By Samantha Vinson
Moving boxes and supplies can be purchased online at various box stores. Most stores will pretty much have everything you need for your move. This includes boxes of all sizes: small, medium, large, x-large, and specialty ones such as wardrobe, computer, TV, and picture boxes. Supplies include bubble wrap, packing tape, packing paper, styrofoam peanuts, blankets, and so on.
When you buy everything from one store online, you tend to get the best deal. Typically, most stores offer free shipping regardless of how much you spend, but this isn’t always the case. Also, stores may offer discounts when you reach a certain spending threshold.
Unless you have a moving box and supplies store just around your corner, ordering online is probably the best route. As mentioned, shipping is free and it’s all delivered to your front door. The prices are pretty competitive online because of the amount of competition. You won’t find one store offering prices far lower than another.
Moving kits probably provide the best overall value. They offer the chance to get boxes and supplies together in a bundle for a lower price than buying it all separately. Kits are also beneficial if you are having trouble figuring out just how many boxes and supplies you need.
Stores have moving kits for 1 room up to 10 or more rooms. So if you are moving out of a 3 bedroom house, then you would buy a 3 room kit.
One moving kit I saw at a box store offered 55 moving boxes, over 200 yards of tape, a 50 foot roll of bubble wrap, 6 pounds of packing paper, and 2 markers.
Now, you still may need to buy more boxes or supplies on top of a kit, but this is a pretty good start. What kits often lack are specialty boxes for your wardrobe, computer, flat screen TV, and so on. So you may have to buy those separately.
Some might just think that supplies aren’t necessary, but this is not the case. Supplies will provide the right amount of protection for your most fragile items, such as glassware, dishes, and any other special items you may have.
Your best bet when packing such fragile items is to wrap it in packing paper or bubble wrap. Then, you want to fill the bottom of the box with bubble wrap, then fill the top as well once everything has been packed inside of it. That way, it has some cushion in something falls on top of it.