At City Removalists, the one thing we know you’ll need when you’re moving house are packing boxes. This holds true whether you’re moving yourself or utilizing the services of a professional moving company. Good sturdy boxes help you pack things up very cleanly and efficiently. There are a few ways to get free moving boxes that we’ve seen customers use over the years. Below you’ll see our suggestions for finding free moving boxes.
1. Local Stores
Local stores and supermarkets get an absolutely huge number of boxes in any given week. If you take yourself over to any of these local stores, they are usually more than happy to give you some boxes for free. Just head on up to the service desk and let them know your situation. In the past some of our customers have received enough boxes to service their whole move.
2. Gumtree
While stores accumulate a lot of boxes, they aren’t the only ones. A common situation is if someone has a large once of delivery. They may not be equipped like a local store is to compress and remove those boxes. In These cases, people may opt to get rid of them on websites like Gumtree.
3. Your Moving Company
If you’re using an above average moving company boxes may be thrown in at no additional cost of the move. This is a good option because it means you don’t have to go searching for anything yourself. The same company moving your home will provide the boxes.
4. Your Storage Company
As with moving companies many reputable storage facilities will provide moving boxes if you sign up for some of their storage services. This is a good option to have the boxes free. Especially if you are using storage, anyway, are moving in between houses or are just storing some items you won’t need for a while.
There you have it. four great ways you can acquire some moving boxes free. At City Removalists & Storage, we would give you our boxes essentially free of charge if they returned to us in a reusable condition. The type of boxes we provide are as follows:
| Box Size |
Cost |
| Small |
$3 |
| Medium |
$5 |
| Large |
$10 |
