What's the largest object one can buy for the least amount of money?

By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn't collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.

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dukatos@lemmy.zip · 142 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Your mom

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 67 pts · 1y

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 46 pts · 1y

SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 84 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The National Parks.

I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course...

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

The national parks are the best value, but dollars to area public lands are less managed and bigger

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I missed Trump fucking things up and I need to know now...

forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If I understand correctly, this one is still in progress, i.e. her hasn't quite accomplished it yet. They tried to add the selloff of public land to the big piece of shit bill, but I think that failed?

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

Ty!

viking@infosec.pub · 61 pts · 1y (18 replies)

Those plastic balls for a ball pit. You order them in bags of 1000 pcs for 15 bucks on Aliexpress, they are bloody huge. A couple of those will do.

Especially if your goal is to mess with the delivery driver, you can max out available storage in the truck in no time.

cattywampas@midwest.social · 45 pts · 1y (9 replies)
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Every time. It's truly stunning that there's an xkcd for everything.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 1y (5 replies)

It's selection bias. Instances where there isn't a relevant xkcd aren't recorded.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 1y

Your xkcd number is 2618

RandomStickman@fedia.io · 6 pts · 1y
Zirconium@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Cause every conversation where there is not a relevant xkcd disappears from reality

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

Considering the joke is how many years old now? I assumed the punchline was implied. You are not wrong. 🤓

grue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

For those situations, there's 917, 1447, and probably some others.

Donjamos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I do shit like that from time to time, when I remember beeing an adult is not just crappy and tedious but means I can decide shit. Last week I got a cheesecake. A whole cheesecake. And ate it for dinner. The whole cake. Because who's gonna tell me I can't do that? Certainly not the bakery. Or my kids. Maybe my doctor had an opinion on that, but come one it's once a month or so that I do something like that.

eaterofclowns@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I have this printed and framed next to my desk. It's a good reminder of the power we all have to live our lives how we choose and the kind of people we want to be.

Zedd00@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 1y (5 replies)

If only. Shipping on ball pit balls is stupid expensive. I looked at filling a 6x12 office like 3 feet deep and it was going to be almost $3000 once shipping was included. Yes, I am still bitter about it. I just didn't want to deal with an office chair anymore.

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A chair is less to deal with than a room full of balls

Zedd00@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

Sure, but imagine you join a meeting and the lead engineer is sitting in a ball pit. Isn't your first response going to be to laugh? Then he shifts to grab something and slowly sinks out of frame. It's 100% going to make whatever stupid meeting better.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

You would still need to sit on something though right? Otherwise you just sink to the bottom.

josefo@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Jim is that you?

Zedd00@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y

At least I'm not the only one who had this idea

nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y

I think upped popcorn still might be cheaper if you have an air popper. Way purest waste plastic and you can make a huge volume of the stuff in just a few minutes.

I know a guy who filled his friend’s Saab with popcorn during a prank war back in the 90s. It kinda ended the whole thing I think, and there was always more popcorn in that poor car.

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc · 2 pts · 1y

Finally, a way to get back at Steve, my mailman, who I don’t like very much. Fuck you, Steve! /s

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I believe this is what you're looking for OP.

https://getchipdrop.com/

It's free.

waitaminute@midwest.social · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I signed up for it and didn’t tell my husband. Wish me luck. Haha

tankfox@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y

Sweet jesus save me from this driveway FULL OF LOGS

papalonian@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm not a homeowner, don't plan on being one any time soon, and have zero use for their services, but damn am I sold by their "Why CHIPDROP is probably NOT for you" promo video. That's advertising gold, right there.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Just get one to your apartment. I'm sure the landlord will love it

grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

It's neat that that service exists, but you can also call up local arborist companies and ask, or wait until one is chipping a bunch of debris at a neighbor's house and ask the truck driver in person.

RBWells@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

We got this, and I did actually use it all but my goodness. They drop it in the driveway, it can't stay there. I moved it in the wheelbarrow for a day, then my husband and stepson worked it for a day, then we asked our lawn guy if he knew anyone who wanted $300 to move the rest (as honestly after moving half of it, it looked the same size!) and he sent us a strapping country boy, like a caricature of a farmboy, who moved the rest of it to the back, then I distributed it where it needed to go.

pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Outside of the awesome 'national parks' answer from someone else, I would have to assume the best cost-to-surface-area purchase in the world would be really cheap land in the American West, Australian outback, Russian tundra, Canadian North, etc. Assuming it doesn't have oil on it, some of those areas, land practically given away. Sometimes you can get governments to pay you to take it on and try to do something useful with it.

If you consider that ownership usually includes mineral rights for miles under the ground, this really starts to look like the obvious choice of your looking for volume, not just area.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (9 replies)

How do you get this free or cheap land in the Canadian tundra, again?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

You most likely don't. You would have to talk to the territorial governments who then would have to talk to the indigenous land holders. And even then it's a logistical nightmare where the sun sets for a month.

Also if it is Crown land also doesn't mean that the government is actually looking to sell or develop the particular land even if it isn't in a National park.

pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (7 replies)

I didn't say Canadian tundra, I say Canadian North.

Hers a listing in northern SK for $129k CAD that's nearly 12k acres. That's $10.75 CAD per acre. That's pretty cheap in my book.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1412-2nd-Ave-Edam-SK-S0M-0V0/453901932_zpid/

Corngood@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I'm sure there's cheap land for sale, but that one is just a typo in the listing I'm pretty sure.

Situated on a large 82X145 fully fenced lot, giving you ample room and tons of outdoor space for your family.

It's a regular town lot surrounded by others.

pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Ha. Funny

WiredBrain@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

You're off by 3 orders of magnitude... Retracted.

Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 1y

You were right, even if it was for the wrong reason.

The Zillow listing said acres where they presumably meant square feet which are a lot smaller. This is a city lot, probably less than even a single acre.

otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Did you miss the "k"?

WiredBrain@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Either I missed it or they added it.

pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Comment hasn't been edited.

That's also just what I could find in 30 seconds on Zillow. Pretty sure you could get stuff even cheaper (no structures in property, for insurance) with a little effort

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 28 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Plastic lawn chair. They are one of the biggest dimensional losers. Cheap, but if you’re ordering just one the packing is super inefficient.

I suppose it’s not that much of a pain in the ass in retrospect but it’s definitely a mental pain considering the incredible poor efficiency of getting one delivered. Perhaps you can find an extremely large piece of Styrofoam because they cannot be folded.

AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (1 reply)

make sure to get multiple chairs, but none of the same type. not being able to stack them is super annoying : D

Pissmidget@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You shouldn't think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.

Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.

Heavy shit sent to UKIP is a classic one.

Kissaki@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

In that article 1 of 11 images is still available. Everything else is gone. lol

Pissmidget@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Tbh I looked just hard enough to find one not about faeces, didn't look too hard at it.

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 17 pts · 1y (4 replies)

You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don't know about price there.

Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don't want to drop them because it'd make a mess.

rezifon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What do they pack them in?

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They pad the packing peanuts crate out with brand new furniture.

Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 1y

Tobias, from accounting: The shipping department is the only one running at a loss. Why is your department ordering so much furniture?

Thomas, Shipping: How else are we supposed to make 1 ft^3 of packing peanuts fill a box big enough to destroy the spine and sanity of the UPS driver?

Tobias: Why would you want to do that?

Thomas: It's part of the departmental vision statement. The company has one. Why can't we?

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

In themselves, of course!

Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hay bale - or multiple.

ordinarylove@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

yeah this was my thought, Hay bale

i think i could go grab one for about $6 here in the fracked hinterlands

DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 1y

How much do you want to spend? Used shipping container?

zxqwas@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you're stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.

Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per mÂł if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Still gotta be careful when they are in the teuck though.

ElderReflections@fedia.io · 10 pts · 1y

Horse manure tends to be free around these parts

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

By area activated charcoal has a ton of surface area

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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scytale@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 1y

To spite either a delivery person or the person the item will be delivered to.

grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!

trinsec@piefed.social · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Heaps and heaps of sand?

Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

delivery is easy though. dump truck

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
lazyViking@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

2.5k€ for a house in Italy still sounds like a pretty wild deal tho

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler ~(its probably not, unless you are very aware of what you are actually getting yourself into!) :::

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Can't you buy stars on websites online

Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

that only really buys you a piece of paper that says: "you own this star".
otherwise i guess i could sell you the universe for 1 penny, which would make for a fun answer to OPs question.

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Deal! sucker

rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

This comment is so good I'm going to sell an NFT of it.

remon@ani.social · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A really big sheet of paper?

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They tend to roll those up.

underreacting@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 1y

Frame it

M33@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y

Bouncy castle

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Air, cuz it's free, and by size the biggest object in our planet

MotoAsh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

True, but land costs money depending on where its at. Water, could be a close 2nd but for the price, you can't beat free.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

A big fuck-off mylar balloon.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 5 pts · 1y

The $18.6 million in cash and 225 gold bars in two boxes that belonged to the late Mr. Jimmy Lemi Milla.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y

Does it have to be usable?

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

I know this one, it’s skin!

dumbass@quokk.au · 4 pts · 1y

What budget are we working with, like what's the most you'd be happy to spend on this?

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think if you're looking for largest volume of material to dump on your enemy per its cost, your best options are either going to be dirt or possibly a huge amount of expanded polystyrene, i.e. styrofoam. If you're doing this outside I think dirt is a better option, unless you can find somewhere to source really huge blocks of styrofoam. A thousand cubic feet of packing peanuts (approximately $2714) would certainly be funny, but they'd probably be prone to blowing away. That's no good if you want the mark having a tough time getting rid of them.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y

For reference, a thousand cubic feet is around the same size as a school bus.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y

If by area you mean then buy a bottle of paint or even better, exfoliated graphene! Or graphite, that also has football fields of surface area in it. If you mean volume, then a very large hot air balloon may be an inexpensive space filling purchase.

RandomStickman@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

By area, my first thought was something like gravel. Relatively cheap, and covers a large area. However, delivery is relatively simple. They just load it up to a dump truck, and they dump it where ever. For things that are pain in the ass to deliver, I think about wind turbine blades and such, which aren't exactly cheap. I think if your goal is to spite the delivery people on the cheap, I'd say cat litter. They don't come in bulk the way gravel does, so someone has to move it box by box.

Wolf314159@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

This reminds me of an old Reddit writing prompt that I got a good chuckle from. Something along the lines of “humanity discovers FTL travel, and is invited to join the Galactic Federation. The federation goes out of its way to accommodate incoming species, and part of that intake process involves respecting existing legal structures and contracts… They just realized humans have been selling stars to each other for centuries.”

Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

And they owe a lot on back property taxes.

x00z@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

https://starregister.org/

€29 for a star.

viking@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y

What the hell? I ordered them to Germany and shipping cost next to nothing. Or exactly nothing, if I remember correctly. 10 bags were like $180, shipping included. Or is that some Trump era garbage? My order was about 4 years ago.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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Kissaki@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

I don't think you'll get far with very little money.

plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y

Eat fiber supplements for a day. The delivery won't disappoint.

vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

Bedbug ridden camper with no axles. A tow company with a flatdeck could easily load and unload still, but if you got it delivered while they were not home it would be a nightmare. Bonus points if it's an apartment complex and you can put it in their stall.