Annals of More Useless Crap We Don't Need: Neosporin Travel Tote
by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 08.29.07
Most Americans are familiar with Neosporin, that antibiotic salve that keeps sliced-up body parts from rotting off and cluttering the living-room floor. The brain trust at Johnson & Johnson, to spread the gospel of this magical ointment, decided to market a promotional version that comes in a little Bandaid-storing red plastic tote. With a dainty handle. "Presumably," writes Chris Colin, TreeHugger reader and San Francisco Chronicle writer, "so you can swing the thing to and fro between your thumb and forefinger en route to a miniature picnic."
Or wave it about like a bell as if to signal "looook what Iiiii've gotttt," because to a person with a bloodied hand jammed up the paper-towel dispenser, this will be like Christmas. ::San Francisco Chronicle
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Ok, so without holding the 'carrying case' in my hand, I don't know if it is hard plastic.
I have had various tubes explode, get punctured, or 'fail' by unknown means in different instances (in a backpack, in a first aid kit, in my 'go bag'). The packaging may not be wonderful, but it will keep me from antibiotically treating anything in its vicinity.
Isn't part of being environmentally responsible taking care of something you own, so that you don't have to buy a new one?
Right on, Monica!
Less is better. They are tacking more onto the price I bet.
They think this will market better. More people will buy our product because it comes with a cute case!
What a waste...
What about simply being more careful to store it in a way so that it doesn't get punctured, or put it in a plastic bag in case of explosion? Sure the tote is cute, and you can see a use for it, but that doesn't mean that it's not wasteful. And of what possible use is the little handle?
Its a wasted product because it has a singular use. You can use any small hard container to hold your tubes of whatever, but you can only use this container for one thing. Imagen if each piece of Tupper-ware only fit one type of food.
EWO
P.S.
Half the products on this site fall into the category of useless junk that was invented solely for marketing.
If I need neosporin quickly, I am not going to want to have to take it out of its cute carrying case to get it.
This would DEFINITELY make me NOT want to buy the product....