SHOULD I KEEP?
Feb 19, 2020 18:35:08 #
Bonnie Halsell
Loc: Ocala, Florida USA
One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.
Feb 19, 2020 19:18:01 #
Mr. SONY
Loc: LI, NY
I've got more than a dozen excellent cardboard boxes in my possession.
Need one?
Need one?
Feb 19, 2020 19:19:59 #
I bought a printer. It came in a really nice box. I kept it.
12 years later I replaced the printer. I kept the really nice box.
3 years after that I moved. I used the box.
At no time did I ever debate with myself whether or not to keep the box. It was a no-brainer. Appropriately.
12 years later I replaced the printer. I kept the really nice box.
3 years after that I moved. I used the box.
At no time did I ever debate with myself whether or not to keep the box. It was a no-brainer. Appropriately.
Feb 19, 2020 20:05:18 #
Feb 19, 2020 20:33:55 #
Kmgw9v wrote:
I find it difficult to discard a good box.
Always need one for shipping something!
Plain cardboard that is.
Feb 19, 2020 20:48:44 #
I keep a few, but most get broken down and into the recycle bin. 13 years in the grocery industry way back when so breaking them down and flattening them then into the baler for pickup by the recycle truck was an automatic process and I still break them down to fold like we did it then.
Feb 20, 2020 06:20:50 #
Feb 20, 2020 06:26:16 #
There is no debate, no waste of time....just keep it!!!
Bonnie Halsell wrote:
One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.
Feb 20, 2020 06:27:55 #
Kmgw9v wrote:
I find it difficult to discard a good box.
Yes, me too, and as a child the electric train and all the tracks never fit back into the box.
Perhaps we should in the buy/sell section of UHH advertise "Box Free" you pay the shipping. That way we know the box has a good loving home. I have seen in eBay old equipment "with original box." as a selling point. It is a universal addiction this thing of box collection.
Feb 20, 2020 06:40:12 #
If a box is reasonably-sized (not a box from a fridge) and it's sturdy, I'll keep it if I have an immediate use for it. Most of my cardboard gets cut up and put into my wood stove.
Feb 20, 2020 06:43:31 #
Feb 20, 2020 06:49:43 #
I keep them for thirty days just in case I need to send back whatever it is that came in it needs to be returned. Other than the camera/lens boxes from manufactures.
Feb 20, 2020 06:50:06 #
I had a selection of various size good cardboard boxes and pieces of bubble wrap stored in my garage for years. Two weeks ago, thinking to myself, “why am I hoarding these boxes”, I threw them out in the recyclables. On Monday, I went to Walmart to buy a small box and some bubble wrap, $6.00 total, to ship a lens that I sold.
Feb 20, 2020 07:06:20 #
joehel2 wrote:
I had a selection of various size good cardboard boxes and pieces of bubble wrap stored in my garage for years. Two weeks ago, thinking to myself, “why am I hoarding these boxes”, I threw them out in the recyclables. On Monday, I went to Walmart to buy a small box and some bubble wrap, $6.00 total, to ship a lens that I sold.
"Ya never know....."
Feb 20, 2020 08:41:16 #
I have no idea how many boxes I have in the garage. I break them down flat and store them.
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