If you've ever opened a package that was filled to the brim with packing peanuts and wondered what the heck to do with them, we've got 13 genius answers! These tiny pieces of Styrofoam are best known ...

TyBott stares into the camera, chewing slowly. The sandwich — if you can call it that — is packed with peanut butter and raspberry jam, but instead of bread, the filling oozes between two slices of ...

Just got another laptop shipped from my favorite <strike>jackass</strike> co-worker who insists on packing everything in (possibly faux-) styrofoam peanuts. What. The ...

Packing peanuts make shipping fragile objects easy. But the puffy particles become a wasteful nuisance once the shipment is complete. Now researchers report a method to turn them into something useful ...

I head my dog eating something so I went to check it out and I saw him going in one of my boxes eating some of the peanuts! I picked one up and sniffed it and felt it. It didnt feel or smell like ...

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We’ve all been there. You’ve ordered a new gadget, and upon opening the box once it has finally arrived, you have to claw through a boatload of packing peanuts that wind up scattered all over the ...

Once the wrapping paper is ripped off, and those pretty bows and ribbons are tossed aside, the clean-up begins. And if you received packages via the mail, or if you got a breakable gift for Christmas ...

I measured the capacity of the packing cubes two ways: by the number of items they could accommodate from my packing list and by the number of packing peanuts they could hold. I also measured the ...

Packing peanuts are, of course, the incredibly annoying bits of foam used to protect breakables. Once a packing peanut becomes attracted to you by static cling, it's your friend for life. I'm not ...