Bulk newspaper?

Newspaper users....

Do you guys have a place/source you get this stuff in bulk?

Obviously I could buy a bunch of the Sunday papers, but that'd add up pretty quick.

Thanks in advance guys!

You can ask family and friends to send you their old newspaper. I use mostly Aspen, so I can't really help you, but family and friends should be more than enough for most herpers.

Good Luck!
Jim Smith

i just buy 2 sunday papers and usually last me all week with my bearded dragons and my bp's ( i own over 20 adult dragons and 6 bp's)

I'd talk with your local newspaper. They always have mis-prints/extra copies that they recycle but will also sell cheap! I've picked up a pallet of mis-print full Sunday editions for a local humane society for only $20. Their was probably 1000lbs of newspaper on the pallet.

My mom buys the daily paper mainly for just the Sunday paper. She says it's cheaper to do it like that. I use all the newspaper from the days as she only gets the Sunday paper for the coupons.

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I'd talk with your local newspaper. They always have mis-prints/extra copies that they recycle but will also sell cheap! I've picked up a pallet of mis-print full Sunday editions for a local humane society for only $20. Their was probably 1000lbs of newspaper on the pallet.

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sweet, I need to try that.

Thanks for the ideas guys!

I contacted my local paper and it appears that the "end rolls" are what is going to available from a local recycler they sell them to.

Just have to find out what it's going to cost me if I go that route.

May end up just having friends and family hoard paper haha

We have about 100 boas I use news paper with. The balls are on cypress and aspen.

I have 3 friends that get the daily paper and save it for me. I'm on the edge of buying the craft paper the other big breeders do.

I use Kraft, there's no big breeder deal with it.

It's real uniform and looks nice.

It can get rather expensive though.

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Originally Posted by boasandballs

We have about 100 boas I use news paper with. The balls are on cypress and aspen.

I have 3 friends that get the daily paper and save it for me. I'm on the edge of buying the craft paper the other big breeders do.

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[QUOTE=2kdime;1269508]I use Kraft, there's no big breeder deal with it.
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I'm missing something here?

You said you were on the edge of buying the Kraft Paper the other big breeders do....

I was just saying that not just big breeders use Kraft Paper.




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Originally Posted by 2kdime

I use Kraft, there's no big breeder deal with it.
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I'm missing something here?

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My local newspaper will give away the end rolls (which are huge, we get them and let the kids draw on the paper and stuff). You can also go to local newspaper retailers (grocery stores, etc) and ask if they have any papers left over from the day before and some of them will give these papers away free (I got a huge stack for my bird cage for free). Hope this helps!

I talked to my local paper and they sell them to a local paper recycler.

I can buy end rolls like the ones you describe.

BUT.....

I would get an 800lb roll of 4 foot wide unprinted newspaper thats roughly 275 feet long at....

50 cents a pound

Do the math.

It's not very economical

[QUOTE=2kdime;1269512]You said you were on the edge of buying the Kraft Paper the other big breeders do....

I was just saying that not just big breeders use Kraft Paper.




Oh ok, I was thinking of the paper a friend of mine uses. It has ridges in it. I looked it up once but never got it.

Had to have been either indented paper or like single faced cardboard I would think.

I've used the Indented Kraft before, pretty absorbent, but the paper weight was higher so it wasn't as "soft".




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Originally Posted by 2kdime

You said you were on the edge of buying the Kraft Paper the other big breeders do....

I was just saying that not just big breeders use Kraft Paper.





Oh ok, I was thinking of the paper a friend of mine uses. It has ridges in it. I looked it up once but never got it.

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We have have a local classifieds paper, which is free, that I just grab a stack of every month or so and we also have a free Wednesday paper. Maybe there are free papers in your area or close by?

I have a friend he uses the free local newspaper little nickle.

We get family, friends and co workers to save theirs and they have been really awesome about it..but we use aspen too..so it works good for the the snakies around here...:snake::gj:

u should try a craigslist ad asking for newspaper...

I just posted this link in another thread earlier. It's another option if you choose. They also sell unprinted news paper sheets...


http://www.papermart.com/Product%20P...pID=18937#4521

WW, I love that Cheeto thieving seagull in your signature...

But then again, he got from the bottom shelf, so it's probably something like Tom's Cheese Curls... :rofl: