Or that one weird looking piece of wood in the corner of the garage.
I’ll need it one day! I swear!
It’s organized! I’ve got my scrap wood, my project wood, my curing wood, my spare wood…
I prefer to organize it by the time of day. I’ve got my morning wood, my noon wood, my afternoon wood, my evening wood, and my night wood.
Dude. If your wood lasts for more than four hours you should seek medical attention.
Gotta love Lemmy for premium shitposts like this, where one gets actual, high-value advice on effective box upcycling in the exploding comments, along with a complimentary, self-conscious chuckle.
I wouldn’t call it a shitpost, is it? It’s just an accurate observation about adulthood to me.
The guy who told us he uses a second hand shredder to feed his boxes to the compost bin may actually be anti shit posting. Straight up taking shit’s jobs.
Be assured, I call it a shitpost with the utmost respect for the art form.
Jars too.
But it doesn’t have a lid. But what is that, if not a vase? But it’s trash. But it’s a fucking nice vase tho. But…
That’s why you save the lid to go with the jar.
I got a paper shredder for like $10 from the thrift store and it fucking eats cardboard boxes like nothing. I now look forward to getting boxes so I can shred them to fuel my compost pile.
Damn, good idea.
I thought most cardboard boxes had some toxic chemicals on them.
Gonna need a brand/model #. All the ones I’ve tried break and jam really easily.
Royal 100x. Highly recommend.
Reusing things that are reusable is definitely people don’t do enough of these days. If a box / jar / container / bottle / bag / piece of paper can enjoy a second or third life then why not do it? Too many objects are treated as “disposable”, “single use” and then they get tossed - sometimes for recycling but often straight into the general trash.
I just use them as a makeshift trash can (trash box?) for other cardboard stuff. That way it’s never dirty enough to be unusable but I don’t feel bad for throwing it out whenever it fills up because it was already used twice.
Boxes are for squares.
Jars, however…!I keep the boxes for the cat. Put his bed in a lower box, and stacked a box on top that faces up so he has a hiding perch. We call it his catdominium.
I keep the jars for myself, and when I ate canned soup last night I really had a hard time deciding whether or not the can would be a good pot to start plants in. So it has not gone into the trash either. (I asked the county for a recycling bin… but after more than a year, it hasn’t shown up. I assume because I’m renting place)
Stay out of my second room closet. There are no “good boxes” tossed haphazardly in there. None at all.
This, but I might need it for returns.
Even worse if you have cats. Now any box can be kept based on the excuse that the cats can use it. And the thing is, they will use them! It’s just a balancing act of not having so many boxes you turn into a hoarder house.
My dog loves if I put snacks inside Amazon boxes or toilet paper rolls, or any cardboard really. Treats inside and close it up. Poodle dog takes it into her spot and 10 minutes of tearing up the box to get to treats. ❤️
Please stop peeking in through our windows
I had a spindrift box from Costco for 2 months because my kittens chose this box to survive.
It was their space ship until an unfortunate roomba incident …
You can combine many boxes into an elaborate cat castle. I am so sorry for sharing this. Cut holes in between the box-floors and build cardboard ramps with scraps. Again, I apologize. More scraps can be used for fortress walls along the top. You can build wonderful, elaborate monstrosities this way. Beware this dark magic, it may consume you and those cats around you. BEWARE.
Edit: Employ the handyman’s secret weapon, duct tape, liberally to make a good bond between levels. Masking tape works in a pinch. Your kids might even help decorate with marker and/or construction paper. These are the darkest of arts, tread carefully through these waters.
One of my cats is a cardboard chomper. I’ve made elaborate box high-rises and eventually he will topple them like a beaver. I keep doing it.
Cardboard boxes are so expensive if you have to buy them for some reason, but free in a lot of scenarios, bulky to keep if you don’t need them and moisture sensitive, but you will need them again, but is it soon enough to be worth the inconvenience of storing them… It’s not trivial.
Luckily at work we get numerous cardboard boxes from servers.
Double walled and a solid conatruction to hold >25kg and a high compression strength.
I just moved house, and several boxes lost structural integrity during the move, but one that finally gave out, I’ve had for over 25 years. It was originally the box for a CRT computer monitor, and it was a very good box.
I bet a crt monitor box would be constructed very well! I recently purged a bunch of boxes that were starting to show their age that I had from a move 17 years ago. They were with me for 8 moves! Hopefully this last move will have been my last for quite a while.
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My best friend and I live on opposite sides of the US. We’ve been sending the same bubble wrap pieces back and forth to protect birthday and Xmas gifts for like a decade now lol
Edit I genuinely do not understand why floo called me a Nazi. Or why they told me to kill myself.
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Heck, that is the cutest way to think of it
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If you get into tabletop gaming it makes it even worse. “Don’t throw that block of styrofoam away, that would make for great terrain!”
I have “hoarder” in my blood, and every day is a struggle to just throw things away and fight the urge of “that might be useful one day”.
And then you finay get the courage to throw it away only to have an exact application where it would have been useful a couple of weeks later.
