How long do you keep original packaging?

[Flack]

The pandemic-boredom-shopping-bug has caught up with me. Over the past three months I've purchased several expensive ($100+) pieces of electronics. Each of these came in a nice looking box with pretty pictures and logos printed on the outside, which are nice to look at. When you buy something new, how long do you save the box? We're talking the original packaging here, not any plain cardboard boxes the item might have been shipped in.

[AArdvark]

I have friends who still keep boxes after the things in the boxes were thrown out because they broke five years later

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Reminder for tomorrow: explain

[AArdvark]

I kept our TV box one time because I knew we'd need it when we moved to our new house but that's it

[RealNC]

I used to throw them away. Including the boxes of my PC games. Now, 25 years later, I'm pissed at myself because of it and I hold on to anything that vaguely resembles a box.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Boxes, let's talk about boxes.

My father kept boxes. We have an "attic" (I guess) over the garage. I am not sure necessarily why my father did that because I don't recall him selling a bunch of stuff. Maybe he did. He certainly didn't need the internet to do so and he did not suffer fools when it came to people that don't know if they want to sell stuff or not. (eBay's culture of "the criminal customer gets whatever they want, including the item and money if they push it" would have never flown with him or anyone else in his generation.)

The box to our PCjr is still in the attic. The PCjr was sold to finance a computer that came after. So he kept the box but clearly not to sell it?

I do have boxes. One thing I messed up when I live in Thornton is that I had a house with these marvelous shelves and I just put "stuff" in them when I moved in and never removed them until I moved out. I wanted to avoid doing that where I live now. Did I do that? No, of course not. TIME IS A FLAT CIRCLE.

I have been buying the new modern Transformers, which are fucking amazing. No longer do they look like plastic garbage that someone put into a microwave and then sold to kids. They are "cartoon accurate" and since I already love getting stuff in the mail, I took to this even though it is immature. The boxes are minor works of art. And I am like WELLLLLL "these are all meant for babies, surely I will sell these soon?" So I have 10 goddamn boxes hanging around just in case.

Think I really need to get rid of them. :/

But also, for the retro computer stuff I have been buying, I have been keeping those as well. I shouldn't. I have that mini C64. 10 years from now, the boxed version of that is going to be worth twice what it is now if I keep the box. So I keep the box. I should not keep the box. I'd have so much more room!

(I did keep the box for the 3070 graphics card I bought, because I knew that I wanted the 3080 when it came out. So I was able to sell that and get my asking price and it was BOXED. So that is the one example of the process working. I have 999 others where this all breaks down.)