Where can I get some milkcrates?

[elfword.livejournal.com]

Hey Davis Square denizens,

Where can I find some milkcrates?

If I can get about 12 of them, I can raise my bed up securely and have some nifty storage space underneath to boot. I am car-less, so if anyone knows of a spot close to the 94 / 96's route, or around Davis Square's center, that would be awesome. Any help is much appreciated.

Comments

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Three likely choices:
Tags hardware, Porter Sq.
Economy Hardware, Central Sq. (both are more than just hardware stores. Way more.)
Target, Union Sq. (On the 87 bus, I think.)

[pushupstairs.livejournal.com]

Try asking the Providence Bruins' goalie, he knows a thing or two about milk crates.

[lonelyholiday.livejournal.com]

I'm late here because I was out of town, but this gif has made me LOL multiple times:



Too bad it doesn't show a milk crate.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I would look around some dorms right after the sping semester ends. Bet they throw out zillions.

[jodi.livejournal.com]

buy them at your local target or hardware store.

this may not have been the answer you were fishing for but stores have to pay for crates they don't return to their place origin so "getting" them from the backs of businesses and the like is actually stealing and not in some tradition grey-area as is usually supposed.

[ron_newman]

Dunkin Donuts used to abandon large numbers of such crates weekly on Chester Street. I don't know why.

[kidsmokes.livejournal.com]

I've 'found' crates behind Rite Aid along the bike path, tons at the alley way my redbones but I would take those after dark, and behind the Joshua Tree/Starbucks you can sometimes find them there.

Keep in mind though, it's illegal to use them for anything but milk delivery.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

crates will not hold the weight of your bed and you. you'll want cinder blocks for raising the bed..

[krazykarot.livejournal.com]

agreed. but if you just want them for storage you can buy some in Rite Aid, that's where I got the one I put on the back of my bike.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Target and other places also sell plastic things designed for the same purpose. I know it's lame to pay for something when cinder blocks are free, but I stub my toes SO MUCH LESS (and when I do, it hurts less) that it's worth it to me.

I agree that milk crates aren't up to the job.

[xuth.livejournal.com]

Actual milk crates are plenty strong enough to hold up your bed. A single one will easily hold well over 200 pounds. They have to because they have to hold a stack of... MILK. A single milk crate will hold 4 1 gallon jugs or 9 1/2 gallon jugs. This is 32 or 36 pounds per. A stack of six crates weighs in at 216 pounds without the weight of the crates added in.

On the other hand the cheap flimsy crates you get at target and the like aren't worth the petroleum they're made from. If you want something built to a similar quality as milk crates you need to buy bins made by the likes of Akro-Mils or Buckhorn. Even the likes of RubberMaid just doesn't compare.

[armyofthoughts.livejournal.com]

I have a few (4 or 5)in my aparment on the 94 route that I am willing to part with, for free. Send me a message and I will give you my screenname or something to discuss when you can pick them up.
Also agree that they will not support the weight of a bed. But I have been using them for shelves for years.