Found a weird trick for making comic book longboxes not sag in the middle

So I've been collecting floppies for like 12 years now and my longboxes always start bowing out after about 6 months. You know, that ugly dip in the middle where the cardboard just gives up. I tried those plastic dividers from my LCS in Portland and they helped a little but not much. Then last month I saw a guy at a garage sale using these thin wooden yardsticks shoved vertically along the sides of his boxes. Like the cheap ones from Home Depot that are like 89 cents each. I thought it looked dumb but he said it keeps the walls straight. Tried it on three of my worst boxes and it's been a month now with zero sag. Anyone else got a cheap fix like this or am I just late to the party?

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jade_singh24d ago

Those cheap yardsticks are 69 cents at my Home Depot, not 89.

kim96324d ago

Wait, are you sure that's in US dollars and not including tax?