Just cleaned out mt garage, closet, and attic. No clue why I kept every single box of anything electronic/tech based in the last ten years. I just tossed boxes for phones I haven’t had in years, old CPU and heat sync boxes, boxes for 100mbps nics, old modems I don’t have anymore. I’ve never needed any of these and have brought them with me through too many house moves.
You’re not my real dad. You can’t tell me what to do.
This is amazing, wait, that wasn’t the point of this post.
There’s some real history in there if you look close enough! My VHS Player, the old WRT-54G router, a George Foreman Grill…
I don’t have a problem, you do!
Impressive bunch of boxes
What a familiar sight!
I feel personally attacked by this comment
Get a load of this shill for “big warranty”, trying to get us to throw away our boxes so we can’t RMA defective devices… /s
I am still hoarding actual 100mbps nics, but they don’t have boxes, not sure which of us has the bigger problem :D
The last time I shipped something for warranty repairs I couldn’t find the box because I had way too many. And it was fine!
only kept my monitor box in case i need to move. first world problems of owning a super ultrawide.
That’s totally fair.
I recently bought a house and felt like I could toss my TV boxes. I still kept my 4k monitor boxes.
This is the big reason. I keep the boxes to make future moves easy, learned the lesson the hard way.
Other good reasons are the box keeps all the accessories in one place while saying what they are for (psu boxes, looking at you) or the box is great at storing that type of item, like the box my NAS drives came in, perfect foam insert for other drives
I keep it in case i have to sell it as it has more value with the box. Same goes with collectibles and such…
I said the same thing years ago and then was too lazy/never got around to selling anything.
I had the start of a hoard going, was good for me to get rid of it.
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
I feel attacked.
Lol - I had the same problem for many years, until I finally decided to clean them out like you did.
My policy now is to keep them for a month or so before tossing them. That’s arguably when they’re most likely to break down and I’d still need to ship/take them somewhere in their original packaging.
Well, I for one am sad I threw out my 90s hardware years ago, including things like a Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3, AWE32, AWE64, SB16 … those things are really hard to find nowadays if you want to build a retro PC.
Retro PC…is that a thing?
Of course it is. It’s fun to rebuild the computer of your youth, and run old games on periodically correct hardware.
Yes. !retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org is a good community. SDF.org is worth looking at, as the community there predates the internet.
But I need every box and every manual for everything!
I didn’t realize this is a thing. I thought it was just me. 😊 I found my people.
I usually go through the attic boxes every year or so and purge the ones I don’t need anymore. I still end up keeping too many though.
I usually don’t keep boxes past the retail return window.
However, I am keeping the box for my ultrawide monitor until such time that I no longer have said ultrawide.
Thank you for reminding me to purge boxes again; It’s probably time._ I will admit I do like to keep the ones with fancy artwork_.
The little plastic trays things come in (fans especially) though, those are worth their weight in gold. I always keep them for sorting things like twist ties, small wires, and tiny extra screws, etc in drawers.