I Think We've Finally Achieved Peak Packaging Madness!

As I've  said, this week I've been buying stuff off Amazon. Despite not having been able to use the last lot of exciting stuff I got off Amazon.

The main thing I needed was a battery jump starter. Which is basically a rechargeable lithium ion battery you can use to start your car when it's lead acid battery is flat.

With a delivery fee to make the most of I also got some new work boots. Waterproof Rigger style, as my thoughts start to turn to cutting long, wet grass and hosing down paving.

As part of my recent spring cleaning drive, I have started using the mothballs, I took down the net curtains in my kitchen to clean them. At which point the plastic curtain rods and the hooks holding them up started coming apart in my hands.

After discovering I couldn't just pick up new ones on the High Street I patched them back up with gaffer tape and swearing. Gaffer tape actually fitting with the aesthetic of the bare metal exposed beneath the plastic coating.

Even buying these curtain rods online turned out to be the most complicated part of the whole order. 

At the risk of getting too technical I needed two short ones and a long one. Given the prevalence of bay windows you'd think this is a pretty standard order. Which you could easily get from a single supplier.

Oh no. I had to buy the short ones from one supplier from and the long one from another supplier. Meaning two packages, two courier companies and two delivery slots.

While I was expecting an envelope the short ones turned up in a massive cardboard box. Bigger than if they'd been laid into it end-to-end.

While the long turned up in a 1.5 metre upvc waste water pipe. Which, I have checked, costs more than the curtain rod.

Fortunately, unlike with the Qatar-France genuine effort to deliver medicine to the hostages Hamas are still holding, it all actually turned up as scheduled.