Best way to build a box?

[Exile_D]

So due to limited storage in our house, my wife requires we keep her wedding dress in my "gun room" (i.e., closet). It is in a sealed cardboard type box now, about 4x2x2. I don't have room to put in an entire metal shelf unit due to the slanted ceilings, so I need another solution.

I am thinking a simple wooden box around it (or at least three sides of it, but I guess that is just a shelf) so I can stack important things (food, water, ammo, etc.) on top of it without crushing it. Unfortunately I am no carpenter. I could build you a 4x4 if you gave me (2) 2x4s, but that is about it.

I already watched this: https://www.lowes.com/creative-ideas/woodworking-and-crafts/how-to-build-a-box/project , but I think I need to build one that is bigger and stronger, lol. Something that won't be crushed with up to 500lbs on top of it.

What say ye master carpenters?! Suggestions?

Basically I was thinking it would be a fun, simple project to learn on and have my son watch too (hopefully he doesn't pick up too many new curse words). Provided it can be done with relatively simple tools. Maybe have Lowe's do the basic cuts?

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Yeah...give us the actual units of the dimensions. 4x2x2 doesn't tell us much...if it's in feet, that's a heck of a storage box for a dress. If it's in inches, it's mighty small for a wedding dress.

 

[Exile_D]

Yes, 4'x2'x2'. lol I just assumed this was a common thing, like every married guy had to keep moving one of these dang wedding dress boxes around all the time.

 

[Tim]

Take the dress to a Dry Cleaner. Ask them to do whatever their service is for "long term storage". They all do it. You'll get back a sealed package that will withstand a nuclear strike. Take the resulting package and toss it in the attic.

 

[trcubed]

My wife's dress has been hanging in the closet...for 35 years. It's right next to her two prom dresses, so it has company.

 

[GymB]

Build the box. Fill it with supplies and seal it up. Burn the dress, no one will ever know.

if you want to keep it I'd mount it to the ceiling so it's out of the way. As funny as laying it flat against the ceiling with a staple gun would be, I mean tape up the box and use some lightweight material, say strips of cloth or duct tape to hold the box against the ceiling.

 

[Majicmike]

Tell her your going to throw it away,, tell her it won't fit your new girlfriend

 

[Goofyfoot2001]

I didn't keep the wife much less the box it all came in. ....oooooppppps! double entandre there! lol

 

[CZfool68]

Take the dress to a Dry Cleaner. Ask them to do whatever their service is for "long term storage". They all do it. You'll get back a sealed package that will withstand a nuclear strike. Take the resulting package and toss it in the attic.

This!

 

[Scsmith42]

This!

X2.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

Never understood why they want to keep it. Planning on wearing it again, maybe to dinner and a movie?

 

[Took]

Well now I also have 2 additional dresses hanging in the closet from the daughters. I may need to build a couple boxes. I like the idea of the dry cleaner - will have to look into that.

 

[kcult]

Roll it up. Put it in one of those canister thingies and bury it. The symbolism. She'll love it.

 

[CZfool68]

Never understood why they want to keep it. Planning on wearing it again, maybe to dinner and a movie?

Really. What always got me is the price and budget. This is a piece of clothing they plan on wearing exactly once. And if all goes as planned it will be in a ball on the floor for as long as it was worn. Shouldn't it be the cheapest dress they own?

 

[InvisibleOne]

Every anniversary, take the dress out of storage. If it still fits, they can stay for another year.

 

[Exile_D]

Well glad to see I am not alone in this! Of course, I am to blame for my own situation. I don't think she was going to keep it initially. However, knowing she is a somewhat sentimental, I made the mistake of asking her if she was sure she would be ok if she wasn't able to hand it down to her hypothetical (at that time) daughter to wear/alter/cannibalize for her own wedding. DOH! Now we have a preserved wedding dress in plastic, in a cardboard box. Great.

Fortunately I did go back and measure the box and it turns out it is smaller than I remember (isn't that always the case!). So I would only have to build one 3'x2'x1'. Or at this point, buy one of those metal shelf systems from Lowe's, just use the bottom half and just build the little box in the Lowe's link with my son.

 

[Gray]

dry cleaners prep. Place in pvc tube with end caps glued on. bury in yard. place treasure map on wall in closet.