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If you live anywhere near a care home or know anyone who needs incontinence wear they will most likely have good size, clean boxes and are happy to see them being reused. And they will be free.
I went to the local corner shop who let me root through their cardboard bin and over the course of a couple of weeks I managed to acquire several boxes of the right size (crisp box size). Likewise I went to ASDA at night and a lady that worked there was kind enough to start unpacking the crisps and give me the boxes. Someone else also had a whole bunch spare that they gave me.
After I moved rather than put them all in recycling I put them on Gumtree for free and they've gone on to help others.
I always have a tendency to think I need bigger boxes but these tend to become too heavy so it's better to have lots of medium size boxes as opposed to a smaller number of larger boxes.
