From: "ameijers"
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: cheap moving boxes?
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:42:57 GMT
"v" wrote in message
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> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:13:29 GMT, someone wrote:
>
> >Our Home Depot usually carries a small sized box (1.5cu, I think, not
sure),
> >for $1.29 each. Way cheaper than UHaul.
> >
> That, and commercial corrigated box distributors, were good answers to
> OP, who said he doesn't want to scrounge up odd boxes. I did that 20
> or 25 years ago, and I don't want to do that now, either. Why is it
> so hard for the scroungers to get it through their heads that some of
> us are *not* asking for FREE boxes (we KNOW where to get those) but
> about only about more reasonably priced ones.
>
> I would prefer going to one place during their business hours, and
> being able to buy a selected quantity of brand new boxes of sizes to
> fit my needs, supplied bundled flat so that I could put 50 or 100 in
> the car in one trip, provided the price was something I found
> reasonable; than the alternative of showing up in various stores on
> various days, competing with other scroungers, and having to take
> whatever qty was available used ones in sizes that just happen to be
> there. Back when I was scrounging boxes, I never got all the ones I
> wanted in one trip, it was a few here, a few there.
>
> If *you* want to scrounge free boxes, go ahead, just don't try to get
> me and OP to do it, that is NOT what was asked.
>
> -v.
Not to be snippy, v., but OP mention 'used once' boxes in the original
post. Stores don't sell used boxes. And other than U-haul and such, many
small towns don't places to buy new commercial-grade boxes, at least
not in small quantities. Ran into that for work here a few years ago- after
paying a fortune for the first few onesie-twosies from a mailing store, told
management that this was BS, and bought a pallet full of flat ones that were
delivered via truck freight, which lasted a couple years.
aem sends...
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