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.

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    5·
    11 months ago

    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

    • slippery_salmons@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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!

  • keeb420@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    only kept my monitor box in case i need to move. first world problems of owning a super ultrawide.

    • slippery_salmons@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      I moved last year and tossed a bunch of boxes. But those that I kept and used in the move were for my most expensive electronics and I’m glad I did. As usual, the packaging that can withstand shipping halfway around the world was a perfect match against the somewhat incompetent movers that I hired. Mistakes were made, but none of my gear was damaged.

    • director@some.institute
      1·
      11 months ago

      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

  • steebo_jack@kbin.social
    2·
    11 months ago

    I keep it in case i have to sell it as it has more value with the box. Same goes with collectibles and such…

    • slippery_salmons@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.