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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / September 2006I hate hard plastic packaging!!!!!!!
I hate wrestling with those hard plastic packing material. I tried this gadget and it works and is pretty safe, I was happy to find something that works. http://www.myopenx.com/home.htm I left Costco a note and complained about that horrible stuff and apparently they will be changing some of their packaging. I also noticed Energizer batteries changed their packaging......hooray. I think consumer need to rebel against that garbage. Consumer Reports gave some awards about packaging from hell. Here is a good article about packaging from hell: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70874-0.html That stuff is dangerous Gimps need to unite on this one. I can't imagine how some of the elderly folks open that stuff. PS I have no financial affiliation just thought it might be helpful for some folks. -- MZ > I can't imagine how some of the elderly folks open that stuff. A pocket knife is handy and doesn't scar the contents TOO much. LOL! >A pocket knife is handy and doesn't scar > the contents TOO much. LOL! You can also try a hooked blade in your utility knife. I use this blade when taking grips off golf clubs. They are cheap ($2 - $3 for a package of two) and everybody has a utility knife, right? All this crazy packaging started when a guy in Chicago slipped poison into some Tylenol to kill his wife. I guess he could not afford a divorce lawyer. Cheers Lee O. > All this crazy packaging started when a guy in Chicago slipped poison > into some Tylenol to kill his wife. I guess he could not afford a > divorce lawyer. It goes beyond that. The "safety seal" on food is quite easy to remove. But they're talking about THICK anti-theft packaging on electronics and similar merchandise -- stuff where there is no poison possibility. ... Gentleman: A man who rises when a nude woman enters the room. That kind of packaging started because of the creeps who would go into stores, open packages and steal the product and then leave the packages laying around. The packaging got progressively harder until today when you need a blowtorch to open a toothbrush. I've learned that if you take a good pair of scissors and cut just inside the crimping on the edges, the packages will open fairly easily. The trick is getting through the layers of plastic with the scissors. DeeTee >> All this crazy packaging started when a guy in Chicago slipped poison >> into some Tylenol to kill his wife. I guess he could not afford a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > ... Gentleman: A man who rises when a nude woman enters the room. <snip> "The packaging got progressively harder until today when you need a blowtorch to open a toothbrush. I've learned that if you take a good pair of scissors and cut just inside the crimping on the edges, the packages will open fairly easily. The trick is getting through the layers of plastic with the scissors." i've actually made a bloody mess of my hand using scissors on that stuff, and i've got good utility scissors. that hard plastic packaging is very sharp when cutting it with scissors! so, be careful, sweetie. my son didn't want to see any more bloody messes, so he bought me a fold-up sheffield utility knife/box cutter. this works waaaaay much better than scissors! now i use my cutting board in the kitchen and this knife, to open that horrid stiff plastic packaging, with little or no difficulty. kate DeeTee > Lee O. wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > ... Gentleman: A man who rises when a nude woman enters the room. I ordered the one, I think it was Donna told us about it, that was only 4.95 and no postage or handling charges. It is very good. I got one for each of my children. Gwen > <snip> > "The packaging got progressively harder until today when you [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >> >> ... Gentleman: A man who rises when a nude woman enters the room. I left Costco a note and complained about that horrible stuff and apparently they will be changing some of their packaging. I also noticed Energizer batteries changed their packaging......hooray. I think consumer need to rebel against that garbage. heheheh . . . up here, last year, i started telling all my friends and neighbors and sweetly/"innocently" told people waiting in check-out lines to ask the cashiers to open the difficult to get into packaging for them (which is what i do, when i remember to ask). and i see that happening more and more. our stores are starting to get the message, here, too---it does tie up cashiers to have to unwrap that hideous packaging for their customers.<veg> spread the word, gang. kate Consumer Reports gave some awards about packaging from hell. Here is a good article about packaging from hell: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70874-0.html That stuff is dangerous Gimps need to unite on this one. I can't imagine how some of the elderly folks open that stuff. PS I have no financial affiliation just thought it might be helpful for some folks. -- MZ >heheheh . . . up here, last year, i started telling all my friends and >neighbors and sweetly/"innocently" told people waiting in check-out lines to [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >tie up cashiers to have to unwrap that hideous packaging for their >customers.<veg> spread the word, gang. What a great idea. You can believe I will be doing it in future. Look out stores, here I come. --- Joan > >heheheh . . . up here, last year, i started telling all my friends and > >neighbors and sweetly/"innocently" told people waiting in check-out lines to [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > --- > Joan OhDear, and to say nothing about campbells pop open top can soups. There is no living way I can do that. So you'd think, no bother I'll just stick it in my aoutomatic can opener and let it do the work. Nope. the top is too deep set to use the can opener. So I fliped it over to open it with the can opener on the bottem and presto! the bottoms are made ronded a little so they won't go into the can opener either. Talk about frustrating!! I wrote to them about this and got no responce. Teresa Joan Carter wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:07:11 -0700, "d'huit" <threecedars1@comcast2.net> > wrote in [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > --- > Joan OhDear, and to say nothing about campbells pop open top can soups. There is no living way I can do that. So you'd think, no bother I'll just stick it in my aoutomatic can opener and let it do the work. Nope. the top is too deep set to use the can opener. So I fliped it over to open it with the can opener on the bottem and presto! the bottoms are made ronded a little so they won't go into the can opener either. Talk about frustrating!! I wrote to them about this and got no responce. Teresa i hear that, too! i can lift the hoop with a church key, but pulling the lid back is impossible for me. kate Oh my, I've been buying generic/store brands lately. (around here you only use canned soup in other recipes so it doesn't matter as much. Soup for meals must be made from scratch as it's such a staple in our cold climate.) You've just given me a solid reason to continue doing soo - no pop tops on the generics..  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > OhDear, and to say nothing about campbells pop open top can soups. > There is no living way I can do that. So you'd think, no bother I'll [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > kate I've used a screwdriver as a lever to pry back those pop tops. > Joan Carter wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:07:11 -0700, "d'huit" <threecedars1@comcast2.net> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > kate i didn't realize you had commented on that. kewl, joan! the more, the quicker we can get rid of these things! kate On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 06:07:11 -0700, "d'huit" <threecedars1@comcast2.net> wrote in alt.support.arthritis: >heheheh . . . up here, last year, i started telling all my friends and >neighbors and sweetly/"innocently" told people waiting in check-out lines [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >tie up cashiers to have to unwrap that hideous packaging for their >customers.<veg> spread the word, gang. What a great idea. You can believe I will be doing it in future. Look out stores, here I come. --- Joan |
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