@Bauminkorea Maybe they’re just wall decals?

@Bauminkorea @salcedo If they (and their contents) stayed 2D while stored, and popped up to 3D when opened, I’d buy as many as my credit card could grab.

@hchavers must be poor depth perception

@hchavers @salcedo Touché!

@bonnielauria You could always store the second shoe in the box that these ship in.

@bonnielauria @brennyn Maybe these are for your cufflink collection?

@bonnielauria @brennyn @phendrick Or earrings, for those of us who don’t do cufflinks…

@bonnielauria None of my shoes would fit in a box this small. (That’s why I have problems finding decent ones that I can afford.)

@phendrick ^^^^^BEST RESPONSE POSSIBLE^^^^^

@phendrick @werehatrack one of my favorite Carlin bits. It’s quoted often in my house…mostly as I’m cleaning up all the shit…um…I mean stuff laying everywhere!

And despite the fact that we’ll be empty nesters in a few years, I still want to buy a bigger house to hold more stuff.

@k4evryng @phendrick When selling T-shirts at conventions, I ask if the buyer needs a bag, and if they do, I snag one from the pack, open it up, and say “And here’s your additional Place For Your Stuff.” (We do not automatically hand bags out, since over half of the customers don’t want one.)

@werehatrack that is a perfect reply.

I bet the younger generation wouldn’t get it…but I sure would.

@goldnectar agreed, this seems to be the same price as Wayfair, Target, etc.

@Pamela Maybe all the way up to MDF, but yeah, heavy/thick “railroad board” or what the printing trade calls chipboard seems likely.

@Pamela They don’t have to be.
https://www.amazon.com/WEHUSE-Storage-Baskets-Collapsible-Rectangular/dp/B08LSN3RJX/
For example, these (15" x 12" x 10") are just $9 apiece and are just cotton and nylon. (Yeah, they don’t stand up as nice as the pictures, and they definitely don’t stack like the pictures. If you fill them with tossed clothing and lift, the bottom will sag.)

@werehatrack one of the pics shows that the box folds up and can be stored in the lid. I still want to know the missing dimension.

@werehatrack I want boxes that can be folded flat for storage while full.

@duodec same!

We’re a bit odd though.

@sdansmith What you need is a ‘foldbox’*. From Robert Heinlein’s Glory Road:

“Rufo’s baggage turned out to be a little black box about the size and shape of a portable typewriter. He opened it. And opened it again. And kept on opening it and kept right on unfolding its sides and letting them down until the durn thing was the size of a small moving van and even more packed.”

@rpstrong @sdansmith Just make sure you don’t unpack your foldbox in the Homer Bailey House…

@ekyles The box is too shallow to load them standing on end, so probably 30-45 depending on the packaging and the type.

@ekyles @werehatrack since I happen to have the measuring tape in my room (no dirty thoughts) I popped into the bathroom to check the length of one. Looks like it is just under 5". In the packaging it would be just over 5" So the tampon could be stored either vertically or horizontally in this box.

I made the assumption that ekyles wanted to store applicator tampons. Applicator-less tampons are even shorter, so they would be fine as well.

@ekyles @tinamarie1974 The boxes are almost certainly about 3 1/2 in deep, not five.

@ekyles @werehatrack the width of 3.5? Likely, but wouldnt you take them out of the outer packaging for ease of access if you are putting them in a container?

At least thats what I do (my sister, my office, etc). The individually wrapped units come out of the box into the container that usually sits close to the toilet.

@ekyles @tinamarie1974 The stated dimensions of 8x5 are clearly length and width since they ship collapsed. With that to work from, the height (outside) or depth (inside) would be no more than 3.5" when unfolded into use. Applicatorless ones could stand up in that, but not the others. I think these were really designed to be recipe card files for 3x5 cards. That’s what they look like to me, anyway. (And It would explain why they ended up here, since the demand for file storage for that kind of physical media is waning with the tendency to store everything electronically in that area. Just the same as everywhere else.)

@ekyles @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack Oh, good grief - I seriously doubt that anyone is really interested in how many stupid tampons these things hold - it was a dumb rhetorical question that certainly wasn’t worth this much pondering!

@ekyles @werehatrack it doesnt state the height and I’m not going to guess and have someone mad at me if they get something smaller or bigger than expected, but you do you.

That said, in my experience tampons are generally stored laying down in a container of some sort. Hard to store vertically since they dont have a good flat surface (rounded tip) They could still be stored in the box vertically though even if it was 3.5" tall they just wouldnt be able to use the lid.

The basket on the back of my toilet is about 3" high, works beautifully and has done so since I moved in here 7 years ago. Its long enough I can even fit pads and liners. Fancy stuff!

Do you store them differently at your house?

Also, I really dont think ekyles really cares. I think they were making an off the cuff political statement that you decided to mansplane for some reason.

Im out you have a lovely evening.

@ekyles @tinamarie1974 actually, before it was edited, it was very explicitly political. The edit made it look like a serious question, so I decided to toss in an answer. I didn’t actually expect it to go beyond that.

And around here, because of the proclivities of the cats, all such things are kept in tightly closed drawers. A basket on the back of the toilet would be on the floor and scattered in a matter of minutes. We would still be finding some of them months later under the bed and other furniture.

@werehatrack