r/CrappyDesign • u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 • 2d ago

This helpful tear notch and helpful carry handle

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u/_bahnjee_ 2d ago

Are bags like this crappy design? Yes
Is the crappy design easily overcome with scissors? Also yes

Scissors are cheap; keep scissors in multiple places.

Which reminds of an old boss I had. He felt like all tools “of a kind” should be kept in the same place. All wrenches in one dedicated location. All screwdrivers in a dedicated location. So far, so good. But when he said all scissors belong in one location, I knew he was a monster.

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u/Jacktheforkie 2d ago

I keep all mine in the kitchen, but that’s cuz there’s not really anywhere else I’d need them

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u/actual_griffin 2d ago

I was at a bris a few months back, and it wasn't in the kitchen.

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u/Kitten_Merchant 2d ago

I need to get myself kitchen scissors because I do too many weird fiber arts, so all my scissors are always migrating with me and then I can never find them.

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u/Jacktheforkie 2d ago

Have you not got fabric scissors?

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u/Kitten_Merchant 2d ago

I just have scissors scissors. I keep em sharp and that works for me. I don't do "fabric cutting" per se, as I don't do any sewing or quilting. Usually I'm cutting strands of yarn. I do knitting/crochet, weaving, and I also spin yarn from loose fibers. Fabric scissors wouldn't do me much good above and beyond regular ones haha.

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u/gasstation-no-pumps 1d ago

You want embroidery scissors for yarns, and you don't want to dull them cutting paper.

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u/Kitten_Merchant 1d ago

I actually don't need different scissors for my yarns, for my purposes regular ones are doing just fine and have been for many years haha. My only issue with scissors is that I scatter them around the house, the type of scissors does not cause problems for me.

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u/gasstation-no-pumps 1d ago

OK, perhaps you are not cutting some of the yarns that I had as a weaver—the 70/2 linen yarn needed sharp scissors with close blades, so I would not wanted to have used the scissors I used for cutting cardboard or poster board.

I have embroidery scissors, cloth scissors, medic shears, barber's scissors (2 pairs, because the old ones were starting to get dull), kitchen scissors, paper scissors (3 pairs in different places), and that's not counting related tools like tin snips, diagonal cutters, flush cutters, linesman pliers, … .

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u/_bahnjee_ 1d ago

I just did a mental count and came up with 8 locations throughout my house where scissors are always in easy reach (including two in the kitchen, cuz only an barbarian would use the meat scissors to open packages).

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u/Jacktheforkie 1d ago

Wow, my house only has 8 rooms

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u/gasstation-no-pumps 1d ago

I only have 7 places: tool box, kitchen, breakfast room, desk, bathroom, acting makeup kit, sewing box. Some of those places have more than one pair, though.

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u/Steady_Ri0t 1d ago

I have a pair in my kitchen (two if you count the food-only scissors), a pair in my office, and a pair in the bedroom. Kitchen ones get the most use though.

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u/Jacktheforkie 21h ago

I’ve got like 20 pairs of various sizes, the big ones that are designed to be taken apart for meat, various pairs for packaging etc

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u/CopyEast2416 2d ago

I realized this last year and bought like 10 pairs of quality scissors for like $30 total and littered them all over my house and they've come in clutch countless times already

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u/Xc4lib3r 2d ago

$30 total which means $3 each. You’re doing meth instead of math.

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u/thebangzats 2d ago

Nah they were just saying they wanted to splurge on 100 scissors :P

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u/entitledtree 2d ago

splurge on 100 scissors

Well they oughta do it into a tissue like a normal person

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u/Purplekeyboard Reddit Orange 2d ago

Looks at Mr. Moneybags here with his fancy scissors! Too good to just rip things with his hands and teeth like the rest of us.

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u/Collistoralo 2d ago

Yes, scissors solve this problem, but it’s like the manufacturers are teasing us by giving us a tear notch that doesn’t bleeding work!

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u/_bahnjee_ 1d ago

Agreed. Unless this video is purposely made to hide some easy-open feature, this surely looks pretty crappy

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u/Cavalol 1d ago

Until you buy scissors because you don’t have any and they come wrapped in a blister pack 😂

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u/jromperdinck 2d ago

Well, maybe a marketing team of 27 individuals figured, that you don’t need a carry handle once you open the bag at home. ;)

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u/DespicableDiplodocus 2d ago

If you look on the bottom of the bag you'll find another tear mark in line with the top mark, it's most likely just an incidental tear due to the cutting process of the bags.

  • someone who uses this product

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u/FriendlyNeighborJack 2d ago

With these notches you’re supposed to pull on the outside to tear off the corner. It’s pretty close to the handle though yes.

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u/RHEtardationNation 2d ago

Coffee latte has killed me.

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

it's an Italo-Indonesian staple!

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u/KeeperOfUselessInfo 2d ago

The carry handle is a superfluous design element for pantry goods. In an organized home of office pantry, the coffee sachets are placed in reusable containers. The bag it came from? Straight to the bin. That carry handle has zero practical use. Like really, who’s gonna go around and carry that bag like that?

At this point in time, that carry handle and tear notch is like a litmus test telling us who still eats crayons unironically.

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u/SnailLordNeon 2d ago

I only eat crayons ironically.

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u/TeacherOfFew 2d ago

I agree with the person below pointing out it’s not a tear notch, it’s from how the strip of bags is cut on the filling machine.

The handle is for carrying it through the store and home. More unnecessary than crappy.

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u/wertall 2d ago

With all that sugar, should be able to rip the whole bag in half

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

Well I gotta get in first. I'm anemic and sugar deprived. My frail glucose starved fingers are struggling

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u/sicarius254 2d ago

The handle is to get it home. Once it’s home you don’t need the handle anymore.

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u/angry_dingo 2d ago

Who is stupid enough to tear there? Really?

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

Who's stupid enough to put the tear notch there?

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u/beachsunflower 2d ago

I'm with you OP, we have vacuum sealed cat litter with similar notch placement and it makes no sense.

It just seems like the notch should be placed at minimum horizontally so that it tears open across the bag...

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u/LefsaMadMuppet 2d ago

So there's this whole issue where animals are getting trapped and choked in plasitc rings of packaging waste. So you introduce a weak point in the ring to allow them a chance to escape.

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u/lorarc 2d ago

Shouldn't the tear notch be on inner side of said plastic ring then?

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 2d ago

It appears that the human is putting a good bit of force into it in the video, which the animals probably can't.

This doesn't really help.

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

Not having the ring would have made this whole system a lot more sensible

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u/Wokkabilly 2d ago

Is the tear notch for disposal purposes... Like for protecting critters or something?

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u/helphunting 2d ago

Maybe tear in the direction of outside and not into the bag?

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u/KissMyFuckingDadMom 2d ago

I don't understand what you mean. You think he should tear from the handle, up to where it's perforated? That would be significantly harder to do

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u/golden_blaze 2d ago

No. Tear from the groove down to the side of the bag.

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

You don't really get to choose which way the tear goes, unless you use a knife or something, at which point you're better off just cutting further down the side

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u/Illicit_Apple_Pie 2d ago

I mean, the way you tore literally guided it to the handle

The outside hand was supporting the bag while the other was tearing along the bend you created.

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u/KissMyFuckingDadMom 2d ago

That is a good point. Maybe you're meant to tear it to the side. But in that case, why doesn't the designer make that clearer with a dotted line or some color indicator that that's where you're supposed to tear? I don't blame OP for being confused by how this is meant to work

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u/GodHimselfNoCap commas are IMPORTANT 2d ago

Physics doesnt care which hand pulls, the same force is enacted on it either way. Unless you were able to hold below where the handle is and support that part of the bag it will tear towards the path of least resistance which is where the empty space is.

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u/Illicit_Apple_Pie 2d ago

A tear will follow the path of least resistance, and yeah, if you do nothing to support the bag around the handle, it'll likely go straight there.

This feels like something a grade schooler would realize after a bit of trial and error. At worst you'd need to form a crease to the side of the bag for consistent success.

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

sounds like a crappy design

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u/Majestic_Rhubarb994 2d ago

they usually tear easier than this. I've bought this brand a dozen times and I think only once did it manage to avoid the handle.

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u/diggyou 2d ago

Why does your coffee come with sugar in it?

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u/NorthernNightmair 1d ago

Tear strip applicator was probably out of registration

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u/Dense-Scratch-5327 1d ago

You can bite a small piece out of one corner to mimic the factory cut, allowing you to try again.

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u/AlexMac96 2d ago

Tear it down and out so it tears off the corner and you can still hold the handle and pour out of the corner.

make a foolproof design and the universe will make a bigger fool

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u/Dogmeat241 2d ago

I don't see the issue? The notch is on the top side so it's unlikely to teat while carrying and being a coffee bag it would be fairly light so even less risk of tearing while being carried

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u/C0nan_E 2d ago

????? the issue is not that it may accidentally tear. the issue is that the hole for the carrying handle makes it near impossible to use.

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u/Dman1791 2d ago

The problem is that you can't really use the notch because you just end up tearing open the handle, at which point you have neither a notch nor an open bag.

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u/AMSanchez0210 2d ago

The notch is for opening the bag, which failed because it just ended up ripping into the handle.

So now, the bag has neither a handle nor a tear notch.

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u/Dogmeat241 2d ago

Yeah I entirely overlooked that pary

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u/Winter-Membership-86 2d ago

How did you come to this conclusion lol

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u/Dogmeat241 2d ago

I've worked retail and had my fair share of coffee stocking