Does anyone keep the original packaging box of the light?

[picard]

Does anyone keep the original packaging box of the light?

I want to throw out the box since they take up space in the apartment. I have lots of other boxes unrelated to flashlights.

should I throw out the original packaging box?

 

[nzgunnie]

I keep the packaging of my higher end lights like my various Surefires. They are kept pretty mint, and having the packaging and paperwork will increase the resale value a bit.

For the cheaper lights, no.

 

[Toaster]

I keep the box so I have a handy and easy to remember place to store any accessories that came with the light. I even have the box and all the goodies for the L1P I bought many moons ago, even though I lost that light. Plus it's an interesting way to keep track of all the lights you purchase over the years :thumbsup:

 

[Beamhead]

I have boxes of boxes......... I have seen some sell just the boxes before.

 

[Kilovolt]

Yes, I have some eighty boxes stashed everywhere in my study ....

 

[jp2515]

I keep the boxes too. Not just for the lights, I also keep the boxes for my knives, multi tools etc. Makes for a lot of boxes sitting around.

 

[ImGeo]

OP, you should clarify "packaging". Personally, I keep the item's box for basically everything I own, but I do not keep the brown box that the seller/store ships the item in.

I would suggest you keep the item's box and manuals, etc--as for the brown box that's used to protect the item in shipping, reuse, recycle, re-ship-stuff, or re...dispose

 

[FrogmanM]

Guilty! I just don't have the heart to throw em out, too much of a packrat like me mum.

-Mayo

 

[Mdinana]

After a couple days, when I realize I like the light, it goes in the trash. some of the nice boxes, ie Liteflux with their wooden box, I keep. Cardboard hits the recycle bin as soon as I'm happy with the light, or else the light goes back to the store.

 

[Zeruel]

I keep the boxes in the event I need to store the lights or to sell them. I also store the accessories and spare parts in the original boxes as well so that I know what stuff for which lights. They take up space, but not as much as my other junks.

 

[strinq]

I keep all my boxes so far. But then again I don't have that many lights yet.
After some time i always find a use for all boxes, to use them as packaging, storage etc.
If they get too crowded, it enters the recycling box.

 

[ejot]

Yes, all the boxes are packed away in labeled bins, organized alphabetically. :help: Larger ones I do break down and store flat. Lights, chargers, knives, watches, cameras ... er, yea, there's a lot of boxes.

 

[Boy SureFire]

I keep the boxes in the event I need to store the lights or to sell them. I also store the accessories and spare parts in the original boxes as well so that I know what stuff for which lights. They take up space, but not as much as my other junks.

:twothumbsme too

 

[Natbyte]

I now always keep my boxes, I used to have a draw that I dropped all the lights accessories into, this was a pain in the backside sorting through them when I needed spares for a light, or I was selling / giving one away, so now I keep the boxes and have a place for each individual lights accessories. :twothumbs

 

[callmaster]

I don't keep the boxes. Once I get me lights, I throw whatever boxes I have. That goes for everything else I buy. LCD tvs, monitors, etc. Takes up space!

 

[AbleArcher]

I'm prone to keeping the boxes from most things I buy, piling them up somewhere for a year or so, then realising that I'll never need them and throwing them out.

When you get into the habit of keeping boxes, it's a difficult one to break...

 

[recDNA]

I keep everything in the cabinet under one of my aquaria. When I fill the cabinet I'll start thinking of dumping the packaging envelopes and bubble wrap but I'll keep the boxes.

I keep a TV box for about a year.

Washer/Dryer boxes go immediately.

My water heater just sprung a leak and the old water heater will go in the box the new one comes in. I hope the guys can come Monday to replace it. COld showers....brrr

 

[Yapo]

I keep my boxes for cameras, mobile phones and flash lights stacked up under my desk, although i'm starting to run out of space...not sure what i should do with em either :S

 

[oldpal]

Sure I keep the boxes, even the shipping envelopes, especially the ones from AW with all of the pretty stamps. I particularly prize the HDP container that my Ra 120E came in.

Hugh

 

[Coop57]

Yes I keep nearly all the boxes. When I am dead and gone they will serve as evidence to my family that I was a nut.:duh2: