Can I please strangle the genius who came up with this?

[lindysalsagal]

It's impossible to get the damn pills (dayquill) out!

Peel back paper....RIIIIIGHT. Impossible!

[PoliticAverse]

1. I think you have to specifically request not to get the "adult-proof packaging". n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Only if you hold them while I beat them first!

[irisblue]

36. Bat to knees. Migrane meds should be easier to get at. IMO

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. Damn! Thats harsh!

I like it! 😏

[irisblue]

38. Okay, golf club then.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

44. Seven iron should do the trick!

[lastlib]

46. And after the beating and strangling.......

three hours of a Sarah Huckabuck Sanders "Press briefing" (any more would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.....)

[Shrike47]

3. Scissors. Ive struggled to get in to modern packaging for years.

The designers should be flogged in the public square or something.

[lindysalsagal]

4. I finally cut around the edges with kitchen scissors. WTF?????

[dixiegrrrrl]

43. I keep 4 pairs of scissors in the house

hefty pair for kitchen
pair for paper stuff
pair for unwrapping/getting out everything that is wrapped in plastic/foil/etc.
sewing pair, that is mostly used for trimming the dog's hair since i quit sewing.

minimum 4 pairs at any one time. Life is too short to screw around with insane packaging.

[Phentex]

42. That's what I use too...

Sometimes I can peel the foil off but it's just easier to cut the darn things out.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Try folding backwards along the perforations, *without* separating the plastic.

This will push the corner of the paper up a little bit so you can get a thumbnail under it.

After that, you just try again and again.

[lindysalsagal]

8. the paper just tears, no matter what, and doesn't release from the foil! Grrrr!!!!

[Leghorn21]

6. Single-edged razor blade, lindy! I use my blades all the time for little tasks around the house,

and they work fine on idiot packaging like this!!

Got to pay attention/be careful, but it certainly works!

[TexasProgresive]

7. A box cutter works well if you don't cut yourself.

[lindysalsagal]

10. Right. I've been trying to get the paper off with a sharp knife.....

[Capperdan]

9. Agreed

I was saying the same thing last week about the very same product. My fingernail wouldn't even work.

[brush]

11. Yep, diabolical. Did you try pushing the caps through the backing. Sometimes works when the...

packager doesn't make the backing bullet proof also.

[lindysalsagal]

12. Doesn't work, either. The paper stops you. NUTS!!

[bobGandolf]

13. I understand......

My left hand was permanently damaged in a car accident many years ago. Every time I try to get
Do you have a problem taking the foil off a new coffee container?

[lindysalsagal]

14. Sorry to hear about your hand. But really, if I can't do this, who can? I want to meet the person wh

who can get these out of the bubble package!

[tblue37]

18. I save old Claritin bottles, because they are a convenient size. Then when I

have meds in a blister pack, I take a pair of scissors and spend a few minutes getting them all out at once and transferred to the Claritin bottle, which I label with the name of the meds currently inside.

[silverweb]

22. Ditto that.

It's a small investment of time and trouble to save frustration later on.

[samnsara]

15. i have taken knives to these awful blister packs!

[dhol82]

16. I have been tortured by this for years

That’s why I keep scissors in the kitchen.
Very handy and you don’t know how many uses they serve until you have them around.

[Sophiegirl]

17. My blood pressure meds are packaged like this.

My bp goes up every time I try to open one. Defeats the purpose, I would say.

I’ve resorted to scissors and cut around the pill.

Kinda reminds me of the days of trying to open a new music CD. Those packages were impossible to open without busting out the pliers.

[LuckyCharms]

19. I just swallow the whole card at once. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

27. And they say no one on DU has a sense of humor.

[KatyaR]

20. I take a sharp knife or scissors and use it to cut around the pill.

Just slice it open. I can't open those damned things, either.

[shraby]

21. I used to be able to break through a pill section by putting my thumbnail through

the backing.
Then they made the backing thicker, stiffer and tougher.
Not it takes a lot of swearing to accomplish it, plus a sharp something.

[llmart]

23. Packaging of today is my biggest pet peeve.

It's no longer the manufacturer thinking about the consumer and what's good for them. It's like they deliberately make it impossible to get anything out of a package easily. I'm an older woman with very small hands and have lost some strength, but I have to believe that some of these products out there are difficult for anyone to get into.

I blame it on the old Tylenol scare of the '70's (I think that's when the first one happened) when manufacturers decided to make it impossible to get into anything. Some things don't even require the amount of security to get into, yet they have three layers of plastic crap you have to get off before you can even get into the product.

I'd wager a bet that more people have injured themselves trying to get into the package then would have been injured by outside tampering.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. The Tylenol poisoning was shortly before Halloween, 1982.

That was what started all the packaging like this.

I know with prescription meds you can request non childproof container, but things like the blister pak for over the counter medications are all you can get any more.

[MosheFeingold]

40. You are correct

I remember a friend who worked at the FDA who dealt with this.

People were PISSED about the changes.

[Skittles]

24. packaging in general has become ridiculous

I very much agree with the DUer who said there is a special place in hell reserved for the guy who invented clam shell packaging

[Worried senior]

25. I hate these too.

[guillaumeb]

26. Use a chainsaw.

If you do not have a chainsaw, a circular saw will work.

On the package, not the inventor.

[lindysalsagal]

28. OK! I should rest it on my knee when I saw it, right?

And only use one hand?

[guillaumeb]

33. The omly way TO do it.

Have someone filming while you do so and post to YouTube. I predict millions of views.

[lindysalsagal]

41. In KNEW I could count on DU!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Try this.

Cut a slot in each plastic bubble right against the backing sheet using an Xacto knife. Then, just pry the bubble open to get the capsule. To hell with that not-so-brilliant peel-back the paper idea.

You could also cut slots in the backing sheet with the Xacto, but you would risk poking the capsules. Good idea too, to wear garden gloves when forcing something with any sharp tool.

..........................

[unblock]

31. they put benadryl in this crap. benadryl is an *emergency* medication if you have a severe allergy

emergency medications should not be packaged in things that people might struggle with in an emergency.

[ms liberty]

32. I know what you mean...

[Paladin]

34. "Saturday Night Live" did a wonderful ad take-off on this diabolic packaging, years ago.

Virtually no talk, just a pair of aged hands trying to free some arthritic pain pills from blister packs....and trying...and struggling...and trying...and finally leaving the encased pills where they are, unopened. Brilliant work.

[Codeine]

35. Ive spent the last two weeks opening those

things for various ill family members. Apparently I’m the only one in the house capable of such a complex operation.

[MosheFeingold]

39. Thank the Tylenol Killer

For those of you who are old enough to remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders


Before that, these things were simple to open.

[LuckyCharms]

47. I think of that guy every time...

I struggle with packaging.

[Ptah]

45. Buy some scissors.