Most of our moving boxes are now on their third or fourth use! Just had to post this because someone came to pick up our TV box today and I can't believe how fun I have found this whole box exchange process to be. Let me tell you a bit about it...
[Roger leaps into box]
Our friends Erica and Steve got married. People sent them gifts in boxes, and we got to use all of the boxes and sweet packing material. We also got some amazing computer boxes for free from a kind NYC guy on Craigslist, and scavenged a TV box from the curb in Sunnyside on recycling day.
Our boxes made it to Cali. Now most of them (plus packing material) are on their way to Seattle with a nice couple about to have a baby girl and our TV box is on the way to Boston.
I was so satisfied (like, to the point of being giddy; I have issues) to see these things being reused, and there was something about making that human connection while exchanging the boxes, too—just interacting with someone who knows what it's like to box up your life and schlep it to another apartment; someone who made it to the other side just fine and now chooses to bestow their good will and wishes upon you in the form of free boxes. And once you make it to your destination, you get to keep the moving karma going, feeling that you're making someone else's journey a tiny bit easier and that you're living proof that it will all work out okay.
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