People’s heads aren’t the only places you can live rent-free. An enterprising Scottish woman is bypassing extortionate housing costs by living rent-free in a shipping container — where her expenses total just over $330 per month. “It’s amazing to see my ideas coming together,” Robyn Swan, 33, told South West News Service of her unconventional … Read more
Honey, I shrunk the lids. Does Panda Express have a shrinkflation problem? One disappointed customer is sounding the alarm on the orange chicken monger, claiming the popular Chinese fast casual has severely downsized its takeout containers — even as prices have gone up. “Panda Express food container got smaller,” griped TikTok user @jayasuriyafamily in a recent … Read more
Anything can be a cup if you want it to be. Slurpee season has returned, and so has 7-Eleven’s annual Bring Your Own Cup Day. On Saturday, April 13, for one day only, customers at 7-Eleven, Speedway and Stripes can spend just $1.99 to fill up any — well, almost any — cup-like vessel of their … Read more
This dog is full of surprises! The adorable — and resilient — pooch who was trapped inside a Texas shipping container for over a week before being rescued by US Coast Guard officers is pregnant, the group caring for the animal announced this week. After the canine — nicknamed Connie the container dog — was … Read more
A woman who shared a picture of an Aldi food container “fail” has not received the reaction she was hoping for, instead sparking backlash online. The woman took to a US-based Facebook group to share her frustration with a “special buy” at American Aldi stores. Her complaint was that one of the three containers she … Read more
Drake upgraded his plastic bag to a plastic box. The 36-year-old “Rich Flex” rapper pulled up to the Onyx Gentleman’s Club in Atlanta on Tuesday night with a giant Tupperware container, filled to the brim with stacks of money reportedly totaling $250,000. “Last night was a blur,” the club captioned a video shared to Instagram, … Read more
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there is perhaps no more desperate measure than moving into a skip to beat rising rental costs and crippling cost of living pressures. That is what British artist Harrison Marshall has done, building his very own tiny home in a yellow skip, where he will live for the … Read more