Capture more detail with a cardboard box? So I built this cardboard box on the camera obscura principle and did a few trial runs with it. It’s not perfect yet. It’s blurry, though that is an easy fix. But more importantly, there seems to be extreme contrast present. The first photograph was supposed to be a panoramic view of a city, backed by a mountain. But it only recorded the more pr…

LPT: Wet cardboard is easier to dispose of With the increase of cardboard packages of the holidays it can be troublesome to dispose of them. I’ve found it’s much simpler to wet the cardboard boxes first before breaking them down to fit inside the garbage can. submitted by /u/NaturalBornRebel

LPT Fill empty cardboard TP or Paper Towel rolls with dryer lint for bon fire starters With bon fire season upon us, this is the quickest and easiest way to get a fire started plus it smells nice when it burns submitted by /u/UpliftingPessimist

LPT: When shipping something between two pieces of cardboard, make sure internal structures of the cardboard pieces are perpendicular to each other. I buy and sell a lot of trading cards and recently had a couple sent to me between cardboard where the internals of the two pieces ran parallel to each other. Suffice it to say, the cardboard wasn’t strong enough this way and bent, damaging the card in between. If you have the internals of the cardboard perpendicular to each other, you create a …

LPT Request: How to get rid of a bunch of cardboard quickly and cheaply? As a new homeowner I have amassed quite a bit of cardboard from ordering things on Amazon and from elsewhere. I can’t fit it all in my trash pickup trash can unless I do a little at a time and that will take forever. The trash company wants to charge me a fortune for extra trash pickup. Any ideas on how to get rid of it quickly, safely, legally,…

Taping two large cardboard boxes for airline check in? I have two cardboard boxes that would still meet the weight/dimension requirements for a check in luggage if I were to tape the two together. I can’t consolidate/combine the two boxes into a single large box, since the boxes they are in are particular to the items that are inside. From what I have researched, this isn’t going to fly with the air…

LPT: Where can I get a lot of cardboard for cheap? I recently purchased acoustic foam panels that are 1ftx1ft and I need to put up 20 of them to make my home studio. But they’re really flimsy and hard to put on right just on their own. The plan: I need ~20ft of cardboard to cut into 1ftx1ft chunks to back the foam, then I can use non-wall damaging adhesive to fit it on the wall and happy endings…

LPT: if you need a lot of cardboard boxes for whatever reason, check with parents of newborns / toddlers Diaper boxes, wipe boxes, diaper boxes, nursery furnature boxes, diaper boxes, formula boxes, endless stacks of diaper boxes. My house is a hellhole of cardboard until I bother to put it out for recycling Diaper and wipe boxes are the perfect size for packing if you’re moving, can’t overpack with heavy things and you can easily carry two if they…