When I was growing up, I had my weekly cleaning chores. In addition to keeping my room clean, I’d clean the kitchen one week and I’d clean the bathroom the following week. I’d clean them top to bottom. Mirrors, counters, sinks, tubs, floors, and so on. This was how I earned my allowance of 50-cents …
When I was growing up, I had my weekly cleaning chores. In addition to keeping my room clean, I’d clean the kitchen one week and I’d clean the bathroom the following week. I’d clean them top to bottom. Mirrors, counters, sinks, tubs, floors, and so on.
This was how I earned my allowance of 50-cents a week, not small change in those days.
Cardboard was a non-issue in family life. Unless you bought shoes that came in shoeboxes, the word “cardboard” never came to mind.
Oh, my how times have changed. Cardboard is everywhere. Online shopping run amuck. The increasing penchant for many, me included, to order things online, a shopping pattern no doubt hastened by the March 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic; the increase in online shopping was inevitable.
And so is the sometimes-daily task of managing cardboard. Breaking boxes down and stacking them somewhere.
I know I am not alone and I know if I was in possession of a mind steeped in financial genius (I’m not. Not even close.) I would have invested in cardboard years ago.
It’s a generous industry. I like a certain cereal and order two boxes at a time. That they are shipped inside a box is only part of the truth. When you open the cardboard box, wouldn’t you know, your two boxes of cereal are in yet another cardboard box. When you open the second (and pointless) cardboard box, you find the two boxes of cereal.
And what do think they’re made out of? Cardboard. Four cardboard boxes for two boxed of cereal.
Cardboard. It’s everywhere.
