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Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Rimms on December 10, 2011, 21:12:52 PM: Is it just me? Packaging drives me mad. Today I have fought with Xmas lights, almost ruined a cake we bought from Sainsburys and don't get me started on the bottle of Heinz Worcester sauce.

Bring back brown paper bags
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: KKOB on December 10, 2011, 21:34:15 PM: quote:
Originally posted by Rimms

Heinz Worcester sauce.

There's only 1 true Worcestercestercestershhhhhire Sauce. You deserve all you get !!!! ;) ;)
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Rimms on December 10, 2011, 21:52:52 PM: Lea and Perrins?

I agree, but this was a big bottle in the 99p shop ( I wandered in there by mistake, honest ! ) and could not resist the bargain
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Steve (redding43) on December 10, 2011, 21:58:12 PM: quote:
Originally posted by Rimms

Lea and Perrins?

I agree, but this was a big bottle in the 99p shop ( I wandered in there by mistake, honest ! ) and could not resist the bargain

How much was it?
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Rimms on December 10, 2011, 22:59:41 PM: £1.00
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Bluwise on December 11, 2011, 13:04:57 PM: Packaging on print cartridges - impossible without industrial quality scissors.: :)
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Scunner on December 11, 2011, 17:54:12 PM: Kids toys are amazingly frustrating now - the joy of receiving soon disappears as the poor child gets totally fed up waiting for their parents to wrestle all the component parts free. Every last piece is wound onto the back card of the box with one of those bendy wire things, knotted up by a mad man, and the box itself needs a pair of scissors to cut round the plastic circumference as it is totally sealed - I am convinced that if you were stranded on a desert island without scissors and supplies turned up in these sealed plastic packs, you would die before being able to get to them. They are dangerous too - as you cut round it, the sharp edges you create are perfect for ripping open the piece of skin that spans from the base of your thumb to index finger.

And the waste - I recently bought one of those powerful little speakers for iphones/mp3 players - it is very impressive as it is so small - about the size of a golf ball when closed. But it comes in a box about the size of a standard box of After Eights. That isn't the real packaging waste though - it came delivered by Play.com in a box that it was almost lost in - one little After Eight sized box and masses of brown paper packing it out. The box was so big I think you could have got 14 of these boxes in it! I hope they have planted another tree to compensate for my order.
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Rimms on December 11, 2011, 18:57:59 PM: The Waste !

You are spot on, now there is just the two of us at home, we fill a wheelie bin with household rubbish, another one with garden rubbish, we have a bin for bottles and cans, another for paper and finally one for plastics. Not so long ago our family of 5 could not fill one of these each week

(http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e249/Rimms/Bin.jpg)
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Scunner on December 11, 2011, 22:01:46 PM: I decided it best to move this to the correct section ;)
Title: Packaging ~ Drives me Mad
Post by: Rimms on December 12, 2011, 10:50:43 AM: quote:
Originally posted by Scunner

I decided it best to move this to the correct section ;)

LOL

You saw through me !