Begging for boxes

Today we decided to finish most of our packing, but didn't have enough boxes. Already yesterday we went to a few shops in the area to see if we could get empty cardboard boxes, without luck. Today it felt like we were asking people for money: we stood outside the shops and bickered about who will have to go in and ask. "No, sorry, we don't have any" or "We just recycled all of ours yesterday". It took us about an hour to come up with three empty boxes. Now we can finish packing most of the rest; tomorrow is cleaning day and on Thursday we move. And my mom comes.