Unilever and Procter &Gamble started selling shampoo and washing powder in small sachets more than two decades ago to cater for customers with cramped living spaces and even more cramped budgets.
Still, it was easy to imagine how, in that cramped and overcrowded room, simmering in the dog-day heat, the smallest spark could have caused an explosion.
By using white space in our lives, we create space, balance, emphasis on what's important, and a feeling of peace that we cannot achieve with a more cramped life.
Small Spaces don't have to feel dark, dingy or cramped.
Although they work far above—not below—the surface of the Earth, NASA astronauts endure similar isolation and cramped spaces.
That number might be difficult to raise on a cramped spaceship but could be more feasible than raising an equivalent number of chickens.
Time on planes - they're small and cramped.
Dogs are often bred far too frequently, are kept cramped together in squalor, and are not socialized with humans.
But their ordeal - survival in a small, cramped place with no discernable day or night - does have a few parallels to space flight, according to people who have worked closely with NASA.
Wait for the DVD. Why pay $11 for a cramped seat in a smelly theater.
The cabin is quite cramped.
A broad category, it includes boat workers and fishermen, who tend to spend long periods of time at sea in cramped circumstances and poor weather conditions.
And like in some cramped university libraries, motors and wheels mechanically move the shelves with the turn of a dial.
Although there can be breathing room when workers and children are outdoors, most living quarters are cramped, with extended families of 15 packed into 300 square feet.
It was new, clean and only pennies more expensive than a cramped and stifling old bus.
Although roughly twice the size of the Freemans' home, Shareen's house feels even more cramped.
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