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The National Parks.
I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.
Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course...
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Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.
Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.
Every time. It's truly stunning that there's an xkcd for everything.
It's selection bias. Instances where there isn't a relevant xkcd aren't recorded.
I do shit like that from time to time, when I remember beeing an adult is not just crappy and tedious but means I can decide shit. Last week I got a cheesecake. A whole cheesecake. And ate it for dinner. The whole cake. Because who's gonna tell me I can't do that? Certainly not the bakery. Or my kids. Maybe my doctor had an opinion on that, but come one it's once a month or so that I do something like that.
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If only. Shipping on ball pit balls is stupid expensive. I looked at filling a 6x12 office like 3 feet deep and it was going to be almost $3000 once shipping was included. Yes, I am still bitter about it. I just didn't want to deal with an office chair anymore.
A chair is less to deal with than a room full of balls
Sure, but imagine you join a meeting and the lead engineer is sitting in a ball pit. Isn't your first response going to be to laugh? Then he shifts to grab something and slowly sinks out of frame. It's 100% going to make whatever stupid meeting better.
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I'm not a homeowner, don't plan on being one any time soon, and have zero use for their services, but damn am I sold by their "Why CHIPDROP is probably NOT for you" promo video. That's advertising gold, right there.
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It's neat that that service exists, but you can also call up local arborist companies and ask, or wait until one is chipping a bunch of debris at a neighbor's house and ask the truck driver in person.
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Outside of the awesome 'national parks' answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn't have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.
If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.
How do you get this free or cheap land in the Canadian tundra, again?
You most likely don't. You would have to talk to the territorial governments who then would have to talk to the indigenous land holders. And even then it's a logistical nightmare where the sun sets for a month.
Also if it is Crown land also doesn't mean that the government is actually looking to sell or develop the particular land even if it isn't in a National park.
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Plastic lawn chair. They are one of the biggest dimensional losers. Cheap, but if you’re ordering just one the packing is super inefficient.
I suppose it’s not that much of a pain in the ass in retrospect but it’s definitely a mental pain considering the incredible poor efficiency of getting one delivered. Perhaps you can find an extremely large piece of Styrofoam because they cannot be folded.
make sure to get multiple chairs, but none of the same type. not being able to stack them is super annoying : D
I think this is the best answer overall
You shouldn't think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.
Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.
In that article 1 of 11 images is still available. Everything else is gone. lol
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You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don't know about price there.
Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don't want to drop them because it'd make a mess.
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How much do you want to spend? Used shipping container?
Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you're stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.
Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.
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Horse manure tends to be free around these parts
By area activated charcoal has a ton of surface area
I am curious what the purpose of this is
To spite either a delivery person or the person the item will be delivered to.
Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!
A big fuck-off mylar balloon.
I know this one, it’s skin!
Does it have to be usable?
The $18.6 million in cash and 225 gold bars in two boxes that belonged to the late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla.
Bouncy castle
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