Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
Today I will rant about my own self centered laziness. During the pandemic I developed the bad habit of ordering common stuff from Amazon and having it delivered. OK I can excuse my actions then because it was Pandemic Time.

OK but that is over and I’ve been going into regular stores for a year and a half maybe two years.


Last week I was making a grocery store run to the big supermarket in the next town over and I needed bobby pins and toothpicks. It is a new store to me and I don’t know the layout. I looked in the aisles where I thought these things would reside. They were not there.
since I was running out of steam I came home and order them on Amazon along with other things in my cart. I’ve been making a weekly order on Amazon, setting it up to all ship on one day because you would think they would pack them all together, right? Saving gas, saving packing materials.


Well today I got a shipment that I ordered last week. Look at how they’re packed. Makes me sick when I think of the thousands hundreds of thousands know millions and billions of stupid empty boxes that have been shipped around.


My penance is that I *DO* break down these boxes and drive them to the recycling center in Hermann. But recycling is not as good as never getting it at all.

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OMG, that is ridiculous, but to be honest, I prefer a big box to plastic bubble wrap and Jiffy bags. It still seems crazy, though. I always hate ordering small, inexpensive things through Amazon because I know that gas for the delivery truck to get way up here far exceeds the price of the cheap whatever-it-was I had to have.

You could use the boxes to help you expand your garden. I don't rototill (we don't have one), and I can't find people to do it. So I do the lasagna method of laying down cardboard, wetting it down, topping it with layers of organic matter/compost, topsoil, leaves/grass clippings. It takes time (I did it in July and won't plant in it until next May/June) but it's a good use for cardboard, and a pretty easy way to start a garden.