Does anyone else get upset over the way items are packaged these days?

It is a problem, all this packaging. I ordered a few things online last week. I was amazed that one of the boxes was massive, even though its contents were a lot smaller...and also in boxes. I can understand that the packaging has to protect whatever is in the box but the amount of tape that is around the box, it just looked like a bomb!

LOL... Thank you so much for the good chuckle!!! I am with you, I hate those hard plastic shell things. I understand the security too but boy there should be an easier way to get them open! I have several times used scissors like you and pulled and tugged and even cut my fingers trying to get it out. Luckily I have never broken the item like a friend did with a label maker thingee. The best tool that I have found is a utility knife that has a good safe handle, the razor slices better than the scissors and I overlap the cuts so that I can lift the front off the back part of the package. Seems to work well most of the time. And I think there's a conspiracy with those ziplock cheeses, deli products and the ziploc folks. I'd say at least half the time, I ruin the zipper thing trying to get it open and to get the product out. So just like you, I put the item into another ziploc bag. I try to be careful but they make the margin of error so small to save on the packaging that we often fail to be able to use the package the way it should be used. I'd love some suggestions on that one! And welcome to Mylot, I'm kinda new here myself so I think you will enjoy it and I sure hope you do!!

Haha, I thought I was the only one having this problem! I get upset almost every time I open anything anymore. I do realize that they want to package it tight to reduce theft, and to keep something from getting broken along the way, but geez, do they have to hermetically seal everything?! My daughter bought me some sandwich meat in a plastic tub. It says 'easy to open' on the pkg. It took me forever to figure out the 'easy open' feature, and by then I just stuck the plastic with scissors and stuck it in a ziplock. Easy open my eye! I'm older and have bad arthritis in the hands, everything is a challenge lol. If I can't hold a pen, I sure can't grasp those easy to grip tabs. My carton of coffee is supposed to be easy to open; Ha! Maybe for Edward Scissorhands, but not for me. One way I get around it is to open the plastic seal with an old fashioned can opener. You remember the kind gramma had where you punctured the can and then worked your way around? That's the only way I can get into the Folgers ground plastic can lol. I use it elsewhere on stuff too. For me, it's much safer than when I was trying to puncture something with a knife (and then end up puncturing myself!)

I have had the exact same problem with the zip-closure cheese packages. I thought I was the only one who had trouble with them and had to store the cheese in a zip-lock bag instead. I'm glad to know its not just me. I do get frustrated sometimes with the packaging but when you go to the store and see this packaging as hard as it is to get open torn into and the product inside stolen it makes you realize why they go to the extent that they do. I hate when you try to open a toy and its tied in so good with all the twist ties that it takes like a half an hour just to get the toy out of the package. This really sucks on Birthdays and Christmas when your kids get a bunch of toys like this and it takes all day just to get them out of the packaging and then the kids sit nagging at you because they want to play with the toy and your going as fast as you can. All that extra packaging just fills up the landfill is what bothers me a lot.

I completely share your frustration with ridiculous over-packaging dawn43 Blister packaging has to be one of the worst inventions EVER! It is so difficult to open, even with the use of scissors. I have lost count how many cuts and gashes I have sustained from that cursed packaging that locks the product in a near-impenetrable plastic cucoon

nope, i just buy then throw all the packaging after i use them my only concern if they look heavy after you open it all full of air inside with only small content.

LOL! My boyfriend and I were JUST talking about this a few days ago! He got a new controller for his Playstation 3, and he couldn`t get it open. It was a plastic packaging, one of the hard plastic that you usually can`t open with scissors but sometimes you can open it with just getting a finger nail in to split the two sides apart. Oh man he was getting so angry. We keep scissors in a drawer beside the bed so we can open anything and everything that can`t be opened easily. Sometimes I don`t even try the `tear here` things, I just use scissors. Pure frustration with packaging.

I can understand your frustration because I share this frustration as well.. It took about an hour this Christmas to carefully open all of the vacuum sealed hard plastic shell's gifts my son's toy's came in. It's bad enough that it took ages to cut open the hard plastic to remove his toys from but now these toys are also attached to thick cardboard with at least a dozen 6-7 inch bread tie type of wires.-- Oh the joy and fun to remove these items from their packages!..LOL A few weeks ago my husband actually brought one of those " as seen on T.V." tool's that are made to easily slice open those terrible hard plastic packaging shell's. The ironic part is that this helpful tool was sealed in one of those hellish hard plastic sealed shell's!...lol...

Yes, absolutely there are certain things like that. DVDs are the thing that are overpackaged the most. I understand that they have to be secure but I really think they over do it just a little bit. I think if they made a movie about a person trying to open a DVD, it would be a far more entertaining comedy then most of the stuff these days. Its not the only thing that is hard to open but it is one of those things that annoy me.

Yes tbh whn i get a parcel i allways complement on the packing "if its packed good that is". Presentaion should be key tbh.