I hate that annoying commercial.

[apocalypsos]

Okay, you know that CD/DVD stripper they advertise on TV?

Here's me saving you twenty bucks if you've ever thought of ordering one.

How to easily get the plastic off your CDs or DVDs: Got a sharp metal edge on a countertop or table? Drag one side hard across the edge. Big pieces of the poly rip away when you do that.

How to easily get the spine label off your CD: Pop open the lower hinge with your thumb. Lift up the top of the CD case and pull and the spine label comes right off without you having to pick it off.

How to easily get the spine labels off your DVD: Score along the opening of the DVD case and you can pull them off a hell of a lot easier than you can if you try to pick the corners away from the plastic. (Yeah, okay, that one's a little more annoying.)

Don't mind me. After a year working in a CD factory and doing all of that on a nightly basis, seeing them sell those things for twenty bucks each bugs the pants off me.

Comments

[storm-maven.livejournal.com]

You can also use teeth, scissors, kids, etc. Especially since I have to pay for the kids until their 18 or so, might as well make good use of them.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

I am torn between "how do people not know to do this?" and "why do they want to?".

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

DVD stickies are the bane of my existence, but who didn't know about the CD-hinge-trick?

[musyc]

Oi, geez. We used to do that all the time at Borders, and you would be astonished at how many people thought it was the greatest trick since sliced bread.

We held a little contest once - one employee with the edge of the glass counter, one with the little plastic thingie, one minute. Glass Counter Employee won by at least ten CDs.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. I love doing that at work. When we have to rip down CDs because of a mistake it doesn't even matter if there's tear tape on them, I'll still go over to one of the conveyor belts and use the metal edges to rip the poly off. :)

[katbcoll.livejournal.com]

Okay, let me start by saying: In my defense, I haven't seen the commercial.

Okay, you know that CD/DVD stripper they advertise on TV?
For two seconds I thought you meant a real stripper. *headdesk*

as for the rest, I actually hadn't heard of those tricks, but I always use a knife.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

I've always just used an x-acto knife on these things. But then, I realize that not everyone has an x-acto/box cutter/sharp knife, the freaks.

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

i cant not imagine my life without a box cutter.

[girlwiththebook.livejournal.com]

i mean can not.

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I used to have a great one I got for free from some sponsoring company at some concert years ago. It disappeared in the last move though, alas.

Annoying as hell? Yeah, but not worth paying $20 for. Jeez.

[ladysorka]

...you mean there's a way to open DVDs that isn't "take a box cutter and score along the opening of the whole thing?" Takes the plastic right off, plus you can open it and then easily pull off the sticky label thingys.

(I do admit that I have a CD opener, but it's merely a thingy with a little knife in it that I think I picked up for a dollar at a record store out of a bin by the register.)