Foam Packing Also Rocks.

Okay, I know that we are supposed to be reducing how much packaging and foam stuff we use to ship products around, but let's face it - the day something arrives in the mail in a big box is also the day we get some great stuff to build things with. For example: Foam packing. We just got a bunch of light fixtures and they came with nice big boxes, pieces of foam, and little foam pellet things - all of which can be used to make something.

In this case, my kids made "computers." (Note: I had zero input on this.) I'm not sure how much they consulted with each other, but they ended up with basically the same layout. That pad of paper on top, I'm told, is a "printer." Although my daughter made herself a keyboard with letters on it, and my son chose to "punch" the keys into the front of the computer. He's younger, so maybe that was better for him. Also interesting is the choice to add a "theme" to each computer, one with fairies and one with dinosaurs. They should so sell computers like this! Forget changing the outside color - I want mine with robots sticking off of it.

So, at some point we will recycle all of this, and then wait for the next time we get a big shipping box with interesting packing stuff in it. I guess this would go under the "re-use" part of the three R's.