Moving boxes, anyone?

After announcing our move today on Facebook, a friend from high school suggested I blog about the moving experience, so I will attempt to....So, we are having to get moving estimates to send to the church. We have had 2 moving companies come out to the house, walk through, ask "Does this go?", peek into cabinets and closets (it has not been pretty), gawk at the monstrosity that is our garage, etc. In all of this, we are planning to pack our own things, in hopes of downsizing. So we are in need of moving boxes. Now, we can just buy them from a moving company, or we can try to get them from someone who has just moved. We thought that trying to get used boxes is the 'greener' way to go, so we placed ads on freecycle.org and have been scanning craigslist with no luck until today. I received an email from a woman that read "call at 4xxxxxxxxx i good boxs". I wasn't sure if I should respond to this email, but then I notice the time was 4am when the message was sent. I am thinking that this poor woman has just moved and must have a small child or baby that is keeping her up at night, thus the grammar. So I call her this afternoon, ask about the kinds of boxes, etc. She tells me that she purchased the boxes from a moving store and that she has all sizes. We are thinking that we have hit the jackpot and agree to go pick them up this afternoon. She agrees to set them out in front of her house.
After piling all 5 of us into the van, we drive to this woman's house, only to find about 10 boxes, paper towel boxes, boxes she has picked up from a liquor store or grocer. And many of the boxes were crushed or ripped. We just kept right on going. Guess we will be going to a moving company to buy boxes this week...