Online shopping comes with a hidden loyalty programme. You order a product, you get a cardboard box.
Sometimes a small one.
And sometimes one the size of your guilty conscience.
You ordered a mug, but the box looks like it came with a fridge. And inside? A mug and half a forest in paper packaging. Or enough bubble wrap to qualify as wholesale – does anyone still pop the bubbles these days?
Around here, cardboard boxes don’t retire after one delivery.
Cardboard Box for Cleaning Cloths. Out from Under the Sink.
Flatten the box and download our template.
Print it, trace the pattern and cut out the decorative shapes.
Fold the cardboard along its original creases and glue it back together. Done.
We added handles too. Our cleaning-cloth boxes are going up on the wooden wall-knobs.
Fun fact by the Anti-Disposables :
Bubble wrap was invented in a garage in 1957. Because, well, this is America – proper inventions like garages.
And originally, it was supposed to be… 3D wallpaper.
It wasn’t invented by designers but by engineers, so instead of patterns, we got plastic and air.
The 1950s loved plastics, new materials and anything that looked like the future. So they sealed two plastic shower curtains together. Air got trapped between them, and the bubbles were meant to create a three-dimensional texture. It was supposed to look space-age modern. People looked at plastic bubbles on the wall and said, more or less: no. The world simply wasn’t ready for a bubble-wrap living room.
The engineers then tried selling it as greenhouse insulation, but it took parcels to recognise its true potential.
( The Anti-Disposables don’t write directives. For now, they’re cutting up old delivery boxes )
