If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume you enjoy cats. Nothing better than a cat in boxes, you might think. You see a cat jumping into an Amazon Prime box and you say to yourself, “yeah. That’s correct. That’s how things are meant to be”. But for someone who owns a cat that frequently breaks the toys, I’ve found that no matter how much money I spend, he’s always going to prefer hanging out in the boxes those toys came in.

Due to several COVID-19 related problems, my recycling hasn’t been picked up in… a while. A very long while. So I thought to myself, what is a person who lives alone with her cat supposed to do with all these Chewy and Amazon boxes just lying around? Certainly my cat can’t just entertain himself by jumping in and out of the boxes, day in and day out, making a whole lot of noise at 4 am for no good reason!

Except yes he can, and that’s exactly what I’m about to capitalize on.

With this blog, I’m going to try my best at constructing a sort of cat tower mixed with a hamster tunnel system out of the old cardboard boxes laying around my house and in various closets. Hopefully what I learn will prove useful for everyone else reading this; maybe you need a new recycling project, or you’re like me and you have a cat who is just insatiably playful and you want to make them something that will keep them preoccupied long enough for you to write just one blog post.

I have two cat towers that are built for larger cats already, and I’ll be using those as the groundwork for this upcoming project, along with a few family members who are experienced in such craftiness. The process of figuring out the dimensions of these cardboard boxes and how best to put them together will be the next post.

I hope you decide to join me for the next update!