software boxes?

[verbminx]

OK, what do you guys do with the boxes from software? Save them, or just keep the software around in its jewel case and file away the papers somewhere less space-consuming?

I keep all mine - in pristine yet dusty condition, as befits someone who is both obsessive and lazy - but I'm trying to decide whether or not to just condense them. I keep most software (that has to be run from its cd, like most games) by my computer, but if it's a productivity software like Dreamweaver it's kept in its box over on the shelf.

Maybe a happy medium is in order... productivity kept in boxes, and games have their boxes thrown away? Let me know what you guys do! I need PERSPECTIVE! auk! auk!

(PS - we have been offered, but are not going to take, an apartment in this building: http://www.humphreys.com/highrise/RiverPark/riverpark.htm
We don't think arwen_isobel would do well in this kind of complex. She'd get us kicked out for noise complaints within a month, because she'd bark at every little neighbor-noise. So we're stilllllll looking....)

Comments

[esk.livejournal.com]

yeah, i keep the boxes for things like windows and office. i fear that if i toss any small scrap of their packaging, someday i'll be trying to download a critical update and microsoft will pop up a dialog box saying "PLEASE HOLD UP YOUR ORIGINAL SOFTWARE BOX TO THE SCREEN FOR VERIFICATION. CLICK 'ACCEPT' TO CONTINUE. IN THIRTY SECONDS YOU WILL BE REPORTED TO THE FBI."

...but i throw away boxes for games and other stuff.

[lorelei-aisling.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Shelties are barky little dogs. My sheltie is yapping away right now at who knows what.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

oh my god you dyed your hair!

(i am behind the times. too busy doing house stuff to read much of anyone else's ljs, alas.)

and yeah. people who don't have herding dogs don't understand how supernaturally barky and defensive they are! if there is a knock at the door and i go to answer it, Arwen tries to knock me over and pull me back from the door, like "No! You can't go! I won't let you! It's not safe! It's my job to take care of this stuff, you have to listen to me!" etc...

[purplecleo.livejournal.com]

Thats what I thought would happen to my dog. I live in a townhouse and share one cardboard-thin wall with a family. She is a small breed and the most neurotic dog I have ever met. She used to bark at things she imagined hearing at our old house, she barks at loud things like the door bell, or the door bell on tv or the doorbell next door, and the mailman and the kid who comes to put coupons on the door. But other than that she has been very very well behaved I'm surprised.

Plus I'm very quiet and the people next door are....not (see the entry a few days ago about people knocking on my wall at 3:30 in the morning). So I will occasionally blast music loudly up until 10 when I don't think they're home or let the dog bark longer than she needs to when someone knocks on their door. Chances are your neighbors will be louder than you are.

[zoloft.livejournal.com]

Around these parts, all packaging gets thrown away (except the jewel case... that'll get emptied & kicked around for a few months, at least, until it's cracked, dusty, & probably covered in cat hair that may or may not be permanently affixed via spilled softdrink or something even less pleasant). The software disc itself is shuffled nekkid around various parts of the cluttered 'puter desk until it eventually finds a home randomly inserted in one of the many spools of storebought & burned video, audio, & data discs that are scattered higgeldy-piggeldy 'round the general computer area. Any instructions or other paperwork will be stacked up, knocked over, & moved around w/ all manner of other paper products until it finds a semi-permanent home in an unlabeled & completely disorganized plastic bag or rubbermaid box (which usually happens when we move & never fully unpack).

And, yes, we fear the need for re-installation of anything more than we fear death. ;D

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

We used to keep the boxes until we started accumulating too many of them. Now I make John throw most of them away.

computer boxes

[knockonformica.livejournal.com]

I keep them all, on the same shelf I keep my books and videos and other crap. I don't have too many games, just around fifteen, and now that they're making smaller boxes they're even easier to keep. I'm a total completist, and w/games being as expensive as they are (at least new), I can't imagine throwing anything that came w/them away.

Re: computer boxes

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

that's exactly my problem!
but i have sooooooo many books (i think around 40 boxes, not counting my mom's books) that I feel like the empty ones are just sucking up shelf space. So I have Empty Box Guilt. ;)

actually so far I've only discovered about three or four that are empty - Sheep, Sims, Riven, and Civ III. so maybe i'll stop worrying about it... *nailbite*