We got to the empty boxes this weekend. I was ruthless! I think DH was expecting me to have a hard time letting go of any. I kept one medium sized box full with about 6 small decorative boxes inside it, but other than that, my criteria was: only keep boxes I can sell chickens, chicks and full grown geese in. Everything else got chucked!
We didn’t have any that will fit full grown geese, but I did keep a lot that can fit full grown chickens, and a lot that baby chicks can go to homes in. But even that stack got trimmed back and I didn’t keep all of them. I think what’s left fits in about 25% of the space it used to take up.
I sorted through the boxes and made a discard stack, and DH used a box cutter to flat stack all the cardboard. I kept him busy!
We saved a little of the best packing papers and bubble wrap, but everything else including styrofoam inserts all got bagged and hauled out to the trash. The stack of cardboard itself filled up half of one toter. I usually eyeball all cardboard for it’s usefulness as weed block or other projects that need cardboard. Stacked against a wall in the garage behind a storage shelf I have quite a collection of big flat cardboard pieces. I only requested to save one particularly large basement cardboard piece, and I didn’t get any flak. I think because this big piece wasn’t fitting in the dumpster very well, so he didn’t mind me taking that one to the spot behind the shelf.
He does have to admit from time to time that that supply of large cardboard pieces comes in handy. He often uses a piece for something and he has added to it as well, so I’m not the only one who likes to save cardboard.
And, he has seen me use it down to almost nothing left when I do my weed blocking projects. (One year I ran out, and I was covetously eyeing the neighbor’s burn pile. They seem to get a lot of furniture and appliance sized boxes, which they just toss out to burn. Once I got lucky and the wind blew a big one over that I snagged for a chick brooder.
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So anyway, there’s more bare space showing on the basement floor now. Next up, I need to list my empty fish tank on Craigslist and get what remaining bird breeding cages I have ready for sale. I already sold most of them, but I have a couple 5 foot wide ones that need to be cleaned and photographed for listing and I have a lot of miscellaneous bird cage supplies to organize and sell.
. With that many, can they go to bird fair? Or are chickens not offered, just caged birds? If last is the case, I'd sure make flyers for that affair -- promote!!
