You are browsing the archives of packing.

We once thought that the funniest prank anybody could ever pull on an unsuspecting friend was the old box-inside-a-box-inside-a-box birthday gift, were what seems like a huge present turns out to be multiple layers of packaging with nothing at the center (or coal at the center, in the Christmas version). Now, our taste for comedy [...]

Suitcases, surprisingly, are a very hard item to shop for. After all, they all look essentially the same, and the options seem to boil down to a few generic models that are all fairly uninspired. Then, of course, you realize that the $20 suitcase you bought is actually vastly structurally inferior to the $250 suitcase [...]