What to Do With All the Christmas Leftover Shipping Boxes?

Especially when you are away from the people you love, you'd likely have had some shipped presents by now. Yes, it was pretty exciting to open them up and find what lovely things you got inside. But then as we are moving towards the end of the year, we might as well consider to be a little bit organized than before. Why don't we start from the shipping boxes we piled at the corner of the room?

Store the Christmas decorations

The tree, the oversized socks hanging by the mantelpiece, the garlands, all these can be reused next year and the years after. Take them down once the season is over, organize them neatly, put wraps if necessary and store in the shipping boxes (if they are large enough to hold them). Otherwise you can browse some shipping boxes here. Label the boxes with "CHRISTMAS" and store them in dry place.

Reuse to contain/send presents

Any birthdays coming up? Keep the shipping boxes for presents with irregular shapes. It might come handy at the wrapping stage. If there is no such event to come any soon, flatten the boxes until you need them.

Cat's sleeping bed

Got a cat at home? Then you know very well how cats LOVE boxes. Turn your shipping boxes into cats' sleeping area. Watch this video below to do your own homemade cat sleeping bed.

Do you have other ideas on how to reuse shipping boxes? Share with us in the comment section below.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Plastic Bottle VS Glass Bottle, Which is Better?

Plastic bottles, especially those used for feeding babies, have raised environmental concerns in the past decade. The finding of bisphenol A or BPA, which could be leached to contents in plastic bottles, especially when heated, made mothers think twice before using plastic bottles to feed their young kids. Some experts suggest that glass bottles are much safer choice than the plastic ones. But of course the glass bottles have their own inconveniences as well. Today's blog discusses the advantages and the disadvantages of using plastic and glass bottles.

ADVANTAGES

Glass bottles

• Safer than plastic bottles. No BPA could possibly be leached from glass bottles.
• Preserve temperature better than plastic bottles.
• Great for use at home where not much mobility is required

Plastic bottles

• A lot lighter than glass bottles, making them highly portable. Plastic bottles are great to use when traveling or on the move.
• Don't break easily.
• Cheap.
• Recyclable.

DISADVANTAGES

Glass bottles

• More expensive than plastic bottles due to the more costly materials used in the making.
• Break easily.
• Heavy, unsuitable when used while commuting.

Plastic bottles

•  Might be unsafe to use.

The comparison above might not seem fair for glass bottles. But plastic bottles do offer a lot of conveniences. However, health concern is a major issue. Even if we can only find one single disadvantage of plastic bottle, it's a big disadvantage. Fortunately, BPA-free plastic bottles also exist nowadays! So if you want all the conveniences plastic bottles can offer while not endangering somebody's life, BPA-free plastic bottles are your best shot when traveling. Keep the glass bottles at home use and feed safely.

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Cyber Monday Sales are expected to make an all time high this year.  Across generations people are logging on to make their Christmas shopping hassle free.  In recent months online retail stores have expanded the cyber booty to bigger and better discounts, which includes Free Shipping on some sites. In an article by Jennifer Booton for Fox Business, she indicates that there is an expected 18% increase over last year, which includes online, and smart phone buys.  These sales, popular on the Monday after Black Friday, commonly known as Cyber Monday, are increasing because they are more convenient than facing the crowds focused around Thanksgiving day sales.  Popular incentives luring the scouting proletariat, to wait in hours of long lines, clawing their way to the display of $99 dollar, 50” TV’s advertised to be available only from 11:59 to 12:00am, only to find that there was only ONE available!  I mean the store did fulfill the sale, so no grounds for false advertisement!  These exhausting, panic stricken accounts, that plague the Black Friday consumer like a gambler deciding on his bet with a mediocre hand.  More and more people are sacrificing face to face discounts for the convenience of online values even if they are not as good in order to avoid the ciaos; but how much of a discount is needed in order for people to buy online opposed to shopping for it in brick and mortar stores?

But how much of a discount should the online company offer in order to draw people into their cyber store?  Making an educated guess based on last year’s response seems to be one way to progressing online sales this year.  Large and Small online companies continue to compete in online sales, forcing smaller companies to offer larger incentives or match those of big business.  Some companies offer Free Shipping for online orders, which seem to be a big draw this year; it seems people are ok with paying a higher price for an item as long as there are not any additional charges.  Many companies marketing online send me as many as 3 emails a day with the lure for us to click through and show their enticing ways on ads with pretty colors, and BIG savings to stay and spend our loot.  Consumers need to realize the major discounts are in the smaller coupons items, not the big purchases.  Various stores offer promotions to get money back if you spend 50 or 75 dollars; this averages out to be a between 10-15%, which is basically like a regular sale.  These sales varied from small discounts to huge discounts, but most averaged around a 10-20% discount.  Many retailers offer free shipping but tend to increase the prices to offset the loss or set a minimum purchase amount while others raise prices then offer larger discounts to make you think you are getting a good deal. As I was engulfed with all the ‘Great’ sales for this season, I realized the companies I came across were all Large companies and big businesses, who have entire marketing departments dedicated to drawing in the crowd for Black Friday!  However, Big Business is not the bulk of business in this country, but Small Business make up over 90% of business in the U.S.  Small companies struggle every year to keep up with the big boys and offer discounts that match or give a higher incentive to come into their establishment or online store and shop.  Many of these small companies don’t have dedicated marketing departments to pull out and plan the latest strategy on luring in the consumer, but American Express has created a great community to celebrate being a small business and help them compete for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which is their annual Shop Small Business Saturday® Sale. 

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Traffic Control at Workplace

Traffic control is highly important at a factory, facility or any type of busy workplace. Choosing the right traffic control tools can determine better flow and upkeep of daily production. This is easy to do so long one is able to recognize what tools they need for each unique work areas.

Post/Bollard Sleeves

These posts are especially great to maintain buildings, equipments and flammable materials from damage. Arrange the bollards so that forklifts, carts and other vehicles have their own traffic line apart from storage of materials, equipments and even pedestrians. Bay Tec has two types of post/bollard sleeves: 4.5 inch post sleeves and 7 inch bollard sleeves.

Striping Machines

You don't fancy the post sleeves? Why not use Aerosol Striping Machine or Rollmaster Striping Machine? It paints lines so quickly and neatly just by walking towards the area you want painted.


Plastic Chain Barrier

If you need portable, removable barriers, this plastic chain barrier is a better idea than the striping paints. Place or remove them easily on the area you want to isolate.

Ultra Pads

Designed for those with visual impairment, the pad is unbreakable with excellent slip resistance. It's useful to alert visually impaired workers to different surfaces and upcoming intersection.

Traffic Cones

You must be familiar with these ones. They're used in traffic constructions as well as parking lots, etc.

Floor Safety Signs

Caution Wet Floor! Avoid injuries from wet floor with this bright colored floor safety signs.

Expandable Mobile Barriers

Place a portable no-entry barrier that can be extended to certain length that you need! Available in these two brands: Rubbermaid and Versa-Guard.

Stencils

Place safety warnings the easy way! Use these stencils for accurate warning images on the floors, the walls and the doors. It's easy to clean them up as well!


Choose one or more of those traffic controls at your work place and avoid accidents as early as possible.

10 Creative, Environment-Friendly Activities You Can Do in Your Spare Time

What do you do in your spare time? Do you go camping, fishing, or mountain climbing? Do you stay at home and do gardening, making crafts, playing with your kids, watching TV or trying out new recipes? Have you ever stopped to think whether these leisure activities are environmental friendly? If they aren't yet, here are some activities that you can do creatively in your spare time which help preserving the environment.

Jewelry Stand from Plastic Bottle Cutout

Stop throwing away plastic bottles to the landfill. Reuse them or if you can no longer use them, create great things out of the bottles. Like this cute jewelry stand. Follow the DIY instructions here.

 

Seed Planter Out of Toilet Paper Rolls

Isn't it such a shame to throw away the perfectly shaped toilet paper rolls? But when the paper has been used up, why would you keep the rolls? Well, here is an idea to reuse them before finally tossing them up in the rubbish bin. Plant your seeds in them!

Styrofoam Block Printing

Did you know that Styrofoam couldn't be decomposed? One way to discourage the making of more styrofoam is to reuse it and turn it into something else. Why not make your own stamps from them? Get some disposable Styrofoam plates and make your own printing design, like shown in the picture below. Follow the complete instruction here.

 

CD Case Greenhouse

So you have the CD bag with lots of pockets. That's a practical way to contain your CD collection. But what to do with the CD cases? Take them to the recycle center and let them do their magic? That's possible and a great way to do it. But you can also make a greenhouse out of these CD cases? How? Check it out here.

 

Recycled Magazine Jewelries

If you like wearing/making jewelries, this could be a fun and cheap activity for you to do on weekends. Get some magazine scraps and let your creativity juice flows. Make cute jewelries (or even bag) out of the recycled magazine pages, like shown here.

Christmas Decorations from Old Christmas Cards

Do you still keep last year's Christmas cards you received? There's no better time than now to recycle those cards into something useful: this year Christmas decorations! No need to spend money on new decoration. All it takes is time, and fun one! Check out what you can do with the old cards here.

Sand Combs from Plastic Container Lids

In some places it might be too cold to even think about beach now. So perhaps save this idea until the time is right. Click here to see how to make your own sand combs out of plastic container lids.

Plastic Bottle Art Painting

The more plastic bottles (or plastic anything) get bad publication, the more creative ideas shared on the internet. Some offer positive sides of used soda bottles, like this cherry blossom painting, created from dipping the bottom end of a soda bottle onto the paint, then on the canvas. Easy art and pretty as well!

Lined Canvas Corrugated Box

What to do with the so many shipping boxes piling up in the garage after moving house? Make them pretty and reuse them as storage boxes. Problem solved! See instructions here.

Light Bulb Vase

Don't throw away your broken (inside) bulbs. Make them into vases instead like described here. A great way to spend Sunday, isn't it?

Aren't they superb time fillers? Let's try them out this weekend!

Video of the Week: DIY Pond Filter with Square Bucket

This is a smart video on how to make your own pond filter with the help of a square bucket and some other materials. If you want to save some dollars on filter, this is the way to do it. It's pretty simple too. Check it out!

Uploaded by scottkyba on 29 May 2009

DIY Pond Filter. Build a pond or aquarium fillter from a bucket and and a bunch of plumbing parts. The total price was less then $40. (not including the power head pump. I got that from ebay.) Took about 1 and a half hours to build. Not including the 2 hours spent looking for parts at the home building plumbing department.

Winter Container Garden

Winter is coming soon. For some aspiring gardeners who live in colder climates, this couldn't be the best of news. Fortunately, one can always start a winter container garden to preserve some plants that can't self-seed after the frost leaves. Here is how.

• You should see which plants can survive during winter and regrow as spring comes, and which can't. For those that are unable to take the cold wind, it's a good idea to move them indoors. You can either replant the whole plant in a big container or grow new plants from cuttings.
• Choose the right container. It can either be the proper terracotta pot or simply a 5 gallon bucket or 30 gallon one. But basically the bigger the container, the better. That allows the plants to better protect their root systems.
• Make sure there are proper drainage holes. Plants do need water in the winter, but they absolutely don't need to be soaked in cold water because there are no holes for the water to come out.
• Place your container garden in a spot that is exposed to a lot of sun.
• You may combine your herbs or vegetable plants with flowers. This will increase the appeal and lighten the mood in the house.
• If you plan to put your container garden in the porch, you should at least make a simple greenhouse to help plants retain the heat and to protect them from harsh cold wind and frost.
• When spring comes, you can replant the container plants back in your back yard or leave them in the pots to decorate the interior of the house.

Gardening can still be done in winter. All that thanks to the highly portable container garden.

One of the first of its kind, the metal

drum heater initially was manufactured

in the middle to late 1940s and was

named the RH-1 (round drum heater). It has

evolved over the past 60-plus years to the

heaters now referred to as models 8TRX55L115,

8SRX55-115 and 8AGM55H115.

 When first designed, the metal drum

heater was a simple, round band heater

5 inches wide and 22-1/2 inches in diameter.

The control, a three-heat switch, was

mounted in an outlet box in the center of the

band’s diameter. The unit was sold with an

attached ground plug. This heater was one

of the few available for heating material to

make it more fluid and workable.

 Since then, the construction has

changed as different materials became

available. This required added controls.

The controls now used are versatile enough

to use on most nonflammable and nonvolatile

materials.

 The model 8TRX55L115 drum heater is

manufactured in two different standard

voltages: 120 volts, rated at 1,920 watts,

and 240 volts, rated at 3,000 watts. The

controls on both heaters are available in

either a high- or low-range thermostat with

a three-heat switch that allows the user

to reduce the wattage input. The 240-volt

3,000-watt heater can be varied from 3,000

to 1,500 and then to 750 watts, and the 120-

volt, 1,920-watt heater can be varied from

1,920 to 960 and then to 480 watts. The

TRX heater is used primarily on material

requiring constant heat for quick heating.

 The model 8TRX55L115 drum heater is

manufactured in the same manner, with

one exception. The thermostat is replaced

by an infinite (variable) switch. The three-

heat switch and the infinite switch assembly

provide a “time on to time off” cycle.

This heater constantly cycles on and off

unless the infinite switch is set to “high.”

With the “high” setting, the unit remains on

at whatever wattage setting the three-heat

switch is set to. The wattage setting can be

varied the same as the 8TRX55L115. The 240-

volt, 3,000-watt heater can be varied from

3,000 to 1,500 and then to 750 watts, and

the 120-volt, 1,750-watt heater can be varied

from 1,750 to 875 and then to 438 watts.

 The advantage of the 8TRX55L115 is that One

Product recycling and sustainability

has never been emphasized

more than in today’s marketplace.

RS Used Oil Services is a division

of Universal Lubricants (UL),

one of the oldest lubricant manufacturers

and distributors in the United

States. In this age of sustainability,

UL has leveraged its industry expertise

to become an innovative leader

in used oil collection and re-refining.

UL’s state-of-the-art re-refinery

plant in Wichita, Kan., strips away

old, worn out additives to produce

Group II base oil. The company then

blends the selected base oil with a

fresh additive package to create its

reliable, performance-driven ECO

ULTRA® line of automotive and industrial

lubricants.

As the motor oil of choice for an

increasing number of dealerships,

fleet operators and repair centers

across the United States, the ECO

ULTRA line has become a steady

benchmark for “good as used” products

and processes in transportation

and beyond.

The 8TRX55L115 Series of highly adjustable drum heaters

is available from BAYTEC. These drum heaters have

added controls so they are versatile enough to be

used on most nonflammable, nonvolatile materials.http://www.bayteccontainers.com/drum-and-pail-accessories-heaters.html

Storage Tanks for Bigger Volume Products

When 55 gallon drums are no longer enough to contain your massive product volume, it's time to switch to the Storage Tanks.

Storage tanks of different sizes

Bay Tec's storage tanks offer the following advantages:

• FDA and USDA compliant, great to store food products
• Rust resistant
• Reusable and recyclable
• Durable
• UV resistant, perfect for storage indoor and outdoor
• Translucent wall for easy product viewing
• Flat bottom for easy mounting
• Wide range of sizes; from 80 gallon, 120 gallon,160 gallon, 175 gallon, 190 gallon, 250 gallon, 300gallon, and even 500 gallon tanks.

So when business is great and you are required to deal/store in bulk, storage tanks are your best option. Check them out here.