Grab the fat part of the cap with pliers while pushing up and turning the bottle several times around and it comes right off. I had to read this blog to do it as I was ready to take it back and get a non defective one. A new high(low) in safety caps. I was so mad I couldnt breath I was going to tear the top off.
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First, you have to come to the realization that the bottle is not defective (neither are you), but rather the design is. Then, if you grow dark with rage, count to 10 and remember a happy place. Finally, when you calm down, get yourslf a pair of pliers and yank at the base of the top as hard as you can. After so much effort and multiple vocabulary repetition, you will come to realize that destiny has played another trick on you and there is a second chastity cap beneath the red one. With your last ounce of strength, cut the clear cap with your pliers (cut does not mean SLAM). Low and behold, you have achieved the unthinkable, you finally o-d an Afrin Bottle.
But wait, you just realized a miracle has happened! The objective of the ordeal is not to get your nostril around the bottle opening, but rather get you furious enough to where your bodily functions get worked up and start flowing everywhere. So now your nose is clear, and you have just come to the conclusion that you spend $10 for a decongestion spray, when you could have just smashed the heck out of a bottle cap for free, and you d be $10 richer.
The above guide has been paid for by your favorite neighborly decongestion spray company for your humorous well-being (please do not sue us)
Have a happy CLEAR day!
This is horrible. what a crappy design! I bought a bottle while at a hotel in Dallas, and simply couldnt get the lid off. I had to take my corkscrew and screw a hole into the belly of the bottle just to get any Afrin out. As you can imagine, it was messy and ineffective. I bought a second bottle assuming the first was defective. Of course not. Its just a defective design. Having no tools in my hotel room I squeezed with my teeth while pushing down and got it to finally work EPIC FAIL!!!
After 5 minutes of trying to open as instructed with no luck, I took vice grips and yanked the whole top off. Spilled some but poured the rest into an old bottle with a dropper I had. Now its just like the nose drops I used as a kid before they had the spray. What a ****** up design, I dont get it
Grab the fat part of the cap with pliers while pushing up and turning the bottle several times around and it comes right off. I had to read this blog to do it as I was ready to take it back and get a non defective one. A new high(low) in safety caps. I was so mad I couldnt breath I was going to tear the top off.
Alright, I too bought THREE bottles in a package at CostCo for $8.99 and thought wow, they are the larger bottles I have found the BUY of the year! Got them home and crap! I couldnt open them!
After reading all your great posts I got a pair of pliers and squeezed the bottom of the cap, turned and WhaLa! The cap came off.
I then put the cap back on to test it and it was stuck again so after I got it off again I took the pliers, put the top part of the plier into the cap and the bottom on the outer edge of the cap and did a few squeezes around the inner part of the cap to push down on the little elements that lock the lid. It worked! Took all of two minutes.
Try this and good luck.
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This is horrible. what a crappy design! I bought a bottle while at a hotel in Dallas, and simply couldnt get the lid off. I had to take my corkscrew and screw a hole into the belly of the bottle just to get any Afrin out. As you can imagine, it was messy and ineffective. I bought a second bottle assuming the first was defective. Of course not. Its just a defective design. Having no tools in my hotel room I squeezed with my teeth while pushing down and got it to finally work EPIC FAIL!!!
Alright, I too bought THREE bottles in a package at CostCo for $8.99 and thought wow, they are the larger bottles I have found the BUY of the year! Got them home and crap! I couldnt open them!
After reading all your great posts I got a pair of pliers and squeezed the bottom of the cap, turned and WhaLa! The cap came off.
I then put the cap back on to test it and it was stuck again so after I got it off again I took the pliers, put the top part of the plier into the cap and the bottom on the outer edge of the cap and did a few squeezes around the inner part of the cap to push down on the little elements that lock the lid. It worked! Took all of two minutes.
Try this and good luck.
Grab the fat part of the cap with pliers while pushing up and turning the bottle several times around and it comes right off. I had to read this blog to do it as I was ready to take it back and get a non defective one. A new high(low) in safety caps. I was so mad I couldnt breath I was going to tear the top off.
We are in a hotel in Dallas, TX. My husband just stormed off in a fit of rage. Children are frightened. Husband returned with a victorious gleam. He was skipping proudly. A maniacal laughter gurgled from his very breath. I feel this might have been too much of an endeavor. And I quote, I went down to the front desk. They only had a pair of crappy scissors. I slowly sawed off the red part only to reveal the safety cap underneath the red cap. I shaved it bit by bit until there was enough cap protruding for ones nostril. We are safe now. All are breathing. Children are finally at peace. Wife can breathe. Now must take Xanax after clearly traumatic event with Afrin bottle.
Alright, I too bought THREE bottles in a package at CostCo for $8.99 and thought wow, they are the larger bottles I have found the BUY of the year! Got them home and crap! I couldnt open them!
After reading all your great posts I got a pair of pliers and squeezed the bottom of the cap, turned and WhaLa! The cap came off.
I then put the cap back on to test it and it was stuck again so after I got it off again I took the pliers, put the top part of the plier into the cap and the bottom on the outer edge of the cap and did a few squeezes around the inner part of the cap to push down on the little elements that lock the lid. It worked! Took all of two minutes.
Try this and good luck.
After 5 minutes of trying to open as instructed with no luck, I took vice grips and yanked the whole top off. Spilled some but poured the rest into an old bottle with a dropper I had. Now its just like the nose drops I used as a kid before they had the spray. What a ****** up design, I dont get it
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