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Ten Things Kids Can Do With Cardboard Moving Boxes

Imaginative children can have fun with just about anything on hand, and that’s especially true of cardboard packaging and moving boxes.

ImageLarge cardboard moving boxes can become so many different things…

These boxes are perfect for small people with big imaginations.

Ten Things Kids Can Do With Cardboard Moving Boxes

1) Magic Cave Interior

Go ahead and stick Christmas tree lights through the cardboard to light the interior.

2) Robot Costume

Go get a couple boxes of various different sizes – this require a robot surgeon.

3) Musical Instrument

just add strings

4) Make an Ice cream cart or a Fort!

i prefer forts

5) Make office or a desk for office

Just like the one Daddy has at work.

6) sock theatre or TV

Write and produce plays in the theater – the decorate the theater for the upcoming production.

7) Spaceship

Attach all manner of electric things and gadgets to interior, colour exterior according to mission.

8) Cat Box 

Go make home for kitty cat.

9) use it as a crash pad !

People can fall on it from great heights – not recommended, esp if cat is inside.

10)  unfold it for break dance pad

Break dancing is coming back into dance fashion, and its real good exercise for kids.

Assembling a  Superhero stuntmen crash pad; stuntmen use moving boxes in stunts requires having a great deal of boxes packed two or three boxes high depending on the height the actor is falling… help make a TV commercial in which a stuntman was going to do a high fall into cardboard boxes and it never happened
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Here is Don Pitchforth. The boxes he sold us are for sale to you this week!

The Moving Boxes for Stunt men are Now For Sale!

Don Pitchforth of Boxed Inn sold us cardboard moving boxes which we use for stuntman crashpadsI posted adverts in Red Flag Deals about moving boxes for sale, and I put a post in Toronto golf nuts about moving boxes for sale and I described how we made stuntman crash pad on the weekend briefly – it was cool

Then without warning I wrote about moving boxes for sale in Toronto Forums because the GTA and north Toronto are handy for lots of folks. but traffic is real bad up there though…

There’s more about Don ‘s moving boxes for TV stuntmen on Free Ads Planet in Toronto

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Remodeling Basement in Home Renovations Real Estate Flipping Toronto

This summer we’re remodeling the basement and putting a sunroom on the front of the house.

doing work on the basement of houseBasement Renovation Starts With Amdry Sub Flooring

After lowering the basement floor and installing proper drains, Kevin elected to use Amdry basement flooring applied directly onto the concrete slab. We would then apply a thick orange coloured cozy shaggy carpet on top of that material – for sure, the kids will love it growing up, and then complain about our taste when they remove the mess in twenty years, but they wont remove the Amdry sub floor underneath… Kevin believes that will last forever.  It does have a space age look and feel, and the material is heavy duty durable and something that looks like it would last a long time in either dry or wet conditions a concrete floor sweats – and these channels in the material let the cement breathe

Amvic insulated wall panels are safe, secure, easy-to-install, and makes cozy spaces where your ears pop when the door closes.

buying basement flooringPurchasing the material required more than internet searches – i had to pick up the phone and make some calls!  The basement walls are to be  composed of Amdry insulated wall panels and you can see Kevin Dugard selecting the best examples at the Rona at Islington and 401 in Toronto

It was a time and place – Kevin had an avocado submarine sandwich in the store Subway, and felt sick on the way home.  that this happened to me once too.

 insulated wall panels at RONAAMENDMENT  You can see more of us purchasing the basement flooring and insulated wall panels on Red Flag Deals and a similar notion about basement flooring and insulated wall panels on Toronto Forums where we’re now selling the surplus for Kevin who characteristically overestimated and bought too much after being given a great price for a large order.

A couple articles warned us away from other green trends , and so went with it and made a meme specific content  like Green Trends Bring Red Ink when Flipping Houses which has more pictures

Smojoe blogged about insulated wall panels and basement flooring and helping friends flip houses on his blog.

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