The ones for the batteries that are about the size of a coin. There's got to be a way to open them that totally eludes me.

I have to take a pocketknife and score around the battery till I can lift up a double layer of thick plastic and remove the battery.

Like, is there a button? Or a magic word? Upper extremity orthopedists have got to love those things. I know people injure themselves getting stuff out of plastic containers.

Yeah, I know. It's to cut down on shrinkage. But it's still hard.

Also to save the children. From swallowing the batteries.
Apparently they are nearly irresistible.

All current packaging seems to want to keep little kids and old folks from ever being able to gain access. &%$*@!!!!

Harbor freight sells monster scissors for $1.99 up in the bargain bin .
I have three.
Kitchen, car, garage.



They work great for the aforementioned tasks

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Originally posted by Biker_dude:
Or a magic word?

Oh, there are magic words, but you can't say 'em in front of Mom.

I hate them too. I'm sure opening them has caused more injuries than eating batteries has.

Yep, just more kids with stitches.

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Originally posted by Z06:
All current packaging seems to want to keep little kids and old folks from ever being able to gain access. &%$*@!!!!

Here's a related anecdote by the late great Paul Harvey.

Paul Harvey told of man who was very intelligent and had even worked as an engineer at one point in his life. But the man had a heart problem and carried nitro pills with him wherever he went.

He died of a heart attack and when he was found, his pill bottle was partially buried in the ground. Upon examination, it was determined that the reason the pill bottle was buried in the ground was because the man had beaten it into the ground.

Why had he beaten it? Because it was a new type of bottle that had a childproof lid, and in a state of panic, the man couldn’t figure out how to open it. He had beaten it, to no avail, to try to break it open.

I got a Micro SD card from Amazon and I damaged it trying to get it out from that plastic packaging. I was trying to use a scissor over and ever getting ever closer to the SD card but when I finally got it out and did not work and looking closely I damaged it with the scissor. $20 down the drain.

Some - but not many - coin-battery packages have their backs semi-perforated, and those can be gotten out from the back without the need for sharp instruments and/or harsh words.

OTOH, both sharp instruments and colorful vocabulary are useful, most of the time.

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Well they have to make sure the kids don't like the silver M&Ms.

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Originally posted by grumpy1:
I got a Micro SD card from Amazon and I damaged it trying to get it out from that plastic packaging. I was trying to use a scissor over and ever getting ever closer to the SD card but when I finally got it out and did not work and looking closely I damaged it with the scissor. $20 down the drain.

Now, that would hurt. With these little nickel sized batteries (the size and type Simplisafe window contacts use), the actual blister packaging is so tight around the battery, it's virtually impossible to use ordinary scissors.

Biker_dude I feel your pain, I was meaning to post the same rant but I just hadn't got around to it yet.

Thursday I was grilling chicken and a potato on the grill. As they was approaching getting done I went in for the Thermopro thermometer and found it to be dead. I ran upstairs to the battery drawer and back with a package of CR2032's. Trying to open them w/o tools proved fruitless and now I was concerned about overcooking my meal. The kitchen knife I tried using wasn't cutting it (literally) so I went back upstairs for scissors. Scissors are the key, after only 45 seconds I had the new battery ready. Out with the old battery...... except 2 came out, it takes 2, damn. Another minute or so I had a second battery out of the packaging, new batteries in, and the Thermopro snapped back together. Baked potato was perfect but my chicken was a little over cooked.

I have been using an X-Acto knife, works very well for the small jobs.

Before I die I want to meet the person that invented blister packs.

I found this, the guy even got it done without using curse words. EVen the inner packing around the battery itself was a pain in the bohonkus.

I just saw a guy using a hand operated analog can opener on blister packs, over on
Face book.

( Sadly I don't know how to copy and paste it here)