Today on our WSBT-TV segment, I am sharing inexpensive ways to ship your packages, good investments for creating a shipping center at home, and things you can use around your house for packing materials for your packages.
This goes along with a post that I wrote awhile back on shipping your packages frugally and our adventures in shipping. I plan to write a more extensive article after I noticed that it is one of the top things people have been searching for on our site.
You can also see our new Christmas tree, as our tree this year was looking a little um… Charlie Brown-ish. The top had broken on it and I had hot glued it last year, but it couldn’t survive another year. We had just put it up, but no decorations for it yet.
Sound Off: Do you have any tips for cheap shipping or any frugal materials around your house that you use for packing your gifts?
Great ideas, Amy! I had never heard of the website where you can compare prices. We just mailed a big gift package this morning, and it was less than half the price to send it UPS as opposed to Priority Mail!
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Hi Amy! Great segement! Your ideas are great!
I like to use the flat rate shipping method form the USPS. They provide the boxes for free (2 different sizes available). It is $8.95 to ship to any zip. As long as it fits in the box, the weight does not matter, it is a flat rate for all.
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If you are ordering from amazon, and need a cheap item to reach the $25 free shipping minimum, go to http://www.filleritem.com for lists of cheap items!! I just ordered a travel potty (we are starting training) and I needed $.01 for the free shipping. I ordered a $.90 book of horse stickers to reach the min. What a nifty tool!
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