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....)

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[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