Now that the 2020 shipping rush has happened we are all learning to live with the new normal. We all know how useful cardboard is throughout the year. You use it to store things away. You use it to move items from one house to another. You use it for crafts with the kids. These all seem to be ways that boxes are used “positively” or as they were intended to be used when you first obtained them. But now we have up to a hundred boxes arriving each week and we need to be able to get rid of it or use it responsibly.
I am all about finding new and better ways to use and do things. So this is all going to be about fun new ways to use packages this winter. But what about uses you hadn’t thought of? What about recreational uses for cardboard boxes you have lying around? What about uses that will ultimately destroy your old boxes? Well, here’s a fun list of ways you can put your old, tattered boxes to use this winter and not mind them getting destroyed in the process. It’s all in the name of fun anyway, right?
being an avid outdoorsman I am a big fan of being proficient with my skills. This all has to do with safety as well. Whether you have a license to own your own guns or are simply taking your kids out to shoot at targets with their paintball guns or BB guns, cardboard boxes make absolutely wonderful targets for all of the above. Not only does the material show where you shot quite nicely; it also is a great medium to paint a target on to improve your accuracy. Just tie or stake flat pieces of cardboard to a hay or straw bale and you’re good to go. It is a fun and cool way to be safe and use the items you may just throw away.
If you live in teh midwest then you have seen everything go down a hill. Alright. This may be a bit on the outlandish side, but if a snowstorm has struck and you don’t currently have any sleds, riding down a hill on a piece of cardboard would work for an hour or two before it started to break down. It’s slick enough to skate along with the packed snow. If you don’t want your kids riding pans or trash can lids down the hill like old movie show, why not attempt a cardboard sled. My family loves to do new things and to do them without spending money and if you need a sled this will do just fine.
Have fun outside. Another far fetched use of cardboard here. A lot of the time when you or your kids are building a snow fort, the walls don’t stand up as well as you planned. By shaping the snow around cardboard flats, you can provide your fort with some sort of structure to adhere to. Alternatively, you could put cardboard down on the inside as flooring if the ground is too hard.
Remember to recycle it all when you are done so the earth does not suffer. That is the responsible thing to do in 2020 when things are becoming harder to make and create.
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