By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn’t collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.
Your mom
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You shouldn’t think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.
Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.
By area activated charcoal has a ton of surface area
Air, cuz it’s free, and by size the biggest object in our planet
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True, but land costs money depending on where its at. Water, could be a close 2nd but for the price, you can’t beat free.
Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!
Horse manure tends to be free around these parts
Bouncy castle
Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.
€29 for a star.
This reminds me of an old Reddit writing prompt that I got a good chuckle from. Something along the lines of “humanity discovers FTL travel, and is invited to join the Galactic Federation. The federation goes out of its way to accommodate incoming species, and part of that intake process involves respecting existing legal structures and contracts… They just realized humans have been selling stars to each other for centuries.”
And they owe a lot on back property taxes.
We got this, and I did actually use it all but my goodness. They drop it in the driveway, it can’t stay there. I moved it in the wheelbarrow for a day, then my husband and stepson worked it for a day, then we asked our lawn guy if he knew anyone who wanted $300 to move the rest (as honestly after moving half of it, it looked the same size!) and he sent us a strapping country boy, like a caricature of a farmboy, who moved the rest of it to the back, then I distributed it where it needed to go.
It’s neat that that service exists, but you can also call up local arborist companies and ask, or wait until one is chipping a bunch of debris at a neighbor’s house and ask the truck driver in person.
I signed up for it and didn’t tell my husband. Wish me luck. Haha
Sweet jesus save me from this driveway FULL OF LOGS
I’m not a homeowner, don’t plan on being one any time soon, and have zero use for their services, but damn am I sold by their “Why CHIPDROP is probably NOT for you” promo video. That’s advertising gold, right there.
Just get one to your apartment. I’m sure the landlord will love it
Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you’re stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.
Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.
Still gotta be careful when they are in the teuck though.
By area, my first thought was something like gravel. Relatively cheap, and covers a large area. However, delivery is relatively simple. They just load it up to a dump truck, and they dump it where ever. For things that are pain in the ass to deliver, I think about wind turbine blades and such, which aren’t exactly cheap. I think if your goal is to spite the delivery people on the cheap, I’d say cat litter. They don’t come in bulk the way gravel does, so someone has to move it box by box.
Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.
Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.
I think upped popcorn still might be cheaper if you have an air popper. Way purest waste plastic and you can make a huge volume of the stuff in just a few minutes.
I know a guy who filled his friend’s Saab with popcorn during a prank war back in the 90s. It kinda ended the whole thing I think, and there was always more popcorn in that poor car.
Finally, a way to get back at Steve, my mailman, who I don’t like very much. Fuck you, Steve! /s
I have this printed and framed next to my desk. It’s a good reminder of the power we all have to live our lives how we choose and the kind of people we want to be.
I do shit like that from time to time, when I remember beeing an adult is not just crappy and tedious but means I can decide shit. Last week I got a cheesecake. A whole cheesecake. And ate it for dinner. The whole cake. Because who’s gonna tell me I can’t do that? Certainly not the bakery. Or my kids. Maybe my doctor had an opinion on that, but come one it’s once a month or so that I do something like that.
Every time. It’s truly stunning that there’s an xkcd for everything.
It’s selection bias. Instances where there isn’t a relevant xkcd aren’t recorded.
Cause every conversation where there is not a relevant xkcd disappears from reality
Considering the joke is how many years old now? I assumed the punchline was implied. You are not wrong. 🤓
Your xkcd number is 2618
If only. Shipping on ball pit balls is stupid expensive. I looked at filling a 6x12 office like 3 feet deep and it was going to be almost $3000 once shipping was included. Yes, I am still bitter about it. I just didn’t want to deal with an office chair anymore.
Jim is that you?
At least I’m not the only one who had this idea
A chair is less to deal with than a room full of balls
Sure, but imagine you join a meeting and the lead engineer is sitting in a ball pit. Isn’t your first response going to be to laugh? Then he shifts to grab something and slowly sinks out of frame. It’s 100% going to make whatever stupid meeting better.
You would still need to sit on something though right? Otherwise you just sink to the bottom.
Outside of the awesome ‘national parks’ answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn’t have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.
If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.
How do you get this free or cheap land in the Canadian tundra, again?
You most likely don’t. You would have to talk to the territorial governments who then would have to talk to the indigenous land holders. And even then it’s a logistical nightmare where the sun sets for a month.
Also if it is Crown land also doesn’t mean that the government is actually looking to sell or develop the particular land even if it isn’t in a National park.
I didn’t say Canadian tundra, I say Canadian North.
Hers a listing in northern SK for $129k CAD that’s nearly 12k acres. That’s $10.75 CAD per acre. That’s pretty cheap in my book.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1412-2nd-Ave-Edam-SK-S0M-0V0/453901932_zpid/
I’m sure there’s cheap land for sale, but that one is just a typo in the listing I’m pretty sure.
Situated on a large 82X145 fully fenced lot, giving you ample room and tons of outdoor space for your family.
It’s a regular town lot surrounded by others.
Ha. Funny
You’re off by 3 orders of magnitude…Retracted.Did you miss the “k”?
Either I missed it or they added it.
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That’s also just what I could find in 30 seconds on Zillow. Pretty sure you could get stuff even cheaper (no structures in property, for insurance) with a little effort
Can’t you buy stars on websites online
that only really buys you a piece of paper that says: “you own this star”.
otherwise i guess i could sell you the universe for 1 penny, which would make for a fun answer to OPs question.Deal! sucker
This comment is so good I’m going to sell an NFT of it.
Hay bale - or multiple.
yeah this was my thought, Hay bale
i think i could go grab one for about $6 here in the fracked hinterlands
