is mandatory anyway.
Just do the same. I don’t see the problem. Some time ago I bought a pack of “used” steel drinking straws. I think only the packaging was damaged and never actually used, not that it matters. Put them into the dishwasher, as I would have done anyway. Saved 60%.
Is it actually used or is it their warehouse deals with the messed up and broken packaging
I’ve bought brand new “used” items that basically were repackaged into brown boxes or clearly were the victim in some warehouse mishaps
So, what do you do at hotels?
I sleep soundly knowing that the staff have purged them of sin using their industrial hellfire machines
Just don’t bring a blacklight with you…
I was ordering a replacement toilet flush handle recently and there was a option for a used one, like wtf
Its probably returns where people didn’t open it, got it by mistake etc. I mean I hope it’s that
I’d hope so too but I’m not taking that gamble for a whopping $1 off
By toilet flush handle you mean the lever you pull with your hand to flush the toilet or does it mean something else thats inside the toilet? Why would you not buy that used? Its usually aluminium or something that just wipes clean with alcohol.
It’s both the handle on the outside and the rod and chain part on the inside connected to the handle that lifts the flapper. And no amount if alcohol wipes would make me trust a part that could have potentially been installed in someone else’s toilet, even if it is aage I could not get over the ick factor
“But, but, they’re like, new!”
Im amazed every time people get upset by normal things that just seem inappropriate because of their (or our shared) insane privilege and ignorance.
Why would we reuse pillowcases if we can just throw them away? People who think like this would buy new clothes after wearing them once if they had enough money for it not to make a huge difference.
I shared a hotel room with a friend once and she came at me with “you left the roll of toilet paper with 4 sheets instead of just changing it, thats so disrespectful” and I was like “what the f are you talking about? Why should I throw away toilet paper that can still be used just because your lazy ass wants me to change the roll instead of doing it yourself when its empty?”
I feel like selling used bedding should be illegal. Like selling used toilet paper
