Now that Christmas is over......

Shannon023
Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
edited September 19 in Chit-Chat
Toy packaging - :angry: :explode: :angry: Does it really need to be made out of tank-strength plastic???? And was there a rash of children eating/dying from eating batteries that I missed??? Why do you need 10 different screwdrivers to open the battery compartments????? :explode: :angry:


That is all! :bigsmile:

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  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Toy packaging - :angry: :explode: :angry: Does it really need to be made out of tank-strength plastic???? And was there a rash of children eating/dying from eating batteries that I missed??? Why do you need 10 different screwdrivers to open the battery compartments????? :explode: :angry:


    That is all! :bigsmile:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Lets see. I got a weight bench. DH got a headset. DD got some Omaha steaks.

    No batteries required.

    :ohwell:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Lets see. I got a weight bench. DH got a headset. DD got some Omaha steaks.

    No batteries required.

    :ohwell:

    CrossedArms.gif Please respond when you can bit(h appropriately.

    Thank you.
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Ok one of my toys required batteries....but uh that is for a different thread. :blushing:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    And here I thought this would be the thread we were all posted the gifts we received but didn't want and we could all SWAP!!
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    there is a king of queens episode where he is trying to open something. it is in that stupid packaging and he asks for scissors....she hands him the new pair she just bought which is of COURSE in the same kind of package.

    :sad: :sad: :laugh:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Ok one of my toys required batteries....but uh that is for a different thread. :blushing:

    :laugh: :laugh:

    Floozy! CrossedArms.gif
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    And here I thought this would be the thread we were all posted the gifts we received but didn't want and we could all SWAP!!

    It could be. I had no real purpose when I started this. :laugh:
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Omg, I hate that! It takes like an hour to get into one toy!!

    Nothing worse than an excited child on Christmas Day having to wait an hour or more to actually play with it while you try to get the stupid thing out of the packaging!!!

    Then another hour to get it open and the batteries in!! :explode:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Omg, I hate that! It takes like an hour to get into one toy!!

    Nothing worse than an excited child on Christmas Day having to wait an hour or more to actually play with it while you try to get the stupid thing out of the packaging!!!

    Then another hour to get it open and the batteries in!! :explode:

    Dat's what I'm talking about! five.gif

    One of dd's toys needed a long screwdriver the diameter of a toothpick! :explode: Had to take it to my parents & raid my dads tools for one! :grumble:
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Omg, I hate that! It takes like an hour to get into one toy!!

    Nothing worse than an excited child on Christmas Day having to wait an hour or more to actually play with it while you try to get the stupid thing out of the packaging!!!

    Then another hour to get it open and the batteries in!! :explode:

    Dat's what I'm talking about! five.gif

    One of dd's toys needed a long screwdriver the diameter of a toothpick! :explode: Had to take it to my parents & raid my dads tools for one! :grumble:
    And I thought it was bad having to wait for my dad to snap in the pieces of my Barbie motor home back in the day!! :blushing: :huh:

    :laugh:
  • heartbrake
    heartbrake Posts: 9
    All that extra packaging is such a waste of materials and obviously a million other things...what a shame
  • chilli
    chilli Posts: 211 Member
    Have any of your kids tried to assemble the stuff themselves and made a mess of it?
    Many years ago now my eldest tried to assemble sisters ' Santa pressie barbie bike and messed up big time .... (now ex DH) had an awful time trying to repair whilst said two kids were argueing and fighting like crazy ....all this by 6am .... originally didn't want to wake us to do it. Awwww :laugh:
    Least it didn't require batteries :bigsmile:
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    I have bloody knuckles from the masacre that is toy packaging! *kitten*! Want to see what "SANTA" put together for my children? SANTA got all the credit & SANTA wasn't up until 2am putting the dang thing together!

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    I have 3 nephews & 1 niece & then my 3 kids. On Christmas somehow dh & I are always the ONLY TWO opening toys for SIX kids. I bought my own pocketknife simply for that. Ridiculous!

    (was that proper bit(hing, Shannon? :bigsmile: )
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    Oh, and every single bloody piece of that damn train table was wrapped in a little plastic bag & taped shut. WTH?:angry:
  • Mireille
    Mireille Posts: 5,134 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    I have bloody knuckles from the masacre that is toy packaging! *kitten*! Want to see what "SANTA" put together for my children? SANTA got all the credit & SANTA wasn't up until 2am putting the dang thing together!

    DSCN0591.JPG

    I have 3 nephews & 1 niece & then my 3 kids. On Christmas somehow dh & I are always the ONLY TWO opening toys for SIX kids. I bought my own pocketknife simply for that. Ridiculous!

    (was that proper bit(hing, Shannon? :bigsmile: )

    That's my girl! :smooched:
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member
    And here I thought this would be the thread we were all posted the gifts we received but didn't want and we could all SWAP!!

    It could be. I had no real purpose when I started this. :laugh:

    Well, if that's the case, I have a set of ILs I'd like to trade in....oh...gifts...not family members. LOL
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:

    Seriously, I betcha staph infections go WAY up over the holiday's! :grumble:
  • Mireille
    Mireille Posts: 5,134 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:

    Seriously, I betcha staph infections go WAY up over the holiday's! :grumble:

    Yes, I agree. They way they tie those little rubber bands around those tiny little toys always amazes me. Those workers must have really tiny fingers. :ohwell:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:

    Seriously, I betcha staph infections go WAY up over the holiday's! :grumble:

    Yes, I agree. They way they tie those little rubber bands around those tiny little toys always amazes me. Those workers must have really tiny fingers. :ohwell:

    They're sadistic little gremlins is what they are! :angry:
  • Mireille
    Mireille Posts: 5,134 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:

    Seriously, I betcha staph infections go WAY up over the holiday's! :grumble:

    Yes, I agree. They way they tie those little rubber bands around those tiny little toys always amazes me. Those workers must have really tiny fingers. :ohwell:

    They're sadistic little gremlins is what they are! :angry:

    Well, lets ask Max because isn't he a sadistic little gremlin? :tongue:
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member

    That's my girl! :smooched:

    I aim to please. :flowerforyou: I could really go on & on about all the packaing issues I have with toys, but I will spare you. No one wants to hear my issues with Little People. :mad:
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member

    That's my girl! :smooched:

    I aim to please. :flowerforyou: I could really go on & on about all the packaing issues I have with toys, but I will spare you. No one wants to hear my issues with Little People. :mad:

    Au contraire, I love hearing people gripe! :blushing:
  • ohthatbambi
    ohthatbambi Posts: 1,098 Member
    I feel sort of sorry for the person that gets paid to twist all the twist ties etc! Can you imagine how awful a job that would be?!?!?!?
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    I feel sort of sorry for the person that gets paid to twist all the twist ties etc! Can you imagine how awful a job that would be?!?!?!?

    They must have been a mosquito or IRS agent in their former life! :laugh:
  • 3babybeans
    3babybeans Posts: 8,268 Member

    That's my girl! :smooched:

    I aim to please. :flowerforyou: I could really go on & on about all the packaing issues I have with toys, but I will spare you. No one wants to hear my issues with Little People. :mad:

    Au contraire, I love hearing people gripe! :blushing:

    are you a customer service rep for my cable company? LOL

    Okay, so has anyone else experienced this with Little People? They are tied down with those dang twist ties, through the toy they come with, through the box the toy is in & then ultimately tied together. WTH is up with that?!

    We needed a screwdriver to get a babydoll out of a box on Christmas, too. Honestly. Such a waste of resources!
  • kellch
    kellch Posts: 7,849 Member
    Don't get me started. I had to open "My little pet shop" packages over the holiday and I cut myself many times on my hands. I was not happy. :grumble:

    Seriously, I betcha staph infections go WAY up over the holiday's! :grumble:

    Yes, I agree. They way they tie those little rubber bands around those tiny little toys always amazes me. Those workers must have really tiny fingers. :ohwell:

    They're sadistic little gremlins is what they are! :angry:

    It took me 10 minutes to get my teaspoons out of the box.......they had to separate the spoons into piles of 5 and put two little stupid twisties on each pile :mad:

    But I don't have kids to buy for......except my neices but ummmm I just wrap em and give em to em...I don't have to open or put em together :bigsmile:

    Wanna know what I got my neice for her 3rd Christmas? A drumset :bigsmile: :laugh: My sister thanked me :laugh:
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