3 Tips For Opening Customer Safe Containers Without Stress
By Ellen Norman
Customer safe sealed containers are sometimes too good. Meaning, you can’t get into them without frustration.
1) Too small Tabs
2) Ringy Thingy’s
3) Perforated Fears
1) Too small tabs are when you can’t grasp on to the tiny tabs with your fingers and thumb. Those of us with arthritis or artificial finger nails or both, have a stress filled time when we can’t get into our liquid coffee creamer, juice, vitamins or even some over the counter pain meds.
Solution: Simple and at your favorite craft store. Check out the inexpensive needle nose pliers where jewelry making is found. These little “grabbers do the trick.
2) Ringy Thingy’s are found from soup cans to cans of peanuts. You cut your fingers to ribbons trying to get your fingers in those pull rings “grip and pull rings”.
Solution: Save those yellow kitchen gloves, you know the ones that over time get the tiny holes in them that make them useless protecting your hands from harsh cleaners. You can grip almost anything with them and you don’t get cut in the process. No need to discard the gloves. Recycle and save the gloves, money, and save your fingers.
3) Perforated Fears are the boxes or plastic containers with the perforated pull tabs. Once you finally grab onto them, they some times are not completely perforated or cut. Pulling them only makes a mess and you can’t re-close the container.
Solution: Yup, the trusty scissors work here. Cut the perforated tab as needed, then use tape, masking tape to re-close. I make the tape with the date using a permanent marker. No stress here for you hands or your head.
Ellen Norman publishes e- books containing stress reducing,and stress eliminating suggestions and tips on her website http://www.nostress4nurses.com
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