Squid shower caddy

The Shower Squid is a $35 stretchy shower caddy/squid whose elastic tentacles hold your shampoo, soap and other products.

SHOWER SQUID (via Thoughts From Kansas)

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Lucifer

it’s a cute way to have an asphyxiation party
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  - Anonymous
    
    I don’t know what’s worse; your comment or the fact I understood it.
- redesigned
  
  great…they are going to find some poor guy strangled in the shower with his neck, arms, legs, and junk all strung up like a puppet. this is an autoerotic asphyxiation fetishists dream come true.
  
  this could probably be used for physical therapy as well…just add more tentacles to increase resistance.
  
  i might get one for my broom closet to keep all the mops, brooms, etc. hung handle side down…hmm.
Anonymous

My friend brought me one of these from Sweden 5 years ago as a housewarming gift. It is awesome and still in great condition. You don’t remove the bottles to use them-just grab it, squeeze out what you need and drop it to hang. You can adjust bottles to hang upside down when they’re almost empty. You would have to try really hard to strangle yourself with this thing-the loops are pretty small and are not slippery enough to adjust on their own. Sure, I would be more cautious when my son is older-but he has a long time before he is bathing alone.

A bar of soap might be too slippery, although you can adjust the loops pretty tight and as I said before, they don’t readjust on their own. Everything else fits in it great.
mellowknees

I’d like to hereby award everyone in this thread 100 points for your awesomely hilarious comments. Even the disses are funny. Thank you for making my drab afternoon a little better with some levity.
Mitch_M

That’s cute. I’m sure I’d take to time to put the soap, shampoo, and conditioner back into their little nooses when I’m taking a quick shower and trying to get ready for work on time.
Anonymous

Where’s the Cthulhu shower caddy?
- Anonymous
  
  Agreed where’s the cthulhu version of this?
  also ctulhu doesnÂ´t mind if it’s being made in china as it’s all part of his master plan.
websorcerer

I got really excited about this for our home until I saw it was made in China. We’ve decided to shun ‘made in China’ on humanitarian principles.
- Anonymous
  
  Just China?
  I’m American and I find that pretty myopic.
  Have you heard of the stuff we get away with?
- Anonymous
  
  ‘shun ‘made in China’ on humanitarian principles’
  
  Admirable, but then what are you typing on?
Walt Guyll

Looks fun, but it also looks like soapy fingers will be cinching plastic nooses.
Lucifer

will a wet bar of soap stick in the loop??
mtdna

I’m trying to think of a worse design for holding bath supplies.
I got nuthin.
forgeweld

Hosts super-exotic strains of mold and fungus as a bonus.
franko

wow, haters gonna hate. i think that’s pretty nigh-on awesome.
turn_self_off

As usual, international shipping ends up doubling the price.
BookGuy

What if I use volcanic rock and handfuls of sand instead of Big Beauty’s products? What will your squid do for me?
Godfree

It’s a very clever design, but I can’t help but think of how many gallons of water are going down the drain while you’re unwinding your supplies from the tentacles and then winding them back up again.
- godisafiction
  
  I don’t think you have to unwind the bottles to use them. However, I don’t buy that it would hold a bar of slippery wet soap.
Shart Tsung

$35 for elastic? Come on son!
sbarnes2

Ladies and gentlemen, that is a jellyfish.