Setting up a new toaster oven should not under any circumstances require the following ingredients:
1) A plastic spoon
2) Four paper towels
3) All ten fingernails
4) Frequent misting of household chemicals
5) 28 minutes
This goes double when above tools are necessary to forcibly remove a colorful, life-sized sticker whose only purpose is to tout the same product perks bragged about on the garishly-decorated box.
And yet…
6 minutes into the procedure
After a thorough de-stickering. Note the cat in the reflection. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he is sitting on my back. Never bend to take a picture in our household lest you become sat upon by random animals.
You really have to wonder where the marketing weasels keep their brains when you run into stuff like this. :/ After the first five minutes or so of scraping, I’d have been strongly tempted to take the darned thing back and choose another brand. Good for you on the perseverance. [wry smil]
Angie
Oh, I hate when they do this, but good on you for seeing it through! You’re a far more patient woman than me!
There is NO reason for this kind of stuff. I think these people should be painfully tortured, preferably with whatever annoyance they bestowed upon me that made me want them to receive said torture. Rich and I actually have a list of things like this that suck…On the top of the list is whoever invented the HORRIBLY MEAN tough plastic that lower-end electronics and the like come in now. The things that cut you whenever you try to remove them manually (I mean, before you employ the blowtorch). GRRR.
“3) All ten fingernails”
One of the best lines I’ve ever read!
Horribly, horribly true.
Oh, Katie picked up on one of my product pet peeves. What is up with that? Another one that burns me up is making me struggle to open a new CD. It’s a freakin’ plastic disc! Not going to spoil if exposed to air.
Caryn, nice polish job on the toaster oven. How much to you charge?
@Angie — No kidding! And, yeah, I thought about taking it back, but we live in a small town and I bought it in the nearest city, so exchanges aren’t easy. So tempting, though, nonetheless!
@Alyson — I was determined. The sticker was so ugly, and I knew it would only get worse if I left it on to bake.
@Katie — Oh, yes! I HATE those plastic casings. So awful. And of course if the product doesn’t work as advertised, it’s so difficult to return. Maybe that’s the plan?
@Kit — Thanks! It was one of the things that particularly annoyed me about the procedure. I was picking adhesive out from under my fingernails for ages. It’s why I finally switched to the plastic spoon.
@Kath — How about if I polish the door of your toaster oven, you make something delicious for me in it. Sound like a fair exchange? 😉
Lol… how often do you see this line written down…?
“It’s why I finally switched to the plastic spoon.”
Classic.
Those stickers suck. Mainly because I’m OCD and once I’ve decided that I want the damn thing off, I will sit there and mess with it until it’s all the way gone.
Did you buy the B & D Label Removal Kit?
Funny stuff, girl! 😆 So true. And one of mine is the price stickers on books. I love the easy peel-offs. Cringe when it comes off like your toaster oven.