Moving always means scrounging boxes from wherever you can in order to get all of your stuff from House A to House B. \u00a0 In our case, we’ve been collecting boxes since before I left Channel 4 — paper boxes, Nexpress cylinder boxes, diaper boxes, etc. \u00a0 We hauled a lot of stuff down to the Shefchiks’ garage in the last several months in those boxes.<\/p>\n
Now we’re coming down to the wire and packing away a lot of stuff — anything that we don’t think we’ll need in the next week goes in a box. \u00a0 Sarah sent me out on a box-hunting mission this morning. \u00a0 My journey started and ended in Wal-mart’s customer service area. \u00a0 I walked in and saw a shopping cart full of collapsed boxes that once had held bags of Malt o Meal cereal, asked if I could have them, and walked out. \u00a0 I didn’t have to do a thing except load them into my car. \u00a0 There were 23<\/span> 24 of the boxes, measuring 20 x 13 x 16 and they’re wonderful for packing stuff in.<\/p>\n My favorite part of the story is that I walked past the shipping supply department at Wal-mart, where they sell (for about $5) smaller boxes than the ones they gave me for free. \u00a0 That’s more than $100 worth of boxes that Wal-mart just gave away — you’d think they wouldn’t do that to avoid cutting into their own business plan, but I was a very happy customer.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Update: I found another box upstairs that I’d started to pack in. \u00a0 Count is now 24.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving always means scrounging boxes from wherever you can in order to get all of your stuff from House A to House B. \u00a0 In our case, we’ve been collecting boxes since before I left Channel 4 — paper boxes, Nexpress cylinder boxes, diaper boxes, etc. \u00a0 We hauled a lot of stuff down to… Continue reading I Got the Box!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[34,45],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stories","tag-being-cheap","tag-moving","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}