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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:25 PM
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Moving advice? Where do I get big boxes?
Preferably ones that don't cost more than the value of their contents. :eyes:

Any wisdom?

:shrug:
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BelleCarolinaPeridot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:28 PM
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1. Try one of those storage places.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:29 PM
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Liquor Stores
They have a ton of boxes and usually they'll let you take some for the asking
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Phillycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:30 PM
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5. Yep.
As a recovering alcoholic, that's the only time I ever go into a liquor store, when I'm moving. But only for the boxes! :D
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:29 PM
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2. Look in the yellow pages under moving
and then look for used moving supplies. Or just google them up.

When I moved a few years ago, I was able to buy used moving boxes for $1 to $2 each. Often times they were brand new, oddly enough.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:30 PM
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3. Lowes.
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Omphaloskepsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:30 PM
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4. How big?
Most movie theaters go through a amazing amount of big boxes. If you ask nice they might not break them down and save them for you.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:31 PM
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6. Supermarket?
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MANative Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:35 PM
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7. Sometimes you can get them free from big box retailers
like Target, Sears, etc. Check with the store mgr or stockroom mgr after they get their weekly shipments/deliveries. Most of the time the boxes are cut up and chucked out, and they don't mind giving them away. Don't bother with drug stores - most of them have converted to plastic totes systems and get very little in boxes. I was very lucky last time I moved about 10 years ago - my brother worked for a company that made corrugated boxes. They went out of business a few years ago. :(

good luck!
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:35 PM
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8. The recycling bin behind the mall.
At least, that's where I got mine when I moved last.
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:36 PM
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9. Try your local bookstore.
Good enough size to pack stuff in, but not large enough to cause a hernia from trying to pick up.
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:37 PM
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10. I got a bunch of boxes from Borders where I was working part-time
they aren't really big but they are all the same size and they stack nicely.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:38 PM
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11. UHaul...
...They've even got these sweet wardrobe boxes.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:43 PM
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13. but they charge a ton for them!
when we moved, we looked up a box manufacturing/printing company in the phonebook. They sold overruns and misprints of batches done for other companies at a low price. Just not as big a selection in sizes.

Half of our boxes had printing for a liquor company on the side.
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:47 PM
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15. Really? I didn't think they were that bad.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:43 PM
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12. Behind a grocery store. They usually have tons.
You're moving? Wow! Where?
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:45 PM
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14. I have a ton in my garage...
you're welcome to come get them :)
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:56 PM
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16. Try craigslist
there is always someone giving away free boxes.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:57 PM
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17. The best places I found (sometimes VERY big boxes) were behind
office supply stores -- not the chains, but those local ones that don't have a standard system for breaking boxes down and that cater to businesses more than to regular civilians.

For slightly smaller boxes, the best I ever found were videotape boxes outside adult-video companies (the people that actually make the films, with anonymous -- indeed, plain brown wrapper -- offices in new industrial-park areas) in a part of Los Angeles famous for long being a center of that kind of production, but you're a long way from the land of Boogie Nights. :D

Good luck!!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:06 PM
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24. And what were you doing in the back of an adult video company
Mister??? ;)

:rofl:
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:16 PM
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25. I'd just got off


work. :P


:D
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:18 PM
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27. ...
:spray: :rofl: :hi:
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:57 PM
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18. Ask for them on Freecycle
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 04:59 PM
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19. From the supply guy at the office.
When you order office supplies and they come in very good strudy boxes. Also, the copy paper boxes for the Xerox machine.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:00 PM
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20. Are you using a moving company? When I moved, the moving
company offered used boxes to me for free. I got a bunch of them that way. I went to the State Store (liquor) to get the rest.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:01 PM
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21. fruit boxes
They're the best. Sturdy, nice lid, comfortable weight when filled, equal size, handles. Go to the grocery store and ask.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:01 PM
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22. Call your local grocery stores and discount stores.
In my town places like the grocery store and Dollar General will give you the boxes for free if you pick them up on the assigned day. (Example: one store gets their deliveries on Tuesday. You have until a specified time on Wednesday to pick up the boxes. And you get to pick which boxes you want.)

The produce boxes, the liquor boxes and the boxes for commodity-size cans of fruit and veggies are very durable for packing and moving.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:05 PM
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23. You guys kick ass! Thanks for all the ideas!
:bounce:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:16 PM
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26. don't get boxes that are too big
if you fill them up, they may be too heavy to lift.
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Dora Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:21 PM
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28. Bookstores, publishers, printers, book distributors.
Books are heavy, and their boxes are designed to carry heavy loads.

Also, I've had great luck buying multi-packs of file storage boxes from office depot. They're great for moving: they have handles, they're all the same size which makes stacking easier, and they're strong.
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MonkeyFunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 05:22 PM
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29. I know they're pricey
but resist the urge to use cheap or free "gimme" boxes.

Especially for anything heavy like books, use smallish, proper U-haul boxes.
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 06:53 PM
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30. Talk to the produce guys at the grocery store
The boxes that apples and oranges are shipped in make great moving boxes. They're real sturdy and about the right size. Banana boxes are great but a little harder to come by (they go back to the shipper for credit).
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 06:58 PM
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31. From a big box store, of course!
:silly:
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Darth_Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-22-07 07:08 PM
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32. any grocery store.
:)
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