If you aren’t already alarmed about the amount of cardboard you go through in a month, try getting married. Open a package for every bowl, butter dish and bread knife (bread machine, bread box, bread toaster). Watch the pile of shucked cardboard grow until it’s saying, “Feed me, Seymour.”

And unless you have the time to break, bundle, bind and truck your stacks to a recycling center, get ready to shove those buggers into an unholy landfill.

Lucky for you, Paul Stamets presents another option: the Life Box.

Despite what we’ve learned from reliable sources such as Neo, T2 and that really, really sad Haley Joel Osment movie, artificial intelligence has yet to take over the business world. Our newfangled machines can make a fine Twinkie, but there are still some things that require a good old-fashioned human brain.

The health and beauty section of your favorite retailer undoubtedly includes an impressive assortment of men’s grooming products, including a wide variety of shaving creams and gels. But one Challenger Brand is trying to cut through the foam and take its place among the big boys: Cremo Cream, the “astonishingly superior shave cream.”

Positioning itself as the YouTube of the written word, Scribd helps writers reach the masses with their self expression. As “the largest social publishing company in the world,” Scribd goes beyond the blogs and posts that have proliferated on the Internet. It allows writers to share screenplays, novels, recipes, puzzles, maps, magazines, newspapers and sheet music with a wide audience that includes Scribd’s community of “passionate readers.”