The Cliff Top Residence
SE England
England
Dear Packaging Companies
Congratulations! How marvellous are the ways you have invented to test one’s ingenuity, eyesight and strength.
I particularly like the jars that need a combination of wrenches, alternate dousing in very hot and then very cold water and a hammer and chisel to get them open, and using a blowtorch and an angle grinder to get into the mayonnaise the other day was pure joy.
The skills I employ when the little key is missing from the corned beef tin have been honed – after considerable loss of blood on several occasions – to a point where they could be referred to as art.
The cellophane covers on DVDs, presumably developed to protect the nose cones of space craft, are a delight and the clever way you disguise any clue as to where the join is, is truly amazing.
On the other hand, I’ve noticed that eggs are being protected by much flimsier boxes, which saves time when wanting them scrambled, and the fun of picking out all the little bits of shell is something I look forward to.
It’s all a fine solution to help recycling, as the bags used to collect the packaging are actually bigger than the bags used to do the shopping – an achievement that Albert Einstein would have been proud of.
I must go now as I’ve got to get the lid off a tin of paint and I can’t remember where the chainsaw is ….
Yours sincerely
Daddy Papersurfer
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Stumble It!
7 Comments
I always want to refer to that tool as an “ankle grinder” I don’t know why…..
Could be useful at sales, jumble sales and when doing the Christmas shopping I suppose …….
oooooo don’t get me started on packaging why do apples have to be sold in a polystyrene tray covered with a hard plastic top and cellophane wrapper ….. where the hell have they travelled from to need such protection …. tsk
[deep breath]
Tea?
Thank you
Hang on – I can’t get it open ….. oh pooh.
Glass of tepid water?
I know exactly what you mean. It took me over half an hour to teach mini-somnambulist I how to prise open a case of Chateau d’Angludet 2001 with a pair of screw-drivers and then employ the foil-cutters and new-fangled lever-arch-double-grip cork screw to get at the contents.
I don’t know why they don’t just stack bottles of wine individually on supermarket shelves and give them screwtops.
Complete nightmare …… I do hope none were ‘corked’ after all that effort.
I have to take child-proof medicine bottles round to the local crêche for help …….. tsk
Cardboard boxes are the bane of my life. I have to confess I do a lot of shopping online as I live in the back of beyond (well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it). I get a huge box which is filled with plastic air bag things or those polystyrene bits or even worse shredded paper, containing the tiny object I have ordered. Grrrrr.
I cannot get into my garage for cardboard boxes. I have a two seater car so can’t load it up to take them to the recycling place. It’s a nightmare. You don’t want any spares do you?
Always happy to receive gifts. Would you like to stay for tea when you deliver them? ….. oh, you can’t can you? ……. driving a sportycarthing …….
I could post them to you. I could put the small boxes in a bigger box with some packing material – polystyrene bits? so that they don’t get damaged then I could put that box in a even bigger box and protect them with little airbag thingies and put that in an even bigger box with lots of shredded paper and then put that in…well you get the picture.
I could empty my garage in no-time…
Sorry I’m tardy answering your Tardis solution. I believe that you’ve solved the problem of waste. I was thinking of annexing a valley in Wales and just filling it up but your idea is probably better ….
I worked for a company that sells aircraft parts. Everything that was delivered to us was contained in so much packaging we had to have the waste skips emptied every other day, but if you knew the price of even the tiniest part of an aircraft, you would understand the extreme packaging.
Good point GW …… and food is very expensive now as well …….. it’s all beginning to make sense now ….
In Canada, we employ individuals to cater to our de-packaging needs. Each family has one.
We call them can-openers.
They’re paid little, but the satisfaction they receive from their jobs more than makes up for it.
Tsk. Don’t you folks learn from other cultures?
I must have a cannot-opener – I’d send it back but I threw away the packing ……. pooh
They’re far too sensible over there in Canada, is it the cold?
I see we share the same problems and solutions to such nonsense!
Hi TnkFU, hope all well with you.
Great minds think alike Thinkinfyou – there’s no hope for either of us …… tee hee