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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Tends to be used by children when they need to make a surprise, in order to make the other child think they got a huge gift. Alternatively, they just got lazy/bored and put a small box in a shoebox.
* A lot of companies do this out of either false advertizing (Make the buyer think there is more in the package than there actually is) or just plain standard package sizes.
** This is a common problem with food packaging; there are supposedly legal limits to the use of "headroom" for packages like cereal boxes, but loopholes let manufacturers continue to get away with a little more if they hide behind "contents may settle during handling" or other spurious disclaimers.
** Another food package which is prone to misuse is the air-tight plastic bag which has been "inflated" during the packaging process. Half a bag of crisps, half a bag of air. The factory insists that it needs to be air-tight to keep the product fresh, but the end result is that it becomes more difficult to estimate how many chips/crisps or candy pieces are actually in the bag.
* Things packaged for shipping often have much bigger boxes then the item itself. Justified, because they fill the space in with bubble wrap and shipping peanuts to prevent damage.
* Sometimes [[Truth in Television]]. These days security precautions package seemingly rudimentary things with too much tape, foam, bubble wrap, ''more'' tape, a box inside of a box, and more tape, to make it look comically unnecessary.
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