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Why is cleaning cloth/sponge packaging uniquely shit

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GiveMeMySoddingCokeZero · 12/07/2024 15:13

Yes this is extremely petty and minor, and there's a lot of stuff that still comes in eternal plastic packaging that really doesn't need to, and that's a whole other topic in itself.

But how is it that washing-up cloths, dusters, cleaning sponges, moppets etc. in particular apparently have to come in uniquely shit, easily-torn, extra-thin crinkly cheap plastic packaging that rips all the way across on first opening? This stuff is going to be open in the cupboard for weeks or months but it's flapping around and disgorging e.g. sponge cloths everywhere.

Meanwhile some individual portion of crisps or carrot sticks or whatever will come in a plastic bag that will probably still be around and bag-shaped come the heat death of the universe.

I've ended up having special plastic boxes for keeping my spare cloths and sponges in 🙄

Doesn't help that DP follows the "one-handed rabid squirrel with an urgent hunger for scrubby sponges" school of package-opening, mind.

AIBU or is there no logical reason why the plastic bags that things like dusters or washing-up cloths come in are so shit in comparison to other packaging?

(And yes, I'm fully aware we need to be moving away from plastic packaging in general. That's not my AIBU.)

OP posts:
leeverarch · 12/07/2024 15:19

When was the last time you tried to get a new pair of scissors out of its packaging?😂

GiveMeMySoddingCokeZero · 12/07/2024 15:20

Scissors are easy. You just cut the packaging with your scissors 😇

OP posts:
spikeandbuffy · 12/07/2024 15:25

My cat loves that plastic too so I spend half the time opening it and the other half wrestling it out his mouth like he's a bloody Labrador

leeverarch · 12/07/2024 15:34

GiveMeMySoddingCokeZero · 12/07/2024 15:20

Scissors are easy. You just cut the packaging with your scissors 😇

Er...

BlowDryRat · 12/07/2024 17:02

leeverarch · 12/07/2024 15:19

When was the last time you tried to get a new pair of scissors out of its packaging?😂

Edited

You hack at it with a knife, losing your fingerprints and dissecting your thumb webbing in the process.

I now get sponges and cloths from Seep. They come in a nice box and they're compostable.

Daleksatemyshed · 12/07/2024 18:14

Last time I bought cleaning cloths from Tesco I was pleased to see they just came in a cardboard sleeve Op, so hopefully the others will follow suit.

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