By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn’t collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      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.

    • papalonian@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 days ago

      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.

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    111·
    10 days ago

    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…

      • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        If I understand correctly, this one is still in progress, i.e. her hasn’t quite accomplished it yet. They tried to add the selloff of public land to the big piece of shit bill, but I think that failed?

  • viking@infosec.pub
    6·
    10 days ago

    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.

      • Donjamos@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        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.

      • eaterofclowns@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 days ago

        I have this printed and framed next to my desk. It’s a good reminder of the power we all have to live our lives how we choose and the kind of people we want to be.

    • Zedd @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      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.

        • Zedd @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          10 days ago

          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.

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world
    5·
    10 days ago

    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.

    • Kissaki@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      In that article 1 of 11 images is still available. Everything else is gone. lol

  • pwnicholson@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    2·
    10 days ago

    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.