Tea bag

I fancied some mint tea.
I bought a nice box of Twinings mint selection tea bags.
My first objective was to get the cellophane wrapping off...a small knife needed here, to cut it, so I could unwrap it.
Next objective was the perforated band running round the box..I caught up the edge and started to peel..and it tore off halfway round. This was the moment I wished I had not cut my nails short.
Back to the knife drawer to get a blunt knife, so that I could wedge it under the rest of the perforated band. Ok, band came off neatly.
The smell was delicious as I lifted the lid.
Inside are five neatly wrapped sets of various flavours.
I chose a flavour and took out the set of five bags ..wrapped in cellophane..

Back to the knife drawer to get the sharp knife, poked it under the fold, it slipped and I cut my finger (not much blood-just a nick)
Put on a plaster and went to the scissor drawer. Cut off the little bit of cellophane wrapping, took out my tea bag.
Said tea bag is again nicely wrapped, but in paper this time, with the string tucked inside.
I gently tore the square attached to the string and pulled out the bag and the square of paper came off, leaving me a bag, with string attached and a tiny staple at the end................
I won't go into how the string got in the cup underneath the tea bag or how I got it all out (a teaspoon actually)
Why so much wrapping?

Needless to say, I had chosen well, it was camomile & spearmint for relaxation.

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I used to like fruit tea bags once but now a plain cuppa is the medicine !

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Oh dear Janela I do empathise with your frustration

I got in the shower this morning with some new expensive shower gel, a birthday gift. It had no visible wrapping on it but try as I might I couldn't get the top open. I got more and more frustrated

When I got out of the shower and put my specs on I could see a thin stip of transparent plastic around the top of the tube Getting it off even with the aid of a knife was almost impossible and I ended up piercing the plastic tube.

Why oh why do some manufacturers make our lives so difficult.

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Perfect!

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Wrappings drive me batty,you never have your reading glasses to hand or like you you are in the shower. M&S shower creme is unbelievable to try to open, I dont use bad language unless sorely livid, and the shower is usually the place.

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Yes, in the shower Annie...conditioner and shampoo in the same colour bottles...no glasses on...which is which?

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I've been saying for years that you're not meant to get at the contents of anything these days.

A pack of three lighters I bought took me a pair of scissors and a struggle before opening it up. I have a bottle of hair conditioner that I need two hands to squeeze before I get even just a blob out, and last night I was trying to peel an onion and it didn't want its jacket removing! I'd almost swear somebody had welded the skin on.

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...and I bet your fingernails were clogged up with minute bits of onion skin

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What a performance to go through just to have a cuppa It drives me mad sometimes trying to unwrap things and I've had some near misses with scissors trying to unwrap things. The worst thing to open is rigid plastic

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Yes! Got a nasty cut from doing that once. I cut them open with snips now.

Re the shampoo and conditioner - I line them up left to right, shampoo first.

So many things are over-packaged. My favourite chicken is from Swiss Chalet but I seldom get it as take-out because of the plastic tray and lid. Our recycling program has started to accept heavy plastic containers but I still feel guilty.