Card board boxes

Reasteh · 13 Feb 2008 at 20:05

Hi,

I'm moving house soon and was wondering wheres the best place to get cardboard boxes, gona need quite a lot, possibly for free?

cheers for any help

233 · 13 Feb 2008 at 20:06

supermarket

big boxes like they use for cereals and banana boxes are good too

ste_bla · 13 Feb 2008 at 20:07

Supermarkets

Chip Boxes are the best

Reasteh · 13 Feb 2008 at 20:08

so just walk in and ask if they have a load of empty boxes?

MadMan-JaMeS · 13 Feb 2008 at 20:14

a lot of places break there boxes down for easier packing so go in 2morrow n ask them to save some still built up and some they are flat packed and buy some brown tape

jackthezipper · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:07

Yeah just go in and ask. We used to get people asking every once in a while when I worked in SPAR. Saved me breaking them up and tieing them

Fuzz · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:08

There is an internet site that specialises in boxes and packing tape specific to moving house...

Name escapes me at the mo...

mightynimrod · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:10

Just google the cardboard box company

Its who i used when i moved in october.

Fuzz · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:11

More out there than I thought..
Here's just one
http://www.boxes2move.co.uk/index.php?act=viewCat&catId=3

Ben M · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:13

when you're in a supermarket shopping, just take all the bubblewrap that isn't being used from around the fruit, they don't mind =]

Jon Frost · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:15

Dell desktop boxes are best for moving house - absoloutly solid

. Just happened to have 50 or so kicking around at work

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badbob · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:16

Need to go first thing in the morning, or ideally go late at night asking the supervisor to put aside a few boxes.

Vonhelmet · 13 Feb 2008 at 23:17

We bought boxes from Argos I think...

PhillyDee · 14 Feb 2008 at 00:09

I was gonna say, Argos do a home movers pack.

RobH · 14 Feb 2008 at 00:16

You could also try http://www.freecycle.org - you join a Yahoo group for your local area and people post things they want to get rid of or requests for things they want. On my local group there are always people offering cardboard boxes for collection. Might be worth a try, chanes are someone in your local area might be able to help you out.

Sime · 14 Feb 2008 at 01:45

I work at Morrisons (BOO!) and asking for banana boxes is usually a winner for most people.

Go in about 12 ish and say save me some for tonight and go back about 7 - 8 ish...Be your best bet.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 14 Feb 2008 at 01:47

Go to a 24hour supermarket at 3am.

They'll be re-stocking the shelves, plenty of boxes to be had.

Azagoth · 14 Feb 2008 at 02:13

You should have posted this 5 years or so back, I used to work at 'Board Products' here in Stoke. We used to manufacture cardboard boxes and the shaped polystyrene filler material.

Hamster · 14 Feb 2008 at 03:31

Azagoth said:
You should have posted this 5 years or so back, I used to work at 'Board Products' here in Stoke. We used to manufacture cardboard boxes and the shaped polystyrene filler material.

Yeah, shame on you Reastah for not realising your moving date 5 years, or so, ago.

Azagoth · 14 Feb 2008 at 04:24

JoeMama said:
Yeah, shame on you Reastah for not realising your moving date 5 years, or so, ago.

Yeah, completely bloody inconsiderate if you ask me.