#1 Mrs Vagoo: I was thinking the same thing. $5 for the egg cartons, but won’t throw in the 13-cents worth of crap. Maybe that’s negotiable. Email the crafter!
The idea is hardly new. My mom has been using egg carton bottoms for ages, to sort the coins she gets from selling… eggs. If she had known her coin sorters were worth 5 bucks, she could have sold them instead.
Wow, I’m relieved to know that this style of egg carton is still being made somewhere. Man I was worried that this unique configuration of fucking cardboard was going to go the way of the dinosaur & I’d never get a crack at owning one of these.
selling lunch meat in ziploc containers was a good idea. Pulling random crap out of your frig and spray painting it not so much. If any one needs a pencil holder I am happy to paint up the box my butter came in.
Or I could just…I don’t know…buy a carton or two of eggs. Then I can eat the eggs, have someone else eat the eggs, or hell I can even color the fucking eggs. And then I can use the carton as a cheap quick fix storage if I so desire.
There are a lot of things cracked about this item, from the former egg residents down to the seller.
How about spray painting the eggs too and call it easter.
I’m sitting on a freakin gold mine with all the egg cartons I’ve collected for local farmers. Hmmm… Oh well, I guess I’d rather get free farm eggs for my cartons than hope someone is stupid enough to pay $2.50 per carton.
My father’s storage system is worse, but at least he didn’t try to sell anyone else the empty plastic latrine pit enzyme containers he uses to store nails in! and at least the containers are waterproof…
(he works as a camp ranger, thus why we have a collection of these things. It’s dry powder.)
I really hate that at the end of a phone message. It feels like an unauthorized “drive by” blessing.
so “good day – and may enlightenment find you” (Buddah smiles when I say that)
#32 @ Stretch, I hear you on that unsolicited blessing thing. If someone insists on blessing me I either want a discount , a rebate or a free trip somewhere.
I’m surprised at being more cynical than Killer or Bronc – or maybe I’m just more literal – but I can imagine a deeper trip into the ashcan. (Remembering the grater clock with “most” of the cheese cleaned off.)
That’s it. Everything I do in my life from here on is fucking beauty. Doodle on a napkin? Fucking masterpiece. Scribble a note on a scrap paper? Fucking masterpiece. Sneeze into a Goddamn tissue? FUCKING MASTERPIECE!
@ #44, if the seller wanted to get on Regretsy so badly that she opened a store, created a persona, handmade 19 horrible objects that she then had to photograph, describe, upload and pay listing fees for, then I got to give her major props. She has earned her 15 minutes.
When I was in the Brownies, way back in the ’60s/’70s, we made this as a craft project for Mother’s Day! We made it as a jewelry holder, but we actually made it just a bit fancier by lining each cup with hot pink faux fur!
#14 hamoza :
C’mon people, she mentions god fer christs sake. Doesn’t that make this special?
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Yeah, I wonder if God spoke to her and instead of writing poetry and selling it on CD’s he said recyled “art” is your calling!
Comment all snarky if you will, but it’s not so easy as it would seem to make these. I took my crafting list to Michael’s and Hobby Lobby, and couldn’t procure even one of the cartons to convert on my own.
I really hate that at the end of a phone message. It feels like an unauthorized “drive by” blessing.
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That reminds me of my work….a pissed off client will leave me a mean, snarky message and then throw that in at the end! WTH?
Takila,Don’t give her any loaded ideas!
Someone should speak to her, tho’ I wouldn’t hold my breath for god to do it.He/she is too busy worrying about the states of art & recycling .If these are treasures, I’d hate to see what qualifies as refuse around there.
#54 – wow. that’s the kind of crap craft a mother gets and it’s obvious their daughter put too much work into it to immediately pitch. i mean seriously what is trashier than faux-fur-lined literal trash? no insult intended those scout leaders just like to encourage children to make embarrassing, awkward gifts out of the cheapest materials possible (I, too, was once a Brownie).
Raz, multipurpose fuckery means never having to say sorry.There are at least 20 wonderfully dazzling assets on that babe,& I must say that butt cover has never been better placed.
(I’m 18, Alice Cooper)
Sorters made from old egg crates
Feed bags used to decorate
Bottle turned into a vase
Is this just Regretsy bait?
There’s nineteen
Horrible objects for sale
Nineteen
Recycled projects that fail
Nineteen
I’m gonna clue you in
Before you make such crap again
Try using your recycle bin
Oh yeah
#39 if one must say something after a sneeze its “gahzuntite” or “salud”(its Spanish for health).
“Bless you” isn’t it. You are not a priest and if Sneezy is an athiest – it’s insulting, not nice or whimbsicle…grrr
Starry (#69-hee hee)- um, the best part of that listing you mentioned? she says the candle is NOT included. hello? it’s a fucking tea light candle..it cost all of probably 25 cents if that! and she can’t include it in the sale of that thing?
I so relish the thought of directing people to Etsy for the wonderful community of people who make
handmade goods & having them wander into this hell of cracked crap.
This is probably the least crap-tacular thing in her store. But I like how she says it is durable and then says you should take the plant out to water it. She must have made her dictionary into a planter because that is the opposite of durable, no matter how much modge podge you put on it.
Actually, the German sneezy response is “gesundheit,” which wishes the sneezer good health.
I forestall being blessed after sneezing by loudly saying, “Excuse me!” as if I just belched. It also helps that I long ago explained to my co-workers that I don’t fear my soul will fly out my nose when I sneeze if no one says those magical words immediately afterwards. (Not surprisingly, no one knew that was the origin of the tradition.)
I really want to believe she set up her shop as Regretsy bait.
Instead, I see another unfortunate example of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work, this time on a broke and desperate single mom looking to earn a few extra bucks, using what she has at hand.
There’s something tragic about her earnest efforts to craft and promote such profoundly unsellable objects; it sort of makes me want to write her as a character in an Existentialist play about the futility of existence.
Well, when you do, put it on Etsy and I’ll link to it. – HK
May 14, 2010 at 9:34 am
You mean I don’t get the half-used erasers, dirty rubberbands and spare house keys? NO SALE!
May 14, 2010 at 9:35 am
But where do I store all my egg cartons?
May 14, 2010 at 9:38 am
Which came first: the egg or the desperate crafter?
May 14, 2010 at 9:39 am
When selling a product, it’s best to show it being useful. Here, we have several items which do NOT fit in the holes. WHAT THE HELL GOOD IS THAT?
May 14, 2010 at 9:40 am
For only 7 bucks , including shipping you too can descreetly dese-crate your drawers with a nice case of salmonella.
May 14, 2010 at 9:41 am
#1 Mrs Vagoo: I was thinking the same thing. $5 for the egg cartons, but won’t throw in the 13-cents worth of crap. Maybe that’s negotiable. Email the crafter!
May 14, 2010 at 9:41 am
Oh, what a great idea! I think I’ll keep MY FUCKING EGGS IN THESE!
May 14, 2010 at 9:42 am
The idea is hardly new. My mom has been using egg carton bottoms for ages, to sort the coins she gets from selling… eggs. If she had known her coin sorters were worth 5 bucks, she could have sold them instead.
May 14, 2010 at 9:44 am
You made something recyclable into something that’s not–wow, that’s great!
May 14, 2010 at 9:44 am
Wow, I’m relieved to know that this style of egg carton is still being made somewhere. Man I was worried that this unique configuration of fucking cardboard was going to go the way of the dinosaur & I’d never get a crack at owning one of these.
May 14, 2010 at 9:47 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46797953/a-windowsill-vase?ref=v1_other_1
OH MY GOD.
Did she let an 8 year old paint this dawn dish soap container, I MEAN, “Bud Vase?”
Unreal, this is UNREAL.
May 14, 2010 at 9:49 am
That poor man in the second photo. I bet he’s looking for something. If only he had a way to organize his things…
May 14, 2010 at 9:49 am
I wonder if the spraypainted egg cartons around the house would help keep all those pesky chicken bitches happy or would it upset them more?
May 14, 2010 at 9:51 am
C’mon people, she mentions god fer christs sake. Doesn’t that make this special?
May 14, 2010 at 9:52 am
Can be descreetly placed in the bottom of my big assed blue recycle bin where it belongs when I’m done eating the damn eggs that came in it!
JURY ETSY! there would still be enough fuckery for regretsy, but this is literally garbage (or recycling)!!!
Please!
May 14, 2010 at 9:53 am
selling lunch meat in ziploc containers was a good idea. Pulling random crap out of your frig and spray painting it not so much. If any one needs a pencil holder I am happy to paint up the box my butter came in.
May 14, 2010 at 9:54 am
Or I could just…I don’t know…buy a carton or two of eggs. Then I can eat the eggs, have someone else eat the eggs, or hell I can even color the fucking eggs. And then I can use the carton as a cheap quick fix storage if I so desire.
Now that’s multipurpose.
May 14, 2010 at 9:54 am
There are a lot of things cracked about this item, from the former egg residents down to the seller.
How about spray painting the eggs too and call it easter.
ITEM SCORE: UNHOUSED GOOSE EGG!!
May 14, 2010 at 9:55 am
Truth in advertising:she clearly states that she likes to think outside the box. K. This is not a box. Case closed.I’m sold. I’ll take a dozen.
May 14, 2010 at 9:56 am
Her shop is very eggciting.
May 14, 2010 at 9:56 am
I thought that guy was heaving into that barrel after seeing this listing.
@#11 Bridget: But it’s WHIMSICLE!!
May 14, 2010 at 9:56 am
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46972270/a-small-magnet-board?ref=v1_other_1
OK is this the metallic tray from store-bakery cookies? And that patina… is that from dried soap from washing it?
May 14, 2010 at 9:57 am
I use my used egg cartons for what they were meant to be used for – cheap acoustic tile for the band’s practice room!
May 14, 2010 at 9:57 am
I’m sitting on a freakin gold mine with all the egg cartons I’ve collected for local farmers. Hmmm… Oh well, I guess I’d rather get free farm eggs for my cartons than hope someone is stupid enough to pay $2.50 per carton.
May 14, 2010 at 9:57 am
C’mon now, they’re painted lavender and orange. That makes them whimsicle.
May 14, 2010 at 9:58 am
@#19 hamoza – only 1 available (until she buys more eggs)
GET IT WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!! DON’T MISS OUT!!
May 14, 2010 at 9:58 am
and perhaps she could have made more money selling an e-book entitled “How to use egg cartons multipurpose”
May 14, 2010 at 9:58 am
Will this item be shipped securely? Will she use egg carton padding?
May 14, 2010 at 9:58 am
This would make the perfect hillbilly pill sorter.
May 14, 2010 at 9:59 am
@pplrdum: I thought the egg-sact same thing about heaving in the barrel and obviously about whimsicle.
May 14, 2010 at 10:00 am
My father’s storage system is worse, but at least he didn’t try to sell anyone else the empty plastic latrine pit enzyme containers he uses to store nails in! and at least the containers are waterproof…
(he works as a camp ranger, thus why we have a collection of these things. It’s dry powder.)
May 14, 2010 at 10:00 am
#14 AH no, no no no
but have a blessed day!!
I really hate that at the end of a phone message. It feels like an unauthorized “drive by” blessing.
so “good day – and may enlightenment find you” (Buddah smiles when I say that)
May 14, 2010 at 10:01 am
Most of her items let you know that the display crap is NOT included. I am really bummed that I won’t get that business card and cut out magazine heart
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46972270/a-small-magnet-board
May 14, 2010 at 10:02 am
Truth be told, she just spray paints this shit so she can huff the fumes.
May 14, 2010 at 10:02 am
#20 – I’d say more egg-cruciating
May 14, 2010 at 10:06 am
@Stretch65-
Or perhaps a gift for Erik Eggstrada?
May 14, 2010 at 10:11 am
The yolks on you! Nobody should keep their doodads cooped up, hens the need for these thingies.
May 14, 2010 at 10:12 am
She’s got egg on her face & doesn’t even know it.
May 14, 2010 at 10:15 am
#32 @ Stretch, I hear you on that unsolicited blessing thing. If someone insists on blessing me I either want a discount , a rebate or a free trip somewhere.
May 14, 2010 at 10:15 am
LeeLoo,
May 14, 2010 at 10:21 am
She’s going to wonder why we’re all scrambling to check out this item.
May 14, 2010 at 10:21 am
We may have a new record on our hands here! Her shop opened on the 12th! Two days on Etsy and she’s been Regretsy’d. Wow!
She might want to rethink “saving the planet” by coating her recycled “work” in spray paint…jus’ sayin’.
May 14, 2010 at 10:26 am
I’m surprised at being more cynical than Killer or Bronc – or maybe I’m just more literal – but I can imagine a deeper trip into the ashcan. (Remembering the grater clock with “most” of the cheese cleaned off.)
May 14, 2010 at 10:26 am
I call Regretsy-bait. 2 days? Just gets the ol’ bullshitometer beeping.
May 14, 2010 at 10:33 am
That’s it. Everything I do in my life from here on is fucking beauty. Doodle on a napkin? Fucking masterpiece. Scribble a note on a scrap paper? Fucking masterpiece. Sneeze into a Goddamn tissue? FUCKING MASTERPIECE!
May 14, 2010 at 10:33 am
Perhaps we need a new category, titled
“Mail your trash to complete strangers, for money”
May 14, 2010 at 10:36 am
@ #44, if the seller wanted to get on Regretsy so badly that she opened a store, created a persona, handmade 19 horrible objects that she then had to photograph, describe, upload and pay listing fees for, then I got to give her major props. She has earned her 15 minutes.
May 14, 2010 at 10:44 am
Looks like DIY met What The Cluck, this would be the perfect gift for Chicken Bitch.
May 14, 2010 at 10:51 am
@Helen- “19 Horrible Objects”
sounds like the title of a GREAT regretsy-inspired movie!
May 14, 2010 at 10:52 am
this brings back memories of Helen’s radio show – her unofficial theme song was a chicken yodel. Things have come circle
“Was that a chicken joke?”
—-JoAnne Woorley – “Laugh In”
May 14, 2010 at 10:53 am
#11 I thought the same thing. Girl doesn’t throw much away. She should write a book “make overs for trash” or something like that.
May 14, 2010 at 10:59 am
When I was in the Brownies, way back in the ’60s/’70s, we made this as a craft project for Mother’s Day! We made it as a jewelry holder, but we actually made it just a bit fancier by lining each cup with hot pink faux fur!
An “eggsample” of trying to sell trash on Etsy!
May 14, 2010 at 11:02 am
She ought to get together with the crafter who makes the silver/black tinsel multipurpose for a crappy trailer version of containers R us.
May 14, 2010 at 11:06 am
#14 hamoza :
C’mon people, she mentions god fer christs sake. Doesn’t that make this special?
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Yeah, I wonder if God spoke to her and instead of writing poetry and selling it on CD’s he said recyled “art” is your calling!
May 14, 2010 at 11:11 am
Comment all snarky if you will, but it’s not so easy as it would seem to make these. I took my crafting list to Michael’s and Hobby Lobby, and couldn’t procure even one of the cartons to convert on my own.
May 14, 2010 at 11:11 am
#32 Stretch65 :
#14 AH no, no no no
but have a blessed day!!
I really hate that at the end of a phone message. It feels like an unauthorized “drive by” blessing.
***********
That reminds me of my work….a pissed off client will leave me a mean, snarky message and then throw that in at the end! WTH?
May 14, 2010 at 11:12 am
Takila,Don’t give her any loaded ideas!
Someone should speak to her, tho’ I wouldn’t hold my breath for god to do it.He/she is too busy worrying about the states of art & recycling .If these are treasures, I’d hate to see what qualifies as refuse around there.
May 14, 2010 at 11:15 am
Has anyone mentioned how WIN the title of this post is?
Kanye Western Omelette!
May 14, 2010 at 11:25 am
#54 – wow. that’s the kind of crap craft a mother gets and it’s obvious their daughter put too much work into it to immediately pitch. i mean seriously what is trashier than faux-fur-lined literal trash? no insult intended those scout leaders just like to encourage children to make embarrassing, awkward gifts out of the cheapest materials possible (I, too, was once a Brownie).
May 14, 2010 at 11:37 am
Helen, forgive me…I got inspired…
May 14, 2010 at 11:39 am
#52 how egg-stravagant!!!
May 14, 2010 at 11:39 am
I say leave the lid on, spray paint the whole damn thing, voila, pencil/pen organizer also. Then you truly can organize your crap.
May 14, 2010 at 11:40 am
The incredible inedible egg… carton.
May 14, 2010 at 11:45 am
Bravo, Raz!
May 14, 2010 at 11:46 am
Raz, multipurpose fuckery means never having to say sorry.There are at least 20 wonderfully dazzling assets on that babe,& I must say that butt cover has never been better placed.
May 14, 2010 at 11:48 am
@Raz, congrats on COTD!
May 14, 2010 at 11:48 am
aww, cool! LOL
thanks, all- hahaha
May 14, 2010 at 12:08 pm
I’ll take the 5.00 and buy some eggs please. Amazing I know have an organizer too
May 14, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Congrats Razzy!
Check this out:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46778466/strike-up-the-romance
Strike up the romance? If my husband brought this home I’d strike him in the head with it!!!!
May 14, 2010 at 12:30 pm
There is something magicle about these egg cartons. I took one look at the entry and morphed into the “Say What!” guy!
May 14, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Forget salmonella poisoning. There is ample evidence here that this may be the worst case of glue gunitis known to Etsy.
May 14, 2010 at 12:37 pm
CANDLE NOT INCLUDED!!!
May 14, 2010 at 12:42 pm
From the soundtrack to 19 Horrible Objects:
(I’m 18, Alice Cooper)
Sorters made from old egg crates
Feed bags used to decorate
Bottle turned into a vase
Is this just Regretsy bait?
There’s nineteen
Horrible objects for sale
Nineteen
Recycled projects that fail
Nineteen
I’m gonna clue you in
Before you make such crap again
Try using your recycle bin
Oh yeah
May 14, 2010 at 12:46 pm
#39 if one must say something after a sneeze its “gahzuntite” or “salud”(its Spanish for health).
“Bless you” isn’t it. You are not a priest and if Sneezy is an athiest – it’s insulting, not nice or whimbsicle…grrr
May 14, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Stretch, how about “you are SO good looking” (as in Seinfeld)?
May 14, 2010 at 12:53 pm
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May 14, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Starry (#69-hee hee)- um, the best part of that listing you mentioned? she says the candle is NOT included. hello? it’s a fucking tea light candle..it cost all of probably 25 cents if that! and she can’t include it in the sale of that thing?
May 14, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Skully now-a-days anyone who sneezes near me gets the Elaine treatment with a big push and a “get outta here!”
May 14, 2010 at 12:59 pm
@Skully, you always bring the snarktrack
May 14, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Don’t forget: once you reach the bottom of the barrel,you can always LIFT UP the barrel…
May 14, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I so relish the thought of directing people to Etsy for the wonderful community of people who make
handmade goods & having them wander into this hell of cracked crap.
May 14, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Come on now. She’s a single mom with obviously no money & no talent, but lots of motivation.
Until she finds Regretsy. That should stop her.
Then my work here is done. – HK
May 14, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I think my mom kept a few of these that I made for her in kindergarten…if I can dig them up I’ll be rich!
May 14, 2010 at 1:15 pm
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46793773/great-cover
This is probably the least crap-tacular thing in her store. But I like how she says it is durable and then says you should take the plant out to water it. She must have made her dictionary into a planter because that is the opposite of durable, no matter how much modge podge you put on it.
May 14, 2010 at 1:37 pm
#80 but at least with the barrel you can use multipurpose
May 14, 2010 at 2:11 pm
# 77- Razzy- denied the candle!!!!!
May 14, 2010 at 3:25 pm
For that price, I want the top of the carton too! No fair!
May 14, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Her shops like she bought a “crafts to do with your kids on rainy” book and is using that to make her stuff
May 14, 2010 at 8:34 pm
I’m just thinking of how much disproportionate postage and packaging this lovely would need. 9_9
Good idea re temporary organiser tho if I’m beading. Thanks, ugly crafter!
May 14, 2010 at 11:09 pm
How many eggs does she go through with her son? Eighteen is a lot of eggs.
May 15, 2010 at 1:10 am
Is this all its cracked up to be?
May 15, 2010 at 3:01 am
I have so many comments here I don’t even know where to start.
I really can’t even think straight because of the sudden overwhelming urge to bang my head repeatedly against the closest hard surface.
I spied this jewel in her shop:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46783724/completely-recycled-organizer?ref=v1_other_1
7 bucks seems kinda cheap for all that labor intensive work no matter how fugly the result.
Right?
May 15, 2010 at 3:12 am
“Omelet You Finish”
I think this MUST become a t-shirt with say … . maybe.. I don’t know…. something about Chicken Bitches on the back.
Anyone with me?
May 15, 2010 at 9:35 am
Actually, the German sneezy response is “gesundheit,” which wishes the sneezer good health.
I forestall being blessed after sneezing by loudly saying, “Excuse me!” as if I just belched. It also helps that I long ago explained to my co-workers that I don’t fear my soul will fly out my nose when I sneeze if no one says those magical words immediately afterwards. (Not surprisingly, no one knew that was the origin of the tradition.)
May 15, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I really want to believe she set up her shop as Regretsy bait.
Instead, I see another unfortunate example of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work, this time on a broke and desperate single mom looking to earn a few extra bucks, using what she has at hand.
There’s something tragic about her earnest efforts to craft and promote such profoundly unsellable objects; it sort of makes me want to write her as a character in an Existentialist play about the futility of existence.
Well, when you do, put it on Etsy and I’ll link to it. – HK
May 15, 2010 at 6:38 pm
#60 raz, congrats on COTD, but you forgot something.
Her hot pink “Horatio” rubber bracelet.
May 20, 2010 at 12:09 am
I find her work egg-ceptionally not to my liking… It makes me want to visit her with my recycling bin in hand.