This one goes out to my fellow perfectionists out there: If you’ve never heard of the Tadpole Tape Cutter, it’s about to change your whole tape-dispensing game, especially if you deal with painter’s tape a lot.

Invented by Lee Malahan, it’s a handy little gadget you strap onto a roll of tape, where it lets you effortlessly get a clean, straight cut every single time — no scissors required, and no more weirdly ripped tape ends that are nearly impossible to fix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWpfcICFIc

Whether you’re needing to tape off corners of rooms for painting, or you have to tape a bunch of boxes for shipping purposes, or you like labeling everything in your kitchen/office/wherever, this is an indispensable tool. Another little benefit is that you never again have to wonder where the end of the tape is; it’s always right there at the cutter where you left it.

They offer a few different sizes of the Tadpole cutter:

• 1-inch ($13)
• 1.5-inch (unavailable on Amazon as of March 30th, 2021)
• 2-inch ($10)

However, I recommend picking up the three-piece set for $15. That way, you always have the right size around when you need it.