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Ah, the mystery of the mattress and pillow tags.
Why are they there?
Why cant we remove them?
Why do the manufacturers threaten us with breaking the law if we do remove them?
One man went to Reddit to share his gripe with dealing with the annoying tags on house items.
He told ther/PettyRevengecommunity how his wife asked him not to remove them for some reason.
The problem hes a serial tag-ripper.
He didnt see the point in leaving them on, so he came up with a petty revenge strategy.
Read on to find out what it was.
The label clearly states Not to be removed except by the consumer.
So if youre ripping the tag off after you bought the item, theres no crime.
But why is this such an issue in the first place?
How did it come to be that people believe they should not remove these tags?
This little piece of white paper attached to a house item is what we call a Law Label.
The Do Not Remove clause applies only to manufacturers and retailers.
In short, these labels protect the health and welfare of households.
She refers to the turn of the 20th century as the wild wild west phase for manufacturers.
Apparently, they would stuff bedding with all kinds of things.
This caused bacteria and vermin to flourish inside the stuffing.
As time went by, it became a serious public health issue.
Thus a need for some regulation arose.
The laws concern items that have material that a consumer cannot touch and see.
Think the already mentioned mattresses and pillows, but things such as stuffed animals and comforters qualify too.
The new laws required manufacturers to list things that were inside the items.
So that means we can be sure what were getting and that the labels dont lie, right?
Well, not quite.
She recounts how her lab finds some labels to be misleading.
Other times, theyve found supposed down jackets filled with poly-fibers.
Maybe theres no more horsehair, but theres plenty of misleading labeling still happening in the manufacturing process.
There are some similar examples in animated shows.
Theres a scene in the season four episode of SpongeBob SquarePants that reiterates this myth.
Squidward, I accidentally removed the Do Not Remove by Penalty of Law tag on my mattress!
the character shouts in fear.
The first episode ofGarfield And Friendsfeatures a similar scene.
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