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.
Ah, brilliantly written! Thank you for expressing the frustrations of thousands.
Just this morning I was wondering, as I wrestled with a bottle of vitamins, do the manufacturers ever try to open these packages themselves?
Love the new look of your blog–very crisp.
I’m completely on-board with your sticker-removal irritation. Someone should be heading up research in the ‘easily-removable-retail-sticker’ department, because serious strides need to be made.
But enjoy your toaster oven now that the offending sticker is removed–we use ours all the time.
I HATE how companies adhere these stickers. It is like they are trying to punish you for buying their product.
@Chemical Billy – I’ve wondered that myself! I think the proper punishment for any wrongdoing would be to give them mounds of their own packaging and tell them to open it all.
@Alyssa – I agree. There definitely needs to be research. I mean, we can do all this cool, advanced stuff, but we can’t make stickers that unstick when necessary?
@Eileen – It does seem that way, doesn’t it?
I got a Black and Decker toaster oven too! But it didn’t have any stickers on it.
@Barrie – Lucky! How’d you escape that one?
Yikes. Maybe it was a returned item??!