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Originally Posted by alternatorfan
Why?? Lol
Recycle man
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I think saving packaging sometimes speaks to the psyche of that collector.
For me, when I was a kid, my parents couldn't spend a lot of money on toys for me. Almost every transformer I got I got because I saved up my lunch money bit-by-bit for it. So each Transformer I had, I took care of it as best as a kid could, and that care extended to the packaging. I didn't get to open a lot of Transformers fresh from the box, but I could open the same one over and over like it was brand new each time I took it out to play.
This is not a brag, but it's why my childhood G1 collection has a lot of figures that have everything that came with it, paperwork, box, ads, etc.
This sort of childhood attitude has extended into my adult collecting habits. It's hard for me to throw stuff out, because part of me thinks of the packaging as part of the product, not just what the product came in.
I wish I could be carefree about the packaging but I can't. It always has to be a conscious and calculated effort on what to get rid of and what to keep, but fortunately, I'm very self aware about not becoming one of those hoarders like you see on those TV shows. Last thing I want is to be the guy on the news that died because they became buried under a pile of Transformers boxes.
Right now I'm in the process of dealing with my Voyager boxes. Going to toss the inserts and flatten the boxes. It's too bad the inserts can't be collapsed, too.
