Free boxes

[tommy50607]

Does anyone know good places to get free boxes of different sizes? (not USPS boxes).

[airfilterhub]

local businesses, family, freinds

[bigdeals.etc]

Someone mentioned here to like talk to the managers of nearby stores... like office supply/grocery stores and such. I'm sure they'll be willing to give you any cardboard boxes they meant to just throw away or recycle. Stores can accumulate a lot depending on how many shipments they receive.

[yuzuha]

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@bigdeals.etcwrote:

Someone mentioned here to like talk to the managers of nearby stores... like office supply/grocery stores and such. I'm sure they'll be willing to give you any cardboard boxes they meant to just throw away or recycle. Stores can accumulate a lot depending on how many shipments they receive.

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I work B&M retail and if people come in and ask us for boxes, we're more than happy to give them away.  That means less stuff for us to have to haul out for recycling later.

[statesplace]

let Your friends and family know you’re looking for boxes, every time I show up my friends have stashes waiting for me. It’s beautiful!! 

[myboardid]

I have a regular round of businesses from whom I pick up boxes twice a week or so.  I use a lot of liquor boxes, as they are the correct sizes for many of my items, so I go to all the local liquor stores twice a week and pick up the empty wine/hard liquor cartons.  I also stop at the office supply stores, my optometrist's office, and my dentist's office.  The furniture store always has bubble wrap.  The specialty kitchen/bath store has lots of boxes and often packing peanuts, the home decor store is a goldmine.  My auto mechanic has great parts boxes, although I have to make sure they are clean enough to use. 

[yuzuha]

99.9% of my packing supplies come from my retail jobs.  Boxes, bubble wrap, air cushions... the only thing I DON'T get from work would be packing peanuts.  I haven't paid a dime for anything other than peanuts and a few irregularly shaped/sized boxes in over a year.

[midnight_mystic]

People advertise them in the Free section of craigslist all the time. Usually moving boxes.

[vanman1029]

Dollar stores and grocery markets are good sources for boxes.

[rdj831]

There is no such thing as free boxes. There is a cost in time to pursue them.

I buy my boxes online at very reasonable prices.

[kim_y_buran]

I usually walk around the neighborhood on recycling day.  It's an Amazon box galore.  Well, not so much anymore, as I have accumulate an obscene amount of cardboard.

[disneyworldbound]

I get stacks of boxes at the grocery store when I go shopping. They are already flattened and they're happy to get rid of them.

[chipper01work]

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@rdj831wrote:

There is no such thing as free boxes. There is a cost in time to pursue them.

I buy my boxes online at very reasonable prices.

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Sure there is. I work in the shipping/receiving dept of a large international corporation. I get all of my gently used boxes (except free USPS boxes), bubble wrap, peanuts, air pillows and expanded foam 100% free from my place of work. I don't spend any extra gas money or any extra time to get them. The same principal can be applied by anyone who rounds them up from local businesses. The key is to not make special trips to get them. Heck I just brought home 100 gallons of large bubble bubble wrap for a neighbor because it would have been a shame to throw it away and it was much more than I needed.

[getitright1234]

The Dollar tree stores whenever I am in there they always seem to be restocking throughout the day. 

Go behind strip malls.   Learn when each store get their deliveries that way you ask the store manager to hold some for you or arrived the day after deliver when the boxes are in their best condition.  

Check the free section on Craigslist.  

[getitright1234]

I almost forgot this one:   If you go to Walmart late at night/early in the morning during and after they  re-stocked their shelves,   you will almost need a truck to bring back the number boxes you will find.