News You Can Use - December 2, 2006
A day or two ago I wrote about the really clever packaging for the Ritz bits snacks I bought at a convenience store. [Why Didn't I Think of That?]
Giving the matter some additional thought, I came up with a way that you and I can enjoy the same convenience of having a container that we can fill with snacks that will fit into drink holders in our cars... for only the cost of putting some snacks into a very similar kind of container ourselves.
The next time that you go to any of the fast food places like MacDonalds or Wendy's, purchase a large drink. Usually the large drinks come with a sturdy, reusable plastic cup. Get a couple of the tops that fit the cup. Keep the cup and the unused tops and take them home. When we went in for a sandwich, we were going to get a drink anyway, so the cup is, for all intents and purposes, free.
The cup can be used over and over to take snacks with you when you are driving somewhere. Pretzels, crackers or cookies or Goldfish or better yet, Pepperidge Farm Milano Mint cookies... anything that warms the lining of your stomach. It will not tip over. When your are driving, you do not look for it on the seat, because it is not going to move around. If you run out of tops for it, simply pick up a new one the next time you visit the fast food place where you got it in the first place. And to boot, a great way to recycle a perfectly good plastic cup, rather than just throwing it away.
And that is my News You Can Use for Dec. 2nd.
Kindest Regards,
Howard Fireman
Houston, Texas
Giving the matter some additional thought, I came up with a way that you and I can enjoy the same convenience of having a container that we can fill with snacks that will fit into drink holders in our cars... for only the cost of putting some snacks into a very similar kind of container ourselves.
The next time that you go to any of the fast food places like MacDonalds or Wendy's, purchase a large drink. Usually the large drinks come with a sturdy, reusable plastic cup. Get a couple of the tops that fit the cup. Keep the cup and the unused tops and take them home. When we went in for a sandwich, we were going to get a drink anyway, so the cup is, for all intents and purposes, free.
The cup can be used over and over to take snacks with you when you are driving somewhere. Pretzels, crackers or cookies or Goldfish or better yet, Pepperidge Farm Milano Mint cookies... anything that warms the lining of your stomach. It will not tip over. When your are driving, you do not look for it on the seat, because it is not going to move around. If you run out of tops for it, simply pick up a new one the next time you visit the fast food place where you got it in the first place. And to boot, a great way to recycle a perfectly good plastic cup, rather than just throwing it away.
And that is my News You Can Use for Dec. 2nd.
Kindest Regards,
Howard Fireman
Houston, Texas
posted by hfireman | 9:34 AM
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