The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

[ronott1]

Another idea would be using pieces from old afghans/blankets/stuffed animals from the thriftstore, depending on the material used, they could be fluffy and light (acrylic ones, cotton would weigh a ton). I had a pile of really ugly ones haha. You know the kind, someone used up all their leftover yarns.. One was neon orange, mustard yellow and some other colors, yuck.

But again, that depends on the material and how cheap your store is. Some sell things for pennies.

I'm sure Ducttape and WD-40 could fit in here somewhere.

The eggs need to have air, so cotton stuffing would smother them.

Not a bad idea for cushion though!

Ron

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Another idea would be using pieces from old afghans/blankets/stuffed animals from the thriftstore, depending on the material used, they could be fluffy and light (acrylic ones, cotton would weigh a ton). I had a pile of really ugly ones haha. You know the kind, someone used up all their leftover yarns.. One was neon orange, mustard yellow and some other colors, yuck.

Whoever you mailed this atrocity to with hatching eggs gave it to me.

 

[redriver]

If you ship via priority mail, the boxes come free. You can just walk into the post office and get as many as you want. I usually grab handfuls since hubby does lots of buying/selling online.

 

[Wisher1000]

Whoever you mailed this atrocity to with hatching eggs gave it to me.

I don't know WHY, but I want to see a pic of it!

 

[Wisher1000]

If you ship via priority mail, the boxes come free. You can just walk into the post office and get as many as you want. I usually grab handfuls since hubby does lots of buying/selling online.

I looked at those, I wasn't confident that I would have enough room in the largest one to overdo the packing.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

A customer made this for me. Her and her husband were both very sweet and used to come through the drive-through because they could hardly walk. She was almost blind. I used to tease them that I was marrying into their family (my ex husband shared their last name) and I almost feel like I did. She died a few weeks after giving me this blanket one night after work, he died about a year later. I was working at a different job then, but his family had someone contact me from my old drugstore when he got really sick. I thought it was sweet that the family would remember my teasing and my "family" ties. I said goodbye to him, and no matter how crazy this blanket looks, I love it.

 

[Knittycat]

Oh wow, that is a very sweet story!

 

[Wisher1000]

no matter how crazy this blanket looks, I love it.

I looked at the first pic carefully before I even noticed the second pic or the story. It's funny, but my exact thought was, "That's crazy! But I love it!"

 

[Tomtommom]

That one is quite pretty, really. I already got rid of mine.. It was positively the most hideous thing ever. There were NO pretty colors, it was dayglo neon orange, mustard yellow, eggplant, red and white striped.. with a black trim. None of those colors go together without clashing horribly. On top of that, it was a really weird size.. like 12 by 8 foot or something.

 

[ronott1]

Just for fun I got another set of pictures, This time one of the darkest ones.







That one is developing too!