When you move, you’re reminded of just how much stuff you really have in your house. Old pictures turn up that you haven’t seen in years. You’re ecstatic to find your favorite shirt from college (even though you’ll never wear it again anyway). Morsels of food are still sitting behind your couch. A paperback book you used to love is bent at the spine.

It’s a lot to take in, pack up, and move out. When it comes to your stowed away holiday decorations, things are no different. However, toting your outdated or tattered decorations over to the new house seems a bit much. You decide to cut down on your holiday decor and throw half of it out, just like your old clothes and other pieces of furniture. By sizing down, you make the move a heck of a lot easier and your new place a lot more simplified and clean.

But what about the decorations you decided to keep? You’re out of containers to store them in since you ransacked your house for whatever boxes you could find for your other stuff. What do you put the decor in?

Cheap moving boxes is your answer. Whether you decide to put your ornaments in dish boxes, your holiday signs in picture frame boxes, or even shove your mini trees in lamp boxes, having some extra cardboard boxes for cheap is worth it. The boxes are easy to assemble, strong and sturdy when you need them to be, and easy to break down when you need to store them away in small spaces.

Not only will these cheap moving boxes serve you well in making the move to the new place but they’ll also be perfect for keeping everything in storage until the holidays actually roll around. Since you were lacking in boxes in the first place, you’ll be able to replenish your stock of storage boxes and repurpose the other ones for more storage.

No matter what, having extra boxes when you’re in the process of moving is a godsend. There’s always those few items that are loose in your trailer because you didn’t have enough containers for them. Having the few extra boxes you were missing will ensure your items make it safe and intact to your new home. Spend a few bucks getting some new cardboard now and you’ll thank yourself down the road for having done it earlier.