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In reply to the discussion: How far would you go to tear down a cardboard fort? [View all]Warpy
(111,237 posts)This thing is going to be trashed by the time the guy's 14 days are up, it's cardboard. It'll hit the wheelie recycler then. Until then, the kids will have a ball and I don't see what the problem is. Anything as temporary as a cardboard castle shouldn't be that hard to tolerate.
One year, the death of a refrigerator meant my Xmas present was the new fridge carton and a box of crayons. I was the envy of the neighborhood until a snowstorm rolled in and killed it.
Then again, I'm old enough not to give a damn and I live in an area where people use van seats for porch furniture while they save for the real thing and can put the seats back in the van. I'd look at something like that and go "oh, neat!"
I might be a little less sanguine about it if he built it out of old cinder blocks and sheet metal.