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I cancelled my Amazon Prime membership about a year ago and haven't looked back. I end up spending less money per month on things that I really don't need and m

I cancelled my Amazon Prime membership about a year ago and haven't looked back. I end up spending less money per month on things that I really don't need and my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes.

praneshp 9y ago
> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes. You can throw in in the trash, you know :) Cancelling Prime is probably good for the same reason I shouldn't have gotten a Moviepass. I now have one less thing blocking me from watching a mediocre movie.
- michaelper22 9y ago
  Trees were killed to make those boxes in the first place (do they have 100% recycled boxes yet?). Better to not order than to dump or even recycle the boxes.
  - megaman22 9y ago
    Trees grow back faster than you might think. Especially the species and grades that go into papermaking. Nobody is cutting down old-growth forest and putting it into pulp. Unless they are a complete idiot - there's no money in it; it's been a while since I was doing my father's logging invoices, but his margins on spruce and fir or hardwood pulp were razor thin, after accounting to stumpage to the landowner and operating expenses. It was largely a way to get rid of the stuff that needed to be cut, but that he couldn't convince anyone to scale out for veneer or saw logs. A huge part of the pulpwood was also blowdowns, storm damage, and disease or insect culls.
  - praneshp 9y ago
    > Better to not order than ... Sure, but trees are not a good reason for that. I'll try to edit and add a better citation[0], but making cardboard boxes is more efficient than going into forests and cutting down trees. [0]: http://www.internationalpaper.com/company/regions/north-america/sustainability-in-north-america/meet-a-tree-farmer http://www.internationalpaper.com/company/regions/north-amer...
  - yorby 9y ago
    I don't know but corrugated boxes is one thing that my local recycling service doesn't pickup... I'm not sure why.
- yeahbutbut 9y ago
  >> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes. > You can throw in in the trash, you know :) I prefer to build forts for my cats out of my leftover boxes.
  - praneshp 9y ago
    I used to do that a few years ago for the neighbor's cats.
donarb 9y ago
Amazon has a program where you can use the old boxes to ship donations to places like Goodwill. Amazon will pay the shipping cost, you get rid of a box and donate to charity at the same time. https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2 https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2
ocdtrekkie 9y ago
This monthly hike hurts me because I don't use Prime most of the year either: I pick it up for Christmas shopping season, it pays for itself easily in terms of lightning deals I can take advantage of. And sometimes I'll pick up a month when I'm going to buy a game, since Prime users can get $15 off new games, which covers the cost of the month of Prime. But in most cases, yeah: I spend less money without Prime, and am rarely in a hurry, and don't mind waiting to hit the $25 minimum for super saver. Not having Prime has also lead me to shop elsewhere more: I buy stuff from Walmart, Target, and Best Buy a lot more in addition to Amazon purchases.

praneshp 9y ago

> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes. You can throw in in the trash, you know :) Cancelling Prime is probably good for the same reason I shouldn't have gotten a Moviepass. I now have one less thing blocking me from watching a mediocre movie.

michaelper22 9y ago
Trees were killed to make those boxes in the first place (do they have 100% recycled boxes yet?). Better to not order than to dump or even recycle the boxes.
- megaman22 9y ago
  Trees grow back faster than you might think. Especially the species and grades that go into papermaking. Nobody is cutting down old-growth forest and putting it into pulp. Unless they are a complete idiot - there's no money in it; it's been a while since I was doing my father's logging invoices, but his margins on spruce and fir or hardwood pulp were razor thin, after accounting to stumpage to the landowner and operating expenses. It was largely a way to get rid of the stuff that needed to be cut, but that he couldn't convince anyone to scale out for veneer or saw logs. A huge part of the pulpwood was also blowdowns, storm damage, and disease or insect culls.
- praneshp 9y ago
  > Better to not order than ... Sure, but trees are not a good reason for that. I'll try to edit and add a better citation[0], but making cardboard boxes is more efficient than going into forests and cutting down trees. [0]: http://www.internationalpaper.com/company/regions/north-america/sustainability-in-north-america/meet-a-tree-farmer http://www.internationalpaper.com/company/regions/north-amer...
- yorby 9y ago
  I don't know but corrugated boxes is one thing that my local recycling service doesn't pickup... I'm not sure why.
yeahbutbut 9y ago
>> my house is no longer filled with endless cardboard boxes. > You can throw in in the trash, you know :) I prefer to build forts for my cats out of my leftover boxes.
- praneshp 9y ago
  I used to do that a few years ago for the neighbor's cats.

donarb 9y ago

Amazon has a program where you can use the old boxes to ship donations to places like Goodwill. Amazon will pay the shipping cost, you get rid of a box and donate to charity at the same time. https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2 https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/xde6cauvpfp66o2

ocdtrekkie 9y ago

This monthly hike hurts me because I don't use Prime most of the year either: I pick it up for Christmas shopping season, it pays for itself easily in terms of lightning deals I can take advantage of. And sometimes I'll pick up a month when I'm going to buy a game, since Prime users can get $15 off new games, which covers the cost of the month of Prime. But in most cases, yeah: I spend less money without Prime, and am rarely in a hurry, and don't mind waiting to hit the $25 minimum for super saver. Not having Prime has also lead me to shop elsewhere more: I buy stuff from Walmart, Target, and Best Buy a lot more in addition to Amazon purchases.