Good morning! 
It is Saturday, 07 August 2021
(W31 | D219 | 146 rem)
Today is: 
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day 
It runs the gamut from the amusing to the frustrating: an oversized box used to ship an item that would find a bubble mailer spacious, all the way up to packaging so secure a high-powered rocket launcher might not open it for you.
When you need scissors to open the scissors, what do you do? Or what about that small item you ordered online that came in a box 10 times too big? How about when you only want three bananas but they’re all individually-wrapped? I’ll tell you what you do: You get wrap rage.
What is wrap rage? In a nutshell, wrap rage refers to heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from hard-to-open packaging. In 2006, Consumer Reports even recognized the phenomenon when it created the Oyster Awards for the products with the hardest-to-open packaging.
Frustration isn’t the only issue either. Many of us suffer some very real injuries.
Have you ever battled vainly to open a tightly sealed bottle of tablets – only to end up with a sprained wrist and an even worse headache? Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day aims to lift the lid on this kind of problem.
So, if you’re being forced to use knives or scissors to prise a toy or tool out of an impenetrable plastic case, don’t keep your feelings under wraps. Let the manufacturers know that their way of packing items just isn’t your bag.
As well as wasting customers’ time, unnecessary over-packaging also wastes precious resources. What’s more, it leaves us all with extra rubbish to dispose of.
Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? No doubt a lot of it comes from preposterous packaging. According to National Geographic: “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water. About 80% of the debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from land-based activities in North America and Asia. Trash from the coast of North America takes about six years to reach the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, while trash from Japan and other Asian countries takes about a year.”
An ideal way to mark the occasion is to avoid unnecessary packaging as much as possible. This is a day to bypass burger cartons, say no to supermarket plastic bags and do some thinking outside the box!
I really wish I could be wrap raging today as I unpack my new TV, but I can’t because it still fecking hasn’t been delivered yet! 
Hopefully you have got all your purchases and are ready to struggle through all the Particularly Preposterous Packaging it has! Happy Saturday! 
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