Products that need a rehaul of their packaging, to make them easier to use?

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Metanium. A thick yellow cream for baby's bum. I have been using a little for menopausal itches. But the packaging is a disaster! A flimsy metallic tube that splits at the sides, so that you have cream coming out everywhere. I don't want to waste the cream, so have put the tube in a little plastic bag. It's still incredibly messy to use though. When this finishes, I'll go back to a sturdy tub of Sudocrem, which is frankly the superior product anyway.

Superglue (any brand of) - the glue dribbles out and the lid ends up being stuck on. Again, messy and wasteful to use. And because I'm dyspraxic, I've stuck my fingers together more than once

Is it just me?

Sainsburys vac packed minced beef. I have no qualms about touching meat, but it's so tightly packed I have to cut into the meat and then squeeze it out of the packaging.
I buy it from a rival supermarket instead now.

I’d love refillable Coke stations.

I stayed in a hotel last weekend. We went down for breakfast and they had those small sauce sachets. They are a nightmare to get open!!!

I stopped buying it when they changed the packaging, it looks awful.

Maybe it's so you can snip off a corner and suck/squeeze it out like a Jubbly Lolly (or a Capri-Sun, or maybe even a Frube, depending on your preferred dated British cultural references).

Single portion sauce sachets ...or better still scrap them.

On holiday last year in Suffolk we were given really large sachets of sauce in several places - they tore open easily too - I think they may have been made by Stokes. Much better than the usual dribble in Heinz etc.

Fabby, thank you 👍

Battery operated fairy lights or candles that need precision screwdrivers to open the battery compartment. GIVES ME THE RAGE!

Absolutely rage inducing. I miss the 70s/80s when you didn't need a screwdriver to get into battery compartments!

Could be worse, once on holiday DH burned himself. The hotel had supplied after sun balm in addition to the usual toiletries ... yeah, I didn't manage to get the right one

Why is it a problem to cut into mince?

I do agree, but I guess easier in the days of mobiles when you can take a quick snap first.

Bags of cat litter or bulk buy food that come in paper packaging/bags and requires you to pull the string to open them, when the string never works and I end up using scissors every time. The idea is that you should not need any tools to open them 😡

Winged sanitary pads, when removing the paper that holds the wings down, it rips in half when it should come off in one piece, half gets stuck on one wing! Asda winged pads are terrible for this, maybe other brands don't have this issue!

Turn it upside down. The balls and hippos are stored there

I find anything with a push lid very difficult and usually cut them open

Nope! Maybe I look like I have a penis.

You need a Labrador /cross dog, they'll get the last bit out - obviously you don't get to eat it though😂

DH's old dog would go mad for the peanut butter jars. Am probably going to be told it's not good for dogs but she lived to a ripe old age

I think you meant to quote me there. Cutting the mince not a problem for me. Cutting the plastic into the mince that's more of an issue. The packaging is quite tough so I never manage to get a clean cut which risks bits of packaging getting mixed in.
I can't imagine how difficult those packages must be to open for someone with reduced hand mobility.

Yes this would be sensible! I have to Google the instructions every time...

Yes your post is in the quote too if you expand it. Sharper knife needed!

My shampoo is a liability. It’s the head and shoulders pure stuff. Great for my scalp, but the bottle is bloody useless. When it’s full you risk squeezing too hard and emptying the bottle in one go, when it’s half empty it’s unstable so falls all over the show, and when it’s limping to the finish it refuses to even try to stand up. The lid is trash too.

I’ve started decanting it into an old hand soap pump dispensing bottle that I’ve washed out.

Or I can just buy it in the supermarket across the road.