# Mystery box/packages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 6, 2026, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451 "2026-07-06T05:51:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451/21 "2026-07-07T19:01:16Z")

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Umm.

Temu will truly amaze you.

You’ll probably get doll house food.

I just ordered a thing. You pick your size, gender, color prefer. They send you a bag of new with tags things that didn’t sell, for whatever reason. 5-10-15 items.

$10-$30

I ordered the five. I purposely picked a color that’s not popular. Grey or beige. I figured pink or fancy colors would be grabbed up.

We’re gonna see what this is.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451/22 "2026-07-08T20:58:34Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Universal Yums is one such company. My wife got subscriptions from them for our nieces when they went to college, and they really liked it.

[Try The World](https://trytheworld.com/) is another one. I had a subscription with them for about a year and enjoyed it.

You can also get a [Bag o’ Crap](https://www.woot.com/offers/bag-o-crap-8), but they’re popular and the best chance of scoring one involves setting up a tracker to alert you they’re on sale. When I’ve done it there was some genuinely useful things in there mixed in with weird and/or junky stuff.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451/23 "2026-07-14T16:26:16Z")

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My Beloved and I surprised each other with mystery boxes. I got her a mystery snack box from overseas, and she got me a box stuffed with bath salts, oils, bombs…and both boxes were true mysteries because absolutely _nothing_ was printed in English! We certainly got our money’s worth in both cases because both boxes contained much more than we expected.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451/24 "2026-07-14T16:49:01Z")

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I love that it worked out well for you guys!

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-box-packages/1031451/25 "2026-07-14T16:52:15Z")

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“What kind of bath are you having?”  
“Hell if I know. What are you snacking on?”  
“Hell if I know.”  
😄

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