Packaging rage

[Gassit Girl]

Some products' packaging drives ya nuts by saying it's going to make it easier for you to keep the product fresh / pour the product out nicely etc - and then totally NOT!! I have struggled with the Comfort fabric softener refill pack that says "make a spout" by pulling out the sides and poking them forward to make a triangle. More like "make a soggy cardboard mess"! You need steel fingers to pull the glued panels out, it doesn't really poke forward at all, and IF you can get it forwards, you still need to stab between the panels with the blade of some scissors to make the opening! Then clean all the fabric softener off the scissors. And clean up stuff that globbed out over the floor/bench as soon as pressure was released by the poking of the hole. This palaver, which has driven me mad for about 10 yrs, seriously falls short of the promise on the box!

[Headbanger]

are you wearing mittens?

[Mom]

Be quiet Headbanger! You know not the frustration spoken of!

My beef is the Persil Clothes wash shit in the box with the "convenient" tear round strip. Them suckers make it so it tears off every few centimetres around the box! I am sure of it, reckon they laugh like shit testing it to ensure it will never, ever tear round in one piece! Pricks!!

[Gassit Girl]

Yes MOM, you are right on both counts! I have never been able to get the Persil box strip off in one piece either. The other one is the self-seal strip at the top of the plastic refills of rice bubbles or cornflakes. There's a perforated strip saying "tear here" and I made the mistake of tearing where they said to (as opposed to cutting) and the perforated bits weren't deep enough into the plastic and instead of tearing in a line, it stretched and ripped the top of the bag so that the seal bit pulled away from the inside of the bag. Yeah, self sealing, apart from the huge hole at the top letting out all your cereal!! If they just said YOU WILL NEED SCISSORS to open anything, it'd be a lot more honest!

[pete376403]

there's a word for it - "lactomangulation" - originally applied to cardboard milk cartons.

lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən)

1. (n.) Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the "illegal" side.

2. (n.) lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən. When one accidently forces open the wrong side of a milk container not realizing the fact.

[martybabe]

At the risk of sounding like I actually do the washing(ok I do) I totally agree. I've got so fed up with them fiddly detergent box things and their stupid lack of co-operation, when I'm losing riding time, I just rip the whole bloomin top off, scoop up a handful and chuck it in the general direction of the machine.

I can not be arsed with things that don't do what they're supposed to. Brute force is the answer, show it who's boss GG.

[Mom]

2. (n.) lak'tō-man'gū-lay'shən. When one accidently forces open the wrong side of a milk container not realizing the fact.

I reckon they do it for a laugh...good word too!

[old git]

This is a bikers site, not for domestic goddesses !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gremlin]

kinda like the milk bottle caps and rings... new ones meant supposedly that the ring didn't fall off...

FAIL

[Swoop]

Don't get me started on 4ltr orange juice bottle "quality and freshness" seals! Those pathetic bits of plastic that always peel off of the seal it is supposed to be removing. Scissors or a sharp knife are needed to open those fu*kers as well.

The second gripe is the OVER packaging of products. The quantity of plastic that appears to be consumed in this process is astounding.
A product will be wrapped in plastic and then wrapped a second time (at least) for some unfathomable reason.

Why can't supermarkets go back to paper bags???

[pzkpfw]

Does the tab and slot thing on top of a weetbix box ever work?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Some products' packaging drives ya nuts by saying it's going to make it easier for you to keep the product fresh / pour the product out nicely etc - and then totally NOT!! I have struggled with the Comfort fabric softener refill pack that says "make a spout" by pulling out the sides and poking them forward to make a triangle. More like "make a soggy cardboard mess"! You need steel fingers to pull the glued panels out, it doesn't really poke forward at all, and IF you can get it forwards, you still need to stab between the panels with the blade of some scissors to make the opening! Then clean all the fabric softener off the scissors. And clean up stuff that globbed out over the floor/bench as soon as pressure was released by the poking of the hole. This palaver, which has driven me mad for about 10 yrs, seriously falls short of the promise on the box!

What I wanna know is this...why is that husband of yours not doing the washing etc!!??

[Speedracer]

Does the tab and slot thing on top of a weetbix box ever work?

Hey it works for me about 1 in 3 times!!!

I find those persil etc containers the tear strip comes off but it's so low down the box you spill laundry powder everywhere. And the crappy plastic cup that comes with them is atrocious! Mine broke when I attempted to use it properly and now it has a giant hole in the side.. more spillage woohoo!

[Blossom]

ok so its monday morning and I just finished the 3rd load of washing... forgive...

Coldpower boxes dont open any better than persil boxes.. At least the concentrate box is smaller I suppose.
But my personal fav is toys. Especially my little pony or polly pocket. We have resorted to waiting till kids are in bed... having a stiff drink.
Arming myself with scissors and a stanley knife and carefully cutting and removing the 1001 extra bits of plastic and wire and shite they wrap around every damn thing in the box. Then putting the toy back in the box.. wrapping with gift wrap and giving to grateful child for birthday/christmas etc. Otherwise the poor kids end up in tears cause they break the toy whilst trying to get it out of the box or in tears cause the box breaks the kid while they are trying to get it out.

[slimjim]

O....Dear O..Dear....what don't you ladies carry a knife.....a big bugger works best at opening quiet a few things...lol