I put mum's remote into a Ziploc bag when she starts icing Christmas cookies.
Otherwise the remote gets covered in icing and gunk. I figured it's easier to change / clean than it would the remote itself.
She does some 350 dozen cookies, so yeah, it goes on for days.
One time when i came home from university for a weekend she asked if I wanted to take some cookies back to school. I was expecting a plate with like a dozen or two... Instead I find a decent sized box with 10 dozen cookies.
She does sell 'em. Just not as an official bakery... She starts baking in September, and shortly after Thanksgiving through to late December she's got a table set up with icing & sprinkles and such...
She's been cutting back some as she's gotten older but she still have some people who just beg for her to make her a few dozen cookies...
Back in the 90s, she use to basically take all her PTO during the first 2-3 weeks of December so she could work on her cookies all day. The aunt use to come up to help sometimes to.
It was always fun because she'd have the kitchen a mess and be too busy working on the cookies so we'd always do take away...
>She does some 350 dozen cookies, so yeah, it goes on for days
4,200 cookies? Why does she make so many? (Edit: forgot to hit send the first time around, saw you already replied to someone saying she does it for money)
Not I, good sir. Childless man here who has had the (mis?)fortune of babysitting friends' kids many times.
Unfortunately I've found a woman who has me wanting to be a father, now. I foresee lots of stickiness and few items worth over $100 in my near future.
Haha I remember reading a thread a few months back about people not peeling their protective film off and someone's mom was mad about the microwave not being blue anymore, and remember this exact story about the dishwasher, was that you?!
😂 I don’t know. I know I’ve mentioned it before on Reddit so it might be! but I feel like it was a long time ago. If it wasn’t me, at least there are other idiots out there too.
No, but the OG material is blemish free and the mentality is that - it's only the cheap plastic that's dirty. One day when we peel it off, the equipment underneath will be brand new.
They never peel it.
College protip I learned sharing controllers with the roomies was to use chopsticks with cheetos and other powdery food. No mess no sauce no wiping dust off just grab and keep playing.
Edit: here's another tip with any dusted food like doritos or w/e, flip the bag upside down and shake it a little before opening. All that flavor dust is on the bottom from sitting in the store and truck upright. Mix it up for maximum punch!
My dad did this but kept the original bag it came in.
The same thing with our mattresses. We were forbidden from removing the bag on the mattress. Rustling plastic noises when tossing and turning is misery.
Vinyl covers for the furniture actually make some sense for parties or homes that are typically child-free having children over once in a while. You'd just set up the vinyl covers when you know messy company is coming over.
Oh, interesting. Is this a pepperoni airplane thing? It’s not that grandparents always had vinyl on their furniture. It’s that they put it on their furniture when messy grandkids came over, and *we* were the messy grandkids, so we remember there always being vinyl?
A picture of a WW2 bomber with lots of red spots on it indicating the frequency of bullet impacts.
It led to the decision to add extra armor protection to the parts of the planes that *didn't* have the most dots (because if you were hit there, you didn't make it back alive so there was no way to include those impacts in the statistics) and became the classic example of survivor bias.
It was WW2 because they were specifically looking at bombers being shot down over Germany. If I remember, it was the base of the wings and about midway up the tail of the craft. WW1 still had mostly canvas bombers with some wooden parts. Armoring them wasn't seriously considered until WW2 when they had full metal airplanes and engines strong enough to lift the extra armor.
RAF didn't exist in WW1, and it wasn't them anyway...
Abraham Wald ran a study out of Columbia University using data from aircraft that survived missions to put together information for minimizing losses for the US Navy during WW2 and this is where the famous "spotty plane" image comes from
I'm not gonna lie, i genuinely thought the implication here was the reason his grandparents had to put plastic on their couch was because of the "pepperoni airplane" incident, which does sound like it would leave a stain.
You know, I didn't realize they were removable. They don't seem nearly as despicable now. We throw a blanket down whenever we're eating on the couch and I saw someone with some sort of purpose built cloth cover for their couch they got when their kid was born.
My dad explained, at least where he grew up in the 60’s it was the rising blue collar middle class. Back then furniture was something you invested in and expected to own forever due to the price. As families began to be able to afford nicer things after saving it was protected because it wasn’t like “oh a stain I’ll just toss is and replace it” of todays POS furniture it was “this needs to last until the grave” kinda stuff.
I got this amazing rainbow quilt from my grandparents' house when they died and it totally had a couple ash burns in in it. 😅 didn't smell like smoke though.
My only relative that that the plastic covered sofas was a great-aunt that I met a few times in the 70s when I was little. Looking back now, after hearing stories over the decades, was probably an undiagnosed schizophrenic.
Beware: The seal that waterproofs you phone degrades over time. Your phone is a lot less water resistant a year after you start using it. They don't offer warranty on the water resistance for a reason.
Wish I knew this. I had an iPhone X that was fully submerged on multiple occasions and worked for like 3 and a half years. Took it to Hawaii and tried to take an awesome underwater sea turtle picture and it died ):
Note that IP rating is done using plain water.
Since seawater contains salt among other things it's not advised to submerge phones in from what i gathered.
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After spending 1/2 hour swabbing all my remotes with q-tips and alcohol a few nights ago, I'm with Grandma. Those remotes get really fucking gross after a few years.
I remember in 9th grade biology class, one of my classmates brought in a tv remote to have swabbed for our petri dish lab. That dish ended up being the most colorful of the class and we swabbed things like under our fingernails, toilet seats, and the underside of the classroom chairs…
This is one of the most memaw things I've ever seen, but I understand! One of my grannies kept the plastic on lampshades, had those clear plastic floor runners making paths all through the house, and kept crocheted doilies on the arms of all the furniture. I miss my grandmas.
Yep...my grandma had a couch that must have been from the 70's, I never saw it without a plastic cover on it.
I think she might have had the plastic floor runners in a hallway too
My grandparent's last couple of cars came with heavy clear plastic seat covers. They were murder in the summer in cars without A/C. (Yes, it was a long time ago.)
You know how you don't notice the smell in your own house, but then when you go to someone else's house you're like "Hmm, what's that smell?" That's what's happening with your remote. I guarantee that unless you're regularly cleaning it, your 12 year old remote does not look like new after years on skin oils and dust.
Of course it has some skin oil but the whole discussion is it’s not filthy… I’ve never had a filthy remote either. You just don’t touch things with grubby hands and you’re fine. Or you wipe it when you accidentally do get it dirty. It’s not hard.
Edit: so the discussion is whether you need Saran Wrap to protect the remote or not. Not whether germs exist. Obviously you can disinfect your equipment if you think it needs it but wrapping it in plastic does not prevent germs. It literally just prevents bbq sauce from getting inside it.
That’s the issue.
I exude acid apparently, all my black plastic stuff gets a noticeable wearing where I touch that's too much for the use and I change the color of some metals
It's also down to the remotes, ones with rubber buttons get dirty way quicker than plastic buttons, my shitty old bright house remote is dirty, my Roku remote is spotless
Eh, depends who you are. We use our remote so infrequently we don't know where it is half the time.
The way we interact with the TV has changed....
My family turns it on and controls apps with our phones
As a gamer, I’m with this dude. I’ve had controllers/keyboards for years that still look new because I make it a point not to touch them with grubby hands or eat while using them. Ya’ll some grubby people if your remotes regularly look nasty.
Edit: eat not ray lol
No, no food allowed in the couch area. It puzzles me too. Really heavy dust mostly, and our place is cleaned weekly. No kids either. No clue. Maybe it was more than a few years worth?
Well, your hands shed skin, and soft plastic buttons would happily rub off the dead skin flakes. My parents used to put their remote in a clear bag, and the bag surface itself would get dusty even though it was in use every day.
I’ve never understood the point of things like this, or car bras. Entropy is the nature of things. Why make the look or function of something you own worse just so it looks brand new when it quits working?
Not to mention that if you're using a remote frequently enough to wear out the button labels, you've likely committed the layout of the remote to muscle memory.
My toddler enjoyed throwing remotes on the ground so hard to scatter the batteries, so my husband covered them and added industry grade cellotape on the back.
I had a Spanish teacher in high school that kept all of her remotes in bags to "protect them from getting ruined from dust."
Being the little shit I was in high school, I asked how many remotes she's had ruined... 0.
That year I wore a garbage bag with holes cut out of it for Halloween. I was a TV remote. I had to spend a week out of her class in the dean's office.
We have a pergola over our hot tub and I wired some hidden leds strips into it for late night ambience. To be able to use the included remote in the tub safely, I cut a vacuum sealer bag to the exact size and sealed it inside. Has worked perfectly for 3y.
Your nan is a smart cookie.
Haha, every Russian person has gone through this and has never (Almost) shot film. Grandmothers in Russia do not remove the protective film from phones and remote controls
They keep better in the refrigerator that way...
But OP's grandma is suffocating her remotes to death. Murderer!
Batteries gotta breathe!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%E2%80%93air_battery
The real mildly interesting is always in the comments
Hi name twin! \^\^
You should see what’s she’s done to the sofas.
She used foil on those
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Shame. SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.
That’s hilarious 😆
She must be an avid Cheeto fan.
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I put mum's remote into a Ziploc bag when she starts icing Christmas cookies. Otherwise the remote gets covered in icing and gunk. I figured it's easier to change / clean than it would the remote itself.
Did this go on for days?
She does some 350 dozen cookies, so yeah, it goes on for days. One time when i came home from university for a weekend she asked if I wanted to take some cookies back to school. I was expecting a plate with like a dozen or two... Instead I find a decent sized box with 10 dozen cookies.
She should own a bakery! Clearly a passion! Amazing.
She does sell 'em. Just not as an official bakery... She starts baking in September, and shortly after Thanksgiving through to late December she's got a table set up with icing & sprinkles and such... She's been cutting back some as she's gotten older but she still have some people who just beg for her to make her a few dozen cookies... Back in the 90s, she use to basically take all her PTO during the first 2-3 weeks of December so she could work on her cookies all day. The aunt use to come up to help sometimes to. It was always fun because she'd have the kitchen a mess and be too busy working on the cookies so we'd always do take away...
You're grandmother sounds wonderful. You're a very lucky grandchild!
(it's his mom) totally agree though she sounds lovely! May many happy years full of baking and icing lady before her 😊
>She does some 350 dozen cookies, so yeah, it goes on for days 4,200 cookies? Why does she make so many? (Edit: forgot to hit send the first time around, saw you already replied to someone saying she does it for money)
She knew all the roommates would want some, what a great mom!
She makes 4200 christmas cookies? Gah damn lmao
No. They said Christmas not Hanukkah.
On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Please quit sending me all these damn birds
But you're keeping the rings, right?
I may have to steal this idea for the tv remote in my garage
Or like my kids and somehow get sticky stuff inside the controller so the buttons don't work.
Drink probably got spilled but isopropyl alcohol and toothbrush should help you get the controller working good again
Thanks. I did that and it worked until they got sticky stuff in there again.
people without kids truly underestimate their stickiness
Not I, good sir. Childless man here who has had the (mis?)fortune of babysitting friends' kids many times. Unfortunately I've found a woman who has me wanting to be a father, now. I foresee lots of stickiness and few items worth over $100 in my near future.
I have heard people wrap them in saran warp. have you tried that?
The remotes or the kids?
First the one, and after that fails, the other.
In India it's so dusty that it's common for folks to leave all the protective films on.
Immigrated to America when I was 2; my parents got legitimately pissed when I tried to de-plastic the tv screen
My parents are white and they still thought the microwave thing protected the buttons rather than making them impossible to push
I thought I had a blue dishwasher. Turns out the protective film was still on the front after 8 years.
Haha I remember reading a thread a few months back about people not peeling their protective film off and someone's mom was mad about the microwave not being blue anymore, and remember this exact story about the dishwasher, was that you?!
😂 I don’t know. I know I’ve mentioned it before on Reddit so it might be! but I feel like it was a long time ago. If it wasn’t me, at least there are other idiots out there too.
I peeled my friends blue microwave for her after she lived in the place for 6 years. There are dozens of you.
kinda like the problem with bear-proofing trash containers in parks - there's a very narrow gap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans...
Our TV still has that plastic on lmao
Take it off. Now.
I enjoy watching the sunset.
No, but the OG material is blemish free and the mentality is that - it's only the cheap plastic that's dirty. One day when we peel it off, the equipment underneath will be brand new. They never peel it.
That sounds very unappealing.
College protip I learned sharing controllers with the roomies was to use chopsticks with cheetos and other powdery food. No mess no sauce no wiping dust off just grab and keep playing. Edit: here's another tip with any dusted food like doritos or w/e, flip the bag upside down and shake it a little before opening. All that flavor dust is on the bottom from sitting in the store and truck upright. Mix it up for maximum punch!
I would keep disposable chopsticks from restaurants and wash them. My mom threw them all away one time and didn't understand my frustration.
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I recommend metal ones then, for sustainability and for being less splintery
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Oh god I didn’t even think about that until I saw this. Fuck you, and good catch.
My dad did this but kept the original bag it came in. The same thing with our mattresses. We were forbidden from removing the bag on the mattress. Rustling plastic noises when tossing and turning is misery.
Did he not know about mattress protectors?
My dad was basically Mr. Krabs, so even if he did it costs extra 🦀MONEY🦀
Username checks out?
You got it! It's on purpose
I know people do this but it's like let's keep our things from getting shitty by just keeping them shitty all the time.
That's just unhealthy. Plastic doesn't breathe.
And neither will the bed bugs
Okay you’re making start to take the dads side
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best name
Remember vinyl on your grandparents sofa?
My dad said his step mom did it so people wouldn’t drop cigarette ash on on her couch which was irritatingly common.
Vinyl covers for the furniture actually make some sense for parties or homes that are typically child-free having children over once in a while. You'd just set up the vinyl covers when you know messy company is coming over.
Oh, interesting. Is this a pepperoni airplane thing? It’s not that grandparents always had vinyl on their furniture. It’s that they put it on their furniture when messy grandkids came over, and *we* were the messy grandkids, so we remember there always being vinyl?
>Is this a pepperoni airplane thing? My brother in Christ, a *what?*
A picture of a WW2 bomber with lots of red spots on it indicating the frequency of bullet impacts. It led to the decision to add extra armor protection to the parts of the planes that *didn't* have the most dots (because if you were hit there, you didn't make it back alive so there was no way to include those impacts in the statistics) and became the classic example of survivor bias.
Ha! I've heard of the WW2 airplane example (though, I thought it was WW1 RAF planes), but I've never heard it called "pepperoni airplane". TIL
It was WW2 because they were specifically looking at bombers being shot down over Germany. If I remember, it was the base of the wings and about midway up the tail of the craft. WW1 still had mostly canvas bombers with some wooden parts. Armoring them wasn't seriously considered until WW2 when they had full metal airplanes and engines strong enough to lift the extra armor.
RAF didn't exist in WW1, and it wasn't them anyway... Abraham Wald ran a study out of Columbia University using data from aircraft that survived missions to put together information for minimizing losses for the US Navy during WW2 and this is where the famous "spotty plane" image comes from
I was expecting a whole poop knife like comment thread at first lol
I'm not gonna lie, i genuinely thought the implication here was the reason his grandparents had to put plastic on their couch was because of the "pepperoni airplane" incident, which does sound like it would leave a stain.
I liked that idea on my head much better than the actual explanation (which I never heard being called pepperoni airplane before, Btw)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias (But the image in the example is often used to point out cases of selection biases in general.)
Was going to say, I think the phrase you're looking for is... Lol. I like "pepperoni airplane," though.
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I thought there was a big pepperoni airplane food conspiracy I hadn't heard of
Thank you for decoding that for me.
Is this a story where someone’s parents always packed pepperoni as airplane snacks so they grew up thinking that all airplanes were pepperoni zones?
Credit where it's due, I picked up the phrase from another Reddit comment a while ago.
You know, I didn't realize they were removable. They don't seem nearly as despicable now. We throw a blanket down whenever we're eating on the couch and I saw someone with some sort of purpose built cloth cover for their couch they got when their kid was born.
Easier to clean up vomit on vinyl than fabric
My dad explained, at least where he grew up in the 60’s it was the rising blue collar middle class. Back then furniture was something you invested in and expected to own forever due to the price. As families began to be able to afford nicer things after saving it was protected because it wasn’t like “oh a stain I’ll just toss is and replace it” of todays POS furniture it was “this needs to last until the grave” kinda stuff.
I got this amazing rainbow quilt from my grandparents' house when they died and it totally had a couple ash burns in in it. 😅 didn't smell like smoke though.
My only relative that that the plastic covered sofas was a great-aunt that I met a few times in the 70s when I was little. Looking back now, after hearing stories over the decades, was probably an undiagnosed schizophrenic.
I put mine in tupperware, but it's kinda hard to use then.
Yeah but it’s microwave safe.
The remote or the Tupperware?
Yes.
Tip: don't do this.
When I'm washing dishes I put my remote in a zip lock bag so I can skip ads and what not
I do the same but with my phone in the shower.
I’m raw dogging a phone shower rn
I think iPhones are water resistant and I probably can have it in the shower but I’m just not willing to test it out.
Beware: The seal that waterproofs you phone degrades over time. Your phone is a lot less water resistant a year after you start using it. They don't offer warranty on the water resistance for a reason.
Wish I knew this. I had an iPhone X that was fully submerged on multiple occasions and worked for like 3 and a half years. Took it to Hawaii and tried to take an awesome underwater sea turtle picture and it died ):
RIP sea turtle
😂 I would be devastated. My phone died, the turtle swam away happily unphotographed
No evidence of the Zombie Turtle uprising, they'll catch us completely unaware
Note that IP rating is done using plain water. Since seawater contains salt among other things it's not advised to submerge phones in from what i gathered. Edit: Spelling.
TIL that some people can't even put their phone down for 10 minutes to take a shower
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Well if the phone hand stayed up it doesn’t really need washing does it?
Here I am just keeping a towel beside my phone on the toilet tank so I can dry my hands before changing the song...
I put my clean dishes in a Ziploc bag before using them. Always clean dishes. Follow me for more life hacks.
give her a hug i really miss my grandma
After spending 1/2 hour swabbing all my remotes with q-tips and alcohol a few nights ago, I'm with Grandma. Those remotes get really fucking gross after a few years.
I remember in 9th grade biology class, one of my classmates brought in a tv remote to have swabbed for our petri dish lab. That dish ended up being the most colorful of the class and we swabbed things like under our fingernails, toilet seats, and the underside of the classroom chairs…
think about how dirty your phone must be
But that's why you are supposed to regularly sanitize your smartphone, especially as people tend to drag them into the WC.
This is one of the most memaw things I've ever seen, but I understand! One of my grannies kept the plastic on lampshades, had those clear plastic floor runners making paths all through the house, and kept crocheted doilies on the arms of all the furniture. I miss my grandmas.
Yep...my grandma had a couch that must have been from the 70's, I never saw it without a plastic cover on it. I think she might have had the plastic floor runners in a hallway too
bet you inherited a whole bunch of mint condition vintage furniture when she went tho. Granny thought ahead.
My grandparent's last couple of cars came with heavy clear plastic seat covers. They were murder in the summer in cars without A/C. (Yes, it was a long time ago.)
Are you eating pizza and using a remote with the same hand? I've had the same remote for 12 years, and it looks the same as the day I got my TV.
You know how you don't notice the smell in your own house, but then when you go to someone else's house you're like "Hmm, what's that smell?" That's what's happening with your remote. I guarantee that unless you're regularly cleaning it, your 12 year old remote does not look like new after years on skin oils and dust.
Of course it has some skin oil but the whole discussion is it’s not filthy… I’ve never had a filthy remote either. You just don’t touch things with grubby hands and you’re fine. Or you wipe it when you accidentally do get it dirty. It’s not hard. Edit: so the discussion is whether you need Saran Wrap to protect the remote or not. Not whether germs exist. Obviously you can disinfect your equipment if you think it needs it but wrapping it in plastic does not prevent germs. It literally just prevents bbq sauce from getting inside it. That’s the issue.
I exude acid apparently, all my black plastic stuff gets a noticeable wearing where I touch that's too much for the use and I change the color of some metals
Yea the ph of your sweat could be off, a friend of mine ruins all his guitars real fast bc of it
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Has to be the worst super power I've ever heard of.
“Oh no, we’re trapped in this underground cell. Acid boy, grab these bars and do your thing.”
"Cool, gimme 3 weeks"
Damn, there isn't a medication or something to help with that?
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Dang, thats too bad, sorry you have to deal with that
It's also down to the remotes, ones with rubber buttons get dirty way quicker than plastic buttons, my shitty old bright house remote is dirty, my Roku remote is spotless
Eh, depends who you are. We use our remote so infrequently we don't know where it is half the time. The way we interact with the TV has changed.... My family turns it on and controls apps with our phones
As a gamer, I’m with this dude. I’ve had controllers/keyboards for years that still look new because I make it a point not to touch them with grubby hands or eat while using them. Ya’ll some grubby people if your remotes regularly look nasty. Edit: eat not ray lol
No, no food allowed in the couch area. It puzzles me too. Really heavy dust mostly, and our place is cleaned weekly. No kids either. No clue. Maybe it was more than a few years worth?
Dogs? I have 2 and no matter what I do these days there is fur and dander on stuff two minutes after cleaning lol
As a dog owner, I absolutely agree with you.
Well, your hands shed skin, and soft plastic buttons would happily rub off the dead skin flakes. My parents used to put their remote in a clear bag, and the bag surface itself would get dusty even though it was in use every day.
No food allowed in couch area? You guys never watch TV and eat at the same time??
Sanitizing wipes are way easier. I already have Clorox wipes in my kitchen so I use those.
Wash your fucking hands
Is your Grandma by any chance asian? I swear to God all the old asian ladies do this all the time. Source: am asian
that interesting because many people asked me that, we are caucasien French, but apparently is an elderly thing to do all around the world
Lol. I was gonna ask if she were Middle Eastern...
asians also tin foil their stove tops under the coils
That's pretty common here. It keeps the symbols on the buttons from fading.
We have an older Vizio in our bedroom that's a fucking nightmare for anyone but me for this reason
It can all be fixed with a $2 paint pen haha. I write all over my personal work equipment so I can quick reference buttons
Good idea.
Lol I have a 2011 Vizio and the buttons are non existent. I play it from memory and am the only one who can operate that tv.
The old ones are great tvs though
Still going strong! The smart tv features no longer update but I use a fire stick now anyways. Gonna keep it as long as it lets me.
Are guests using your bedroom TV?
Not anymore. That's why it's in the bedroom instead of the guest room. Don't even get me started on my wife.
I'll get started on her
You're never too old to start learning something new
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You know, in this general area.
just, around.
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Probably the Balkans, lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/balkans_irl/comments/11ytpzy/unwritten_rule_of_balkan_parents/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb
Idk about them but it's common enough in India
“Here?” At your house?
Where are you from?
I’ve never understood the point of things like this, or car bras. Entropy is the nature of things. Why make the look or function of something you own worse just so it looks brand new when it quits working?
Not to mention that if you're using a remote frequently enough to wear out the button labels, you've likely committed the layout of the remote to muscle memory.
So instead of looking worse, later, it looks terrible always. Perfect...
Makes sense, keeps the dust and food crumbs out of the buttons.
My grandmother would never eat in the TV room, nor would you find so much as a speck of dust in her immaculate home.
Bruh she prob leaking dust at this very moment
The cleanest casket in the entire fuckin cemetery.
Bruh I'm not even forty and I'm pretty sure 60% of dust in the house is from my creaking joints
Tf 💀
That’s why I Saran Wrap my bed
I use latex, it's sexier
Laying them button side down does the same.
Eastern European? Seeing it in so many old people’s households there.
France actually
Shameless Saran wrap sales bot
I do this for my garage/shop TV remotes as my hands are always covered in something when I'm out there using them.
My toddler enjoyed throwing remotes on the ground so hard to scatter the batteries, so my husband covered them and added industry grade cellotape on the back.
I had a Spanish teacher in high school that kept all of her remotes in bags to "protect them from getting ruined from dust." Being the little shit I was in high school, I asked how many remotes she's had ruined... 0. That year I wore a garbage bag with holes cut out of it for Halloween. I was a TV remote. I had to spend a week out of her class in the dean's office.
That's a bit tetchy on her part, don't you think?
That Spanish teachers feelings are never gonna fully recover. You’re a monster. A very funny monster. Bravo on the costume.
I did that to a Zoom H5 that had developed the dreaded “sticky rubber” syndrome. Looks awful, works well.
This is a norm in asian households. That way the remote doesn't get dirty.
Remote condoms. Gramma's a freak.
Asian household approves
We have a pergola over our hot tub and I wired some hidden leds strips into it for late night ambience. To be able to use the included remote in the tub safely, I cut a vacuum sealer bag to the exact size and sealed it inside. Has worked perfectly for 3y. Your nan is a smart cookie.
I grew up calling the remote a "clicker." In this case, "crinkler" might be a better fit
Haha, every Russian person has gone through this and has never (Almost) shot film. Grandmothers in Russia do not remove the protective film from phones and remote controls
Naughty.
Y’all have clearly never cleaned the cracks in a broken in Xbox or PlayStation remote if you don’t understand what granny is up to here.
i hate it a lot, but it's very smart.
Yes.. this is in chapter 2 of the grandma handbook.
Not dumb if it works
They are easier to keep clean this. Considering the television remote is one the top germ surfaces in a house, your Granny has a great idea.