Getting Boxes for Moving

You can find boxes of all sizes for sale at almost anywhere.  Storage Companies, Moving Companies, Super Stores, even the Post Office.  But what if you are like me and want to find boxes on the cheap?

I remember when I was in college there were several cardboard-only dumpsters in the area, these were a great source of free boxes, there were a few medical offices near the hospital that always had nice new boxes in their dumpsters.  The area where I live now doesn’t have the cardboard only recycling dumpsters through, which required a little more resourcefulness.

Luckily I found a vending company on the way home from work earlier this week.  They had plenty of boxes in their dumpster which I could see from the road.  Knowing this is something that I would be needing very shortly I turned around and set about my designs of obtaining free moving boxes.  I went in the loading docks and found a gentleman unloading his truck after doing the days runs.  He agreed to let me have the boxes he was throwing out of his truck.  I guess I saved him a bit of extra work since he no longer had to carry so many boxes to the dumpster.  On the way out, I grabbed a nice box from the dumpster as well.  I intend on visiting this place again, because we need some more boxes.  Unfortunately today it rained and the boxes in the dumpster were all wet and the loading bay doors were closed. 

 You can also get boxes from Wal-mart.  Someone had mentioned if you go to Wal-mart at about 11 at night, we can get a lot of boxes.  11 pm. was a bit early, Wal-Mart’s trucks arrive about midnight. Sure enough though, after midnight we were able to pick up several free boxes again.  Ironically I did notice that Wal-mart sells cardboard boxes, we didn’t get any of those paid boxes though.  We did take some of the free ones that were sitting in a shopping cart at the end of the packing supplies isle.

After getting our fill for the night we left the store, the greeter/security person checked our basket and we were shortly on our way with lots of moving boxes on the cheap!