I absolutely agree... and anyone with young kids knows that the worst offenders are the toy manufacturers. they wrap these PLASTIC toys with more wire, plastic, cardboard and tape than what you'd need to strap down the atomic bomb. geez! christmas this year left my husband and I completely bloodied from trying to open their darn toys... and then there was the mound of garbage. it took us a month to get rid of it all.
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Posted: May 13, 08 12:52pm Enlighten me, folks: who REALLY controls this market? According to packagingtoday.com this 433 billion dollar market ...  Posted: May 13, 08 1:17pmI absolutely agree... and anyone with young kids knows that the worst offenders are the toy manufacturers. they wrap the... I wonder how many people have been injured trying to open some of those impossible packagings. Posted: May 13, 08 1:23pmEnlighten me, folks: who REALLY controls this market? According to packagingtoday.com this 433 billion dollar market ... My bf just ordered socks online from Nordstrom. He has a particular style he wears, and usually buys them in the store, where they have an unobjectionable paper band holding them together. Online, you get the same paper band, but the entire pair of socks is encased in plastic. Duh, has no one mentioned Green to Nordstrom? Posted: May 13, 08 1:34pmEnlighten me, folks: who REALLY controls this market? According to packagingtoday.com this 433 billion dollar market ... Jackie, how can you say there are no trees in NJ? The state is full of trees. We do not have a lumber industry here. Our trees are so soggy from being next to the ocean that all they are good for is salt licks for the birds. Also there seems to be plenty of trees on prom night when our drunken kids seem to forget that two solid objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Or, as we learned the equation in Philly: The el train pillars are really immovable objects and your old beater ain't an irresistable force. Hell, it ain't even irresistable to the girls who are standing on the corner watching all the guys go by! Don't sweat it, when we are long gone the trees will still be here. Chainsaws don't kill trees. People kill trees! But just yesterday, trees did a heck of a job killing people. Squashed a few of 'em flat enough to put in unmarked brown packages. Lollipops and unicorns Posted: Jul 8, 08 1:52pmI've been injured so many times that I had to give up the shopping habit for the TBD habit. Saves money, I suppose. TIE Posted: Jul 8, 08 1:54pmMy husband (who's from NYC) says that trees attract psychos. He insists that is what makes places like Oregon and Washington so unsafe. TIE Posted: Jul 8, 08 2:04pmWhen I give gifts to the elderly I end up opening the gift for them because they can't do it themselves! I agree that the packaging of things is insane!! It's almost like they are "consumer" proof | ADVERTISEMENT  |
