On 29 Dec 2025, Mortar M. said the following...
I find flattening boxes as they come in saves a lot of time, then you don't have to dedicate a day to it, which would probably get put off...multiple times. Another time saver is get a small bin/container that you can carry, fill that up with your recyclables, then when full, take that out to your main bin; particularly helpful during the Winter.
Oddly, I did both of those things.
The thing with the advent calendars, is that they take a while to break down, depending on type, and if one is "AdventApril", with an unreasonable amount of advent calendars, there's a lot that's produced when emptying all of them at once.
And I do have a bin for paper, which made things compact enough that between that and some stuffed boxes, it wasn't _too_ many trips to get it all down.
Though I think I don't like the bin -- it's too flimsy, so occasionally runs the risk of spilling things because of twisting. I'm sad that storage boxes aren't more-reliably sold as things that can take a beating.
At least the ones for my bike trailer are nice, both because they're sturdy, and because they fold down.
But it'd feel weird to me to use one as a paper bin, I think.
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