Gotta be something ya can do with 'em

[SSScout]

At our CSDC this year (as in past years), we always have coffee and donuts on hand for the early staff settup folks. So we order 2 "Boxes o' Joe" from Dunkin'Donuts and 3 dozen donuts. Then two Packs, out of grattitude, bring us another "Box o' Joe", EACH. Then the staffer that comes in after lunch arrives with... another "Box o'' Joe". We take home 3 full "BoJs"....

 

Next morning, change the order to ONE BoJ, and 3 doz Donuts...Same two Packs each bring ANOTHER BoJ each... Noon Staffer got the message...

 

Home refrigerator is full of Iced Coffee...

 

Third morning, we buy NO coffee, same two Packs (we did tell'em, gee thanks, but...) bring us ANOTHER two BoJ...

 

So forth and so on...

By the end of the week, we have given our neighbors BoJs, taken some to social hour sunday, and transferred mucho cafe to pitchers...

 

**LET ME FINALLY GET TO MY POINT**

 

If you take the BoJ apart, you will find inside a cardboard box (which can be recycled) an aluminized, double walled, mylar bladder with a safety grip ("squeeze and turn") cap. It is very strong, holds at least a gallon of liquid. If you attempt to wash it out, you find that soap, bleach, detergent will not faze the coffee taste. It will always make water held therein taste like coffee.

 

So: What can you do with eight (8) gallon mylar bladders? Should one attempt to recycle more?

 

Possibilities present themselves (both experimentally and theoretically):

*Water storage (Camel backs?)

*floats for rafts.

*pool party toys

*packing for shipping breakables

*punching bags, hung from a tree limb

*archery targets (tough, need SHARP arrows)

*Water wings (duct tape, too)

 

If really good ideas occur, should one go to DD and ask for free (cheap?) clean unused BoJ bladders??

 

Or do I really have too much free time?

 

YiS

 

[Eamonn]

How about waiting till you have enough for each little fellow, inflating them, sticking them in a nearby stream (with a way of removing them) and have a BoJ bladder Race.

They could be decorated to fit in with the theme of the camp.

Ea.

[Spiney Norman]

How about inflatable Backpacking pillows?

 

I also hear that the same can be done with the bladder in the ubiquitous "box-o-adultbeverage"

[prairie]

Five litre wine bladders are handy, fill them with water then freeze solid. Wrapped in a towel they will have icecold water in them for 24 hours or more. Back when my car didn't have AC I would drive with one on my lap or against my leg to keep cooler. Some valves are better than others BTW.

[Gunny2862]

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