Surviving The Flood

On Valentines Day Weekend, our offices at Bags Unlimited flooded when pipes burst due to below zero temps. The machines we use to manufacture the Collection Protection Supplies you love were undamaged, but the offices you use to order said supplies were soaked!

Our computers, desks, phones, servers-basically everything that can never ever get wet-got wet. On Monday, every employee of Bags Unlimited came in to work (most of us early), and while bundled up in our winter coats, gloves and hats (due to the heat being shut off on account of the flood), we began to clean and assess the damage.

What we found in the flood wreckage made us smile, despite the tragedy.

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Why Protect Your Books?

You hear a lot of people today say, “Where would we be without the internet?”. This is a great question, but an even greater question would be, “Where would we be without books?” I doubt you’d be reading this on the internet if books were never invented. Especially if the printing press hadn’t made the invention of books cheaply available to the public.

The spread of knowledge was first verbal and then scrawled on walls, both of these were never, and still are not as effective as books. These bit of trees preserve our history and our fantasy, our past, present an future. They don’t disappear when they get wet, and they require no electricity to turn on. Their portals to other worlds that don’t require the user to buy a video game console or go to the movies.

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