Moving house on a buget - packing boxes

Tinker_belle_2

Hmmm hope this is the right forum

Hopefully if the council and HA agree to it, we have after 4 years found a mutual exchange.

Now we need to move as cheaply as possible, especially as the house needs a bit of work doing to it. We are going to hire a large van (brother HGV driver, so he will come in handy) but what I am struggling with is getting cheap boxes, I have not seen in any supermarket a box section, you know like what they used to have, this was great last time we moved house. Does anyone know where I can get some from? Searched on ebay & net, but they are all about £60.00 for a pack.

DH thought you could hire boxes, but can't find anything relating to that either :rolleyes:

Thanks All

Ted_Hutchinson

Tinker_belle wrote:

Hmmm hope this is the right forum

Hopefully if the council and HA agree to it, we have after 4 years found a mutual exchange.

Now we need to move as cheaply as possible, especially as the house needs a bit of work doing to it. We are going to hire a large van (brother HGV driver, so he will come in handy) but what I am struggling with is getting cheap boxes, I have not seen in any supermarket a box section, you know like what they used to have, this was great last time we moved house. Does anyone know where I can get some from? Searched on ebay & net, but they are all about £60.00 for a pack.

DH thought you could hire boxes, but can't find anything relating to that either :rolleyes:

Thanks All

Ask you local supermarket and shops to save their boxes and I'm sure most will be happy to oblige. Ours will do this. An alternative is to find out if they have a day for collecting cardboard boxes in your town. Ours is Thursday so on Thursday all the shops have piles of flattened cardboxes waiting for recycling. They won't mind if you ask if you can take those that look sufficiently strong for reuse.

Tinker_belle_2

Thanks for that, i will contact a couple of local big supermarkets, hopefully one of them will take pity on us

Thanks for that I didn't relaise they saved them, i just thought they ended up being squashed in carboard recycler thingy

Thanks again

socks_uk

I'm a 'home shopping' driver at our local 24hrs ASDA and when I return to the store at about 10pm the isles are full of cages of stock to be put out and empty ones to put the folded up boxes in that the delivery lorries take back with them. It's usually the same people filling the shelves each night (in our store anyway) so go have a chat. I've got loads of flattened boxes in my garage sitting there, waiting for the day we sell.

Don't be tempted to get too many big boxes, you'll never lift them full and they're more likely to collapse. Wash powder, bleach, washing-up liquid and nappy boxes seem very strong as well as boxes that alcohol have come in .

Hope this helps.

Jill

crispeater

i noticed the other day that a local baby shop which sells prams and cots etc have a notice in the window saying they give away boxes.

so if you have one near you maybe even mothercare im sure some of the double buggy boxes would come in handy!

Tinker_belle_2

Wow! Thanks for all the great ideas guys I will checdk out the local supermarkets and sort it all out

Thanks again

cattie

When I moved I found my local Iceland extremely helpful & they saved big boxes for me. I was told they had to collapse them, something to do with health & safety I think, but this made them easier for me to carry home.

Tinker_belle_2

That's fine i don't mind them being flat packed, it will be easier to store them until they are filled

Thanks

rare_uk

I know people who got boxes from these guys [HTML]http://www.a1box.co.uk/acatalog/[/HTML]

Tinker_belle_2

Thanks - I had already looked at these and although they are the same price as others - I refuse to spend that much money on boxes, lol. For the amount of boxes we need I could buy a tumble dryer instead

Thanks though

eldbs

Macdonalds Fries boxes are by far the best.

They recycle all their boxes, but flat pack them and store them out the back, so go on a day when it isn't raining. Talk nicely to the manager and they normally say help yourself. I have done this for the last several house moves and had boxes from leeds and loughborough (still have loads in the loft with junk in).
Be picky and go back a few days running if the ones they have are grease stained or in poor condition.

Size wise they are fantastic as when full of books or whatever they are about the max weight that you can easily carry. They store well and are easy to asseble. They can also be stacked easily in the back of a van.

Hope this helps

Benj