Most of the produce bags here have handles. I found that the meeting place where the “handle” meets the “bag” to be the easiest spot to separate. I just rub the bag between my fingers in that area and usually it only takes a single rub for it to separate.
The struggle is real.
…the easiest way to open these IME, is to lightly lick your thumb and the neighboring finger. This makes the respective sides of the bag stick to them for easier opening.
Finger licking good
That’s easy. Just flip it, then flip it over again, just like a USB plug.
I’d proudly and, like a snob, tell you that I’ve ascended beyond plastic bags by using reusable nets.
But I also keep forgetting the nets at home, so I use the plastic bags and promise myself not to forget. Only to forget again. FUCK.
You remember while walking out of the front door, but tell yourself it’s too much effort to go back and get them, only to regret forgetting them and not going back for them while it was easy right?
You’re paying for the weight of that net at the register though, not much at once but it adds up.
Interesting, our supermarket has a provision for that, but I also weigh just the stuff without net, before packing it. So at least that’s working okay for me
Actually we mostly use paper bags in our stores now, because they’re in a well integrated system where they can get recycled into something else.
That said, nets are a good idea which works every time you bring them. Which isn’t often.
I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).
The Mr. Miyagi method!
I usually wet the tip and rub it over and over until it comes.
Usually get some looks at the store but it works 100% of the time.
what if I have three hands?
Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.
Bring your own reusable bag.
Dont lick your finger, the veggies get sprayed with water. Wet your finger with the clean water and the bag will open for you. Just like everything else in this life: Its better when its wetter.
Except paper bags and toilet paper before you wipe
And socks.
And toilet seats.
A duvet that hasn’t been fully dried is miserable to sleep in.
Dear god. I’m going to have a nightmare about that tonight I think. Just the weird awkward weight…the odd humidity nearby…the impending thought of mildew…
It’s the weird damp sensation when you lay it over you that does it for me. Makes my skin crawl thinking about it.
You people just creeped me out. Like, I was going to close the page.
Nearly too much internet for a sec there.
I got over it.
You can also just breath onto the bag too. Just enough to get the condensation to lightly form and it does the same thing. Although I also just grab a drop of water that’s on the produce container where it sprays sometimes.
The plastic bag is folded on the sides. I have much more success if I start by pulling there, than attacking the opening directly. Hard to explain but you’ll figure it out.
I just find the non sealed end and make the pspspspsp (car call) finger motion and it opens up well enough when I have to use the bags
Hold the middle of the side that is supposed to open between your pointer finger and thumb and slide them in opposite directions. It almost always works for me :D
Gently blowing on the opening sometimes works
You guys put all the fresh stuff in plastic bags? Why not just straight into the shopping bag?
Yeah, I keep wondering when I last used a plastic bag. These days it’s either prepackaged, directly in the shopping bag or a paper bag.
Because it costs by the pound and you want to make it easy to weigh all vegetables together
Yeah same. Personal preference I guess.
I aggressively rub the side that’s meant to open between my fingers and typically that opens it a bit, and from there you just try to separate that while doing the bag open wave.
I would like to see more comments that start with the words “I aggressively rub”.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Lick a finger a little and it’ll open effortlessly.
But I’ve used that to scratch between my cheeks…
Cats: don’t you lick there too?
I’m not sure I can bring my cat to the store to help me open these bags sorry
If ya clean the trench proper, ya aint gotta dig in the mud later.
Bwahahahaha
Hey, I am a janitor that struggles to open trash bags if I’m not wearing clean gloves. They refuse to open with bare hands or if my gloves are greasy.
