Packaging tough on ‘oldsters’

Sun., Aug. 23, 2015

This letter is written to the manufacturers of our wonderful country. Please! Please! Keep us “oldsters” in mind when you make bags that we can’t open, lids we can’t turn and boxes with inserts. We can’t remember to bring scissors to the table, or God forbid, a knife, to open the plastic or whatever it is made of, to pour the cereal from.

These aforementioned items are some of the reasons, besides raising our blood pressure, that we’re faced with going to live in assisted living facilities or nursing homes that many of us cannot afford. Ultimately they must be state subsidized, an expense the state eventually will not be able to afford.

Bev Baarstad

Davenport

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