[Boatanchors] Packing materials

[David Stinson]

I don't know if it's just here, but Home Depot has started selling 
decent boxes in several sizes for very cheap- less than a buck 
for one that will pack something like and ARC-5.
Their other packing material is typically over-priced.

Being one of those people who hates to waste stuff and 
send it to the already-crowded land fill, I've started using a 
strip-shredder to shred all the waste paper- like old bills and 
the piles of junk mail and catalogs and old newspapers.
It's interesting to me just how much waste paper goes
through the typical American home like mine.
I recycle used plastic water and soda bottles as 
"air bumpers" all around the gear 
and fill in the remaining space with the shredded paper, 
which also holds the bottles in place.  

Please- Don't anyone try to tell me how this "won't work,"
like they did last time, citing all kinds of "laws of physics
of bodies in motion" horse-hooey I'm too dumb to understand
anyways.... I've been doing it for years and it works just fine. ;-)
The problem is finding a decent strip-shredder anymore-
only lots of "cross-cut" machines, which are useless for packing.
I've had to fall-back on buying the cheap $11 models
you can get at Target/Wallyworld and modifying them 
to make them work....  or half-way work.. 
Anyone know where I can get a heavy-duty strip 
shredder for less than a second-mortgage?

73 D.S.