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Bin There, Store That
In the bitter catalog of inconveniences associated with moving, finding boxes barely deserves a mention: Compared to changing addresses and forwarding mail, switching phones and looking for the best supermarket, finding cardboard packing cartons is pretty minor. Still, whether one decides to buy brand new boxes from U-Haul or simply scavenges leftovers from the local liquor store, gathering containers is a vital — if irritating — necessity.
Having moved several times, Stephanie LeBlanc found the perfect solution to the box problem: Over the years, she gathered a collection of reusable plastic bins that enabled her to pack her things with minimal fuss. But when she recently relocated to Hoboken N.J., she faced a problem: there was no room in her new apartment for her trusty plastic crates. Deciding that she was ready to stay put for a while, she put them up for sale on the Internet, where she discovered that she wasn’t the only person with a box problem: “I was surprised to find other people doing the same thing. In fact, there was a large community of people asking for boxes or selling boxes.”
The pair’s company, Bin There, Store That, has grown primarily via word of mouth. Two other companies overing the same service in different geographic locations are: Frogbox and Bungobox.
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Erik on July 9th, 2011 11:13 pm
That is the nice thing about the time we live in–you can buy or sell just about anything on the Internet. It also makes for some very interesting business ventures.
Angela Shupe on July 11th, 2011 8:42 am
I imagine cheap people like me will continue getting paper boxes through other means, but I still love companies like this. There is a market for this kind of stuff. I remember when I moved, and we had to go searching for boxes anywhere we could find them. There was a time in high school when it was my job to find boxes we could use to collect coats to donate to the Salvation Army. For some of the items someone plans to unpack quickly or for a short collection period, these bins would work a lot better than dumpster diving at toy stores.
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