Thank you for not being perky

Packaging squees me out sometimes. There is just so much of it, and much of it unnecessary. At the same time, great packaging can make your product, I see how it can be necessary for marketing and how some minimal packaging is completely necessary.

Every time I buy something handmade that comes with super nice packaging I just wonder how much extra time and money people spent on that part of their business.

At the grocery store this afternoon I noticed that Rosie’s Chicken has started prepackaging their chicken breasts without styrofoam in just some plastic wrapping. That’s great, although I usually buy mine from the butcher in paper anyway, but when I do buy prepackaged I will def buy the ones with less packaging.

I’ve decided to not get business cards made this year and instead I am going to print (silk screen or stamp I haven’t decided) onto the scads and scads of cardboard packaging that I recycle. Don’t worry, I’ll save the tampax box ones for YOU.

Last year I almost spent way too much time making bags and envelopes out of those cardboard boxes but then decided that it would be WAY too much time and energy.

Oh wait, I actually bought the Moon Cup last time I was at Berkeley bowl so I guess there won’t be any tampax cards. I love the new Berkeley Bowl! Its so nice and spacious! I still get lost though and have not memorized the layout. The other day I went all through getting produce and then realized that all the organic produce is in a whole other produce section… GRrreat. thanks for telling me!

I did already order some stickers but I was thinking I might sell those nice ones (for cheap) and then silk screen or ink jet print some free ones onto the 45 tons of old sticker paper that I have collected over the years. I mean, it was a bigass deal back in the day when I could afford a stack of decent thick sticker paper and I have not yet let go of quite a bit of it. Maybe I will see if someone I know has a round die cut punch I could borrow. Anyone?

Back to the moon cup… The one I purchased had minimal packaging, just a cardboard box (perfect for business cards!). Some of the other ones had this horrible packaging that had a plastic window so that you could see the actual product. It seems like that might be a good idea until you are standing there with it, in public, in your hand thinking about how everyone seeing you standing there holding it will now immediately think of you shoving it into your vagina. “How will she get that HUGE thing in there”, I could hear them wondering and I quickly put it back.

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