Do you keep your cardboard gun boxes?

[Valkman]

I've kept all boxes, cardboard and plastic, and keep them on a shelf in my closet. Good thing we have big closets!

 

[Mad Man]

This discussion reminds me of an old Steve Martin bit from the album Comedy Is Not Pretty, about trying to impress women (paraphrased from memory):

I don't know if you know anything about the stock market, but I bought cardboard when it was 14 cents a ton. Now it's 16 cents a ton, and I bought 3 tons, so that's...

(pause, and then some mumbling of numbers)

...well, you figure it out.

And I got a great deal, where I only have to keep 2 tons of it at my house.

UPDATED TO ADD: Here's a blog post from Unclutterer about keeping cardboard boxes.

In all other circumstances, I only recommend keeping the box IF:

1. You plan to sell the item in less than three years after its date of purchase, and
2. The original packaging improves the price of the product when you sell it.

For example, I sell my laptops on eBay when I upgrade to a newer model. After tracking laptop sales on eBay for many months, I found that people will pay a little more for the product if it still has its original packaging. So, I keep my laptop boxes to ship them in to the new owner. Granted, the boxes that laptops come in are relatively small and, since I only have one computer at a time, our storage space isn’t overrun with cardboard boxes.

 

[Valkman]

I remember that bit - hilarious!