Well! That was easy!
I have a running battle with easy-open containers. Most of them aren’t.
Medicine bottles with the cryptic “Push & Turn” instructions. Tabs on boxes that dispense paper cuts as often as the contents. Plastic packs that slice & dice. This Pop-Secret example of the “glue every possible edge” school of package design.
Hill’s Science Diet Cat Food bags, not only have an easy open design, but also a resealable zip-lock… Except tearing at the tab provided doesn’t open the bag, and cutting anywhere below it ruins the zip-lock.
After marrying me, Arlene had to get over occasionally seeing the naked cereal bag laying on the breakfast table next to what was left of the box.
I believe every architect should have to actually live or work in a building he designs, every doctor should take some of his own medicine, Congress should have to live with the laws they pass, and every origami expert who thinks they can design packaging, should be dropped on a desert island and forced to survive by actually opening their boxes, tubes, jars and bags.
It’s a small thing I know. But life is too short for bad staplers, pens that don’t write, web-sites desgined for Internet Explorer and easy-open containers, that don’t.
Share your experiences with easy-open containers in comments.
on Jul 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
I’ve had no experience with easy-open containers. I am convinced there is no such thing!
on Jul 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Well said Sherry, I may steal that line for later!
on Jul 10th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Hear! Hear! I believe that those engineers should be out here trying all of their products like the rest of us! HA! Probably would freak ‘em out!
on Jul 10th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I totally agree with Sherry. There’s no such thing. I can’t even count the times when I spilled stuff all over the counter – or worse, the floor – because I had trouble opening it. Last night we had Mac & Cheese. I had to use a knife to open the box. Enough said
on Jul 13th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
I agree with you on those push and turn bottles. They’re murder!
on Jul 20th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I thought I was the only one having the problem with the zip lock cat food bags. I’ve given up completely and just cut the bag below the useless zipper and pour it into a Tupperware container.
It’s taken many years for me to learn that if I give in to my frustration and keep trying to pull until it unseals all the way down to the zipper, the bag will explode and dry cat food will rain down all over my kitchen.
Actually, I haven’t learned it. I still explode a bag every few months. I hope by putting this out there in the ether, I’ll be forced, at long last, to smarten up.
on Jul 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Haha that looks like half the things in my pantry.
on Jul 28th, 2009 at 3:42 am
hahahha, that’s really easy open … Very funny
on Jul 29th, 2009 at 1:54 am
If it’s any consolation, my dad wraps t-shirts in no less than 10 rolls of duck-tape when he mails them to me. I can’t imagine what he thinks can happen to a t-shirt in the mail other than it gets lost.
on Jul 29th, 2009 at 8:48 am
My son told me to check out your blog and I must say I’m impressed, very helpful.
on Aug 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Just try opening the packaging used to house a doll. I swear they are packaged by prisoners…”if I’m not getting out of here, your not getting out of here.”
on Aug 8th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I have never ever been able to re-seal of of those science diet bags…and I am a professional cat lady.
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