Moving is a stressful process which doesn’t only bring a lot
of disturbance but it also causes financial troubles, at least for the time
being. At this stage, you may be thinking about saving every dollar you can
possibly save. One of the expenditures that no one likes to look at is the one
related to cardboard boxes. When you think about purchasing these boxes for
moving, you can easily expect the price to range somewhere between $20 and $50.
Generally, you can start saving cardboard boxes six months ahead of moving day.
Finding free moving
boxes
There are certain places from where you can find free moving
boxes. The best place to start your search is the nearby grocery store. You
just need to go to the store and any employee if they have cardboard boxes
stored in the back. Since these stores deal with the wholesaling and retailing
on larger scale, it is quite possible that they would have stored cardboard
boxes. And since these stores do not use those boxes normally, it’s not the
liberty or a huge favor that you ask for when you ask for the boxes.
Places like Sears, Best Buy, Walgreens, and even gas
stations usually deal with the inventories. Hence, they are most likely to have
cardboard boxes folded and stored. So, they wouldn’t mind giving you some of
those boxes for free as long as they are free to serve your request.
Other places from
where you can get free boxes
If you are a good planner and you believe in planning your
move quite ahead of time, there are many ways you can get free moving boxes.
Holidays, big shopping weekends, and birthdays are the times when you can hunt
for the boxes.
You can also ask your friends and family to provide with any
cardboard boxes which they have but they don’t need those boxes. Especially
after the holidays, most of the houses have to deal with an overwhelming amount
of cardboard boxes. Most of those boxes are thrown away because they are not
needed. You can grab this opportunity to have complete supply of cardboard boxes for your move. Thus, you can go to your neighbors, friends and
acquaintances to ask for the boxes.
Summing up all, getting free boxes for moving is not
something very difficult. You just have to ask for it from nearby stores,
friends and family.
