Do you keep electronic items boxes?

[sierramist03]

I feel like we should but they are taking over a closet along with a bunch of other stuff. So it is necessary? Can I take the barcodes off and keep them? We really need to reorganize our closets.

[pumpkin]

I've never kept them once I get whatever the electronic device is hooked up and working, but now you have me 2nd guessing that with talk of barcodes... 😳

[emoflamingo]

My H keeps all of them. He's OCD about it. He says it's easier to sell an electronic later if it has the original packaging. I said he can do what he wants with his closet, but we're going down to one closet so we'll have to store them elsewehere. (And yes, he is right. I have the box to my Mac still and it's so much easier to transport in the box.)

[Deleted]

I never save them either. I save receipts on anything major just in case. I feel like the box isn't going to do much for me.
Other than the TV I also own very few electronics that I can't replace for less than $200.00, muchless anything anyone would want in a resale, so I'm not real worried.

Seriously. H and I joke all the time that if someone would rob our house the joke would be on them.

[mrs.jacinthe]

If everything is working ... no. We use things until they die, so it's hard to justify taking up that quantity of space.

[emoflamingo]

FTR, we toss BIG boxes. We don't save TV boxes, but we have the box to our Wii, my computer, his NAS (external storage device), the PS3 we use as a bluray player, my camera, etc.

[stephm0188]

We save the boxes for iphones and ipads because we know we'll sell them when we upgrade. And we saved boxes for electronics when we knew we would be moving. Now that we're in our long-term home, we recycle them.

[sierramist03]

We have moved several times too and transport in original boxes is much easier

[thewop]

Dec 27, 2012 14:09:35 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

Seriously. H and I joke all the time that if someone would rob our house the joke would be on them.

LOL. I'm right here with you. Our house is full of a lot of basic stuff. No fancy mp3 players, phones, computers...

[wawa]

Dec 27, 2012 14:23:12 GMT -5 thewop said:

Dec 27, 2012 14:09:35 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

Seriously. H and I joke all the time that if someone would rob our house the joke would be on them.

LOL. I'm right here with you. Our house is full of a lot of basic stuff. No fancy mp3 players, phones, computers...

this is me. I use a flip phone and don't even have a flat screen TV. We just recently upgraded to a blu-ray player when our 6 year old VCR/DVD player crapped out, but we don't actually have HD on the TV so it's just a regular DVD player for us. Let's us stream netflix though, which is nice.

And no game system since we also managed to break MH's xbox. (word to the wise - drywall dust is no bueno for electronics. Wrap that shit up GOOD.)

But yeah, MH is obsessive about keeping boxes for at least the first few months. They tend to lurk in a closet until I get annoyed and throw them away. His parents keep boxes FOREVER.

[emoflamingo]

My H has to keep up with technology. He hates apple but preordered the iPhone 5.

And yet, we've spent god knows how much recently on SNES games?!? I chalk this one up to "boys and their toys" but who knows.

[heygrey]

Some, not most. I think the only box we have right now is for h's ps3. I wanted to keep it until the 3 year warranty is up.

[crispnclean]

Not at all. The thought of keeping them has actually never crossed my mind.

[Deleted]

DH keeps boxes for his stuff in the top of his closet. I hate using up space for that sort of thing. I keep the box for my current iPhone and that's it.

[katie4253]

For items we plan to sell in the future, yes (iPhone boxes). H jail brakes the phone and then sells them on e-bay after our contract is up and we get new ones.

For items that would be hard to move without them (tv, computer), yes. They were a life saver when we moved.

Everything else gets tossed.