Cardboard is fine until you are flattening fifty boxes in a hallway at 11pm. Our reusable plastic moving bins show up clean and already stacked. You fill them, we move you, then we take the bins back. Nothing left at the curb.
Think about what a box actually costs you. You buy it, tape it, use it once, then break it down. Bins skip all of that. We drop sturdy stackable plastic bins at your door a few days before the move and come back for them after you unpack. That is the moving bin rental nyc renters keep asking us about, mostly because it is the least wasteful way to pack a small apartment.
The bins come to you and they leave when you are done. No tape, because the lids just snap shut. And on a stair carry they hold their shape, which is more than you can say for a carton that sat out in the rain on collection day.
There is not much to it. We bring the bins, you pack, we move you, we take the bins back. The delivery and the pickup are on us, so your only job is filling them.
A box move ends with your hallway buried in cardboard. A bin move ends when we drive off with the bins. In an apartment where closet space and recycling day are both a fight, that is not a small thing.
We have moved New Yorkers since 2013, and the box breakdown is the part clients complain about most after the fact. Bins fix it. They protect your things better on a stair carry, they stack without collapsing, and they leave with us. Rent them alongside a full move or just take the bins and do it yourself.