This would be inspired from the tiger sickness posts , just as I was cleaning out some past clutter , and not cleaning out very much indeed , I just can’t do it ! I can’t throw out my old boxes , God I hope I am not in this alone here ! Post away ![:D]
Unfortunately I have no choice but to throw out old boxes, but not by choice. Our place is too small, there’s no space to keep them.
Past builds??? What’s that? That would imply finished models! I haven’t totally finished but one kit so far!! So, the answer is no, I don’t throw out the boxes. But one of these days, IT will go!! lol. Acutally, I figure the bigger ones make great extra parts and extra sprue boxes!
Iuse use old boxes for extra pieces boxes and the ones i dont use I flatten and keep to make mock-ups for Dio’s
I usually cut the box art out before I throw them
When complete, in the trash they go, along with instruction sheets too. I can’t justify keeping trash and having it take up space. No need for empty boxes.
[#ditto]
Well, I hate to see them go but I need space!
some of the boxes have spare parts in and other small (made)kits in
but others are thrown out but i always keep the instuction sheets (unless i lose them)
Gotta save them -
With the original box art onsome of the old Auora kit boxes. some of them are worth more than the plastic inside ever was.
I too throw the boxes out when I clean up after finishing a model, but I keep the instructions. But then again I only do one model at a time ( I know, I’m not right in the head[:)])
Chris
Zero, Ziltch, Nada, I keep every single box. My wife hates me, but I just tell her to look at all her shoes and that does the trick.
I save every box! I write the month and year of the build on the end of the box, put the instructions and all aftermarket instructions inside, and into the closet they go. I’m a pack rat. [:D]
Foster
Pack rat, I have my name tags from Kindigarten.
I trash most of the boxes, but keep all instructions. Got instructions going back about 15 years right now.
I used to keep the top of the boxes if they were good drawings. Now I have only one box top and maybe I’ll frame it some day, or one of my unbuilt kits. I need space for all my new kits. [:D]
I cut off the box art, kind of a way of keeping track of what i built. Keep the instructions to just in case something comes up one day or someone else needs them.
Me too. Cut out the box top and save the instructions. There is something about the finality of throwing away the box when the build is complete that just feels very satisfying.
Mike
Wish I didn’t have to, but I already get enough heat about the unbuild models piling up in the basement…
I usualy save the box and instruction but there is times where I cut the box topoff and hang it on the wall in my work space…wife thinks im loony[:P]