Can anyone tell me if there's a place to get free/cheap newsprint or leftover newspapers for packing? Can I just call the N&O or even the technician and get a leftover roll or stack of old papers?

12/23/2009 4:49:00 PM

...wow.

12/23/2009 4:50:09 PM

just go to any recycling place and grab some

12/23/2009 4:50:41 PM

go to paper machine
deposit $.50
take every fucking paper in there

12/23/2009 4:54:23 PM

there are TONS of free publications at bars, restaurants, fast food places, hotels etc etc

12/23/2009 5:03:17 PM

Not sure about the N&O or Technician, but I do know for a fact that some papers do this. My mom owns a small pottery business, and she talked to the local paper about donating the ends of the large rolls of paper that weren't going to be used in the presses for whatever reason. They were happy to oblige -- saved them the trouble of getting rid of the waste themselves.

12/23/2009 7:01:28 PM

the problem with newspaper is it gets the ink on your hands and sometimes on the things you are trying to protect. I have found plastic grocery bags to be much less messy.

12/23/2009 9:18:43 PM

Call a storage place and ask if they have blank newsprint paper for sale in bulk for moving purposes. Somebody's gotta have it, as the moving company that came and moved me to Virginia had a shit ton of the stuff. Your other option is to simply post a craigslist ad and say "Don't recycle your newspapers, give them to me!" and grab a shit ton of the stuff. Then your only cost is gasoline.

12/23/2009 9:31:58 PM

usually you can call the newspaper and get the ends of their paper rolls for free or cheap

12/24/2009 1:02:54 AM

just go to home depot or lowes and spend the 10 bucks on a box of packing paper

12/24/2009 8:49:35 AM

Quote :

"go to paper machine deposit $.50 take every fucking paper in there"

what sad is i think people actually do this.

12/24/2009 12:23:58 PM

^^ turns out its $4 for 70 24" square sheets. took one pack for the things we didnt want on printed newspring + a stack of scrounged newspapers and last week's old indyweeks for the stuff we don't care as much about having to clean again. Thanks all.

12/26/2009 11:14:20 PM

If you go to one of the recycling collection areas around town, you can just grab as many newspapers as you want from the bin. That's what we always did. I'd usually dumpster dive the magazines while I was there too. People throw out great magazines

12/26/2009 11:22:13 PM

go to the N&O printing place in downtown, they have huge bins of yesterdays newspaper and im sure they wont have a problem with you taking some

12/27/2009 2:17:50 PM

Just raid a technician rack on campus. The one in the lobby of jordan hall has a stack of technicians almost three feet high.

12/27/2009 8:04:23 PM

Put the request on Craigslist.

12/27/2009 8:28:25 PM