This morning I received a parcel, small items that I will need in the next few weeks. Much as I love a certain international company that began by selling books, and now sells everything I could need and many things I didn’t know existed, sometimes the amount of packaging is crazy. I applaud them for using packing that can be recycled
but the sheer volume? 
Thank goodness my city is brilliant at recycling!
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Lucid Gypsy 
Hubby worked in a post-office sorting office one Christmas many, many moons ago… and has never complained about too much packaging since. 😀
That must have been mayhem 🙂
This made me smile Gilly – I got a similar package which only contained a SDHC card! I guess they didn’t want it to get broken.
Crazy isn’t it? I can use the paper for my card making but the box will go in the recycling!
What a waste… Did they run out of smaller shipping boxes 😕
I guess, but I’ll use the paper and recycle the box so all is not lost 🙂
Oh, yes, I know that packaging well! Lordy, what a waste! Glad your stuff arrived, however.
And just so you know. This summer I’m going on two-month RV trip with my nearing-ninety Godmother and her cat Pepe le Mew. I leave for the US in a week. The RV is huge, 37-feet. My Godmother will be driving and towing an SUV the entire way. She was a Flamenco dancer during her entire professional life. I’m going to try to blog about our trip and write a book about the 64 beautiful years she and my Godfather, a Venezuelan movie star (I kid you not!), were married, until Raul died last fall one month shy of his 97th birthday.
Happy canning. Sorry to have been away so long!
Hugs from Ecuador,
Kathy
What a wonderful story so far – and there’s more!
Meg Kathy’s first post is fab, you must read it!
Hope you do blog about the trip and your amazing Godmother Kathy. I will watch for it…
I see you’ve found Kathy’s post Pauline 🙂
Yes it is an interesting blog…
Lovely to see you Kathy and the canning continues!
What a waste! I won’t say more because I’ll break my soapbox. 😀
🙂 🙂 🙂
I fold the (brown) paper and have ironed it before I’ve given it to my granddaughters for drawing on while they lie on their tummies. ❤ ❤ ❤
🙂 Some companies do go overboard with their packaging! At least they made you laugh!!!!! 😉
Yes and I’ll use the paper to make cards with and the box will be recycled!
lol !
Aha! What are you making and do we get to see it? Couldn’t agree more about packaging. I like the ambiguity of the post title too. Although in fact they’ve been packaging wisdom.
Jam, jam and more jam, and it its still only strawberry time. Luckily I’m just the helper. Blackcurrant jelly next up!
What…they don’t make small boxes?? Too funny!!! And not your most creative photo! But cool.
🙂
I have been known to write to companies complaining about their wasteful packaging. At least your pile is recyclable. What really irritates me is blister packs for medication – they are not recyclable because of the mixed materials and are, so often, excessively huge for the size of the tablets they contain.
The whole world is crazy!
When I saw the title I thought it was political commentary on the awful events in Sousse, Gilly. So glad it’s just a dig at Amazon. Did you have a good day on Saturday? 🙂
I had a fantastic day in the sunshine but now I’ve got noro virus 😔
Oh no! How did you manage that? Silly question, I guess 😦 Hope you’re over it soon, Gilly.
Thats incredible…..do you think they had run out of smaller boxes…or just packed by someone with poor spacial awareness 🙂
You’re very generous Seonaid, intolerant G just thinks its lunacy 🙂
Well come to China where you can buy an apple in a bag wrapped in plastic. With over a billion people here it worries me of the waste created so unnecessarily. Many objects are packaged that way, although it has improved over the last few years.
It would drive me crazy and I’d rant at everyone!
I know it is so silly. With millions and billions buying these products it can do so much environmental damage. At least they charge for plastic carrier bags and encourage reusable.
I do find it so wasteful too… 🙂
I imagine you have very good recycling facilities over there?
The UK can recycle Gilly but over here, the cities are littered with so much filth including wrapping such as above. We wouldn’t mind so much packaging if we can recycle 🙂
I remember Celestine, its the same in all the African countries I’ve been to 😦
I also get huge boxes with miniscule contents. The packaging industry must be rubbing it’s hands with glee. 🙂