The cardboard box discussion is interesting to me. I have been working on eliminating cardboard as a storage option because it was horrible when my basement flooded, because of silverfish, because mice an chew through it, and because it is very damp here. Also, you can't keep a cardboard box on a concrete floor because of moisture. So over the years I have bought a lot of bins. I do however have a bin full of small cardboard boxes suitable for gift wrapping.

I have only had a rat problem once. A litte brown rat made it's home under the concrete stoop to my barn and then tunneled up so it could chew into my feed sacks. I solved the problem with trash cans for feed and cutting the vegetation around the stoop to under 2". We do get mice in the house. Again, they are mostly a problem in the pantry, but I worry about them making homes in my stuff - especially blankets and yarn. Our cat seems to only like outdoor mice.

If you have roaches, they will hitchhike to your new home in corrogated cardboard.

Jane, I'm not going