A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

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

I had a co-worker who did Blue Apron. Single, 30s, lived alone. Every day or couple of days he'd bring in the sad, snapwared leftovers from the prior night's wasabi sea bass or whatever it was.

mmmm wasabi sea bass

been curious about this but don't live/work in fidi:
http://ny.eater.com/2015/4/28/8506595/maple-food-delivery-nyc-david-chang

Basically it's gourmet seamless with no middleman, or I guess really just a fancy but reasonably priced all-delivery restaurant. I had an idea sort of like this once, thinking that you could probably do really good delivery at reasonable prices if you could keep costs down by only having a kitchen and not a storefront (you would probably get a big break on real estate by not needing a visible storefront property or space for tables). I figured internet makes that possible in a way it wasn't before. But I am not David Chang or a person with money to invest in a restaurant.

grim irony that a just-in-time service like that only works in an area that's also dense enough that it could provide a take-out meal of similar quality within a short walk

Maybe. Not sure you could get something quite that (presumably) good for $12/lunch or $15/dinner in a lot of places in Manhattan (most of which, granted, don't yet have Maple either). There is a place by my midtown office that does sort of an upscale version of deli/steam table, good organic ingredients, etc., and you can get a pretty good dinner there for around $12-15.

Probably will succeed because of David Chang's name attached.

god help me i signed up for home chef

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

a high school friend founded this company. I get Blue Apron, though, because home chef does not deliver to the west coast. it's a great way to force yourself to cook new things. The recipes are also generally solid from these services because so many people are forced to follow them.

looks expensive but tasty, please report back

― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, January 15, 2016 11:06 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not as cheap as actual groceries but cheaper than eating out/delivery, which we're trying to stop doing constantly. and it's healthier, you actually feel guilted into picking the healthier options when you're planning individual meals out a week ahead.

looked into all of them (plated/blue apron/hello fresh etc) and home chef seemed like the best. it's the cheapest and you actually get to choose from a bunch of recipes. it seems like blue apron doesn't even let you pick, they just send you food based on some vague preferences? not spending $12/meal if i can't even pick out food i might like.

hello fresh was the same price as home chef but half as many choices and the food didn't look that good. plated looked great but expensive.

Blue Apron has 3 meat and 3 vegetarian meals to choose from each week. You can choose 3 out of the 6 but some permutations aren't allowed.

ah, the faq says "Once you have set your dietary preferences we will send you three recipes that match your preferences." still. their recipes do look good though

You have to actually cook all these right? Too much work.

You have to cook, but that's good if you haven't cooked a variety of things at this point and enjoy cooking. It is convenient to not plan a meal and shop for groceries, as well.

xp yeah, they automatically choose 3 meals based on your preferences. But they let you change the menu afterward. We didn't realize this until a few weeks into using it. We skip about half of the weeks because the limited meal selection doesn't always appeal to us.

we're in a future where cooking is considered "fun" in the face of office work

Something something labor something something Marxist

food pro tips

and sprout hacks

I want a box of personal chefs delivered to me.

http://getvinebox.com/

3 10-CL test tubes of wine for $35/month, plus shipping.

what am i supposed to do with exactly three glasses of wine?