Retailers like Amazon and Overstock have partnered with local charities to use your empty cardboard boxes to help those in need and help you get rid of clutter filling your homes. Here's how it works: ...

This clever gift lets you participate in the orgy of holiday spending, but also gives kids a simple gift to stimulate their creativity: a big empty box. For the two-year-old in your life who has ...

Turn an ordinary box into an elegant kids’ costume armoire with this DIY game-changer! The filmer covers the box with wrapping paper before hot gluing a cork as a doorknob to customize the creation.

Every day, the people who run D'Allesandro’s Pizza fold about 350 sheets of thick cardboard into 350 pizza boxes. They pile them atop humming refrigerators. They tuck them beneath flour-dusted ...

When my eldest son was two years old, I went behind a local appliance store and pulled from their dumpster a huge refrigerator box that I wrapped in newsprint and then adorned with colorful ribbons ...

The most alluring potential toy for your tot? Nope, not your iPad mini/ the TV remote/your smartphone. It’s an empty cardboard box. With infinite possibilities for play, the opportunity to let their ...

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