My roommate and I were both raised by grandparents who lived through the Great Depression. This has a large influence on a lot of the things we do. For instance, we hate to get rid of things. We turn food containers into storage. We repurpose items for new uses (such as a computer desk that is now a sewing center). We also keep things around 'just in case' we need them. Mostly, this involves boxes.
I mean, you never know when you may need a box so it IS a good idea to keep them around. The problem is that we both have medical supplies that arrive in boxes so by the time we get to our yearly 'remove the boxes from the house' ritual, we have A LOT of boxes to deal with.
This year, as we were working through the process of dismantling the boxes, he commented that we never do actually use ANY of those boxes for anything, and he's right. There really is no point in hoarding boxes for a whole year and letting them dominate the larger portion of a storage room.
We pay our water bill by the paper recycling bins in our town. The best solution here is to simply alter the yearly ritual to a monthly one. When we go to pay water, we'll deal with the boxes at the same time. It isn't out of our way and helps us to have more room in the house.
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