POPSUGAR Must Have Eco-Friendly Packaging Coming Soon

I save and reuse all of my Popsugar boxes too…the dk gray Limited Edition ones I don’t cover, but the other ones I cover with pretty papers or gift wrap depending on the place I intend on using them. I have recently covered two boxes with fabric and they hold those items I want within reach in my living room but not in plain view, and thereby they’ve become lovely storage boxes that match my home decor.

As others have written, it is about reusing vs just putting into recycling, so I do hope they don’t change the quality/strength of their boxes. I too use the smaller boxes from other subs, all having been recovered with the same papers, determined by contents, so I can easily identify which boxes hold the items I want – even use these in my craft room! The smaller boxes with lids, recovered, are actually quite sturdy and make lovely gift boxes too. (BTW – since I craft, it is easiest for me to use strong two-way adhesive tape and then cover the boxes with printed papers..great for sorting by the printed papers used, and then the contents by category.) When I want to pick a hand cream, a color of eyeliner, and even one of my scarves (med. size or several in one Popsugar covered box) I know which box to go to.

NOW to see what’s in the upcoming box.. Since they’ve raised the price and aren’t monthly I have found I’m much more careful about buying their boxes..the discount for annual isn’t enough incentive now for me to just blindly buy them. I actually liked more of the items in their monthly boxes, but perhaps that’s just me?

Has anyone successfully sent or used a referral code? My friend was going to sign up so i sent her a link from my account. The link does lead to the page to preorder but she doesn’t get the $20 off. Are we doing something wrong?

I’m sort of annoyed with this in general, because they’re just trying to create a buzz to bide their time until they release a spoiler. Grrrrrrrr.

Took me a minute to read this headline right! Needed some quotes to clarify:

“POPSUGAR Must Have” Eco-Friendly Packaging Coming Soon.

As is, it looks like Popsugar has to (must) have eco-friendly packaging coming soon.

The pleasures of punctuation!

Just tried to post this comment, but it doesn’t show up…trying a second time, sorry if it duplicates!

I was never too concerned about the boxes. Cardboard and paper packaging is easily reusable, repurposed, compostable, or if nothing else, recyclable. I am far more turned off by the amount of plastic they and their partner brands use. In my city, flimsy plastic such as bubble wrap cannot go in curbside recycling. Compostable packaging peanuts are a much better alternative. I recall one month receiving a product (it was a lotion or face cream of some sort) that was shrink wrapped with plastic, set in a cardstock frame, inside a cardboard box, wrapped in yet more plastic, packed in bubble wrap. That is way too much plastic and packaging for one little jar of cream! And that was only one product in the whole box. Over the last couple years, my growing aversion to plastic and waste cured my subscription addiction, but I am intrigued, and hopeful PS is moving to more sustainable practices.

I was never too concerned about the boxes. Cardboard and paper packaging is easily reusable, repurposed, compostable, or if nothing else, recyclable. I am far more turned off by the amount of plastic they and their partner brands use. In my city, flimsy plastic such as bubble wrap cannot go in curbside recycling. Compostable packaging peanuts are a much better alternative. I recall one month receiving a product (it was a lotion or face cream of some sort) that was shrink wrapped with plastic, set in a cardstock frame, inside a cardboard box, wrapped in yet more plastic, packed in bubble wrap. That is way too much plastic and packaging for one little jar of cream! And that was only one product in the whole box. Over the last couple years, my growing aversion to plastic and waste cured my subscription addiction, but I am intrigued, and hopeful PS is moving to more sustainable practices.

I guess this is better than the Reese Witherspoon book, which couldn’t even be recycled for bird cage lining.

😕 I use the Popsugar boxes for storage and putting Christmas gifts in. Popsugar and Box of Style used the best box design ever. I will be really really annoyed if that changes.

😕 I use the Popsugar boxes for storage and putting Christmas gifts in. Popsugar and Box of Style used the best box design ever. I will be really really annoyed if that changes.

They double package so my thinking is they will either do away with the PS box and just use the cardboard box (exterior box), or they will keep the PS box and shrink wrap it thus eliminating the exterior box. That is how Pusheen sends their boxes.

Will pop sugar ever do those $28 (or was it 25?) Mystery boxes that they used to offer a couple of times a year?

Spring is up for preorder but it still says you could get an earlier box. The winter box was pretty heavily discounted and I wasn’t interested, I really don’t think its OK to be so unclear about what box we’ll get. Does anyone know for sure if the winter box was sold out?

hmm, so the box **could** actually be part of the spring box! lol

let’s go with spoilers please!!

There appears to be a gif of the new box on PSMH’s Instagram.

Their boxes can be re-used for storage quite easily, so I already consider them eco-friendly compared to most sub-boxes which I either re-use for gifts or recycle. (Tiny boxes like Allure and Birchbox I’ve repurposed as drawer organizers.) It would be disappointing if their new eco-friendly boxes aren’t as re-usable, as recycling isn’t actually as eco-friendly as re-using.

I’m really trying to hold off buying those Vans Old Skool shoes but it’s not looking good.

It’s cardboard. We get it.

I reuse all the nice boxes so I hope they’re still pretty enough to stack on the closet shelves and not just corrugated. Eco-friendly is cool as long as it’s not just a pc way of saying they’re cheaping out. Spoilers! I need spoilers! 🙂

When will we start getting spoilers? I’m dying here.

Cool, spoilers please!

I am happy to see eco friendly packages! I am so looking forward to the customization option!

This is good, I’m glad. But I also love these boxes and reuse them for storage because they are so well-made. I hope that continues to be possible…

I hope eco-friendly doesn’t mean flimsy. I reuse the boxes, because they are so sturdy. Oh well, I’m not an annual subscriber, so maybe this is something people have been asking for.