A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

beef jerky, tea, and licorice from around the world. i think i could get with that. my father in law brought back some antelope jerky/biltong from south africa that was quite memorable.

https://cheeseposties.com/

*forthright disgust*

whoa that is ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr8x1F1XhAc

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/business/with-subscription-snacks-entrepreneurs-think-inside-the-box.html

Wait, so cheese posties is a paper sack with a recipe card?

garbage pail kids for a new generation

This isn't exactly the right thread, but I don't know if there's another thread for examples of startup culture doing overpriced wheel-reinvents:

https://floyddetroit.com/products/the-floyd-platform-bed?utm_source=facebook+&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bed-target

$435 for three pieces of pressboard and some braces/brackets. A new apex.

At least the money's going to Detroit.

I mean hey, they deliver it to your house.

It's designed for urban living. That's gotta be worth at least $300 by itself.

My wife got me a Caffe Vita coffee subscription. It's only one 12oz bag per month, but since I only brew at home on weekends, it should cover a decent chunk of the month. If I was going to get a tea one I'd be tempted to try the Teabox subscription. I had a sampler pack of their teas once, and they were all pretty good.

https://cheeseposties.com/

*forthright disgust*

― twunty fifteen (imago), Wednesday, September 23, 2015 10:12 AM (3 months ago)

Why are you taking a break? I need my Cheese!

It's that time of year when a lot of people are away, there is an unholy amount of turkey to get through and Royal Mail have a quadrillion parcels to deliver causing a ton of disruptions. To avoid posties getting lost/missed/stolen by elves/going stale we're taking the opportunity to re-coup and allow our Cheese umpa lumpas time to re-fuel and get obscenely fat/drunk (as if they need an excuse).

lol if you buy legs they come with a carrying case and the company gives you yelp results for local places to get surfaces to complete your table with

lol I know!

TBH I think a leg kit would be a cool idea if it was like $50 tops and not the price of an actual nice coffee table.

this is the dumbest fuckin thing https://floyddetroit.com/products/the-floyd-shelf?taxon_id=2

the only person who would buy that is someone that has never seen the interior of a hardware store in their life

Yeah I was just about to post that - it's literally $85 for two brackets.

aaaaaahahahahaha what

It's literally the fucking emperor's new motherfucking shelf

maybe for an extra $15 they will throw in a carrying case for that one too

I'm admittedly sort of amused/intrigued by what kind of lifestyle would involve portable table legs, like just showing up places and making insta-tables out of doors or whatever. Junkyard picnicker?

Similarly, why you would need a bed that is extra-easy to move (although not like so easy that you don't still have to carry three presumably moderately heavy pieces of pressboard).

the fuck

oh for fucks sake

in that case I have a $75 lefthanded screwdriver that you might be interested in

i mean that is legit stupider than the thing on the vinyl scams thread where they slapped some carefully-sourced MDF together and wanted hundreds of dollars for this super-elite turntable stand

There is probably an edge case where hauling around brackets and legs from dorm to studio to group home to etc etc is more practical than moving whole pieces of furniture - but I don't know if that edge case merits a premium on hardware

edge case also sleeps on a futon

that's where he edges

but these brackets still have to screw into a wall, right? so what's the big portability angle that they're pushing? that you can clamp in a fence paling?

I think I might have actually gotten somebody interested in bombfell.com

presumably the corner case is tombot's edge case + the sort of disposable income that buys $36 bookends

idk part of me is like, if this works for them, more power to them. another part is distressed that it seemed like the more rational decision to market The Products Of America's Depressed Manufacturing And Steelworks Industry as $$$ status objects and not cheap-ass things for less markup, more volume

otoh i think that amounts to 'why don't they market saving the working classes to the lower middle classes. why is it just the upper middle classes get to feel good about these things.'

Man this thing is dumb as hell and obv. way too expensive but tbh I do think about movability a lot when I look at furniture because I move way too often, so I guess their target market is "people who are running from something but SPOILER you can't run from yourself."

A Box of Escape Yourself Shipped to Your House Each Month

Something tells me this thread will get stranger as the year drones on

god help me i signed up for home chef

The smile emoticon prior to the bullet points in that Floydshelf pitch.

I just feel like the "I move every year" demographic is not the "$435 bedframe plz" demographic. I mean I'm a stable professional family man and we still sleep on a simple captains bedframe we got for around $75 off craigslist. And that shit has DRAWERS motherfucker, technology these Floyd folk are still decades away from developing.

You could move a lot and get a new shitty coffee table (with the actual table table) from the nearest op-shop or w/e each time before you'd hit $179.

The clamping furniture is a solid idea, if you could buy it for 1/5th the price at Lowe's and pick out some wood to stain while you're there.

tbh, people moving yearly or bi-yearly should be encouraged to not try to keep up w/ western norms while doing that. Fuck it, get a couple of real Japanese futons, some tatami mats and just live on the floor.

Yeah I'm actually surprised I couldn't easily find (through google) a similar, cheaper version. Shouldn't be much more expensive than any other set of metal table legs. Someone will probably get on that soon.

Also with all the effort of finding a piece of wood to use you could probably just as easily find a trash-pickable coffee table.

well you could go to your neighborhood hardware store, but watch out, they might try to upsell you on brackets and clamps, made redundant by your astute long-term investments from the Floyd people.

okay the Floyd website is hilarious

they're very nice-looking overpriced clamps

http://slurmed.com/fanart/paul/321_clamps.gif

L-R: Floyd, customers

god help me i signed up for home chef

― qualx, Sunday, January 10, 2016 8:57 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everyone is supposed to be shaming me for this

my first box comes in a week i can't wait

looks expensive but tasty, please report back