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Moving house: empty boxes required.
Sunny_Saver
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Hi
We're moving house and trying to get empty boxes (free ones, of course). I've rung Waitrose and Tesco and they've said 'we don't keep empty boxes' and are not being very helpful when I've asked them to keep some for me.
Does anyone have any suggestions please?
Thanks.
SS
We're moving house and trying to get empty boxes (free ones, of course). I've rung Waitrose and Tesco and they've said 'we don't keep empty boxes' and are not being very helpful when I've asked them to keep some for me.
Does anyone have any suggestions please?
Thanks.
SS
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Freecycle.0
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1. Freecycle
2. Ask in local small shops - off licences have small but very strong boxes.
3. Physically go into the supermarkets, ask staff on the floor when they are likely to have boxes and make sure you are physically there to collect them at the time they state. They have to crush them for fire purposes so if you aren't to collect them when they state they will do this.
4. Ask all friends, acquaintances and family. You will be surprised but someone will have some boxes.
5. Ask at work.
Finally if you get desperate buy them on ebay or online.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
(If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)0 -
Home bargains and cheap book stores such as 'works' we have got plenty from.0
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Hi, Supermarkets use a big machine that squashes all boxes and, staff are expected to get rid of boxes ASAP due to ..... you guessed it Health & Safety.
Excited for Florida - May 2012 :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:0 -
Fruit & veg shops usually have loads of boxes."I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."
Stephen Grellet, (1773-1855).0 -
Hi
The Freecycle was a good tip. I joined today and got quite a few sturdy boxes and plus one brilliant hanging garment box too.
The supermarkets were less helpful when I went there
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Thanks everyone and Happy New Year.
SS“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
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Our Lidl's tends to pile them up on the floor as they reload so grab quickly before they squash them.0
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i went to the back of our tesco's
All the big crisp boxes were in metal cages, not crushed but folded up nicely. Ready for me to use...
Get your self a roll of "duck" tape
Job done!0 -
Ask someone on the shop floor of a supermarket; if you get someone in a good mood they'll get some for you if there are any not crushed
It might take a few trips to get enough though! 0 -
We asked Tesco they told us to come back at midnight or 5am they had hundreds then but they do clear them out each day, also look in local post office & local paper we got hundreds that someone was giving away free, left over from their move0
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