Comments on: Uncluttered packaging

By: The Green Box | Unclutterer

The Green Box | Unclutterer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:18:51 +0000

[...] after posting Monday’s story about a mailing envelope that transforms into a clothes hanger, we came across this video of [...]

By: Cheap Packaging

Cheap Packaging — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:03 +0000

Nice idea for a clothing company to use as a gimmick.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:36:58 +0000

I think it’s all in the marketing. Get a catchy name for it (after you’ve copyrighted/patented the design), then blast the name all over creation until everybody knows to look for a particular logo on your packages. Then people will start asking for when they ship things.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:28:19 +0000

I think these hangers are a great and creative idea…but I have a small closet so they wouldn’t work for me. I think places like Goodwill could use them and if people need hangers they could take them with them. re Sara: The peanuts do work great in big plant pots as filler. You don’t have to use as much soil which saves money and they help plants drain really well. Also they can be re-used to send gifts to other people and get another use. Also your 5 year old might like to use a bulldozer and pretend they are boulders.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:14:47 +0000

re Sara and the foam peanuts, some people put them in the bottom of pots (instead of gravel)when planting new plants. I think its to help drainage and stop the soil from clogging the holes in the bottom. I only know this because someone did it to some plants they gave me. I cant think of a single other use for them, other than the entertainment they provide for my 5 yr old who loves to cut them into tiny little bits when I’m not paying him enough attention. At least they dont clog up the vaccuum cleaner that way.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:59:19 +0000

It would be more practical if it started out as a hanger (in the store) and then turned into packaging for the item (ie: gift box). Cardboard hangers sound temporary to me, though obviously practical for some applications. Hanger to packaging would be good for shows where people are set up outside and hang items for display, but then need to bag or wrap the product after the sale is made. It would have to look nice, though, when reformed into a package…

By: FLINC Shop

FLINC Shop — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:26:09 +0000

[...] Unclutter var addthis_pub = ‘flinc’; var addthis_brand = ‘FLINC Shop’;var addthis_language = ‘en’;var [...]

By: Ismael

Ismael — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:25:41 +0000

This is a really creative idea. Even if *you* don’t end up using it, someone else will. Besides, who loses? Those who don’t use it can just recycle it like any other piece of cardboard, and those who do get a free hanger. Don’t trash on it.

I hope a retailer like Amazon or Threadless will pick up on this. I’d love for this to go into production.

By: Kris

Kris — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:25:21 +0000

@ Mel,

Actually, the worst thing that would happen is that they would charge us more in shipping and handling for this hangerpak that is not going to get used as a hanger when they could have kept costs down by using normal packaging.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:11:56 +0000

I know some people don’t like the idea, but I don’t understand why so many people are rubbishing it?!

OK so it might not be something you would use regularly but it could be one of those handy things for occasional use … I am at Uni atm and have brought most of my hangers with me from home, but that means when I go home for the holidays I have to scramble round trying to find hangers to hang stuff in my wardrobe so I am not living out of a suitcase … so if I could store a few of those hanger boxes from when I buy clothes online (that I would buy anyway) it would be a great short term solution.

Also when I buy stuff now, any packaging gets recycled anyway so the worst thing that would happen if I got this new packaging is that instead of using the hanger, it would get recycled as usual … and if I do use if for a short term then I can still recycle it, so either way – whether I use it or not it isn’t changing how I handle the packaging, the only difference is that if I use it, the packaging goes through one more use between reciept and recycling

By: Shana

Shana — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:16:22 +0000

Pass. Cardboard = not sturdy. Hanger’s ends = pointy = shoulder nipples. Package = dirty from the mail. Cardboard = useless for hanging wet laundry, so now I have two different types of hangers to mess around with. I file this one under “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” I can’t help but think that many people fail to take green inventions seriously because there’s a lot of crap like this surrounding the few really good, marketable things.

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:47:48 +0000

This is silly. Unless you’ll actually use the hanger, what’s the point? It’s better to just recycle the box. I would rather see someone make use of UN-recyclable packaging, like those peanuts.

By: Peter (a different one)

Peter (a different one) — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:20:53 +0000

Kudos to the designer. I don’t think I would use the hangers, but I applaud the creativeness and maybe it will spark an even better idea.

@Another Deb – great idea about the see-through sides for shoe boxes- Love it!

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:58:44 +0000

I think this is one of those concepts that looks great in the classroom, but would be crap in the real world. I just think of the packages I get with holes and tears throughout, then I am supposed to get my pre-wrinkled shirt out of the box ( again, shipping isn’t the best around here ) and fold along the dotted lines to create a crappy cardboard hanger out of a probably wet box with holes and tears everywhere. Too much effort to get a crappy cardboard hanger that probably won’t last very long anyhow.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:46:42 +0000

I think this is a really innovative idea and shows a lot of creativity.

While I agree that it is not universally useful (I mean one would have to order a lot of t-shirts to get a set!), I like the way this designer is thinking.