Amazon Product description
Acrimet Premium Tape Dispenser Jumbo (Platinum Silver Color) $12.90
Modern attractive design adhesive tape dispenser, indispensable for your office desk or house use. Robust and anti- skid base that allows one hand operation. Accepts standard tape, easily interchangeable, and “no slack”, due to lateral grooves. Comes with specially designed serrated blade for straight and even cut every time. Overall dimensions: 7.5”L / 4”W / 4”H. *
- Modern and Attractive
- Anti-Skid Base
- One Hand Operation
- Lateral Grooves (no slack) Tape
- Comes with Two Sizes of Tape Support : 1”and 3”
The more wizened I become the more I realize the importance of creating a StOOpid Simple Living environment which not only makes my life more enjoyable but way less frustrating as well. Few lifestyle improvements beat the ability to quickly identify expiration dates on everything I store on my pantry shelves or hiding in my refrigerator. I have learned through experience that I do not get along well with anything worn around my fingers or neck. This includes rings, watches, jewelry of any kind and… reading glasses which tend to disappear like single socks in the dryer.
Trust me, unless you permanently locate your tape dispenser in plain view and make it EASY to access, you will not use it. Mine is sitting on a window shelf directly above the kitchen sink and very close to where I dump my groceries after returning from the store.
Get in the habit of marking expiration dates the moment you unpack your groceries. Some items’ expiration dates can be written directly on the can or packaging, but often label colors obscure marking pen ink.
Make sure you have a pair of reading glasses permanently stored in a nearby drawer, along with a permanent marking pen. I prefer rechargeable LED reading glasses of various magnification strengths, which will be a future Buy Me! product installment.
Sneaky Tip: If you get into the habit of marking your groceries immediately after unpacking them in the kitchen, you will enjoy my “Wear Once, Read Many Times” of StOOpid Simple Living.
White removable labels like the ones above become difficult to remove if they are placed on items that may wind up in a dishwasher. However, I have discovered blue painter’s tape works quite well and can be left on most storage containers that may be reused with the same labeling content. Be cautious using removable Avery sheet labels. If they go through a dishwasher they become almost impossible to remove.
Tape labels work well with all kinds of vegetables. I occasionally use marking pens to quickly add purchase dates to onions, but I make sure to place the text near an end that will be sliced off and tossed. Since I strip off several outer layers of onion to get to the tender parts, the marker ink never poses a problem. Either way, vegetables have a sneaky way of disappearing in those pull out pull out drawers. There’s nothing more gross than a 3 month old soggy cucumber or zucchini fermenting
The containerized batch of spaghetti above exemplifies my “Cook, Once, Use Many Times” philosophy of StOOpid Simple living, as well as the value of label dating. In this case, the dates are preparation dates. Most likely they will not last long enough to worry about expiration dates anyhow.
UPDATE 12/13/21
After using this particular dispenser for a while I have decided the tape-cutter piece, in my opinion, has a serious design flaw: the cutting teeth do not protrude far enough at a proper angle to allow easy tearing of the tape if the dispenser is located at shoulder level or above. The unit is clearly designed to sit at countertop level, which means — unless you plan on leaving the dispenser on a work area full time, you will have to locate the dispenser first. Mine sits on a shoulder-height glass nicknack shelf mounted above my sink area (see image above) where I prepare most of my food.
I know this sounds a bit grumpy of me, but the entire reason I bought a dispenser is because I’m a LAZY grump and I label a LOT of storage containers. I wanted a permanent location where ONE HAND could zip off a piece of labeling tape EASILY because my other hand is often messy from preparing food for storage.
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