Makes your hands brown? Is that being serious? lol. And then you could just use gloves,

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But then I had to buy gloves as well and wear those. Even more effort!
Laziness is a good reason, though. I'd think just doing it using the packing machines and watching TV should make it mindless enough to not be bothersome.
That's true, but this might still be cheaper. Will do some math and report back later.
Well, like if we use something like
this as an example (I believe most sites should be pretty similar price-wise), you're looking at $8-10 a carton packing them yourself. Seems like a HUGE difference to me.