Top 10 Reasons for Hating Packing Peanuts

[rche]

They also taste terrible...

Not to roaches.

I was recently cleaning up an area in my workspace that had been used as an unpacking area and I kept hearing this faint 'crunch crunch' sound. I stood very still for about a minute before I could pinpoint where it was coming from. There was the lowly bug with a big white water soluble fatty sticking out of his mandibles chewing away!

smacked it with an Elite Forces box and made a mental note to make sure there weren't any of those cornstarch peanuts in any of the items in storage.

[palitoy]

Static cling should be #1, I've had little pieces on my hand that simply will not go away.

[Captain]

Yes! And we grow Quadrotriticale here in Alberta...

I think we may have the makings of the next Trek movie here!!

[Seeker]

They also taste terrible...

[Joe90]

Packing peanuts are like Tribbles...you never can have just one, and by the time you fully realize this, your hip deep in them!

Yes! And we grow Quadrotriticale here in Alberta...

[vulcan2074]

I got a worse one.

Them padded mailers that are padded with that gray "stuff" that looks like a combo of of dry cat hairball throwup and cloth.

If you ever cut the mailer and that stuff comes out, it's crazy hard to clean... especially off your clothes.

I've done that before. I hate the outcome
Sammy

[cjefferys]

If you are opening a box packed with them, don't do it outside on a windy day, I learned this from experience.

[Adam West]

They attract static electricity and have a tendency to stick all over your clothing when you are trying to box an item.

[Bizarro Amy]

There are some that dissolve in water. I think they might be made of cornstarch or something. I dislike the styrofoam ones for packaging, but my mom saves them to put in the bottom of large planters to help with drainage and so she doesn't have to put so much soil in.

[megocrazy]

I'm OK with most of your reasoning, but......

2. Even after you've cleaned them up... you still find them... sometimes even in your underwear.

This one was disturbing.

[clemso]

<<8. They aren't crunchy in milk.>>

lol!

[ScottA]

They are like Gremlins. They don't do well when wet.

[kingdom warrior]

I got a worse one.

Them padded mailers that are padded with that gray "stuff" that looks like a combo of of dry cat hairball throwup and cloth.

If you ever cut the mailer and that stuff comes out, it's crazy hard to clean... especially off your clothes.

That's sooooo true!!!! Everytime I open those I act like I'm defusing a time bomb cause I don't want to cut the mailer and all that crud come out....

[Captain]

Packing peanuts are like Tribbles...you never can have just one, and by the time you fully realize this, your hip deep in them!

[Mikey]

I got a worse one.

Them padded mailers that are padded with that gray "stuff" that looks like a combo of of dry cat hairball throwup and cloth.

If you ever cut the mailer and that stuff comes out, it's crazy hard to clean... especially off your clothes.