I'm sitting here calmly wondering about packaging.

[LuckyCharms]

I was just wondering...

Does anyone know if they make retail packaging anymore for things like, oh I don't know, foods, snack crackers, tools, granola bars, misc. items

WHERE YOU CAN OPEN IT WITHIN A FEW SECONDS AND DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT AMPUTATING A FUCKING LIMB OR SOMETHING TRYING TO GET THE GODDAMN THING OPEN?

CHRIST ALMIGHTY.

[Ocelot II]

1. I recommend a Sawzall.

[LuckyCharms]

2. I took too much insulin and I'm trying to open this

goddamn granola bar so I can get my blood sugar up and the foil wrapping is coming off in these microscopic shards and there's about 20 of these little foil shards in front of me and the damn thing still isn't open, and the fucking straw isn't stabbing into the juice box hole, because, you know, it's too difficult to manufacture a little pointy straw that works so you don't have to get out a pocket knife and stab the juice box hole with that and then stick the stupid ass straw in.

[Skittles]

3. indeed

[LuckyCharms]

5. LMAO!

THOSE things, oh boy.

I have some stories about those things.

Let's see, I always have to get out a sheetrock knife and a pair of pliers to open those things and I ALWAYS cut myself somehow. I'm on two blood thinners, so it always looks like a murder scene when I have to open one of those.

There was this one time I was opening one of those packages (I forget what it was, something I bought online, an outdoor thermometer maybe, humidity gauge, something like that) and I couldn't get it open so I threw it across my garage and broke the damn thing.

[Skittles]

7. I think it was someone on DU who said///

"there's a special place in hell for the guy who invented clam-shell packaging"

I could not agree more!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Aviation snips...

[Skittles]

13. I see they are reasonably priced

I'll look into that because I really dread those packages and also tend to injure myself if I get carried away

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Hate those clamshell packages

I used to try opening them with a utility knife, but it's too easy to slip. Tough to pierce and then suddenly the blade slices with almost no resistance.

Tin snips of any kind allow for complete control of the cut. I turn some packages into storage containers.

[unblock]

4. They made packaging adhesives way stronger at some point

I remember as a kid, cereal packaging was super easy to open. Now I'm careful to open it in a particular way with enough force but not so much that it rips open and cereal goes flying everywhere.

Might have been the Tylenol scare that ruined everything.

[LuckyCharms]

6. I curse the Tylenol guy daily.

He started this shit.

[True Dough]

8. That cereal,

would it happen to be Lucky Charms???

[unblock]

9. As a matter of fact,

Lucky charms and Froot Loops were my go-to cereals growing up.

[elleng]

10. Right, did a job on lots of things.

[Duncanpup]

11. How do stay so calm Lucky it's an admirable trait.

[Wounded Bear]

15. If they did that, in store theft would skyrocket...

[surrealAmerican]

16. You need scissors.

Keep a pair in a handy kitchen drawer - works for all paper, thin plastic, and foil packaging.