Make a Brew Sue.....
  • Home
  • About Sue from the Brew
  • Music Monday
  • Teapot Tuesday
  • What to Buy Wednesday
  • A Thought for Thursday
  • Free From Friday
  • Autism Support Saturday
  • Pass the Remote Sunday
  • Contact Sue
  • Privacy
What   to  buy
​Wednesday

Peel Here Packets....they don't always peel

23/2/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
It is just one of many annoying things in life, not life changing or a big major issue, just slightly annoying.

It's the packet that gives you a false impression that you can easily access it by just peeling the little bit of plastic in the corner and tearing it back, hey presto you're in!

Doesn't always go that way though does it? Your bacon, ham or mini sausages are screaming 'for goodness sake what are you playing at? 'Just get the bloomin packet open'. If you do get it started, the plastic just starts to tear into shreds and then you have a million pieces of plastic you don't want. Yogurts do that to you as well sometimes, when the foil top doesn't come off in one go and you can't do that 'lick the lid' thing, instead you have little pieces of foil covered in yogurt, yogurt/foil fingers and nowhere to get rid of all this mess, not good if your travelling. 

There are times when you just have to result to a pair of scissors or a knife to cut the packet open and that's fine, its the way we opened all packets in the old days but you just feel cheated, it's 'peel back' and you want to PEEL IT BACK!! If you do have to use a tool, it becomes a packet murder weapon, as you just stab it open to relieve some frustration and curse the manufacturer. 

Then there are the packets which say 'reseal me'.....NO you don't reseal because you just flip open again or your seal just isn't good enough for you to even call yourself a resealer. In fact go back to the reseal school and come back to be when you can actually seal up properly and keep my food fresh. The cheese packets are the best, where they actually reseal with a zip, plastic press seal or something the resembles velcro. You're cheese is not escaping from those packets. So after being also let down by the reseal factor, you get your clingfilm, foil or Tupperware container, without a lid because you never can find a top to go with a bottom (story of my life, nothing to do with plastic containers though). 

I think there is far too much packaging on all sorts of products. You need a degree in unpacking when it comes to toys with their plastic clips, seals and enough tiebacks to give poor Barbie and Ken the impression they are in  that 50 Shades film. No wonder some toys are expensive, they toy itself is cheap but you pay for half a ton of unnecessary packaging.

I do find it amusing when Amazon send you your order of a light bulb which you've had to wait two weeks for it come from China. It arrives in a massive box with a mile long paper snake that resembles the large intestines of an elephant, your bulb sits there like a jewel but low and behold it's broken. How can it be broken it's had half a rainforest wrapped around it for two weeks? That's the only time I get satisfaction from filling in the packaging feedback form. The big box does bring an element of excitement as you can't remember what you've ordered. It's like Christmas, the big exciting surprise present.....no it's just a lightbulb. 

I am living in hope that there is a department somewhere with a scientist who is looking to improving all this packaging nonsense and that one day I will peel back my plastic bacon packet and I'll be able to reseal it and pop it back in the fridge, it's the small things in life. 

Catch you tomorrow for Free from Friday..........


0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    What to Buy Wednesday

    From May 2020 I will be writing a poem about something I may have purchased or would like to purchase.
    ​




    Archives

    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017

    Categories

    All
    24 Fit Derby
    Acrylic Paints
    Acrylic Pens
    Artificial Flowers
    A Thousand Yellow Daisies
    Avon Letterbox Looks
    Back Pack Cool Bag
    Bags
    Baileys Chocolate Mini Delights
    Bluetooth Keyboard
    Body Bottle
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    Bottle Openers
    Breadmaker
    Brussels Sprout Crisps
    Buying Local
    Camera
    Car Boot Tidies
    Carole Matthews
    Cases
    Cath Kidston
    Centre Of Excellence
    Christmas Cakes And Mistletoe Nights
    Christmas Drinks
    Christmas Wreaths
    Clare Mackintosh
    Coffee Syrup
    Collapsible Cup
    Colouring
    Cool Towels
    Costa
    Cotton Traders
    Crochet
    Dentist
    Diet
    Dishwasher
    Doorbell
    Faulty Custard Creams
    First Man
    Fitbit Charge 2
    Fit Bit Screen Protector
    Fitness
    Flowers
    Food Containers
    Four Slice Toaster
    Gherkins
    Gifts
    Glittery Food
    Goodbye To 2017
    Groupon
    High Heels
    I Let You Go
    Instax Mini 9 Accessories
    I See You
    JYSK
    Knitting
    Laptop Desk
    Let Me Lie
    Magazines
    Menopause
    Mia Tui
    Microwave Egg Boiler
    Milk Frother
    MIND
    Nail Problems
    Nescafe Gold Blend
    Notebooks
    Online Studying
    Oral B Pro 600 Electric Toothbrush
    Packaging
    Painted Stones
    Pink Tool Kit
    Portfolio
    Product Review
    Really Useful Box
    Replacement Wrist Straps
    Reusable Straws
    ROKA Bags
    School Uniform
    SHO Bottles
    Shoes
    Shopping Bags
    Sink Filters
    Slimming World
    Smartphone
    Snoozies
    Stayhold
    Storage Trolley
    Stress
    The Big Derby Knit
    The Cake Shop In The Garden
    The Girl Before
    The Leather Shop Belper
    The Little Shed
    Thyme In A Kettle
    Travel Hairdryer
    Tripod
    Tunisian Crochet
    Twiddle Blankets/Muffs
    Video
    Vlog
    What To Write?
    Winter Car Check

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Home
  • About Sue from the Brew
  • Music Monday
  • Teapot Tuesday
  • What to Buy Wednesday
  • A Thought for Thursday
  • Free From Friday
  • Autism Support Saturday
  • Pass the Remote Sunday
  • Contact Sue
  • Privacy