What's a good place to get cardboard boxes?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

It used to be that you could go down to the liquor store and get as many sturdy, perfectly sized boxes as you wanted for free. I tried that today but the clerk's thousand yard stare was telling me that this question about free boxes was out of his league. I checked the U-haul website, but $2.35 for an untaped box struck me as kind of steep.

Any suggestions?

[NightWatcher]

1. try another liquor store, or a grocery store for banana boxes

[AngryAmish]

2. I find a deep hole and quicklime works better.

[hellbound-liberal]

3. Borders or Barnes and Noble should be good

I worked at Borders and got a bunch of boxes from them. They are mostly all the same size and they stack easily. Just call them ahead of time and they should be willing to hold some for you.

[flvegan]

4. Find a strip mall and the "Cardboard Only" dumpsters behind them.

Usually all nice n crushed for you.

[sniffa]

9. is that down in the cardboard box district?

[MrCoffee]

5. moving boxes? try craigslist or a bookstore

people are always getting rid of moving boxes on craigslist, and i used to work shipping/receiving at a B&N and we loved giving away boxes

[Deja Q]

6. That's not what I'd call an ideal example of moving to a new home, a box...

:hide:

I'm hoping you're moving to a better location and just packing things up in boxes. :D

(bad pun, sorry...)

[skygazer]

7. We give out boxes all the time

I second the grocery store and asking produce. However, instead of banana boxes, ask for apple boxes. They're sturdier. :hi:

[Dora]

8. Kinkos and other photocopy shops have boxes.

Print shops too, have paper boxes.

My favorite kind of box is bankers boxes, or file storage boxes. They're easy to store, easy to assemble, they're easy to save for the next move, they have HANDLES, they stack well, and you can buy them in 12-packs for less than $15. We buy them at Office Depot.

[Parche]

10. At The Cardboard Box Store

They are all around the country....:hi:

[cutlassmama]

11. Wal-Mart at 2 or 3 a.m. when they are putting out stock.

We've done this every time we've moved and gotten tons.

[Blue-Jay]

12. Maybe try a large office building.

They throw away paper boxes by the dozen every day.

[gmoney]

13. try a regular moving company, and tell them you'll take used ones

Either that, or the generic banker's boxes from Office Depot or OfficeMax -- look for coupons

[IzaSparrow]

14. any dollar store, and definately any bike shop

if you're using it for arts/crafts purposes, ask for bike boxes. they're huge!
but they also have other sizes of boxes.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Grocery store

or buy the bankers box type file boxes at Staples, or Costco.

[bridgit]

16. CostCo

:thumbsup:

[momophile]

17. a health-food store or the like - Whole Foods, Wild Oats, etc. nt

[badgerpup]

18. If there's a hospital in your neighborhood, call shipping and receiving...

...tell them what you're after. They get beautiful, sturdy boxes of various sizes.
They might be able to help you.
I've gotten lots of moving boxes from there...and my local Walmart.
Ask the haircutting place in Walmart to save the packing material in which they get their product for you too...you know, the styrofoam peanuts?

They do that for me here, and it beats HELL outta having to pay for it at the Fed-ex or U-haul store...:bounce:

[Richard Steele]

19. The "Dollar" store, whatever name it goes by in your area. And...

...whatever other stores share the strip-mall it's located in.
Odds are, they have a big "cardboard-only" dumpster out back
that's just FULL of flat-folded used boxes just waiting to be
taped back into 3 dimensions.



Liquor stores actually -DO- have boxes, BTW...they just don't
let folks take them anymore.

Reason is: back in the '80s when Ronald Reagan was spreading
the "urban legend" of the Cadillac-driving Welfare Queen, a
minor urban legend spread almost unnoticed amongst the nation's
liquor-store infrastructure: the legend that kids would come
in asking for boxes, and use them as cover to walk out the front door
with dozens of bottles of shoplifted liquor.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Just keep your eyes open after you get them...

I've often found roaches in my house after bringing in cardboard boxes. :-(

[Connonym]

21. look at the curb on recycle day

When I moved out of an apartment several years ago I got all the boxes I needed (good ones, the kind UHaul sells) just sitting at the unit recycle bin waiting to be recycled.

[democracyindanger]

22. Costco sells 'moving kits'

around $40-50. lots of boxes, some bubble wrap, packing paper and tape. you can find it on their website.

[ThoughtCriminal]

23. Look for somebody who is just moving in

Look for the U-Rent-It truck in front. Depending on how quickly they unpack, they will soon have more boxes than they know what to with. Maybe offer a dollar a box.

After we moved, I gave a bunch to a neighbor who was about to move. The rest, I listed on free-cycle and they were gone the next day.

[tammywammy]

24. Starbucks

As a local store when their weekly delivery comes in. And then ask nicely and they'll save the broken down boxes for you. At least we did when I worked there. I've moved 4 times with boxes I collected when I worked there.

[Rhythm]

25. Check fast-food places...

All of the ones i see around here have separate "cardboard only" dumpsters where they put all of the froxen-food boxes and such... just ask the mgr on duty.

[MilesColtrane]

26. May be harder than you think to find them as home foreclosures climb.

I've got my eye on a nice Kenmore box and have picked out a sweet little plot under a nearby overpass.

[redqueen]

27. Ask an office admin.

We get deliveries in my office all the time, so the boxes can really pile up.