It’s a common and frustrating experience to buy a brand-new item, only to find it packaged in a thick, sealed plastic packaging.
However, one Aussie mum has stumbled upon a mind–blowing trick to open those plastic blister packets without resorting to a pair of scissors or risking injury.
Brisbane woman Amy Freeman recently revealed the simple – but genius – way to navigate these notoriously hard-to-open plastic packs.
‘Am I the only one who didn’t know how to open this type of packaging correctly?’ she asked in a recent
“>▶ عرض المحتوى المضمّنHolding up a packet of $2 Kmart Anko 7in. Scissors, the 40-year-old showed how the scissors are entrapped within the form-edged plastic package.
‘I thought you had to use scissors to open it,’ she said, holding up the stationery staple.
She even demonstrated how she’d previously always ‘cut, cut, cut’ all the way around the edges to open this type of package.
But Amy said she’d recently discovered that there was a far simpler way to open these types of packets, simply by squeezing them.
Brisbane mum Amy Freeman recently shared her genius hack to open these thick plastic packs – without the need for scissors
‘All you’ve gotta do is squeeze it,’ she said as she demonstrated the easy action.
‘Bottom pops open. It’s that simple.’
The fashion and fitness fanatic added in a video shared to her
“>▶ عرض المحتوى المضمّن‘So much stuff comes in this type of packaging,’ she noted.
Amy told Daily Mail that she first learned the trick after a friend showed it to her.
‘My friend had just purchased something in that type of packaging and I said “But we don’t have scissors to open it”,’ Amy recounted. ‘But them my friend said we don’t need them – and proceeded to squeeze it open! My jaw dropped!’
Amy’s
“>▶ عرض المحتوى المضمّن‘Mind blown,’ stated one popular reply.
Like many people, Amy had always presumed you needed scissors to open this packaging. But she demonstrated in her video that you can instead open these packs simply by squeezing them
The squeezing technique stunned thousands of people online. ‘Mind blown,’ stated one popular reply
‘This is by far the best hack I’ve ever seen,’ agreed another.
‘GET OUT!!!! Thank you so much for that, you’ve just changed my life. I’m forever in your debt,’ exclaimed another.
‘Who knew it was this simple,’ laughed another reply.
‘I was today years old when I found this out!!!’ another said.
Many commenters noted that not only did this trick circumvent the need for scissors to open this type of packaging, it also solved another common problem when opening these packs with scissors – namely, that the plastic often becomes extremely sharp when cut.
‘I cut myself every single time trying to cut it out because that plastic is so freaking sharp!!’ read one reply.
‘I once heard that opening these with scissors is one of the most common reasons people end up in the ER. You’re clearly doing God’s work,’ another reply noted.
‘The amount of cuts I get trying to pry that open after using the scissors is insane and all I had to do was squeeze it!?’ another said.
Amy demonstrated the squeeze-to-open technique on a pair of $2 Anko Scissors sold at Kmart. The video demonstration went viral on all of her
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Author: uaetodaynews
Published on: 2026-01-12 06:36:00
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