When you Search for “Shipping Boxes”

What do you do when you need to find out about something?  Unless you are Amish, or part of an indigenous tribe, you more than likely turn to the internet.  If you are an American between the ages of 9 and 86 you probably turn to the internet immediately using your smart phone or tablet.  Outside of those parameters and you probably use your desktop at home, at work, or at the library.  Or, if you are Caribbean you will go to your local internet café.  All jokes aside, these stereotypes are pretty accurate (because stereotypes tend to be, right?). 

What do you do when you need to find the best deal on shipping boxes?  You open Google, or Bing, and you type in “best deal on shipping boxes”.  What happens next is both wonderful and terrifying.  As if reading your mind, the screen becomes filled with unlimited options.  At the top of the page you are going to see the pictures for some ads, advertising price and website.  Your internet search could possible stop here as your eye catches something that you want to check out further.  This time, though, that’s probably not going to be good enough, since you are trying to find the best deal.  To the right you can see a list of related searches that other people have made: best prices for moving boxes, best boxes for packing books, or cheap shipping boxes.  All the same, you are probably going to continue on your original path and begin to scroll the different options that are listed below all of this.

Unless there is a website that has already made price comparisons for what you are looking for, you are probably going to have to do it on your own.  So then you start probably start at the top.  You open the first website and either write down or make a mental note (not suggested) of what this place is charging for what amount of product.  And then you back out and go to the next website and do the same thing.  You should probably go through a couple pages of the search results before making a decision.  Usually the first sites listed are the ones who have a ton of money to spend on their marketing campaign.  You will probably even recognize who they are.  This is usually an indicator that their products will be priced higher because they are attached to the reputable name.  Keep looking!  Once you’ve made enough comparisons you can decide which way is the best to go.  

Themed Shipping Boxes: D-M

So yeah, themed shipping boxes… It is just so stinking incredible, all of the options we have at our fingertips, specifically all of these packages whose purpose is to solely provide a bright spot in your month and give you a little pleasure.   Most of them are on a recurring monthly subscription, but some of them can be ordered at your whim, and just about all of them are awesome.  I would love to give each and every one of them a try, but of course that’s just not possible.  Here are some different themed “shipping boxes” that you might be interested in:

Date in a Crate:  I love that this subscription uses shipping boxes that look like wood crates (hence the clever pun in the name).  I also love that the concept is all about sharing a date with that special person in your lives.  A lot of people can’t afford a babysitter on top of going out and paying for a meal and a movie.  Even if you just want to go out and get a cup of coffee paying for a babysitter and finding someone you trust is always the biggest challenge. This box completely changes all of that, and it’s amazing.  Throw the kids downstairs with a movie, or in bed, and then dig into your Date in a Crate and enjoy!

 Disney: Don’t even pretend like you don’t think Disney is amazing.  Literally everybody in the world loves Disney in one way or another.  Catering to this global obsession is a massive list of Disney subscription packages.  A good portion of them offer junk…excuse me, stuff… from the theme parks, but you could try out the Marvel themed box that sends super hero stuff every month, which is awesome, or the Princess Monthly Surprise, which obviously contains stuff themed around different princesses. 

 Japan Crate: speaking of shipping boxes that look like crates, Japan Crate does not actually look like a crate but that is still what it’s called.  Most people claim to be obsessed with Asian type stuff, and this box is for those people.  Japan Crate offers weird Japanese snacks and candies, and that’s a nice way of putting it.  I’m not gonna lie, I’m an adventurous person, and I would absolutely give these oddly shaped parcels a try.

Maker Monthly: Okay, so maybe this one might be my favorite.  

I would straight up OCD all over the stuff they send in their boxes… sleek looking pens, crisp and unique notebooks, or even a nylon roll for keeping all yours pens and brushed and what not?  Yes please!