@myboardidwrote:
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.
THIS ^^^^^^^
I do the same. I have certain retail businesses that have the boxes I need. I am mostly looking for very large boxes that are already broken down and stacked neatly in the dumpster. I can fill up my topper covered pickup in about 30-40 minutes in about 3-4 stops.
Any shipments that will not fit in the eBay boxes I get with the quarterly coupon or ship cost effectively with USPS Priority boxes... I custom make the box to fit perfectly.
I pick up the large cardboard from Pier 1 Imports and furniture store docks. These are "large" pieces of cardboard that I use to make custom sized boxes that fit my products.
Anyways, I don't buy anything but tape from walmart and one $25 shipment of bubble wrap per year.
