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Moving boxes, are they easy or hard to find in Mexico? (relative to Tijuana)

TijuanaGirl - 10-10-2013 at 07:54 AM

Hello everyone

I just moved to Mexico. The research I did tells me that Mexico is a great place to live, especially in towns located south of Tijuana. As a n00b I'm taking it one step at a time by moving just outside the U.S., in Tijuana, to see how it goes.

I have a question and it may not seem like an important one but actually it is. I just unpacked my belongings, and I have approximately 25 empty boxes scattered around my place.

They're banana boxes.

I got them from a supermarket up in Orange County. All 25 boxes are about 19" long, 16" wide and 9" deep. I could keep them, but it would not be easy to keep them because they take up a lot of room (and no, I can't break them down, they're rigid, and not collapsible). I would really like to get rid of them. My place would be so much more accommodating if I could get rid of them.

It would be hard to host a guest or have a party if I hold on to the boxes.

The 25 banana boxes that I acquired from the Orange County supermarket were acquired over the course of several days. I had to make multiple trips to and from the store, I was able to grab about 5 or 6 boxes per trip.

So I'm wondering, my question is, when it comes time to move, where in Tijuana would a person go to get 20 or 30 boxes? Or, if possible, should I try and keep the boxes that I use to move with? What should I do?

DENNIS - 10-10-2013 at 08:00 AM

Is this a joke? You're moving to Tijuana and disposing of banana boxes is your biggest problem?
You gotta be kidding.

TijuanaGirl - 10-10-2013 at 08:07 AM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
Is this a joke? You're moving to Tijuana and disposing of banana boxes is your biggest problem?
You gotta be kidding.


One problem is people like you who hijack threads. You just set a bad tone. But I imagine someone like you will do as you damn well please.

tjsue - 10-10-2013 at 09:17 AM

I just moved to Tijuana, and if the time comes that I decide to move again, I'll just get more boxes from the liquor stores in San Diego where I got them originally. And I had way more than 25 boxes.

Just throw them out.

jimgrms - 10-10-2013 at 04:12 PM

You can buy boxes at wal mart ,herein the states , proabably in Mex also, throw them away

Boxes

O.G. - 10-10-2013 at 04:57 PM

I went through the same indecisions. I was looking at empty moving boxes 5 years later. Throw them away. Unless they are real good boxes ... .

DENNIS - 10-10-2013 at 05:36 PM

Ohhhh gawd....you people are still responding to this?
What's next? "How do I get rid of my used toilet paper?"

tjsue - 10-10-2013 at 06:18 PM

Dennis, why don't you start a thread on that subject and see how many responses you get.:lol:

dasubergeek - 10-14-2013 at 02:59 PM

You do it the same way you do it in the states—you go to the market (you know how many effin banana boxes come out of Mercado Hidalgo on a daily basis?) and you go to bars and liquor stores and you ask for them.

(Hi Dennis!)

Mulegena - 10-14-2013 at 03:46 PM

No idea about Tijuana but in La Paz its darn near impossible to find used boxes.

Can't even buy 'em from the grocery stores. There's a burgeoning industry in repurposing all the cardboard the stores use. They're not letting go of any-- even for money. Edited to say they are letting go of the boxes-- all of 'em-- already appropriated, crushed & sold for recycle.

Last year we were visiting relatives in La Paz and had the occasion to score a b-tchin' picture window for sale, lightly used, excellent condition, out of a gorgeous condominium that was being revamped.

We had a devil of a time finding cardboard boxes to protect it in the back of the pickup. We scrounged and begged and offered to buy. Got home with 9-foot window safely and it's now installed, but... Who'd a thunk it'd be so tough to get used boxes?

[Edited on 10-14-2013 by Mulegena]

DENNIS - 10-14-2013 at 03:54 PM

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Originally posted by dasubergeek
You do it the same way you do it in the states—you go to the market (you know how many effin banana boxes come out of Mercado Hidalgo on a daily basis?) and you go to bars and liquor stores and you ask for them.

(Hi Dennis!)



Hi.......


Down here, or probably in the states now as well....that's a bad idea. Used boxes are homes for c-ckroaches. Invite them into your home and they turn into mothers-in-law. You can't get rid of them.

Archie - 10-14-2013 at 04:58 PM

Not any box will do.

Due to some restrictions on import and export because of avian flu, Shipping companies, intl´customs and airport aduanas wont let you use cardboard boxes used to transport eggs for packing and transport any item to and from mainland Mexico.

tjsue - 10-15-2013 at 12:53 AM

The liquor stores that I got mine from put them outside as soon as they're unpacked, and they were very clean. My liquor store boxes were bug free, I made very sure of it. I unpacked about 50 boxes last week, and some of the packing newspaper in the boxes was from 2009, and I never saw a c-ckroach or any other bug from the box.

DENNIS - 10-15-2013 at 09:08 AM

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Originally posted by tjsue
The liquor stores that I got mine from put them outside as soon as they're unpacked, and they were very clean. My liquor store boxes were bug free, I made very sure of it. I unpacked about 50 boxes last week, and some of the packing newspaper in the boxes was from 2009, and I never saw a c-ckroach or any other bug from the box.



Sounds like a safe method for gathering boxes. My "c-ckroach" reference was actually about boxes from dumpsters.

dasubergeek - 10-15-2013 at 01:24 PM

Yeah, not advocating skip diving.

tjsue - 10-16-2013 at 10:18 AM

Sounds like a safe method for gathering boxes. My "c-ckroach" reference was actually about boxes from dumpsters.

I would never get a box, or anything for that matter from a dumpster, due to the c-ckroach issues. My ex next door neighbor in San Diego was a pack rat and dumpster diver. I never had a roach problem, but he did, including inside of the refrigerator.

[Edited on 10-16-2013 by tjsue]