To fucking HATE cling film

[CitizenFame]

I’m convinced that whoever invested this must have really hated their fellow human beings.

Horrible design, it bunches and scrunches up so easily, the sharp toothed edged easily cuts your fingers with ease yet seemingly can’t manage to cut the cling film neatly so you end up taking it from the box and try to do it manually and left with the most pathetic little strip of film that doesn’t even cover half a plate.

Sellotape can fuck off as well. I’m sure they’re related.

I gave it up and bought some beeswax wraps!

Yes, yes, yes!!! Both of these items are the devil's own work. I remember my mum making cling film so tight it was like a drum which I've never been able to do. Great excuse to get some reusable beeswax covers

Free yourself! I’ve never bought a roll. I occasionally come across it in another household and think wtf is this for?

YABVU

Cling film is easy to handle. You clearly lack the patience and understanding on how to handle cling film.

It requires delicate movement, love and patience.

It’s people like you and my partner who destroy the perfect contraption of a cling film box. You are the problem not the cling film.

I feel sorry for my cling film roll when my OH attacks it. It’s like having beautiful straight silky hair and then some fucker comes along sticks a shit load of chewing gum in it.

Did you know there are two bits on a cling film box you push in on either side to keep it in place?

And as for cello tape... YABVVVVU ...have you ever met hot glue gun? Or fucking PVA glue?

Hate the stuff so don’t bother with it anymore!

I’m with you 100%. In our house we actually call it “bastard cling film”. Hate it!

I haven't had clingfilm in my home/s since I left my parents house.

YABU for using single use plastic. Get some reusable containers.

Agree with PP who doesn’t have it in the house.

I bought some stretchy silicone things from IKEA. Pop them in instead of cling film, avoid the hassle and give myself a brownie point (well perhaps an actual choc brownie) for saving the planet.

Gave up on the stuff years ago, totally agree!

It is horrible and never works for me.
Catering types are a bit better to use, but mostly it's rubbish.

There is just no need for cling film!

I only rarely use it now as reusable options available but I am sure it has got worse. I’m sure it used to stick to the bottom of bowls etc far more easily than it does now.

I use tin foil instead of cling film

I bought a cling film dispenser which solved the problem.

What year is this?! Do people actually still use cling film?
So many reusable options, money saving, time saving, environment saving - i honestly cannot see why anyone would still be using the horrible stuff?!
There's also foil if you're a cling film fan? Why wouldn't you just use foil? That could be easily recycled?

It doesn’t cling to anything you want it to!

Yes, cling film is on some hocus pocus flex-otherwise how can the serrated box not tear it, yet it leaves my fingers shredded to ribbons? Dark forces at work, indeed

Did you know there are two bits on a cling film box you push in on either side to keep it in place?

I just looked at the box to look for these pushy-in bits and cut my finger on the teeth again

Thank you to those who suggested beeswax wraps. I’d never heard of them before, will check them out.

Or you could buy one of the dispensers that you just click down and it cuts. A couple of quid in Tesco, made by Bacofoil (they do one for foil too).

Cling film clings to itself and itself only. But on its quest to do so it ravels, doubles, loses its end, finds its end unexpectedly and does all manner of things apart from covering bloody food up.

Also, why does tin foil do that fucked up thing where you're unwinding it and suddenly it misses a bit and it gets worse the more you unwind and then you can't find where the rot set in and you end up with a long thin strip of foil with the rest still tightly wound around the roll.

@CitizenFame

Did you know there are two bits on a cling film box you push in on either side to keep it in place?

I just looked at the box to look for these pushy-in bits and cut my finger on the teeth again

Thank you to those who suggested beeswax wraps. I’d never heard of them before, will check them out.

Karma for you because you were slagging it off on here.

I keep mine in the fridge. Much easier to handle cold, but I rarely use it tbh.

@Pizzatoast

YABVU

Cling film is easy to handle. You clearly lack the patience and understanding on how to handle cling film.

It requires delicate movement, love and patience.

It’s people like you and my partner who destroy the perfect contraption of a cling film box. You are the problem not the cling film.

I feel sorry for my cling film roll when my OH attacks it. It’s like having beautiful straight silky hair and then some fucker comes along sticks a shit load of chewing gum in it.

Did you know there are two bits on a cling film box you push in on either side to keep it in place?

And as for cello tape... YABVVVVU ...have you ever met hot glue gun? Or fucking PVA glue?

Totally agree with the care and love needed. But for those of you who don't and are struggling, keep it in the fridge.

@Pizzatoast
Karma for you because you were slagging it off on here.

From the amount of times it’s hurt me, you’d think I’d had an affair with cling film’s husband, threatened to kidnap their first born and slapped CF’s mother round the face! And just realised Cling Film = CF = Cheeky Fucker. Coincidence? I think not!