My wife doesn't make comments any more, she just rolls her eyes and sighs. But I found that to be worse than an argument, so my approach is similar to glen e's:
1. I collect all packages from my courier's warehouse directly. I unpack the boxes by the disposal bin outside and try to reconcile the items into as small a box as possible. Often that means as few boxes as possible....
2. The boxes stay in my trunk until I arrive home first one evening. Once I do, I unpack into the storage room outside. Now, this has deliberately been left in a state of relative disrepair to camouflage the bottles and bottles of product.
3. Recently, I've started stacking some large boxes in a corner to create the illusion of an impending clean-up. What will really occur is a subtle re-organization of items so that the bottom two boxes will actually not be empty, but be filled with product, and the empty boxes stacked on top them will be another level of camouflage.....
4. Any extra, empty boxes are quietly placed in my trunk for the next visit to a disposal bin. Otherwise, in the dead of the night or late in the evening, I crush the boxes by mashing them down then place them in garbage bags. This can only be dome on those days when the garbage is to be put out and is camouflaged with 'real' garbage from the house.
I tell you though, it is an exceptional skill (talent?) that women have, to be able to make you feel guilty without an all-out argument. It feels worse when you know they're disappointed in you rather than if they yell at you. Worse still if you have children and you know they're right.... after all, how much supplies do we really NEED?
