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The Life Box is a perfectly normal cardboard box. Sellers can ship goods in it. Receivers can recycle it. But recycling would be a waste, as the Life Box can also be torn up and planted to grow 100 trees.

The makeup of each box is simple—recycled paper laced with 100 or so tree seeds, each dusted with mycorrhizal fungal spores. When planted, the seeds sprout thanks in part to the nurturing fungus. Hopefully, the UPS guy doesn’t get the box wet, or the process might start a bit early.

Right now, Life Boxes are produced on the small scale. You can order up to 100 for your business at an undisclosed price, or a single for $30-$50. (Yes, it’s too pricey to consider.) But imagine if a big company—like an HP or a Sony—got behind the idea and funded the process on scale. As inhabitat points out, "a 1-2% share of the cardboard box market in the United States could cover up to 25,000 acres of land per week." And if only one tree from from any box survives for 30 years, it’ll still suck up a literal ton of carbon.

Company: Life Box

Originally posted at Gizmodo by Mark Wilson

Rather than learn fancy wraps or buy specialty holders to manage headphone tangles, why not sheath your standard earbuds in paracord, that durable, hard-to-twist wonder material? One crafty Instructables writer shows us how.

By running your headphone wires through some paracord and rebuilding the Y junction, you get an audio set that hardly ever ties in on itself, is far less prone to breaks or rips, and can be changed in color, too, if you don’t dig the hue the cord came in.

The author notes that on some cheaper headphones (likely those you’d use for this mod, anyways), performing this hack might result in a little audio quality loss, and that having the paracord rub against your skin or clothing might result in some occasional audible grinding. He gets around that by re-soldering a connection and adding a clip to his headphones, but the takeaway is that you shouldn’t pull this off on headphones you spent a lot of good money on. Otherwise, it turns a cheap, flimsy pair into a durable, convenient audio device.

Sleeving Earphone / Earbud Cords with Paracord [Instructables]

Originally posted at Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy

Photo by Môsieur J.

It’s always possible to keep your shoes smelling like the day you bought them. If your shoes are starting to give your nose a double take, how-to site eHow suggests putting them in the freezer to kill the smell.

I’m not suggesting to throw your dirty shoes into the freezer without any kind of barrier, though. Put the shoes in a plastic zip-lock bag, and put the shoes in overnight to kill the smell. Web site eHow explains that the freezer temperatures in the fridge kills the odor-causing bacteria.

Sure, you can sprinkle cat litter or baking powder in your shoes to deodorize them, but those methods require a possible trip to the market (or a cat). The freezer method is another free and easy alternative to get your shoes smelling fresh again.

How to Freshen Smelly Shoes

Originally posted at Lifehacker by Erica Ho

Ours sure were. Shockingly, I not only noticed how chewed up and beat up they were, but I actually did something about it. The new cups sparkle like jewels.

And now they have some tricky silicon cover, which is good, because these Take & Toss cups most definitely leak when they get tipped over. Though I suspect those things’ll last about two minutes knowing my son.

The First Years Take And Toss Spill Proof Cups, 4 Pack, Colors May Vary , 10 Ounce
The First Years Take And Toss Spill Proof Cups, 6 Pack, Colors May Vary , 7 Ounce

What would you do if you won the lottery? I was driving the other day and saw one of the lottery billboards advertising how much the current lottery is up to. As of this post, the lottery is up to about 28 million dollars. (A paltry sum as it was up to like 260 million last week) Every time I see those billboards, I always start dreaming about all the things I would do if I won the money.

Sometimes, my dreaming is a little bit premature. I think about what I could do with all that money that I’ll never win because I always forget to buy a ticket. When I stop at the 7-11 every couple days to grab a soda I always toss a dollar towards a Powerball quick pick.  I never look at what the jackpot is up to, I never even really look at the numbers.  I only check them when I remember to pull the tickets off my visor and scan them at the kiosk in the 7-11 when I visit next.

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I find nothing more satisfying than a simple grilled cheese sandwich.  It also helps that my son follows after dad in his love for them.

Being the crap-tacular chef that I am (note to self: do not say crap-tacucalr in the same post as comfort food again) I went straight to the web to find what it takes to make “The Grilled Cheese Sandwich”.  Following this great video below (cost of time – 2:30) you too can crank out a quick, yet tasty main course in no time at all.

Necessary Things:
•Cheese and Bread.. What else do you think you need?
•A stove and grill pan
•some kids that will help you enjoy this recipe!

Tips and Tricks:
•Great Sandwich to make with Soup!
•Bacon – nuff said

Resource:
Chow.com