Boxed in

[felis_ultharus]

Two more weeks until we're out of this pit ^_^

I'll be so glad to be moving from our lifeless brick tenement practically below the highway in Canada's most famous slum, to our new apartment near the river in artsy, student-filled Verdun.

But the question: Where do I find boxes? I've done most of my packing already, but I need at least 10 good-sized boxes, maybe more, to handle what's left of my possessions :/

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[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

University computer labs and the library. They will have boxes upon boxes that originally held 10 reams of printer paper apiece. Good for packing things like books and paperwork: Large enough to hold a good amount, but not so large they can't be lifted after they're full. Also, the cardboard is strong enough that it won't buckle if it's full of shifty-jangly things, like silverware or CD cases, that keep knocking around inside.

Or you could just do what I did, which was take the sturdier boxes to your new home, upend them on the floor, take them back to your old home, and fill them up again.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I hadn't considered those places.

I did have the idea of re-using boxes, but only as a last resort. We're trying to get this move done is as short a time as possible.

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

One of the perks of my otherwise rather pleasantly boring computer lab job is that I get first dibs on moving boxes at the end of the semester. XD It's an unwritten rule, but used a lot.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That's a nice perk.

Do you move every semester...?

[yumemisama.livejournal.com]

I have tried desperately to not move every semester so naturally the answer is: yes, invariably I need to move every semester. Every time I sign up for a dorm that was 12-month year-round housing the year before, it is not the year I'm in it. There were a couple of years I was in an apartment instead of on campus, and instead of having to move dorms, I just had to pack a month of stuff up to visit my parents two hours away, over the break.

This time around they made me move from my school-year dorm into a "summer downtime" dorm, and two weeks later, they let me move into my summer dorm. The day before training for my job started. It was so fun that if I ever meet the person responsible for this bit of scheduling, I will probably pour him or her a great tall frosty glass of Ex-Lax in thanks.