Bought new furniture - delivery man left a lot of huge cardboard boxes - best way to get rid of them?
It was from a couch set and dining table set. Almost 1 single car garage worth of large boxes.
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
I would be willing to pay for someone to come and remove this.
Good idea!
Or post it in a local Facebook buy, swap and sell group. Often people are looking for boxes to move house.
Good idea!
Build an enormous fort.
Love this idea lol
Definitely a fort.
after we moved house, I assembled lots boxes into a tower and the kids got to charge through it, would have been even more fun if the wind didn't keep blowing the tower over.
Sounds like you bought some boxes as well as the contents.
You can flatten them and fold them down and take them to the tip.
Our local one does not charge to drop off recyclables. Maybe yours doesn't either?
I'll look into this - but I think the others have said post as freebies so others can use it :)
freecycle
hey, where in Brisbane are you? a friend in redcliffe is looking for some boxes.
Brisbane south side! (Underwood)
a bit far. but thanks for your response.
Furniture packaging generally will be odd sizes, and may get torn in transport and unpacking. Therefore may not be of much use for someone looking for boxes to move house. Council run tips usually accept these without a fees. If not, tear them into smaller pieces and put in your recycling bin. This is what I did, and then found out that the local tip accepted the boxes and styrofoam packing for free😫
Bonfire at your place. Pretty average and short lived bonfire but still a bonfire by definition. Save the date is…….
*boxfire
ask local kindergarten, pre schools
For odd size boxes I chop mine up into manageable pieces (about a4 size) and feed the recycle bin until they are gone. A nice sharp blade makes short work of it. It's easier to top up the bin at the end of the week than to overfill it at the start. Can take a few weeks to get rid of them, or is quicker if your neighbours go on holidays and you are putting their bin out for them.
Massive sheets of bubble wrap are harder to deal with, it takes ages to pop all the bubbles to pack it down.
There will always be people who want bubble wrap though, so you shouldn't ever need to throw it away.
sigh Apparently it wasn't obvious. I can't imagine anyone popping all bubbles to pack it down, and yes, I do retain some bubble wrap for packaging items that need to be posted.
Check if your local tip accepts cardboard boxes. Our one you can drop it off for free… You'll just have to make a few trips
Got a yard? Lay em under a garden bed.
Recycling bin.
Donate larger boxes to people who want them for moving, and smaller boxes to people who own cats.
Best way to get rid of them is to set up a furniture delivery business.
turn them into compost so your plants can eat them
Good points made that odd sized boxes won't be desirable by a lot of people…
I think I'll put it up on gumtree as free with a few photos and start cutting up into a4 as well.
Between Freecycle, Gumtree and Ebay I'd be surprised if you didn't get any takers.
Not sure if I'm missing something here but are the boxes from the items you got delivered? Or are you saying the deliveryman left additional boxes to those ones? Because it's not their responsibility to remove the boxes the items were delivered in at all.
Boxes from the items we got delivered.
So if we bought a dining table - the dining table arrived in a box to our home. The dining table was nicely setup.
The box for the dining table was left with me to manage and get rid of. Now I'm asking what's the best way to get rid of a lot of boxes that I do not want/or need.
Well he didn't leave them; they came delivered in a box so not sure why your initial post stated they were left there by the deliveryman as if it's his responsibility to deliver as well as remove any associated packaging.
Anyways, go with one of the numerous suggestions as outlined above I guess.
Didn't mean to imply any responsibility.
Often delivery guys will remove the packaging as well. I don't think that was, necessarily, an invalid assumption. Some people seem to be affronted by odd things.
Burn them all
IKEA recycles boxes.
We dropped off the majority of our boxes there when we moved house recently.
List them on Gumtree as freebies.