We moved twice in three years. Both times ended the same way: a garage full of flattened cardboard, a roll of tape somewhere in a box, and a Saturday spent hauling it all to the recycling center. The second time, the boxes had been rained on in the driveway and the bottom fell out of the one with the dishes.
Plastic totes solve all of that, but buying sixty of them to use for two weeks makes no sense. Renting them does. Companies were already doing this in Chicago and Denver, and nobody was doing it here. So we bought a truck, four hundred totes and a pressure washer, and started answering the phone.