He said that the _reams_ were what gave the box strength and that the actual weight/gluing of the cardboard was pretty flimsy.

That makes sense, the box just gives a container for the reams so they don't slide all over.

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He gave a massive thumbs down to grocery store boxes due to the potential for transporting roach eggs, mold and other uglies.

This. So very much. Which is why when new people move into the building, ya always get a period of critters. Hate that! One of my sisters old bosses moved so often, he kept about 50 of the tubs with interlocking lids. They stack great for moving, and store inside themselves. So a corner of his garage was always ready for the next move. If you can borrow those from friends, it's an idea too.

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Also, the more the boxes are the same size, the easier it is to move. When I moved to Texas, I was grabbing boxes from everywhere, and the movers grumbled due to so many different sizes, and trying to Tetris them into the truck. When I moved back to CA, they were all from Home Depot or Uhaul, all the small or medium boxes. I had stacks head high, and they just scooped them up on the dolley and loaded up the truck. So much easier!

At one point during the move to Texas, one of the mover guys took a couple of my smaller boxes, and put it in a regular sized box, all the while grumbling. Apparently, small boxes get lost real easy, and big pain in the butt. So, yeah, uniform size as much as possible.

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Yeah, when I was moving a lot I had a ton of those plastic crates with the interlocking lids. They were amazing and made moving so much easier.

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That's a brilliant idea about the plastic crates.

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We bought boxes from U-Haul, they worked out great.

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We used those, and we still use some of them to store stuff in the garage and the extras are all stacked up.

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Yeah, we had tons and tons of plastic bins, so this last move was super easy. But they have disintegrated in the weather or been given away or repurposed or whatnot and I don't think any putative next move would be as easy.

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We bought boxes from U-Haul, they worked out great.

I am really trying to avoid spending more money right now, but I may have to suck it up.

TCG is currently finishing up the painting at the house, and I am failing miserably at trying to pack by myself.

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My mom is hilarious. And awesome. And hilariously awesome. She has been doing yoga daily for 6-7 years, maybe longer. So she's my go-to person for yoga questions.

Because my hips are stupid, they've been very, very tight for weeks, and I haven't been able to stretch them properly, and I think the continued abuse on the elliptical machine has kerfucked them even more.

So at Easter I asked my mom if she could show me some yoga poses that are good for stretching the hip muscles. She told me she'd e-mail me some, rather than bust out the yoga moves at Easter dinner.

So she sent me an e-mail with a Word doc describing 8 yoga poses...accompanied by pictures of her doing the poses. That's really going the extra mile. And hilariously awesome.

(I haven't done any of the yoga poses yet, because I woke up the day after Easter with back pain bad enough to send me to the heating pad and flexiril. When it's pinchy sharp pain, I don't feel comfortable even trying to stretch. By now, it's more of a dull ache, and mostly in my hips instead of my back. So I am going to give some of these illustrated yoga poses a shot tonight.)

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sj, I have some boxes you can have.

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