Scotch Magic Tape

I use this tape quite often at work and I also have a small dispenser of it at home too. It is a useful tape but I do think that for what you get, it is a bit expensive. The tape is basically a sellotape but with a matt finish (on the non-sticky side of course!) which is a sort of white colour - it is still semi transparent though. This means that when you use in on white paper you can't see the tape as obviously as you always can when you use standard tape which is shiny and reflective. Compared to other tapes too, this one you can write on which is always handy for annotations etc on work ... more

Scotch magic tape is a magical thing - as its name says. You would probably think that some famous Scotsman invented it or some Scottish factory started producing them. No. It is a product of a huge American manufacturing conglomerate 3M from Minnesota. The product has been invented in 1930s to be used with, then new material, cellophane as it was not possible to stick together sheets of cellophane together using existing sticky tapes on the market. Cellophane was a big hit with food distributors at that time as it was moisture proof. 3M engineer Richard Drew with his colleagues spent a year ... more

You think you had it bad? My childhood experience of sticky tape could be positioned as a sad tale of suffering and deprivation. I'm not suggesting it was like 'Angela's Ashes' where we picked up coal scraps and drank tea out of jam jars but it's fair to say that I didn't ever experience the joy of real full-price fancy branded sticky tape until long after I left home. I got through my pre-teen and teen years thinking that all sticky tape was a rather orangey colour and stolen from the Post Office (my grandmother was the village post lady) or was coiled in a strange off-centre angle because my ... more

I have always bought my sticky tape from cheap pound shops but just before Christmas last year I was looking to buy a tape dispenser to make wrapping presents easier. I looked on Amazon and bought one which came with 3 rolls of Scotch Magic Tape and I was amazed at the difference. Obviously cheap sticky tape isn’t going to be the quality of expensive branded tape but I didn’t realise how much difference there would actually be. Scotch Magic Tape can be bought in many high street shops and I have picked mine up in Tesco when I’m doing my shopping. Here it costs £5.50 for a refill pack of 3 ... more

I have finally finished all my Christmas wrapping and I would not have been able to do it without the help of Scotch magic tape. The tape comes in a handy plastic dispenser which is so easy to use. What I love about it is that you don't need scissors when you use this tape which is brilliant as there is no messing around cutting it as then usually straight after you do this the tape will fold over on itself so you can't use it. This dispenser is round as obviously the roll of tape is inside it and then there is a little bit that juts out with a strip of plastic teeth that you cut the tape with ... more