We know you love them as much as we do—Apple-product boxes are the mother of all boxes. Just feel how tight those corners are.
But we get it: you accumulated way too many, and now you can't bring yourself to throw the magnificent containers out. If you're anything like us, for years you just stacked them in the closet and checked in on them every few months. Then, suddenly, your closet was overflowing with Apple packaging and you had no room to store your coats or hundreds of outdated chargers or cat.
But don't dump them! We scoured the Net and found the best hacks for dealing with your Apple boxes. Follow our suggestions below and, soon enough, those boxes will be worth as much as the product that came inside them.
Regive Them
Apple boxes can serve as great gift boxes. Imagine the joy on your loved one's face and her squeals of delight when she opens up that pristine Apple box and finds a gift card to Rite Aid lovingly stowed inside.
Repair a Bridge with Them
Unlike metal or cement, Apple boxes do not corrode or rust. They can withstand twelve tons of force per square inch. Crowd-source America's closets and collect enough boxes to repair some of the country's sixty thousand crumbling bridges!
Renovate Your Home with Them
Forget Sheetrock—increase the value of your property with a perfectly proportioned Apple room. Apple boxes are made of a NASA-designed material that will keep you warm in temperatures as low as ninety degrees below zero (Celsius!). In fact, Apple boxes have replaced ice blocks in forty per cent of igloos. (The other sixty per cent have melted.)
Build a Boat with Them
This D.I.Y. watercraft is Silicon Valley's update to that old milk-carton boat you made in elementary school. Use your marine-grade Apple boxes to create a vessel without having to get your Sperry Topsiders dirty during chores like sanding, fibreglassing, or painting. Simply place the desired number of MacBook boxes side by side and tell Siri to "make a boat." The edges of the boxes will then merge, creating a waterproof seal that'll keep you safe and dry from here to Cupertino!
Bake a Cake with Them
Apple boxes can be used in place of cake and muffin pans and are actually edible when baked at three hundred and fifty degrees. Move over, Betty Crocker—nothing says lovin' like an Apple-box cake. Stack your Apple boxes for an inexpensive multilayered wedding cake: iMac, MacBook, iPad, iPhone 6, iPhone 4, and iPod Nano as the topper!
Construct Your Own Coffin with Them
Funerals are expensive. Why not take your boxes and build a custom casket? The box material doesn't decompose and will keep your body perfectly preserved well past the second-thousandth coming of iOS. If you prefer cremation, three MacBook Pro boxes will hold a standard-size adult.
