Lifehacker Saves Christmas!

Lifehacker and Reader Karthik comes up with a very simple and clever alternative to cutting up your hands on the pointy and stubborn plastic that almost everything these days is encased in:

I had a "duh" moment yesterday after I had cut my hands trying to open a Logitech optical mouse from its death-to-the-theives blister pack. My home scissors weren't up to cutting the thick plastic, and I had to use my hands after a while. THEN, my eyes fell upon the can opener (a standard rotary one) sitting innocently in the drawer. I used that to open the next blister pack, and man, was that a breeze!