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You Don't Need to Keep Every Electronic Box! (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 year ago by slippery_salmons@lemmy.today to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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Just cleaned out mt garage, closet, and attic. No clue why I kept every single box of anything electronic/tech based in the last ten years. I just tossed boxes for phones I haven't had in years, old CPU and heat sync boxes, boxes for 100mbps nics, old modems I don't have anymore. I've never needed any of these and have brought them with me through too many house moves.

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[–] keeb420@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

only kept my monitor box in case i need to move. first world problems of owning a super ultrawide.

[–] slippery_salmons@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

That's totally fair.

I recently bought a house and felt like I could toss my TV boxes. I still kept my 4k monitor boxes.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I moved last year and tossed a bunch of boxes. But those that I kept and used in the move were for my most expensive electronics and I'm glad I did. As usual, the packaging that can withstand shipping halfway around the world was a perfect match against the somewhat incompetent movers that I hired. Mistakes were made, but none of my gear was damaged.

[–] director@some.institute 2 points 1 year ago

This is the big reason. I keep the boxes to make future moves easy, learned the lesson the hard way.

Other good reasons are the box keeps all the accessories in one place while saying what they are for (psu boxes, looking at you) or the box is great at storing that type of item, like the box my NAS drives came in, perfect foam insert for other drives