The shape of the package

Poststructural Pub
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So tell me…why do people spend so much time worrying about the shape of the package, when so often it turns out that the package was empty anyway? :wink:

–James

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I am uncomfortable with this thread.

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Because, if they’re like my wife, they usually have more fun playing with the empty container than they do the contents. (When she was a kid, she’d open a Christmas present, take out the toy inside, then play with the box.) Therefore, the shape of the package is important. :slight_smile:

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Some people like big packages, and other people like tiny boxes.

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It’s funny…I’ve often thought it would be far cheaper to just get cardboard boxes and distribute them to the Izzlets for Christmas for this very reason. No matter what’s inside the darn box, they seem to like the box itself far more :stuck_out_tongue:

I tend to think James’ post was a bit more philosophical, though :wink:

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Perhaps peeplj could tell us what is wrong with the shape of his empty package so that we could add greater depth to the comments.

djm

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Quite.

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I like to put my own stuff in my packages, if it’s empty so much the better. But my stuff will look nicer if the package is well made and attractive.

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expectation..challenge..anticipation…stealth…mystery…lust…all of which was so important to our paleolithic selves, ingrained in our iceage ancestors dna and it sunk down sooo deeply over generation after generation to become a part of our shameful id which should be repressed at all costs, so much so that to day these cravings are so conscipted, little used, wanted, or exercised by many of us that the mere notion of having to guess what’s inside sets off all these little ancient pavlovian bells inside our little inner neander-poodle that we salivate uncontrollably, (in a metaphysical sense) and suddenly starshiptrooper from yes begins to play in our minds and we just have to know…what’s in that box that could be that shape?
:boggle:

as to it being empty afterall, well that’s just the way the poodle crumbles, no?

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Dude. You’re having a flashback. Sit down…relax…ride it out…here, have some tea. Things are cool.

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I am so there.

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i knew i could count on you nano

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Can you tell I’ve done this before? :wink:

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I have never read anything more disgusting on this forum, poodle indeed! Very disturbing.

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I’ve often wondered why I bought toys over the years.

Boxes, tape and rope. Throw in a dirt pile and my kids were in heaven.

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At least its not dripping from your ceiling! hahahaha :smiley:


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Oh boy! Amanita Muscaria. No wonder it looks like that.

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  1. Some people only want the package and don’t care what’s on the inside.
  2. Some people want other people to see the package.
  3. Some people have been disappointed by the contents of every other package they’ve opened, so they no longer want what is in any package.
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:laughing: :laughing: gasp … wheeze… oh…

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Because more money can made from altering, cammoflaging, painting, stuffing, padding, slicing, revamping, recovering, etc. the packaging than from valuing the inner being. Indeed, by making our inner being feel less worthy, desirable, pretty, strong, attractive, acceptable, normal, capable, sexy, etc. a lot of companies have made far more than a good living, they’ve made, sometimes quite literally, a killing.

A related version is that many people are so worried about the outside packaging that they totally miss the truly beautiful being inside.