Mangling my own items

[tarotfindsandmore]

Why does it seem that the older I get the harder it is to open a box?  I seem to have lost the ability to do anything gently anymore.  I actually had to include a line about ME wrecking the package on a new item in the description in one of today's listings.  I took a perfectly pristine box and wrecked it while trying to get to the contents to take pics of the item. When did I become so feeble? or brutish? or whatever it is that has made it impossible to just delicately open a box? I've only had two cups of coffee today for crying out loud.

Am I the only one?

[roccotacodad54]

   I have a battery powered one as well and it's light. 80 volt unit that is light, powerful and like yours a joy to use. My weedeater is the same brand and voltage and its great not getting burned or having to hear/smell the gas engine.

   I'm in the sticks and just have modest front and back lawns. Except for the gardens and a fire break around the house I just let the rest go wild for the critters. I can usually mow 2 or 3 times on a charge. The weedeater lasts longer than I can on a single charge and with the thicker string will cut down anything short of brush.

[wri-8727]

Was your dad a high steel worker?

[roccotacodad54]

   Yep. I remember that. It was the beginning of impossible to open packages.

   If you ever have trouble opening a child proof container, just give it to a child...they'll get it open for you.

[roccotacodad54]

   Yes he worked for American Pipe and Steel as a rigger then worked his way up from there to superintendant. Got his 20 year pin/watch and all that.

After that J.I. Hass out of NJ until he stayed at a job in Venezuela (before it got crazy down there). He stayed and opened his own mining and oil related type of support business. It was a beautiful place back then before they went nuts and everyone that had anything to loose left.

[wri-8727]

Much respect to your dad, roccotacodad54

[mantle1951]

You are 28 so the problems have started.....

[aproudparent2010]

If its a brand new item why open the box at all? Most items have stock photos available so on new items why not just use those?

[tarotfindsandmore]

Because it's a bottle of perfume, and many of the other listings are in various states of completeness.  Plus, the box is opaque so there would be no way to prove anything was in it and/or whether the bottle wasn't half evaporated, polluted, or used.  If it had been wrapped in cellophane, I wouldn't have bothered, but I guarantee to you a potential buyer would have asked to see the contents since they can see that's not the case. With items like this, I will remove them from the box, for the reasons above, but not open the bottle.  

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187254841124?itmmeta=01JW4BKN8GK8VQQB9GCQ958E2A&hash=item2b99421f24:g:OFcAA...

ETA: I don't use stock photos, unless it's my only option, and even then it's only in addition to my own pics.  I also don't buy things with stock photos even when they're new, because there are sellers like me who do things like I described in the original post.

[toysaver]

I lived in the Chicago suburbs at the time and vividly remember the police going up and down the streets with loud speakers on patrol cars warning not to take any Tylenol products.

[cityslickercreations2004]

"The most important tools in my kitchen are a pair of scissors, a heavy knife, a box cutter, and a screwdriver.  And these are all just to open packages with."

I had to add magnifiers so I could read the print on the box I was trying to open...

[chapeau-noir]

Also a blowtorch for those pesky battery packs.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

The hulkster is a very nice guy if one runs into him on the street.  He was behind me at the Vegas Airport and your right, he is huge!

    What a cute thread, I've been sitting here laughing at all the replies  but have nothing to add. I have no grass for heavy lawn mowers, I can't sit to long like the coffee girl due to sciatica and I have no problem opening jars because I have a mounted teeth grip jar opener!

     Anything else, I have my fingernails and they are weapons!

[stephenmorgan]

On the plastic clam shell packages sometimes I use a can opener.  Doesn't always work perfectly but it make it easier.

You could use a commercial product such as a Slit It.

[roccotacodad54]

   Thanks. He was a tough WWII vet that had been through alot. He instilled in me a work ethic that seems to be waning as of late.

  Although he was tough on me I now realize that I've retired in comfort (despite not being a collage grad) due to his expecting me to excell in my chosen trades and being prepared for unexpected "bumps in the road" in life....................

[roccotacodad54]

   Maybe because she's not a lazy seller?