If you are willing to delay a day or two or three or a week. When you go to do a final checkout it will attempt to push you for a further delivery date to allow for the consolidation.

The discounts are usually a dollar or two for the entire order. I never take it. I don't want the delay and I don't want pieces of the order lost as they go through the human consolidation process. I tell them to just ship everything individually as they can. Sometimes they will consolidate certain items depending on where they are coming from.

And yes I have that Amazon prime thingy. As far as I'm concerned, the entertainment I get off of prime is worth the 6 bucks a month. The free shipping and prime member discounts are just a bonus. Also, as a prime member, about 20 or 30% of everything I click on adds an additional discount of 5 to 20%. It's worth it just to click into the actual entry rather than trust the initial price because it could always possibly be less.

Yes, the vast majority of my purchases are done. But there will be plenty of cardboard in the future.

I'll be doing the gardening setup in early spring and at that point I will set up 3 ft high steel beds. The first foot and a half will be cardboard and chunks of wood (I've got a pile of fireplace size split logs that could be the base of about a half a dozen beds) and a few rocks and some brown brush and a bunch of leaves. That will take a year or two to break down but that's exactly what I want. That will give me a decent aerated drainage area while the wood rots. The top foot and a half will be decent dirt.

Edit: actually this pile of logs could be the base for 20 3 x 8 beds. I don't want beds wider than that so I can always sit in front of one and reach into the center easily and I want pathways between them so I can only fit around 10 of these on my property.