Endangered Species

One of the sad trends of 2009 has been the rapid disappearance of bubble wrap as packing material. It has been crowded out by cheaper (those big plastic pillow kinds of things) or more environmentally friendly (any kind of paper-based substance) cushioning products. But clearly nothing else adds to the pleasure of receiving a package like a nice sheet of bubble wrap.

Bubble wrap is yet another of the marvelous products invented during my lifetime, but now all we're left with is this.