If you’ve got a big move coming up, you might want to take some inspiration from this Red Dot Design Award-winning update to the lowly cardboard box. The Corner Box adds a small indent to one of the bottom corners giving you a spot to easily lift or drop a box without squashing your fingers.
Unfortunately since the Red Dot Design Awards are usually only doled out to concepts, you won’t be able to find a Corner Box anywhere just yet. But you can probably make your own with a regular cardboard box, a hammer, and a few strategically placed blows. You’ll end up losing a tiny bit of space inside the box as a result, but that’s a small price to pay for all ten fingers being in perfect working order at the end of a move. [Red Dot Awards via Fast Co.Design]













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You could just use the tried and tested method of moving your hand out of the way first.
Or paying someone else to risk their fingers.
Or cutting handle holes into the sides of the boxes.
Or just not being a little bitch about it.
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