I’m not old and neither do I have any disabilities. If I was (and we all will be one or both at some point), I reckon I’d be facing some massive challenges with packaging.
If you can hardly find, then read the labelling or understand the complexities of the contents of food, then the next big challenge is being able to get them open!
Whilst we all know that food has to be wrapped, there are quite a few examples of packaging being responsible for cut and saw fingers and plastic on top of containers for the oven /microwave that just won’t come clean off.
Soup tubs are the worst for broken nails and cut fingers, with the rigid hard plastic tab that has to be taken off under the lid and try getting the lid off without further hurting yourself or spilling the contents everywhere.
Dont get me started on the Shampoo’s that refuse to open when you are already standing under the shower with wet hands; or the hair spritzer/spray that limps out of the bottle and takes minutes off your life every day.
Help us out here and fit a nozzle that a) works and b) doesn’t dribble out and land everywhere but on hair.
…..and No Mr and Mrs Supplier we dont want instructions on how to open them, or use them, please just make them safer and easier to open!
Thank-you – end of rant…..
….oh and one more thing….
How come every piece of clothing comes with a zillion labels that can be clearly seen through the said item at startegic points (hanging out of back sides, proudly announcing which size we all are, half way up our sides, over our collars, in pretty much everything we wear on top, (white label through black has the best effect), how glamorous!!
Such waste, how many acres of cotton or sheets of nylon gets used to make this labels? Some of which can be almost the same size as the garment!
After all aren’t we grown up enough to know the difference between white and colours; delicates and non delicates?
…… And morally in the wrong if we try to take back something we’ve worn and then washed incorrectly?
……and don’t even get me started on the little stringy tabs that have become the norm, to help clothes stay on the hanger. What’s that all about? They look unsightly when the item is worn, they strangle you when trying them on……
They get cut off with all of the other labels when I get home and dumped with all the other packaging and labels that get stuck in places that ruin how items look.
…. a waste of resources and a waste of time!
Rant over, thanks for reading and please feel free to have your say.
I’m sure that Mary Portas will be interested to know 🙂
…..my partner says that Rant was reminiscent of John Cleese hitting his car with a branch….
Ha ha….he hates kimble guns, they leave big holes in your clothes…
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