A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

there are so many millions of cheap weird are-you-wholesale-or-are-you-retail candy stores around here that it's kinda surplus but if those things are less available or more marked up then, well, sure

otoh i think the frontier straw may be a legit product, though admittedly not one i need shipped as a surprise. i suspect if ever i need a frontier straw it's going to be on a trip involving some quite protracted planning.

It's weird how so many of these businesses (all of them?) have a business plan that consists of "we can definitely charge a gigantic markup and make tons of profit merely by putting different stuff together in a fancy box'" -- as though the gift basket industry metastasized. It's like people think that just because now there is this thing called the internet and new businesses are called "startups" that old bad business ideas with limited appeal suddenly have limitless potential. I'm sure no one will notice that they are paying 200% of retail for some snacks because we "curated" them.

I can't imagine any of these companies lasting very long.

i would hope most people understand that they're paying mainly for a service

most of these boxes are fucking stupid and drain disposable income for ridiculous combinations of luxuries people have no use for, but it's pretty reasonable for a cheap box of little shit you generally intend to use. i'd gladly pay a 200% markup for candy worth $7.50 if someone else were to find them, organize them and ship them out to me with paragraphs explaining each one. or i wouldn't, because i cancelled, but it was still a better alternative than doing all that myself. and paying much more anyway because it's not like i have access to small amounts of bulgarian food products. you have to be sort of intransigent to treat all of these services like they're just fleecing people.

and i like surprises, sue me

qualx otm

You may have sold me on this

https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E05/793291.jpg

otm

man, german candy really sucks

― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:44 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wronger words were never posted.

Feelin' smug that I out-Trayced Trayce.

A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

pplains rn

http://britfa.gs/b/src/144283371594.png

Dammit I dont know how I missed that.

https://twitter.com/michaeljhudson/status/713494984402604034

http://spongeclub.com/

lol

http://spongeclub.com/faqs/

You can write a message which can be particularly useful if it’s a gift or for a client/tenant (ex. from your loving mother, from your neighborhood realtor 555-555-5555) however we will screen messages for profanity or inappropriate language because cursing in your message is bullshit.

Even sponges get cute nowadays.

Jeez.

I saw an offer for a company that would ship you home air filters - no shipping cost and the price was actually less than what they sell 'em for at Home Depot.

Hell, that's not so bad, I thought. I went through the process, adding in how many I would need, what weird sizes they are, etc.

Got to the end and they were all "Great! Just hit confirm and we'll start sending you filters every two months!" and I was all ok, so there's the catch, slow down cowboys.

https://mysteryexperiences.cratejoy.com/

literally "A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month"

"How do I pay?!!! No really, where can I get one?!! Take my money!" - Jane C. from Massachusetts.

crtl+f "mystery" replace with "disappointment" - solved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xwsu7QyOQ

lol, this is the one I desperately wanted as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqgH9ji0oY

ah shit, now i wanna go find those on ebay

https://mysteryexperiences.cratejoy.com/

― gr8080, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 1:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/DgQAV6U.jpg

i had safari cards!!! those were great

not sure what pplains has there, but it reminds me of a "hot dog cooker" that was in my grandparents basement when I was a kid that was apparently a school project my dad made as a youth

it was a board with two metal pieces sticking up (it looked like two segments of a metal clotheshanger) and an electrical cord that looked like it was stolen from a lamp. each of the wires connected to one of the metal pieces. don't even think it had a switch, you just put the hot dog on the clotheshanger and plug it into the wall to electrocute your hot dog

there must have been a much lower creativity/safety threshold in the 1960s

This is like the second reference to a household hot dog cooker I've heard you make in the past 24 hours.

The pic's a model of one of the Unabomer bombs. Could cook a whole pack of hot dogs at once.

can't speak for mh but if my dad was the unabomber this is NOT the way i would've wanted to find out

xp true, but my reaction to convenience store rollers is "this is an excellent idea"

I'm thinking the direct electrocution method might not work on taquitos and I'm not going to try

guys, safari cards tho
http://www.atlaspicturecards.com/safari_cards.html

http://i1.wp.com/www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/safari-cards.jpg

there's gotta be a torrent of those things scanned in somewhere right?

Not exactly a monthly subscription but...MAN CRATES.

did anyone actually get safari cards? I thought they were a mythical thing that were advertised (and I think I had some free sample ones they sent in a promo) but I never heard of anyone having a full set

there might have been a really beat up set of them in one of my elementary school classrooms

i never had a full set but they gave away packs of ten at my local grocery store and rotated it every week for a year or so. I got about sixty of em?
I used to make my own, lol.

i found an incomplete but big set on ebay for $300, no way

pplains I dont know what this says abt me but I knew exactly what that pic was :/

holy shit i had some of those i think

I used to get the US history version of those cards. There were some disturbing cards like a holocaust one and a KKK one that freaked me out as a kid.

I got "aircraft of the world" for a while as a kid which was not even a little bit relevant to any of my other interests but I sure loved staring at them.

Somewhere between Safari Cards, Sweet Pickles, and Zoobooks is basically my Platonic ideal for how information should be quantized and rendered consumable. When a friend and I were toiling away on this Chinese architecture guidebook project a couple years ago, one way we kept ourselves on target with the format/design we wanted was to go "well, but would that ruin the Zoobooks effect we're going for?" In fact I think we were mainly talking about Safari Cards the whole time but had forgotten the name.

Was there some kind of a sportscar/aircraft subscription series? I suddenly have this vague memory of getting sportscar and aircraft cards in the mail for a little while.

doc casino, i feel like you and me need to start a company or make an app or something

can a design nerd let me know what the font on safari cards is? it fills me with calm.

Looks like some version of Clarendon (condensed/bold)

thanks, i really do like this typeface!
http://www.fontscape.com/pictures/bitstream/Clarendon.gif

https://shop.keyboard.io/products/a-box-of-crap-from-shenzhen

Dog toys!
https://www.barkbox.com/ - and if your dog destroys those, there's https://bullymake.com/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/Screen%20Shot%202016-12-15%20at%2010.46.01%20AM_zps8digqy9j.png