Do you keep your console box?

Post by **bawitback** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:16 am

I was wondering if anyone else keeps their console boxes, after removing the actual console. I try to keep everything including the original manual, flyers, and advertisments. I've began with my Sega Dreamcast (I would have begun with my NES/SNES console, but my parents threw it away at the time) For my Saturn/PS I didn't have room at the time to keep them anywhere.

Post by **lordofduct** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:22 am

I didn't as a kid because I didn't care. I was 8... I wasn't thinking in the long run at the time. I then began too around 1999, but I've moved so much since then after leaving my parents house in 2001 that the boxes just couldn't handle it... so I threw them out and stopped doing it.

Post by **CurulleanCat** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:40 am

I toss them. Ive got enough empty boxes (including my soul) lying around the house.

Post by **Mozgus** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:50 am

There's only a select few consoles I was able to acquire as brand new. NES, DC, and GC, and I think that's it. I don't know what happened to the DC box. I know I had the GC box until we had to move, and I left behind some things like that. And I had my NES's gigantic box for about a decade, but then my mom threw it out. I always loved the family on the box, with the two kids aggresively playing Mario 1...at the same time...with just one Mario.

Post by **Jakanden** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:00 am

I keep em simply because I am a pack rat (a situation I am working on remedying)

Post by **SegaVega** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:20 am

I keep them...oh boy, do I keep them!

Post by **grittykitty** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:23 am

i think once i discovered ebay (and shortly thereafter, the wonderful world of bills) i started keeping the boxes. every now and then, i would clean up and throw out boxes for stuff that i didn't think i really honestly needed to save for "high collector's value" in the future... like 3rd party rumble packs. i'm also a packrat by nature

Post by **lordofduct** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:30 am

you wanna here packrat. I was going through stuff packing and I literally have boxes of IDE cables, 12 gauge wire, spindles of solder, plastic bits and screws, the plastic inserts of 5.25 bays, busted videogame console/ROM boards. Tons of just miscelaneous crap that I think one day I will need and use in some project.

Then the project comes and I end up buying stuff for it because I can't find the box.

Post by **Mozgus** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:41 am

lordofduct wrote:you wanna here packrat. I was going through stuff packing and I literally have boxes of IDE cables, 12 gauge wire, spindles of solder, plastic bits and screws, the plastic inserts of 5.25 bays, busted videogame console/ROM boards. Tons of just miscelaneous crap that I think one day I will need and use in some project.

I parry your selection with my own set of the same.

Post by **racketboy** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:02 am

I keep them.
I even had a beatup Sega CD box when I bought my Sega CD at a Funcoland many years ago.
It was a bit beatup, but when I sold the system on eBay, I got about an extra $40 because it had a box.