2-Pack: Hot Tool Holster
- Use 'em to hold your curling iron, BBQ tongs, soldering irons, hot glue guns (maybe), or any tool that gets so hot that you’d rather not bump into it
- Stick 'em to any nonporous surface (like a counter or sink) but not a porous surface (like volcanic rock) without suction cups or adhesives – just magic
- Safe up to 500 degrees F, which is “very hot”
- Use this “pro” version for your professional counter-organizing business
- Stop putting your straightening iron on the toilet seat like some kind of barbarian
- Model: 1962-BK, 1962-BR, 1962-GR, 1962-PI, 1962-PU (Likely in honor of 1962’s Cuban Missile Crisis, which almost turned the Cold War into a Hot War. Right?)
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These silicon haircare holsters flopped when they hit the market (at over five times this price), which is why we can sell them for so cheap. We have 3 theories for why they flopped:
Theory 1: They were priced way too high.
Theory 2: They were marketed incorrectly.
Theory 3 : They are a solution in need of a problem.
So, will they flop here on Meh as well, or can we overcome these challenges?
We’ve obviously solved for Theory 1, if that was the primary contributing factor to their commercial demise. We can understand why people didn’t want to pay more for a hair dryer holster than a hair dryer itself. At this price they seem more like the impulse-purchase products they were born to be.
As to Theory 2, we don’t know exactly how these were marketed, but we’d reckon that women were the target demographic. On the surface this makes sense – women (generally) are the ones who do the straightening, drying, crimping, etc. But our question is this: Are they the ones who are most annoyed by having to leave their hair devices strewn across the bathroom’s few surfaces? Or is it the cohabitating men who stand to gain most from this invention? We won’t wade any further into this dangerous territory, but we think a key demographic may have been missed in the marketing.
(Another demographic missed by the original branding was anyone else who uses hot tools, like soldering irons and blacksmith tongs. Or anyone who uses a table as a desk and wants storage for their pens, etc. The tools don’t even need to be hot to make this useful.)
Of course, maybe even men aren’t that burdened by this problem, and these holsters are a solution in need of a problem (per Theory 3). But just because they aren’t solving a problem anybody cares about doesn’t mean they could. It seems like we should be able to think of some other uses this holster could be put to.
Any ideas?
