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Now I know this is going to be my first stupid question but am going to ask anyway. Where do you all get your cardboard from for weed suppression. I went to my local supermarket and I explained what I wanted but they told me they didn’t have any and even if they did I couldn’t have any. It’s kind of put me off asking another one so thought I would ask here.
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I work in a cinema (well, usually. I'm on furlough right now), so I get mine from work. We get through tons of it. -
Bile shops would be glad to get rid of it methinks. Aldi used to have piles of cardboard by the door for 'projects'. I used to grab half a dozern boxes each time I shopped. They have stopped doing it now though.
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I will have to try some other supermarkets As maybe they were just having a bad day
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Ask on local community pages such as nextdoor or your local facebook pages or freecycle, or go bin diving when the cardboard bins are put out
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Over here you can get cardboard from places like decathlon which have protective cardboard during transit for the bikes they sell.
I managed to get a lot from the IKEA kitchen units I bought and then from a friend who replaced her kitchen from IKEA.
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My son does skip diving all the time but I am just so much more ..... reserved??? ... timid? I need to be more unfearful of asking. LolComment
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Round here we have a saying "Shy bairns get nowt"Originally posted by Rose willow View Post
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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I spotted someone stacking cardboard from new doors next to their car after a quick word they were very pleased not to have to take it to the tip and I'd got enough to cover my beds.
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If you have a ‘recycling collection’, have a wander along the road, you’ll see lots, especially at the moment as people are having so much deliveredComment
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All of the above, also is anyone near you having a new kitchen? Cardboard city.
My neighbour's kid saved all his money and bought himself a massive flat screen telly. The box for that was big enough to cover a bed on it's own...
Any car dealerships, light industry etc will probably have a lot of cardboard. The advantage is that they are not shinily printed to appeal to consumers, but be careful there is no oil contamination/shake out any swarf etc
you can, at a push, use newspaper in layers, but I tend to do that only for gaps.
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Lidl always has trolleys full of cardboard boxes to take, if you have a Costco card and there’s one near you, there are generally massive piles of boxes by the checkouts.
I’m lucky that at work there’s a constant supply of boxed items arriving, and I can take what I like since it costs money to dispose of itComment
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