Are you tired yet of all the advice we’re getting on ways to start the new year right?
It can get annoying, but I did find one suggestion that I thought was good: Take your Amazon boxes and other holiday shipping boxes, fill them with stuff you don’t use, and get rid of the items and the boxes.
My living room was filled with Amazon boxes after Christmas. I threw them into the garage with a sigh of relief, figuring I’d break them down for recycling later.
However, when I set about putting furniture and other items back in my guest bedroom after the new tile floor was installed, I thought about the boxes. I could use them for storing bedding more neatly in my guest bedroom.
I used several holiday boxes then a couple of banker’s boxes I had left over from another project.
All in all, a good result.
Other uses for Amazon boxes are:
- Use for crafts and science experiments.
- Turn large boxes into a playhouse or fort.
- Make a Halloween costume.
- Ship your own packages.
- Pack a Give Back box. Print a shipping label from the Give Back Box website, pack your Amazon boxes with items that are in good condition, and send them off as donations.
- Use as a gift box.
- Make a cat tower for your cat.
- Use as toy storage.
- Put it in the garden or a flower bed to control weeds. A friend of mine put cardboard on top of grass to kill the grass so she’d have larger flower beds.
- Compost it. It needs to be torn in strips and tape and labels need to be removed. Don’t put cardboard in curbside composting bins without checking with your local utility.
- Make signs.
- Donate to a neighbor who’s moving or someone else. Moving companies, local businesses, schools, and charities also may take them.
- Make a shoe rack.
- Recycle. Check with your local utility to see if they take cardboard. Follow any directions such as breaking up boxes.
Best wishes getting rid of boxes. I really like that most of mine were reused.
