It is much less expensive to use boxes from the grocery store instead of buying boxes. The main downsides are they tend to be so much less sturdy (than the heavy-duty moving boxes), they aren't necessarily available when wanted, and soooo mmmmaaaannnnyyyy sizes.
I recently found a solution to the number of sizes. The boxes have numbers printed on them that id the box size even when the original contents were different. Nice big or big enough numbers, always in the same place on the box.
Cheese boxes
5134383 is the right size for single sheets of paper - also works well for many things such as cookie cutters, furniture sliders/felt pads, owners manuals.
10067 is wide enough for most of the single sheets of paper with a binding (like many knitting, quilting, and woodworking books). It is a bit too long but the best fit available. Being a bit too long allows for the misc things that are too long for 5134383.
Oreo boxes
03202 works for dvds
05372 is the best compromise for a common paperback size (the bit bigger kind)
02854 is the same height and width as 05372 but a tad longer - both are just short of tall enough for the most common size of hardcover. I will probably use one or the other once I have enough of either.
The above are all small enough to be sturdy enough as they are.
The cheese boxes are the most available boxes in the grocery store - a combination of how many are available and how consistently the stockers get to them (every day between 8 and 9 at the store I usually go to).
It is soooooo nice to have just two (or even the three) sizes for the vast majority of things that fit about that size. When I was going by the content descriptions, I ended up with 10 or 12 almost-the-same-sizes of cheese box and about the same of oreo boxes.
Added benefit, having more order is helping with giving away or selling more of the things we don't have a good use for anymore. Lol, or in some cases never had a good use for - buying used things has a downside of sometimes the one piece you want is offered as a part of a group of things you either already have or simple don't want. In some places, I can take the piece I want out and put the rest in the donations bin but not estate sales or such.
I recently found a solution to the number of sizes. The boxes have numbers printed on them that id the box size even when the original contents were different. Nice big or big enough numbers, always in the same place on the box.
Cheese boxes
5134383 is the right size for single sheets of paper - also works well for many things such as cookie cutters, furniture sliders/felt pads, owners manuals.
10067 is wide enough for most of the single sheets of paper with a binding (like many knitting, quilting, and woodworking books). It is a bit too long but the best fit available. Being a bit too long allows for the misc things that are too long for 5134383.
Oreo boxes
03202 works for dvds
05372 is the best compromise for a common paperback size (the bit bigger kind)
02854 is the same height and width as 05372 but a tad longer - both are just short of tall enough for the most common size of hardcover. I will probably use one or the other once I have enough of either.
The above are all small enough to be sturdy enough as they are.
The cheese boxes are the most available boxes in the grocery store - a combination of how many are available and how consistently the stockers get to them (every day between 8 and 9 at the store I usually go to).
It is soooooo nice to have just two (or even the three) sizes for the vast majority of things that fit about that size. When I was going by the content descriptions, I ended up with 10 or 12 almost-the-same-sizes of cheese box and about the same of oreo boxes.
Added benefit, having more order is helping with giving away or selling more of the things we don't have a good use for anymore. Lol, or in some cases never had a good use for - buying used things has a downside of sometimes the one piece you want is offered as a part of a group of things you either already have or simple don't want. In some places, I can take the piece I want out and put the rest in the donations bin but not estate sales or such.
Almost got scammed by online website recommended by Honey on Amazon
As you can see, Amazon is selling it for $249.00. However, the Honey app flashed up a website that had a "Clearance Sale" on the JawHorse for $59.00. Heck, I want to buy the JawHorse for $59.00 so I click the link to go their website....
Long story short, it was a scam website. First obvious clue was the "Clearance Price" and then a countdown timer with the sale ending in less than 1 hour, followed by no physical address for the company, no customer support telephone numbers, and only a fake email address to contact them. It was the fake email address that gave them away because I entered it into a Google search and it immediately flagged it as a fake email address used by scam websites.
In the past, I have saved some money by using the Honey app to check my online carts and checking their recommendations. I considered Honey to be a legitimate company. But now I am not so sure how good they are if a scam online website is recommended by them.
area of the municipality. Or the municipality can come to collect it.
If you are of a certain age, or have diminished strength in your hands, you can use something like power cutters to easily cut that heavy cardboard into narrow strips, allowing you to feed them down a home paper shredder, and therefore use it at home as paper shreds litter for the chickens. I got my power cutter from Harbor Freight, but there are lots of options of these power cutters sold by other brands....
I wonder if the CO2 I release from burning the 1 bag of trash in my backyard fire pit is off set by the amount of fumes my old pickup would put into the air driving the garbage 40 miles round trip to our landfill/recycle center?
