7 Useless Products You Never Should’ve Bought

3. Gutter Rake

Here’s another invention that sounds great on the surface. After all, anyone who’s cleaned a gutter (myself included) knows what an annoying, laborious job it is lugging a ladder around, climbing up it and cleaning out a small section of gutter. Then climbing down. Then repeating the process. Then wishing you could jump off the ladder and plunge to the ground below to twist your ankle and lay there in self pity for awhile. Indeed, a 30-foot rake that can clean the length of an entire gutter out in one fell swoop sounds like a time (and ankle) saver; until you actually try standing on a ladder and wielding a 30-foot long rake. You’ll be right back to dreaming of plunges off ladders in about 12 seconds.