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Today's kids toys are packaged with so many freaking twisting wires and rubberbands that it takes atleast 30 minutes to get it out of the packaging. I just spent an hour and broke 3 nails removing my daughter's littlest pet shop stuff from packaging. You would think I'd remember what a pain it was from her birthday, but no I forgot.



And the remote control helicopter I got my son.....yea firebird and son think it's fun to divebomb me and the diva when we aren't paying attention.

The race car is running along the wall right now-but at least I made my son take it out of the package himself!

Took me all morning to open the babies pressies, couldnt believe the amount of wire there was:-5

Sheryl;1093557 wrote: Today's kids toys are packaged with so many freaking twisting wires and rubberbands that it takes atleast 30 minutes to get it out of the packaging. I just spent an hour and broke 3 nails removing my daughter's littlest pet shop stuff from packaging. You would think I'd remember what a pain it was from her birthday, but no I forgot.



And the remote control helicopter I got my son.....yea firebird and son think it's fun to divebomb me and the diva when we aren't paying attention.


Because we as parents don't think about what a pain in the neck the toy will be when we buy it; we think about the joy it'll bring our child.

Yea but those littlest pet shops have so many rubberbands and wires. It's a pain.

But the highlight was when the diva saw her cupcake maker, Santa brought her, I didn't think she was ever gonna quit jumping up and down and shouting.

Chronsi did you get your son one of those gravity defying cars?? My mom got my son one, but he won't open until later.

Sheryl;1093557 wrote: Today's kids toys are packaged with so many freaking twisting wires and rubberbands that it takes atleast 30 minutes to get it out of the packaging. I just spent an hour and broke 3 nails removing my daughter's littlest pet shop stuff from packaging. You would think I'd remember what a pain it was from her birthday, but no I forgot.


Sheryl, I know what you mean. I gave my daughter her first pressy yesterday. No rubber bands on it but there were 4 plastic-coated twisty wires attaching it to the box. Great fun was had just undoing the twisty wires while my eager daughter was trying to pull the toy out of the box.

Eventually, I got all the twisty wires off. Now, this toy has been left in 'demo' mode, the controls for which are under where it has been tied to the box. So, as I got the last wire out, my wee lass grabbed it, unknowingly, by one of the buttons which instantly sets it off.

God bless her. She wasn't scared but it gave her enough consternation to hand it straight back to me with a big frown on her face.

It took a while during which I squatted down with her and showed her how it works and got her to operate it herself. Apparently, she loves it now.

Awww OM. I'm sure she loves it now.

I spent an hour last night convincing my son that he could not put out his motion sensors to try to trap Santa. I had to tell him Santa had special trap detecting sensors and wouldn't visit if he detected a trap. :yh_rotfl

Yes, those gravity cars, they are so cool. It races across the walls and drives the cat crazy. :wah:

Sheryl;1093571 wrote: Awww OM. I'm sure she loves it now.



I spent an hour last night convincing my son that he could not put out his motion sensors to try to trap Santa. I had to tell him Santa had special trap detecting sensors and wouldn't visit if he detected a trap. :yh_rotfl


Motion sensors.:yh_rotfl :yh_rotflHaven't you just gotta love the way they come up with them. Where do they get the idea Santa's not real?:yh_rotfl

and such a waste of packaging, wires and do-dads for the environment!:-5:-5

ever tried to get scissors off those plastic tightly packaging's?

hello? the reason I bought scissors was because I needed them!:-5:-5

Well, my goodness guys, didn't you know it was military plastic?!

Now take a look at light bulbs. Only thin little slivers of cardboard to protect those babies. But at least Barbie and her friends are well protected.

Oh, the craziness!!

OpenMind;1093577 wrote: Motion sensors.:yh_rotfl :yh_rotflHaven't you just gotta love the way they come up with them. Where do they get the idea Santa's not real?:yh_rotfl


Ughh he got some in a spy kit for his birthday. For two months he was hiding those things, and they would go off when I least expected them. Bout peed on myself walking through the kitchen in the middle of the night.

I sit down with a pair of those "wire cutter jobbies" and a pair of scissors. Snip Snip done....kinda sorta. It still takes awhile but goes smoother.

Sheryl;1093622 wrote: Ughh he got some in a spy kit for his birthday. For two months he was hiding those things, and they would go off when I least expected them. Bout peed on myself walking through the kitchen in the middle of the night.


:yh_rotfl

Guess he's not going to get a chemistry set then.:yh_rotfl

I hear ya Sheryl....I hate how products are packaged today. Geeze, getting the packaging off is harder than breaking into Fort Knox



I'm beside myself this year trying to open these plastic packing and tags that are glued to products with the price on them.



Thank goodness for strong sissors and goo gone:-6 I open these packages alone now as all I do is curse up a storm.

Every time I look out of my window, there's a plane flying over. Just before posting this, I counted 8 planes flying over. Even my wee lass has been pointing them out.

Bet they're not fiddling with pesky twisty wires (had to say that just to keep my post relevant:wah:).