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Does your foyer look like an Amazon warehouse?

Does your foyer look like an Amazon warehouse?

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 39.3%

  • No

    Votes: 17 60.7%
  • Total voters
    28
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Does your foyer look like an Amazon warehouse? Ours has so many boxes from Amazon and other places. My goal is to get through them all, open, unpack, wipe down, and recycle the boxes, but it seems to be a never ending incoming supply of shipments!
 
Lol, all the time! I usually unbox once a week and put things away.
 
We use our garage as the unpacking station. And yes, it looks like a warehouse haha. There's an exercise bike box that's been there for 2 months, unopened.
 
OMG YES!!!! Our house is the size of a postage stamp and storage has always been an issue. Since lockdown began, I've had everything shipped or delivered, including groceries, and since a lot of household items are sold on Amazon in multi-packs, I end up with a ton of duplicates which have no other space to occupy except our tiny foyer!!

The sight of all this crap sitting on the floor of my formerly tidy and neat foyer totally stresses me out! At least there's no risk of houseguests to witness my shame.
 
I'm rich and live in an enormous house.
I just took the below pic of my foyer.

I've never been to an Amazon warehouse (nor do I play one on TV) so I don't know whether they look like my foyer.
None of my 741 servants have been to one either.

That guy on the bottom pulling a pallet is Bill.
He's a nice real guy.

So, do Amazon warehouses look something like my foyer?
If so, they're probably just copying Kenny so Amazon can look richer than it really is.

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pearlsngems said:
Foyer? What foyer?
We have to unpack boxes right away.
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We use single use disposable rubber gloves to move all packages and all USPS mail to the garage.
There it sits untouched, in quarantine, for 72 hours.
Then we open it.
 
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stracci2000 said:
I'm not afraid of my mail.
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"Afraid of mail"? :doh: You're starting to sound like DF.

Neither am I afraid of my mail.
I'll never buy a so called :lol: "smart"phone, but I'm smart with mail, store purchases, and anything else that might increase my odds of dying during this pandemic.

I'm also open to any other ways to keep myself and SO even safer.

Fear is stupid, but protecting human life is wise and worth a 10 cent pair of disposable gloves.
Well, MY life is worth 10 cents.
 
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ForteKitty said:
I found what looked like phlegm on my packages before. And blood. I think someone cut their hand while packaging up stuff. Pandemic or not, gloves are a good idea.
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Yeah, that's pretty gross. o_O
 
kenny said:
We use single use disposable rubber gloves to move all packages and all USPS mail to the garage.
There it sits untouched, in quarantine, for 72 hours.
Then we open it.
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We don't have a garage either.
 
pearlsngems said:
We don't have a garage either.
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You don't need a garage to stay safer.
You don't need to spend a penny on products.

Just leave all new stuff (regardless of origin, even stuff from family and most-trusted friends) that enters your home, somewhere, anywhere, untouched for 72 hours.

More safe, little hassle, and free.
 
I usually open it and put the boxes outside in the recycling right away, and wash my hands after. I have little kids that will climb on/pick up boxes so it’s best to get them out of the way.
 
I’m in the minority because we don’t have a foyer and we don’t order much at Amazon.

We do occasionally have up to 20 brand new Stihl chain saws boxed and stacked in our dining room though ;)
 
I live in a tiny 3rd floor walk up. Sometimes I open my boxes in the lobby/ mall area, have my kids take things upstairs and get rid of the box. Other times I leave it outside my apartment and unpack. Today I had 10 minutes and moved a target box inside my apartment. Of course that box had 4 pounds of sugar and several bags of gold fish crackers opened and smashed. So I got sugar and bits of crackers all over the stairs and my entryway. My husband had to pick up the bag of sugar to see why it's leaking after I cleaned up and went to get a plastic bag. I didn't even think about the virus...I did think about strangling my family...
 
FL_runner said:
I usually open it and put the boxes outside in the recycling right away, and wash my hands after. I have little kids that will climb on/pick up boxes so it’s best to get them out of the way.
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This is what we do. Open boxes, wash hands, remove what's inside and put it away, take boxes to recycle bin, wash hands again.
 
Nope. I prefer to support local businesses. Hate Amazon.
 
I am slowly losing my foyer to the boxes. Is there a paid service to help me unbox and get rid of the cardboard right away? It's the used boxes that are a pain to deal with.

I must say I'm overwhelmed by them, feeling like the proverbial deer in the headlights. I don't know where to begin with the unpackaging.
 
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No absolutely not.

But our dining room looks like a Costco warehouse.:lol:

Slowly but surely we are working our way through the items and using them and organizing them. It's sort of organized chaos due to having 4 cats and feeding all the ferals in our neighborhood during the pandemic.
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I was concerned about getting enough cat food for our ferals so we kept buying each time we went to Costco and we have accumulated enough cat supplies at least for the next 4 months. We have nowhere to put it but our dining room.

I am much more relaxed now about the cat food situation since we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but at the beginning of the pandemic I was anxious as we were being limited to the amount of cat food we could buy and we have so many ferals (and four indoor kitties who have big appetites) and I was envisioning CATastrophic consequences.
Whew. Relief.
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KristyDarling said:
OMG YES!!!! Our house is the size of a postage stamp and storage has always been an issue. Since lockdown began, I've had everything shipped or delivered, including groceries, and since a lot of household items are sold on Amazon in multi-packs, I end up with a ton of duplicates which have no other space to occupy except our tiny foyer!!

The sight of all this crap sitting on the floor of my formerly tidy and neat foyer totally stresses me out! At least there's no risk of houseguests to witness my shame.
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This is me too=)2
 
Not really as I don't buy that much, ha ha! :lol-2:

And there is no point for me to save the boxes for the cat as she does not care for boxes - she is a strange cat! :roll2:

DK =)2
 
Nope, we bring in deliveries, open the boxes, put the stuff away, and then put the boxes in the recycling bin, then wash our hands.
 
Austina said:
Nope, we bring in deliveries, open the boxes, put the stuff away, and then put the boxes in the recycling bin, then wash our hands.
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This is what we do too, partly because of space and partly to reduce single-use waste of gloves.
 
stracci2000 said:
I'm not afraid of my mail.
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I stopped sanitizing my mail over the summer, then over Christmas there was a variant outbreak at the local post office. Nearly every postal worker tested positive and one died.

I’m not afraid of my mail, but I was giving it some suspicious looks while that was going down.

Back to spraying the packages at our house.

We use 80% ethanol in a spray bottle, let it evaporate, and then open them right away. I’m too much of a child to wait 3 days for my packages.
 
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For folks who do not quarantine their packages for 72 hours before opening them ...

I'd also pay attention to when the items were boxed up.
Human hands may have touched what you bought and the packing material.
If it was packaged less than 72 hours ago I'd quarantine the product itself until the 72 hours have elapsed.

Putting the boxes in the recycling bin is great, but if I touched a doorknob to get to the bin I'd decontaminate the doorknob, and where I touched the bin.
For that I pour 70% Iso Alc into a pump bottle and use a small piece of paper towel.

I do all the shopping, and SO does the decontamination of everything when it comes into the house.
It takes a long time and he's very thorough.

My SO and I are super duper careful about all this.
We often discuss how we can be even more careful.
So far so good.

This is all a huge hassle, but it's better than dying.
 
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