>>>Getting the cellophane off a new DVD (or indeed a greetings card, without mangling the card) kills me! I usually have to take a knife to it. I think the DVD may have a wee strip to pull but I'm buggered if I can find it most the time.
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>>Among the pencils on my desk there's always a tiny box cutter, which usually serves to open envelopes... and plastic traps of that kind. In case of DVD cases, I have concluded that the most popular movie on that medium, over the last dozen years on this market, is "Security Device Enclosed". It sells like mad.
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>But if you get it with the security device still in chances are it hasn't been sold - knicked :-)

They just demagnetize it when they register your cash... mmm, what cash? Only plastic.

>I use a hairdresser's tail comb for envelopes - a lot less dangerous than a box cutter (what we call a "Stanley Knife" - orig. made by the company "Stanley")

Our youngest is 16 now, no worries. Besides, we have so many tools in the shed, which used to be sprinkled around the house while it was brought into shape, that we simply had to develop some attention or else there'd be cuts and bruises on everyone.