- Maybe you need brand-name cereal.
Cause I just did mine at the first
and it like went in perfectly.
It's like an adorable little gift box from Bloomingdale's.
(upbeat music)
Welcome to another episode of Hack or Wack At Home Edition.
Today, we're gonna eat some Hacky-O's.
(cereal crunches)
- Well, you've got the heart-healthy kind
and I have Neapolitan Puffs.
(Joel laughs)
I like, I didn't even try to get one healthy option.
So I got this one
and then I got Frosted Maple Brown Sugar, sugar, sugar.
- There's been this ultra-viral hack going around TikTok.
How can we make cereal boxes better?
- Apparently a bunch of people will have now created
this adorable little like side flap
that closes them all together.
- [Mariam] All right kids I'm gonna show you
how to close a cereal box.
Put the two side flaps in the one long side,
kind of fold the sides and put the last flap in
and boom, it's closed.
- Well, I guess the first thing is,
do people have such a problem with this,
just the little tab?
What's so hard about that?
- So I will say like occasionally that tab will break.
Right?
But then you can just like, I don't know.
It's usually just one side.
So it still works.
Now for people who I guess, you know,
don't have a issue opening it,
they just slide the tab in there
and you have a nice closed box.
- That's so easy.
Okay, this is a hack.
We got it.
Hack done.
World's shortest episode of Hack or Wack.
- But apparently there's a better way, right?
So the first step
is you want to get it all open like that, right?
So you're going to now get some, you know,
you got some bend on these side flaps,
you're gonna to push everything in.
(bag crunches)
You want them to all go super inside the box.
So here's where it gets wonky for me.
They make it look really easy on TikTok
where they just like kind of crunch in these sides.
Like, when I try to crunch in these sides to create a pleat,
like I get this ugly shape.
Like it doesn't wanna bend where I'm trying to bend it.
- Tahsin, I have to stop you.
Maybe you need brand-name cereal.
Cause I just did mine at the first
and it like went in perfectly.
- Look at that.
I pushed into the side here instead of focusing at the top.
And yes, look at that.
That is cute, right?
- But, there's a lot of versions of this.
I saw ones where you took the flap,
the flap with the tab, crossing over the pleat,
so that then the tab still goes into the tab
on the other side.
- Okay, look at that.
You're teaching now.
- TikTok is teaching both of us really.
This does look super cute,
but I'm seeing the cardboard already get very worn
and frayed on the edges.
And I don't know if this can last
for even like a couple openings and reseals.
Look at.
Cause look at what it's doing here.
Look at that already.
Is all of this for the box?
Doesn't even mention that there is a plastic bag inside
that you still need to go into and take it out.
And so.
(blows raspberry)
- I feel like if it's one of those hacks
that's looking for a problem,
like it's a faux hack.
It's a fack.
It's not a real solution.
It's just like, hi, here's a cute way to fold a box.
Let's find a problem for it.
- Wait, ready?
Are you ready for this curve ball
that I'm about to throw at you?
What about just a reusable plastic container
that you can just pour everything into
and then it just closes.
Tahsin, do you think we're ready to call it?
Folding your cereal box
into a beautiful little gift package,
is it a hack or is it wack?
- So wack that it's a faux hack.
I don't like it, total wack.
- I've been eating these as just like dessert,
just like after I have lunch or whatever,
then I just take a handful.