Follow up questions:
- why do we need so many books?
- why large plastic containers instead of boxes?

She probably has a terrible concept of size and weight, having you tell her for years that four inches is really eight inches.

Same reason they use the smallest possible pot when cooking on the stove.

The answer to your question is held within your question.

How big is her toy box?

More used to putting your little object into her big box, are you?

I have quite a Lars rock collection that's always a ton of fun to move.

LupinusTexensis said:

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I have quite a Lars rock collection that's always a ton of fun to move.

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Lars does rock.

tamuangry said:

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Follow up questions:
- why do we need so many books?
- why large plastic containers instead of boxes?

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if its in a large plastic container, it is never going to be unpacked or its seasonal decor

Plastic = going into storage or attic.

Where are they supposed to go?

Heavy items go in the smallest possible box such that the box does not become too difficult to move due to total weight or too unbalanced by one heavy item off center. Also, greater odds the box tape fails if a heavy item is weighing down on a poorly taped seam.

You don't want two 50lb things in one box when you can put them each in a smaller box, so that someone isn't needlessly struggling trying to carry a large and extra heavy box. Seems only logical. Most parcel companies try to keep individual parcel boxes to 40-50lb or less, because that's the largest carrying weight that a person can safely repeatedly handle in a day's work without injury on average.

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LupinusTexensis said:

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I have quite a Lars rock collection that's always a ton of fun to move.

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Lars does rock.

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Along with the rest of Metallica

Get out of here with your logic.

Lars > Bjorn

LoL poors who can't hire movers that others pay for.

Because they aren't the ones carrying them. You only fill a 20"x20" box with books and then carry it onto the truck once.

She's messing with you. That, or cheating.

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Heavy items go in the smallest possible box such that the box does not become too difficult to move due to total weight or too unbalanced by one heavy item off center. Also, greater odds the box tape fails if a heavy item is weighing down on a poorly taped seam.

You don't want two 50lb things in one box when you can put them each in a smaller box, so that someone isn't needlessly struggling trying to carry a large and extra heavy box. Seems only logical. Most parcel companies try to keep individual parcel boxes to 40-50lb or less, because that's the largest carrying weight that a person can safely repeatedly handle in a day's work without injury on average.

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This led to the Boxer Rebellion.

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