How long do you keep Boxes and Packaging?

Ice Tea · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:02

How long do you keep Boxes and Packaging on items you've bought, Am i right in thinking that you're not obliged to save them for warranty?

Quartz · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:10

How much free space do you have? Retaining the complete packaging helps when it comes to reselling or returning the item.

200sols · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:11

If its a big item like a TV I'll stick it in the garage for 30days just for ease of sending back, otherwise usually destroy the packaging straight away.

Screenbeat · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:12

I keep motherboard and GPU packaging, anything else, bin

Tony Edwards · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:13

For at least 1-2 years after the thing has broken and gotten rid of.

chroniclard · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:25

Tech stuff, almost forever, loft is full! Except TV boxes as they wont fit thought the hatch. :cry:

Pigeon_Killer · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:27

I'll keep the box of anything that's electrical and of value that could be sold at a later date. Everything else gets put in the recycling every two weeks.

peterwalkley · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:42

chroniclard said:
Tech stuff, almost forever, loft is full! Except TV boxes as they wont fit thought the hatch.

Same here - all that polystyrene and bubble wrap is free loft insulation

I'm going to have to have a tidy out soon, we're getting the boiler replaced with a combi next month and the water tank in the loft is going. Plumber is going to need some working space up there !

builder22 · 25 Apr 2021 at 12:53

years....sometimes even the Amazon box it arrived in as well!

SexyGreyFox · 25 Apr 2021 at 13:58

At least a year

.Lethal · 25 Apr 2021 at 14:06

PC Parts until I resell them later on. Most electronic and anything valuable (watch etc) I'll also keep until otherwise.

Woden · 25 Apr 2021 at 14:06

About three months in the boot of my car until I actually remember to go to the tip before work

Ree · 25 Apr 2021 at 14:08

builder22 said:
even the Amazon box it arrived in as well!

that's an illness that

MassiveJim · 25 Apr 2021 at 14:12

I used to keep everything for years in the loft,
nowadays if its a valuable item then I'll probably hang on to the box until it gets in the way, I run out of space.
I did recently purchase a samsung G9 about a month ago, which has an absolutely mahoosive box, which normally I would have thrown away by now, but we are in the process of selling/buying a house so its currently taking up half of my home office until we move, as this monitor would be a swine to move without it.

roccles · 25 Apr 2021 at 15:18

everything goes straight in the bin now, this decision came after clearing out the loft of 100s of empty boxes before the last house move. Kettle boxes, old inkjet printers etc. no idea why I thought they might be useful in the future.

krooton · 25 Apr 2021 at 15:37

Totally depends on the value and size of the product, and if it is something with resell-ability.

I keep all pc component boxes, tv boxes, and anything that has the potential to have issues that is more than £50 (so bread-maker, waterpik, etc).

I do have a garage though.

jaybee · 25 Apr 2021 at 15:56

Used to save everything, now I tend to chuck it as cba and don't tend to have the space.

Dg834man · 25 Apr 2021 at 16:21

Keep computer parts boxes rest gets launched, got a pile of boxes at the back of the garage council round here only collect once a month and that bin get full with house hold cardboard and two hour long ques at the local recycling centre makes it hard to get rid of at the present

dlockers · 25 Apr 2021 at 16:23

Have my OCUK supplied ASUS P6T SE box as my receipt folder, so 12 years?

andy_mk3 · 25 Apr 2021 at 16:27

Until I sell or throw it away. My loft is full of boxes. I recently sold some old PC hardware on ebay, still had the box for my 2600k from 10 years ago

Made shipping a lot easier for lots of items with their original boxes.

I kept boxes for things I want to protect while moving house like for my TV and speakers.