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]

   AKA reading glasses?

[roccotacodad54]

   Yes I was surprised by Hulks attitude towards my obvious "frozen in place". The smile and look on his face was not the persona he projected on TV etc. He seemed to realize I was frozen in time and his look and "Hi" was as kind as any I've ever received from anyone before or since.

   Have you  tried physical therapy for your sciatica? I have that problem since my teens. At one point I had a bad disc buldge that left my left leg numb. It wouldn't work at all, as in I couldn't walk without falling when I took a step using that leg. Some therapy along with electroshock (back not head LOL) therapy has me doing work on our land. Sure there's some pain but I can dig holes in rocky ground, walk all over our hilly property and so forth.

   I bulged that disc when I was around 30 years old and am now 71. Therapy was by no means easy but it worked for me anyway. It's saved me more times than that after auto collisions and whatnot.........

[roccotacodad54]

   Slit it. I think that's the one I was thinking of.

[johnrj1226]

Wait  'til  you get Arthur in you  hands, especial the little finger -   am there and a '44 model -  aging isn't for sissies - started  a 1.5 year ago.  Hate those  little aluminum foil type seals with  tiny little lift tabs underneath an already tighter than a Scotchman  twist off cap.  All this started with Tylenol in the early 1980s in Chicago.

[pickapaper]

@pickapaper  wrote "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."

@cityslickercreations2004 wrote: "I had to add magnifiers so I could read the print on the box I was trying to open..."

And I forgot to add a pair of pliers to my list.  I use those a lot to open bottles.

[cityslickercreations2004]

Not any more. They don't fit well over my bifocals.

[toysaver]

Pliers work well on those seals. 

[aproudparent2010]

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@roccotacodad54 wrote:

   Maybe because she's not a lazy seller?

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I'm just saying if she mangles boxes she needs someone to always open item for her not just sometimes.

[tarotfindsandmore]

I don't need anyone to open boxes for me, ever.  I leave the plastic clamshells for my son.  I also don't regularly mangle boxes, but I absolutely never had this issue when I had young, supple hands with properly functioning joints and tendons.

If I get to the point where the only option is to use stock photos, I will stop selling the items I have problems with.  I'd much prefer to be an honest, accountable seller with mangled boxes than one who is selling things that may or may not be in the actual condition pictured.  There are certain categories where this doesn't matter, but many of the items I sell end up being gifts so even the condition of the packaging of these NIP items may be important to the buyer.

[aproudparent2010]

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@tarotfindsandmore wrote:

I don't need anyone to open boxes for me, ever.  I leave the plastic clamshells for my son.  I also don't regularly mangle boxes, but I absolutely never had this issue when I had young, supple hands with properly functioning joints and tendons.

If I get to the point where the only option is to use stock photos, I will stop selling the items I have problems with.  I'd much prefer to be an honest, accountable seller with mangled boxes than one who is selling things that may or may not be in the actual condition pictured.  There are certain categories where this doesn't matter, but many of the items I sell end up being gifts so even the condition of the packaging of these NIP items may be important to the buyer.

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Okay your post made it sound like this was an occurrence that could be happening more frequently and I was just thinking even with the line about box damage some buyer could come back on you.
Just some advice from a fellow seller that has sold many thousand items

[tarotfindsandmore]

I too have sold many thousands of items...like you this is neither my first, nor only, ID.  This was actually a buying ID until about 2.5 years ago when my tarot collection reached a point that it needed serious thinning.  I do appreciate the suggestions, but the post was really more of a vent than a serious query for  help.  I apologize if that wasn't clear.

I'm just a little exasperated with an aging process that I hadn't noticed was sneaking up on me. 🙂

[adamcartwright]

@chevymontecarlo88 

Yikes, that's wild. 

[wri-8727]

You're welcome @roccotacodad5 

When I was a little kid I was sure all adults would be like my dad. Most disappointing thing in my life.

 Anyway, I approaching the age where I realize I'm thankful for the "bumps in the road",  (if you know what I mean:)

[stephenmorgan]

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@pickapaper wrote:

@toysaver wrote:  "As I have gotten older I noticed they have developed machines to make bottles jars nearly impossible to open.   I guess it's for security so somebody doesn't try to add poison to the pickles."

I don't know if you remember but back in 1982, there was a scandal in which "someone" took bottles of Tylenol and replaced some of the pills with cyanide, apparently while the bottles were still on the store shelves.  Several people died.  That was the beginning of companies using sealed and anti-tampering packaging. 

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There was an article written about this today.

Netflix got the first and only interview with the chief suspect of the Tylenol murders by promising to treat him as a human being

Netflix got the first and only interview with the chief suspect of the Tylenol murders by promising ...