Moving always means scrounging boxes from wherever you can in order to get all of your stuff from House A to House B. In our case, we’ve been collecting boxes since before I left Channel 4 — paper boxes, Nexpress cylinder boxes, diaper boxes, etc. We hauled a lot of stuff down to the Shefchiks’ garage in the last several months in those boxes.
Now we’re coming down to the wire and packing away a lot of stuff — anything that we don’t think we’ll need in the next week goes in a box. Sarah sent me out on a box-hunting mission this morning. My journey started and ended in Wal-mart’s customer service area. I walked in and saw a shopping cart full of collapsed boxes that once had held bags of Malt o Meal cereal, asked if I could have them, and walked out. I didn’t have to do a thing except load them into my car. There were 23 24 of the boxes, measuring 20 x 13 x 16 and they’re wonderful for packing stuff in.
My favorite part of the story is that I walked past the shipping supply department at Wal-mart, where they sell (for about $5) smaller boxes than the ones they gave me for free. That’s more than $100 worth of boxes that Wal-mart just gave away — you’d think they wouldn’t do that to avoid cutting into their own business plan, but I was a very happy customer.
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Update: I found another box upstairs that I’d started to pack in. Count is now 24.
If you are willing to drive up to Clearfield (really close to Layton) you can have all the boxes you want. We have at least 60 in the garage.