Do you remember when everything used to take a lot longer to get done, and how there were usually no less than fifty steps to get there? I’m talking like the 1800s and earlier, and how absolutely everything was made by hand. I mean, can you imagine that? For instance, if you were to walk into a general store there would be barrels full of “goods”, and those barrels were not something slapped together on an assembly line. Making barrels was actually a specialty job, and it still is, and that person is called a “cooper”. A barrel was actually a very complex and deliberate design, and required numerous steps to get the wooden slats to bend, and the hoops to lay in the right spots.
What does any of this have to do with bin liners, you may ask. Well, before we had bins we had barrels. Sometimes I just have to marvel at the progression of things. We couldn’t even just stop at bins, mass-produced and disposable as they are. We went on to develop bin liners, which go in the bins to better sustain the product inside, and to prolong the life of the bin as well.
Let’s face it, someone probably invented bin liners because they knew they were going to be moving soon and they didn’t want to waste all of those boxes. So they started lining the boxes with garbage bags, and then later saving the bins to take home and pack with pots and pans. It turns out the CEO was secretly working in the warehouse that day and saw the genius invention, and later approached this person with an amazing business opportunity: to co-own the patent for bin liners. So the original thrifty idea wound up making them a ton of money, and the moral of the story is that they never had to worry about saving boxes again. That story flows so nicely it just might be true…
The actual moral of this story, what I’m really talking about, is that bin liners are a smart business move. When we mail an old sweater to our little sister in college we probably wrap it in a plastic bag first, because who knows what could happen to that sucker on the way. It could be left out in the rain, and then driven through a dust storm.
The UPS driver could spill his energy drink on it or ants could try to infiltrate because you never washed it after dripping spaghetti all over it. Despite it all, wrapping the sweater saved your sister from potentially unwrapping a rag. It’s the same concept with bin liners. Like I said: smart business move.
The extra heavy double wall brown corrugated box. This box is a box in a box, the inside layer strengthening the outside layer. Never again will you have to worry about the shipping carton breaking open and raining bricks down on the feet and shins of some poor, unsuspecting delivery man. Which means that never again will you have to worry about the threat of lawsuit. You can only pay people off in decorative boulders for so long, know what I mean? So stop crossing your fingers and hoping for the best, and start buying extra heavy shipping boxes wholesale.
So, when I say that there is nothing like some custom shipping bags, you can get the drift that I’m talking about more than just a garbage bag, or a sandwich baggie. If you go to PackagingSupplies.com you will see exactly what I’m talking about. Oh sure, you will find your garbage bags and sandwich bags there, too, because PackagingSupplies.com is serious about their business, and they understand that people have a need for these everyday products.
When I first developed my own, personal business I knew that one of the things I would need from the get-go, and plenty of, were custom shipping boxes. I knew that I would need a large volume of a variety of sizes of boxes on hand at all times. After doing a lot of research, and reading a lot of reviews, I decided to use PackagingSupplies.com for my shipping needs. I have never regretted that decision!
You can really up the prices on something you are trying to sell when stuffing one of these bad boys. Not that we did that with our chocolate covered pretzels. We gave those away for gifts, mostly at Christmas time. Take a mug from the dollar store bearing the face of Rudolph, tie some bells on the handle from the same place, fill it with chocolate covered pretzels (the long kind, not the braided ones), and put it one of these bags, tied with a ribbon, and voila, people think they have gotten a pretty classy gift. And it’s not about being cheap. It’s about still being able to give beautiful gifts to people you care about, even when you can barely afford to keep the electricity on. Now that’s the stuff of Christmas cheer! Seriously, though, polypropylene bags is what really brings it all together. Can’t forget those, or else it’s just a nice try, which is really just a flop. What else is in the family of plastic shipping bags? I’m glad you asked. Shrink wrap bags. Yup, you guessed it. Bags that you put something in and then heat it up and the wrap shrinks around the item. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this is what makes it possible for bootlegger’s. You will never guess that the DVD case clearly representing The Titanic actually carries a homemade video of some kids practicing Spanish. This is because with shrink wrap bags you can wrap the DVD to make it look brand new. First, you need to make sure you use the correct heat sealer, also for purchase at PackagingSupplies.com (with the rest of the plastic shipping bags). This also melts off any excess at the top. Then shrink with the heat gun. If you try to be cheap about it, like a true bootlegger, and use a hair dryer you are going to wind up probably setting the product on fire, and probably your whole house too. The moral of the story is: don’t cut corners and get the actual heat gun that is meant to be used on the actual product. And good luck to you. 