No joke, when I did eBay with the bike shop stuff, the main shop I worked out of was at the end of a residential ally at the bottom of a hill (behind the shop). Homeless people would drag couches down the hill and sleep behind the shop around once a month. We had to pay to remove them.
So the thing that actually gets dirty and disgusting with an old couch is just the fabric. The foam for the cushions is still fine. After letting it air out for a day or so, it doesn’t stink or anything. That became my packing material, especially for international shipping with high end bikes.
Taking a sawzall to the couch’s frame yields useful scrap wood. The fabric that makes the back of a couch is usually in near perfect condition and is a medium weight upholstery that is huge and usually seam free. If you remove this upholstery and build a canvas frame, you can paint it white and make an enormous art canvas… I should make this a YSK …
I used old couches to make photo studio backgrounds and reflectors. The remaining waste fit into the shop dumpster, so a win win.
So, just to be clear. You took a homeless person’s bed and used it as scrap to send to paying customers?
Yup, kicked them out and cleaned up their mess. It was really this one schizophrenic man Joe. He would beat off to any girls in the parking lot. He was a funny guy. I bought him lunch often, but had to kick him off the property during business hours. The poor guy smelled terrible.
To be more clear the neighborhood skater kids were the ones that usually dragged the couches down and then Joe would sleep on it if it was there. He had bedding and stuff. I usually left a couple of old bike boxes out for some extra padding. He slept under the overhang that was beside the parking garage.
I’m smart enough to have both empathy and business sense enough to know how to run one. Bike shops have untenable low profit margins and are mostly a hobby business at best breaking even. No one on that kind of pay and budget can save or house the world.
“These are not the billionaires you’re looking for. Move along.” 👌
All I can think about is someone shipping you bedbugs
That’s a legit reuse move. No new materials produced to be discarded, and if the recipient doesn’t want the DVD, they can donate it rather than sending it to a landfill.
I believe you only because that absolutely would happen
I’m not even sure I’ve seen the movie. I mean, by all logical reasoning I’m sure I have, but I cannot recall it.
It has one of the all-time cringiest scenes in film:
Well that delivered exactly what was promised.
Hahaha
I thought it was over, and then it just kept going hornier and hornier
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I was wondering if it might be some hack to use the media mail USPS rates, but looking at them it doesn’t seem like it would work.
Thr bookmark is light enough I would expect you could send it cheaper on its own, but the DVD would qualify for media mail.
You aren’t allowed to add “incidental items” that are not media, so it would fail from that, but I bet most postal inspectors would not fault this because of a bookmark. It looks like a little “free gift” that some vendors give you, like a packet of gummy bears.
It’s pretty funny that the seller flipped it around.
When your movie is so bad that it can’t sell but not quite bad enough to be thrown in a dumpster.
Poor Haley.
Oh and it hurts and it hurts and it stings
Oh and the knife it twists and turns – “Ruse” by King WomanI own two copies of Shallow Hal.
I have never deliberately purchased Shallow Hal.
One of the things I find interesting on the Internet is how often people’s first reaction to a thing is to take a photo and post it. It provides good content sometimes (like this one is funny) but I’ve just never thought like that
Seems like you’re someone that enjoys living your life, not recording your life.
I have friends who get upset that i don’t take enough photos while hiking, camping or paddling. I always tell them they are welcome to come and experience it themselves instead.
One of the most amazing experiences as an adult is going back through pictures of people doing things. My friends, my family. I sit with my wife and kids and we tell stories to them about our youth, they ask questions about them. The most amazing experience is showing them those pictures and seeing their amazement that their old parents were once young men and women.
There is nothing wrong with not posting those for other people, but pictures of people have a way helping you visceraly remember the emotions of that event.
You’re not wrong at all, that’s just a different perspective on pictures.
If by relevant you mean not at all, sure.
the comic is about living your life vs. taking photos of your life
edit: live -> lifeNo, the comic is very clearly about pointing fingers at people who claim its better to live your life vs recording it. I’ve made no such claim, I think both ways are fine as long as the person is happy.
Which means your ‘relevant xkcd’ just isn’t.
well it’s relevant!
No, it wasn’t.
Is this one of those bribes to get positive reviews?
