Seen Reviews

I have to admit, I haven’t done much As Seen On TV shopping in a while as I’m broke, but when I saw the Big Squirt! I go a rush of childhood nostalgia and just had to get a set.

Basically, this thing is a think balloon you fill with water then squirt people with said water — I know, rocket science. So why did I write this Big Squirt Review? Because it’s AWESOME!
If you haven’t seen the Big Squirt water toy on TV, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. So go check out the Official Big Squrit Site and see some videos of it in action — I’ll wait.

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Awesome right?! I had something similar as a kid called Water Weenies which were also insanely fun but with a just horrible name. The Big Squirt water gun is far superior to even my fun memories of the Water Weenie.

I got a five-pack of these things and must say I had an amazing time with some friends. You just fill them up with the hose in a few seconds then you’re ready for an awesome water fight. My neighbor even came out at about 11 one night to see what was going on because there was so much screaming and laughing. We had a couple drinks on one stifling summer night and basically went insane running around the house and the yard, even the dog was soaked.

They are, of course, meant for children. And they had just as much fun as we adults did. My sister brought her two kiddos over for my unemployed butt to babysit and I broke out the Big Squirt set. At first they asked what the strange looking things were, but soon enough they were exhausted, wet and ready for a nap — which was perfect, because I was ready to watch some more infomercials.

Buy It Or Not?

Definitely >>Buy Big Squirt!<< and have a blast blasting your friends and family.

My yard was looking pretty nasty, but I didn’t really care. My girlfriend, however, forced me to get Roll and Grow seeds to cover up some of that dead or dying grass. It was super easy to install, but I didn’t tell my girlfriend that, she thinks I’ve been slaving away.

I don’t really care a whole lot about my lawn, I think the dead grass and overgrown weeds keeps door-to-door salesmen away, but apparently “it makes us look trashy.” So I (my girlfriend) decided to get my unemployed butt off the couch and into the yard for some landscaping.

We decided to get Quicklawn and Roll and Grow seeds to fill everything in. Both were pretty easy, but Roll and Grow was a cinch and it made the yard look pretty great, I must say. The Roll and Grow seeds came rolled up like a blanket. All I needed was a scissors to cut the shape I wanted, unroll it and water. Three weeks of sitting on the couch and we had a ton of flowers along our walkway.

I followed the commercial and used the Roll and Grow garden mat seeds to edge the sidewalk in our yard, and it looks just great. I threw some woodchips down too to set it out a little more.

Now the girlfriend thinks I’m some kind of ultimate gardener, and I’ll just keep letting her think that.

Check it out, look like you’re an ultimate gardener too and buy Roll and Grow, just keep the hose on hand for those door-to-door salesmen that will soon be attracted to your beautiful lawn.

Pet spots, ratty grass and dirty spots were driving my girlfriend nuts, so she set me to work with Quicklawn grass seeds to green-up the yard.

I swear all the neighbors bring their dogs to our yard to use the bathroom, so it’s looking pretty nasty. I didn’t really mind, like I’ve said, a nasty lawn keeps people away! My girlfriend, of course, said she felt like she was living in a third world country every time she walked across the lawn.

She decided that we should buy Quicklawn to fill in all that nastiness. And of course, I would be doing the heavy lifting — or so I thought. When it arrived in the mail, I was skeptical; it was just a jar of grass seeds.

But whatever, it got my unemployed butt off the couch. I grabbed a beer and started tossing the Quicklawn seed around the yard then hit it all with the hose, it was insanely easy as far as landscaping goes. I just made sure to leave a spot along the walkway for the Roll and Grow seeds.

I had basically forgotten about the seeds until a couple weeks later after a good rain. I looked out the window and the lawn had basically exploded with grass. I even had a neighbor walking his dog (probably to pee in my yard) compliment me on the lawn.

Even my girlfriend loves it, she thinks I was just slaving away in the yard, but Quicklawn grass seeds made it a cinch and got me all the credit.

So if you’ve got a nasty lawn or gross pet spots, try it out — buy Quicklawn and get that yard looking great.

A good steak, I had forgotten what it was like to bite into a perfectly cooked chunk ‘o meat. Throw in a little A-1 Sauce and some buttered bread, and I wouldn’t care if my house burned down. Thee (note the second E for emphasis) best steak I have ever had didn’t come from my stinky, greasy grill, but from my Red Rocket grill.

It was quite lucky that I got to do the test for this Red Rocket grill review, I normally only see steak on TV when I’m sitting over a bowl of noodles. Damn you steak!

But since I have ample time on my hands while most of my friends are working, I’ve been going to meat raffles. It’s quite a strange crowd, lots of people on pensions and crazy drunks — and now me on Wednesday afternoon and Sunday at 11 a.m.

It was at one of these great cultural mixers that I won one huge, huge steak.

I went home right away and went to fire up the grill, and it was full of water and there was no charcoal in the house. And sure enough, the cheese from last year’s burgers was still stuck between the grates.

So I decided to use the Red Rocket grill instead. I’ve used it a couple times to make burgers and it worked great, but a steak was a harder thing to cook. But I was surprised by how well this As Seen on TV grill actually worked. The Red Rocket grill was basically a George Foreman grill stuck inside a mini convection oven. The oven aspect helped get the meat heated all the way through without turning the surface of the meat into jerky, like the Foreman can.

The microwave grill cooked my steak perfectly in the middle — perfectly pink. I did sear it on the stove top with a really hot pan — I had been watching the Food Network and had to try it out. The searing beforehand got it to a perfect little char on the outside. I also smeared some butter on the top of the steak as I put it in — drain away the fat?? No thanks.

It was the juiciest steak I have ever cooked. (pictured for bragging rights) And it also made some really good kabobs with some far, far, far lower quality (possibly not edible) meat.

It also came with a Slap Chop type veggie chopper; which was nice because my girlfriend won’t let me have a slap chop because she says Vince Offer is a misogynist. It came with a recipe booklet too, I just used my cookbooks like it was a grill. The worst thing about the grill is its name, if you look for Red Rocket or Red Rocket review, you’ll probably find a quite offensive (and great) South Park episode.

Buy It Or Not?

Buy it, it’s a super quick alternative to the grill. Just pop the thing in the microwave. The Slap Chop like chopper is great too. I really suggest searing your meat before putting it in the Red Rocket. Kabobs and burgers are great on the thing too. You can just throw it all in the dish washer too, so no cleanup. Buy the Red Rocket grill from RedRocketGrill.com and start cooking like you have a grill!

I’m a pretty stinky dude, I’ll admit it. But I hate the smell of those nasty sprays and plug-in deodorizers, it just smells like stink and fake flowers — not much better than just stink. But my girlfriend brought home some What Odor because they plant a tree for every purchase. Great, a $20 tree, I thought, but this stuff really works.

I’ve always had a bottle of Febreeze sitting around the house for really nasty stinks, but I cannot stand the smell. And it doesn’t do a thing for getting rid of the smell after cooking fish. Not to mention every time I used it my girlfriend tells me how terrible it is for the environment. But of course she’d rather kill the environment a little bit than smell my funk.

When she saw What Odor on Billy May’s show Pitchmen, she checked it out and found that it was made by For The Earth. It’s a really cool company that only sells biodegradable products and never tests on animals. Them planting a tree for each purchase of What Odor was enough for my girlfriend, but I wanted to see if it stood up to the stink power of an unemployed, un-showered, generally gross Sean.

My test involved me doing exactly what I normally do. Grilling brats, with sauerkraut of course, bean chili cheese dip in the microwave and all the stuff that’s associated with eating all that crap in the bathroom.

The big test involved me spraying What Odor before she got home, and if she noticed my stench, the stuff doesn’t work.

She walks in the door and nothing, no stink face and no nose scrunching. She even asked if I cleaned (the answer is hell no).

So the stuff works, and it doesn’t have an annoying fragrance that goes along with it — and you get a free tree planted someplace; which is just “wow.” Also, Billy Mays says you can get rid of skunk odor with it — but I really hope i never have to test that.

Buy It Or Not

Totally buy What Odor, we tossed our Febreeze for good (in the recycling bin of course). It works great and it’s fragrance free so your house doesn’t smell like flowers.

I just got me and my girlfriend a pair of Wearable Towels, and they are totally sweet — and super cheap. I couldn’t for the life of my find and Wearable Towel reviews online, but I ordered them anyway.

I always bring my towel to the beach, but when I get out of the water and need to dry off, my towel is just covered in sand — then I’m covered in sand and need to get back into the water. Then I get it out and need to dry off and bam, covered in sand all over again.

But this Wearable Towel is more like a towel toga, I can put it on my sandals or something and come back from the water and throw it on. It even looks kinda sexy on girls, it’s like a towel sundress. My girlfriend and I use it in the bathroom too. Use it to dry your hair quick and throw it on like a robe, but you can actually walk around with it on and get some air.

Buy It Or Not?

Totally but it, it’s the Snuggie of summer!!
I found a place to buy wearable towels online, but now I can’t find the link again. I’ll update this a little later when I do find it.

I’m sure you’ve seen the ridiculous Shamwow commercials by now and asked yourself “do Shamwows work?” I must, somewhat reluctantly, say these things really are a great towel to have around the house.

I’m kind of a paper towel junkie, and it’s really bad for everyone — expensive for me and harsh on the environment. The latter never really deterred me from using paper towels for everything in the kitchen, but since going on unemployment, I’ve had to really save some money. I tried, at behest of my girlfriend, using dishtowels in the kitchen. But one spill and I had to wash the dang things — lame.

So, in my depths of kitchen towel despondency, I saw the commercial for Shamwow for the 100th time. Could it be, a sign from the almighty TV? Probably not, but it got me interested. So I looked up some Shamwow reviews and found that people actually seemed to like them — even people that weren’t on the commercial!

So I ordered myself a batch of Shamwows, and boy was I Shamwowed when they came….
OK, maybe not Shamwowed, but they really did the trick. (Now would be a good time to watch this video. My crappy camera died two times, and even on the third try with a damp Shamwow, the thing soaked up all the water.)

The deal I found came with eight Shamwows — four big ones and four little ones.

We go through about one of these a week in the kitchen. And they can really soak stuff up, I’ve spilled an entire bowl of tomato soup and it was just gone, the only thing left were my oyster crackers — which the dog ate. We use the big one for everything we used a towel for: soaking up spills, wiping stuff down and an impromptu oven mitt. The little one makes a good dish rag or dusting rag. I also use the big one as a sham for the car — it gets rid of the water spots before I wax the thing.

The only problem I have is that you can’t put them in the dryer. I had to throw away two of the things after I tried to dry them quick. The weird fiber seems to just get eaten away. So do not put Shamwows in the dryer!

Buy It Or Not?

Buy it. Try to ignore how annoying the commercial is and pick some up. They’ve saved me probably $100 on paper towels since I got them. Buy Shamwows at www.shamwow.com and get eight towels for about $20 — a great deal on any towel.

Despite saying I should find a job instead of just laying around the house, my wonderful girlfriend got me a Snuggie blanket with sleeves for my birthday! It’s really taken my slothfulness to the next level.

I’m sure you’ve seen the As Seen on TV Snuggie by now, I’ve even seen it on the news nearly every week. But, if you haven’t, you must see this thing. It’s exactly what it says, a blanket with sleeves. When I first saw it, I thought it was totally ridiculous — you just lay on your couch with your hands sticking through the blanket.

The Snuggie actually does make working or dozing on the couch much easier — snacking too. I wear it just about all the time while watching TV, it’s also great for playing video games.

When I first opened it, I thought it was the silliest gift ever, but I know exactly what I’m telling my friends I’d get them if I had a job!

The only downside was that the fleece tends to pick up a lot of pet hair where it drags on the ground (as pictured here). But this may be attributed to my inability to work the vacuum.

Buy It Or Not?

How could you not buy this?! Look at how silly it is! Of course buy it!

The blanket with sleeves’ powers that be made sure that you could always get a buy one Snuggie, get one free so give the other one away to a lazy friend and BAM, you’ve started your cult!

The Snuggie also comes with a cheap clip-on book light. But I have lights, so it’s found a nice spot in my junk drawer.

When I still had a job, I was insane about keeping my car clean, and I bought a really handy car cleaning tool, the Windshield Wonder — it’s like 10 times better than a rag on a stick.

If you’re like me, you can’t afford to drive much. But you love to have a shiny car sitting in the yard (or garage if you’re some kind of rich person). That’s why I had to get this handy little infomercial windshield cleaner. In the days before I got the Windshield Wonder — the dark ages — I either had to break out a wooden spoon and put a wash cloth on it just to clean my windshield. Try it sometime, it’s really annoying, the rag keeps falling off and you get a million streaks across your field of vision.

And if you don’t clean your windshield, you’re left with smudges from who knows what catching your eye when you’re supposed to be driving. Now I can’t say an As Seen on TV windshield cleaner saves lives, but staring those smudges could send you crashing right into a bus stop full of children — no good.

That — and because I used to have extra money — is why I bought the Windshield Wonder. And so far, I have not hit anyone.

It’s really easy to use, as you can see by my girlfriend’s arm in the picture. Just drag it across the inside of the windshield or rear window. It says you can use it with just tap water, but I usually spray a bit of all-purpose glass cleaner first. It’s also handy for cleaning rear view mirrors, which can be inset in a really strange way.

I keep it in the car at all times, just in case I sneeze on the window or someone puts their nasty feet on my dashboard and smudges the glass with their toes — you know who you are. It’s a breeze to just wipe it off.

Buy It Or Not?

Buy it. Even if you’re not crazy about keeping your car clean the Windshield Wonder is handy to keep your vision clear and safe. They’re doing some deal now that you can get two kits which include the windshield cleaning device, a microfiber towel and a spray bottle for water (or glass cleaner).
Go buy Windshield Wonder and get one free. Maybe give it to one of your unemployed friends, you could probably even get them to clean your car for it — I would.

I just took out my Egg Genie I got about two months ago, and I must say it’s pretty awesome.

I love eggs, especially egg salad, but I really hate cooking it all. Boiling all that water is such a pain, and fishing the eggs out is literally a pain — I always end up burning myself.

But this neat little As Seen on TV egg cooker made making eggs insanely easy. I just put it in however many eggs I want (up to seven eggs) set it and walk away. That’s my kind of cooking! If I had a job, the electric egg cooker would really save time. I took advice from another commercial and Slap Chop the hard boiled eggs with some peppers and onions — put it all in a tortilla and bam, I’ve got a killer breakfast burrito. The Egg Genie comes with a pretty great microwave bacon cooker. This puts my breakfast burritos at a whole new level… if only I could afford bacon all the time.

Basically the Egg Genie egg cooker heats up water and uses the steam to cook the eggs to the perfect consistency. I never get those weirdly textured yolks you can get when you cook eggs too long — which are really gross. When I first got the thing, I gave my Egg Genie review to all my friends, but they couldn’t care less. They sure ate my burritos and perfect egg salad with no complaints though.

If I had a job, the Egg Genie, As Seen on TV, would really cut time out of my morning routine. But if I had a job I wouldn’t have seen the great Egg Genie infomercial, so maybe I’m better off…

Buy It Or Not?

Buy it, definitely. It’s actually a really great time saver for those of you with stuff to do all day. And since it’s so simply designed, it can never really wear out. Electricity heats water, the steam cooks the eggs — that’s it. Mine’s lasted months and many a egg, and it seems really durable.

Buy the Egg Genie egg cooker and see how great it is to have perfectly cooked eggs without any hassle.