{
  "id": 7492133,
  "title": "I asked ChatGPT and Gemini what everyday products aren’t worth buying — these are the 5 items I completely abandoned",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/i-asked-chatgpt-and-gemini-what-everyday-products-arent-worth-buying",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-15T06:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Guide",
    "slug": "tom-s-guide",
    "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-asked-chatgpt-and-gemini-what-everyday-products-arent-worth-buying-these-are-the-5-items-i-completely-abandoned"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In my quest to save money, I turned to AI for guidance on what everyday items are not worth purchasing. Utilizing ChatGPT and Gemini, I discovered five such products that I have since abandoned. These items included bagged salad kits, pre-shredded cheese, specialty kitchen gadgets, travel-sized toiletries and miniature skincare products, as well as miracle static dusting wands.\n\nBagged salad kits may seem convenient, but buying individual vegetables and making your salad proves to be a more cost-effective and fresher alternative. Pre-shredded cheese, on the other hand, incurs extra costs for the labor and packaging, making freshly grated cheese a better option. Specialty kitchen gadgets that perform one basic task, such as egg, avocado, and banana slicers, can clutter drawers while similar tasks can be accomplished with a knife or existing appliances. Replacing travel-sized toiletries and mini skincare products with a reusable, TSA-approved travel bottle and filling it from one's home supply eliminates the hefty per-ounce markup of these mini versions. Lastly, miracle static dusting wands, despite their appealing ads, often prove ineffective as they simply scatter dust back onto surfaces. A damp microfiber cloth, on the other hand, effectively removes dust on contact without causing a secondary mess.",
  "summary": "After asking ChatGPT and Gemini about the sort of unconventional everyday items that are silently bleeding the average person’s wallet, I got rid of five of them.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}