May 12th, 2005 - Leap Frog products are evil
Maggie was given a My First Leap Pad as a baby shower gift. I’m not too into these products, but the person who gave it to me had heard me talking about giving one to my kid sister (who’s special needs and needs lots of help learning to read and write). So I figured as long as it was a gift, we’d play with it, but probably not buy additional books (unless I find them cheap at garage sales). It’s for 6-36 months and Maggie will be 6 months in a week so I decided to open it up this morning.
I really hate the company now.
It took me longer to disassembling the packaging in order to recycle the cardboard than it did to get the product out! The most annoying part were the 6 twist ties connecting the cardboard and the plastic covering. But it wasn’t just the ties–they each had a piece of plastic on either side of the cardboard/plastic as well (I guess so the cardboard wouldn’t tear–but it was corrugated!). The twists were a bear to undo, especially since they had to also be pulled out of the additional plastic pieces. 18 pieces of garbage, mostly plastic (the twisties had metal inside plastic). There was also tons of tape holding everything together. I suspect a lot of people just throw it all away instead of trying to recycle or include the twisties and plastic pieces in with the cardboard. ::sigh::
May 12th, 2005 at 7:49 am EDT
That’s a pretty harsh headline for the origin of your complaint.
May 12th, 2005 at 5:26 pm EDT
My wife insists that I recyle all the junk-mail envelopes we get. I have to say that I support trying to make sure wood comes from managed forests and not south american old growth rainforest I just can’t imagine a less effective recycled product than the half-plastic envelopes credit card companies foist on us. have you been able to stop the torrent at your house?