So this is a pretty lame entry, but I just want to mention this before I forget.
We were cleaning out our workplace and churned out huge piles of stuff that needed to be moved to different sections of our department. In all, we required about a dozen large sized boxes. If we had bought them, it would have been like ..what..$1 a box?
But, we got them for free at Walmart!
This is how you do it.
Go to your local Walmart center at around 11:00pm, when they are just starting to unpack the new stuff. Next, hover around associates who are pretty busy folding up empty boxes into neat piles and dumping them into a cart. Then, ask them politely if you can have some of those boxes for yourself. They will be very happy to offer them to you, saves them the folding and dumping time. In case an associates refuses to give any, go to the next aisle! You can get them in all sizes, shapes and colors!
And now (this is important), when you have collected enough boxes for you and all your moving friends, carry them in your hand and walk past the office supplies aisle. Look at those similar boxes for sale, each worth about a $1 and pat yourself on the back for saving a few bucks.
Btw, this probably works with other retail chain stores like Target, etc.
…don’t buy packing boxes, get them at Walmart or a liquor store or any other retail stores.
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It works in most stores. Supermarkets are great and liquor stores have ideal boxes for heavier items like books.
The trick is getting to whatever store when they get their deliveries.
fyregoddess, thanks for the tip. I will try liquor stores next time. As it is, after a few trips to Walmart, the guys are looking at me like “weird box-collecting guy”
now here’s an idea. in a night between 11:30 and 1:30 AM, you collect 70 boxes very easily.
you hopefully live in a city big enough where there are 2-3 walmart supercenters. just vary between them so as not to overload one with your familiar face (not that it’s wrong in the first place, but still).
you will find that people are EXTREMELY eager to buy your boxes, if you get GOOD ones. sell sets of 35 boxes for $25 on craigslist. you will find if you live in a decent sized city, you have many more customers than you can even handle responding to, and the boxes are sold before noon the next day. ($50).
do this even twice a week, is all, and you are at $400 / month.
who said they “couldn’t find work” ?? be creative…..
oh, but please - no one do this but me.
thanks.
Please let me know if any free moving boxes are available for pickup on January 29, 2010 before 11:00 pm. Thanks
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