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How do you get boxes from liquor stores? Ask them at the front if they have spare boxes?
do you have a local starbucks where you have a good relationship with the baristas? They get shipments of stuff almost everyday and might be wiling to save boxes for you.
I would just go to grocery stores and stuff and ask them if they have any extra cardboard boxes. We put most of our stuff in garbage bags! I hate moving too and just wanted to be out of our rental so got those big black heavy duty bags and just dumped armloads in it!
miss AsB - yeah, liquor stores usually hold on to boxes for packing up large purchases of liquor/wine, and they'll sometimes hook you up with boxes if you just ask.
@MissAsB - yeah, that's what my parents used to do. They're super cheap and never paid for them. I guess they just had a lot of spares. I know when I worked at DSW we also had tons of spares - about 50 big boxes per day getting recycled - and we gave some away when people asked. But no way am I going back there, haha.
target might be a good spot too.
I will have to remember to ask people when we move! I agree with Rosie that most of the time I usually put most stuff in trash bags or throw it in the back of the car to drive locally.
Ooh, Starbucks is good if Binny's doesn't work. We go there enough that they know us fairly well.
Trash bags will work for our clothes, but we have a lot of books. And I mean hundreds and hundreds of them. Basically, I spent my entire childhood reading, and even though I don't bring my books from when I was a kid with me, I have a huge collection from middle school onwards of classics, research books, textbooks, fiction, etc. Plus we have a bunch of cookware, dishes, small appliances, etc that we threw out the boxes for since we live in a small apartment.
I used to hit grocery stores- but before you go get boxes, ask them when they normally crush them. Go the next time at the right time and it'll be no problem. Also, this might not work for you in the city, but last time i helped our friends move, we went to the outdoor town center mall and drove around the back of all the stores and found some big sturdy boxes behind the furniture store, target, stores like that. There were other dumpster divers there too,haha.
Yeah, we put all our books, pots, pans, EVERYTHING you can think of besides glass in garbage bags! We also just loaded up the car without boxes and drove it over, unpacked and went back and kept doing that. With my SUV and his SUV plus his Dad's truck, it didn't take that many trips.
liquor/ABC stores are the best. also once i got a bunch from pier one- they just happened to be unloading stuff that day - got a bunch of different sizes!
We called Walmart and they said they would hold some for us. Got about 40 for free!
go behind drug stores or strip malls. But if it's late take somebody with you, it can be creepy! But there will be as many boxes as you could possibly need!
we always order our boxes from www.usedcardboardboxes.com They ship them to you flat and they're really nice ones, despite being used once.
here's the one-bedroom 'kit':
Craigslist always has people giving away free moving boxes. Or you can try freecycle.com
I talked to the maintenance staff at our office and they saved all their boxes for me for like a month (we go through a ton of paper so they are nice boxes with lids). I also bought a ton of the blue ikea bags for all our clothes and shoes and stuff. They hold a ton of stuff and are crazy cheap (.59!).
The best moving boxes are bananas boxes! Just go to the grocery store and ask them what time of night they unpack the bananas, then go there at that time and collect all you can. The banana boxes have cutout handles and removable lids that adjust to fit different heights. They are very sturdy and stack well. The only thing is that they smell like bananas :)
I love how you can just ask people back home and no one thinks you're crazy. I miss that! People aren't like that at all here and there isn't even a liquor store to ask because the government runs a monopoly on all alcohol and has their own shop. Plus all stores charge for plastic and paper bags normally, so it's really odd to ask for whole boxes for free.
The cheapest boxes I could find was for 17 SEK ($2.18) and I had to go to a warehouse/overstock type store for them.
I was going to say Starbucks, too! lol. Big shipments are usually Fridays. I'd go in the night before, or really early to ask for them!
We use banana/apple boxes like @snmcdowell! They are sturdy and the perfect size because it is hard to pack them too heavy! Go to the grocery store and ask them what times are good to pick them up before they are crushed.
Also, if you need specific boxes, UHaul will allow you to return any unused boxes you bought from them. I always bought a variety of different sized boxes and the ones I didn't need I got my money back.
WE've a;ways went to the grocery store kinda early and ask if they have any. We've never had to pay either.
I was too lazy to go hunting for free boxes this time, so we picked some up at Home Depot. They're a dollar or less apiece, depending on the size.
I work in a kitchen 1 day a week and when i've moved i just brought boxes home everyday.
Check out convience stores they always have TONS of boxes. The only boxes most of them wont give away is beer boxes because they get credit from the vendors.
Most stores will gladly give away there boxes if they havnt taken them out to the dumpster yet because they have to pay to get rid of them
I don't know if this helps, but Uhaul has a buyback guarantee. As in, if you buy too many boxes, they will refund you for the unused ones, guaranteed. So you can't "over-purchase."
Check Craigslist, too! We got most of our boxes from another couple who'd just moved to the area we were about to leave; they didn't want their boxes and we did want boxes so we just swung by & picked up a whole apartment's worth of boxes for free. When we got here, of course we posted ours back on Craigslist, and sure enough...anyway, I think it happens a lot so they're def. worth checking!
Whoo hoo, my friend who works at Binny's is pulling through! She's grabbing a bunch for me this weekend.
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Just curious as to where you find cheap moving boxes? I've heard liquor stores are sometimes good, and a friend of mine works at Binny's, so I'm asking her if they have extras. Any ideas beyond that?
As an aside, I despise moving. This will be my 11th time moving in my 20 years of living. We are so determined to stay in our new apartment for as long as humanly possible!