Online shopping seems to be the way I buy just about anything these days except clothes (and I just bought a new Geoffrey Beane tux shirt through Amazon, so even that isn’t sacred) and groceries.
The only problem is: What the fuck do you do with all the boxes?
I hate flattening the damn things and then you have to either bundle them up for the trash or find someplace that accepts them for recycle. While we certainly do save on gasoline by ordering online, it seems like all that one-time-use cardboard is a serious waste. (Yeah, I know, it’s probably recycled to begin with. I still have to dispose of it, and the recycling industry is probably one of the biggest polluters on the planet, so I don’t recycle unless I am a guest in your home and you’re militant about it.)
It’s a conundrum.
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)