The Various Types of Shipping Boxes

When you’re choosing a birthday gift for your family member, friend, or loved one, a lot of effort and thought can go into the process of getting the gift itself. Where are you going to go to look for a variety of items for them? Do you even have any idea what they may like? Have they asked for something in particular?

It’s all quite a detailed process all to say “Hey, you mean something to me, so I got this for your birthday.” But, that’s how the gift-giving process goes, right?

It’s not always fun, especially if you’re stressed about getting the “perfect” gift for someone who means even more to you. But what about after you’ve already got the gift? What about once you’ve found the perfect thing but don’t have the proper packaging available to wrap it in? And what about actually wrapping it? Oh man.

Well, you’re not alone in dreading the wrapping. It’s just another step in the painstaking gift giving process. You’ve gotta make sure you have wrapping paper, some shipping boxes, and other packaging supplies like tape and scissors just to be ready to do the wrapping.

When you have awkwardly shaped gifts, though, they call for specific shipping boxes to house them in if you’ll be sending it across the country or not delivering it yourself.

Cylindrical gifts.

For any posters, shirts, blankets, mats, or anything else that can be rolled up into a cylinder, you’ll want a cylindrical shipping tube. They’re quite easy to wrap and are super handy for tapestries, posters, and large paper in general.

Small or tiny boxes.

For all the tiny gifts out there, there needs to be a tiny box. The problem is, you don’t want to overestimate how much wrapping paper is needed considering how small the box may actually be. If you can’t find a box small enough for whatever item it is you’re shipping, try using a plastic mailer instead.

Very large items

Sometimes, you’re shipping something awkwardly huge or just awkward enough to warrant a huge box anyway. Most of the time, these are quite a pain to deal with. The good thing is that shipping stores will help you out with boxing and wrapping these. The bad thing? You’ll be paying quite a bit more for shipping something so big. You’ll either have to bite the bullet and send it anyway or hope that there’s a way you can get it to them yourself.

Spring Is Near and Cleaning Is Here

Getting around to cleaning up your house as the seasons transition from winter to spring can be quite the chore. You may still have a lot of holiday decorations and gifts laying around the house. Your home might be set up to be “warm” with blankets everywhere and the heat always on. Heck, your wardrobe probably reflects that it has been cold outside for a long time.

But it’s time to switch over now that spring has arrived, and that can be a “dreaded” time of year for a lot of people whose houses are absolute messes.

The good thing is, things will begin getting warmer and you’ll start to hang with friends more often and grill outside and just enjoy the better weather. So, if you need an extra bit of motivation to get around to getting your house in order, look no further.

Get started on spring cleaning

Yes, this takes time. Yes, it also takes a lot of effort. The thing is, you don’t have to do it all in one day. I mean, you can if you want to be ultra productive and knock it all out at once. But you can spread out your spring cleaning along multiple weekends to give yourself an easier workload each time you tackle it. Just make sure you’re on top of this, as your house will need it more than you think.

Have some friends over

It’s been awhile since your friends last visited and that’s most likely the case because of the cold and crappy weather. You’ll have extra motivation to clean the house if you have some sort of small event planned for friends or family in the next few weeks, so perhaps planning something out will spur you forward with the spring cleaning you have been putting off. If you’ve got spare decorations still laying around, use some old shipping boxes to place them in and put them away in storage. Never thought you’d get such use out of mere shipping boxes, did you?

Use the gifts that have been neglected since Christmas

Well, it happens to all of us. There will always be those few gifts that you didn’t necessarily ask for and weren’t too excited when you opened them. They’re most likely functional, though, and you could probably get some use out of them in some way. Get to putting those up if they’re decorations or getting use out of them if they’re tools or clothes. Or, at the very least, try to return them or give them away to someone else who could use them.