The Pyranna plastic package opener slices through hard-to-open packages in a flash. And, with a sufficiently large collection of them, you could skeletonize a water buffalo in seconds. But you wouldn’t want to.

‘Tis the season to open packages! Ah, we’re looking forward to the annual ritual of gathering ‘round the solstice tree and struggling like luggage-commercial apes to open a few of those ludicrously hard-shell plastic packages.

What’s the point of those things? Are we supposed to appreciate products more after we’ve labored at length to extract them from their seemingly impenetrable plastic exoskeletons? There are insurance companies whose libraries of confidential medical records aren’t this hard to get at! We suspect that several of the Christmas gifts we bought this year are of significantly less sturdy construction than their packaging is, which seems perverse.

This year (and henceforth), we ain’t reaching for our slow-working and somewhat dangerous scissors. We aren’t dulling our pocketknives. We won’t repeat the emotional episode that ensued when we profaned the fancy holiday nutcracker trying to get at a particularly tightly sealed memory card last year. And we won’t be ripping another antebrachial vein open on any sharp plastic edges, either. (Worst Christmas morning ever!)

Instead, we’ll be busting out the Pyranna Plastic Package Opener—the easy way to open even the stubbornest clamshell packaging. Its ergo-grip design rests comfortably in the hand, it stays safely closed when it’s not in use, and its durable stainless steel blade slices plastic packages open in a flash.

Quick and sharp-toothed as its Amazonian namesake but much, much easier to hold in one’s hand, the Pyranna’s going to let us start a new holiday tradition: Opening and enjoying our gifts, instead of stabbing, wrenching, tearing and cursing at them all morning.

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