If you don't plan on reselling, then tossing the inner packing material (formed plastic or Styro inserts) is the priority. If you like the art, keep the boxes, and if you're waffling on selling, at least tossing the inner material and collapsing the boxes frees up a ton of space.

 

Recycle/throw out the boxes of the figures I open. Unless it's 20yrs later, and that's being generous, they aren't worth the NYC real estate they take up in my house.

I only keep the boxes of the figures I keep MISB

 

Put them on the back of your cabnits as display bits

 

I used to keep ALL the boxes, which was insane even when I had more space. I then decided to keep SOME of the boxes, like the 'fancy' ones for Masterpieces or 3P guys that I really liked.

Now, I keep NONE of the boxes and it feels fucking great. Everyone's extra parts and instructions go in a little Ziploc baggie that goes in the basement, and the box gets a "hey thanks" and taken straight to the dumpster. I've got enough shit in my house from the contents of the box and I rarely resell anything (mostly because I tend to only buy stuff I know I'm going to keep, or stuff that isn't stupid valuable in the first place so the box doesn't matter) so this has actually done a lot for my mental health and overall cleanliness.

 

Maybe in 20 years the box will be worth more than the figure like the little guns that every kid loses.

 

I still have a few years worth of boxes in bags up in the attic but I'm working on decompressing. I'll save the boxes for Third Party figures and MP figures. My Gundam model boxes however, I'm keepinng the lids and dumping the lower halves except for some I use as sorting bins for works in Progress.

 

Been getting more Marvel Legends and they have cool art and the Star Wars Black series ones stack real nice, (except the Gamorean guards). The landspeeder and Rey’s bike are solid heavy duty boxes I’ve kept hoping to use as storage, but nothing yet.

I think I need to get rid of them real soon.

 

I have a really hard time throwing out my boxes cause i love the art on them. About sometime last year i had to get rid of about 10 boxes from combiner wars,titans return era boxes. It was tough for me but I'm cool with it cause the little woman never made me get rid of any of it. So since it was totally voluntarily it made it better anyway. I just had to get rid of them cause my room i had them in i needed that space for something else so off they went. I still have about 20 or so more and when I'm ready to toss those i will. This is my 2cents of thinking.

 

Just threw out a ton of boxes. I feel so cleansed.

 

I'm gonna have to do another round but with all of my MOTU Classics boxes soon.

 

If something TF can be reboxed then I will usually keep the box. In fact I reboxed a couple of figures this very today. After a figure has been out on display long enough and I need the room to display newer stuff I'll rebox the figure as if it was brand new. These days you'd honestly never know it had been opened.
I'm not planning on reselling anything, I just like things neatly stashed away.
I guess it would also make it easier for my family to sell my TF when I die.

 

It was a tough hurdle for me to overcome with my masterpiece boxes. I kept them until I was faced with the fact that I just didn't have anymore room for them so with a deep breath and a deeper sigh, I burned them all. It's easier to let new ones go after that.

 

I only keep Masterpiece and Takara/LG boxes.

 

I forgot about this thread when I got an alert about it. I have a LOT of instructions from the boxes I threw away. Is there even a market for Classics to current lines of instructions? Maybe I can sell them as a lot.

 

I don’t know about a market, but I know it sometimes bugs me that I have instruction sheets for 98% of my collection…. But a random “few” I do not, because I bought them or got them in a trade here on the boards, or an occasional hand me down gift from a friend… all sans instruction sheets. It doesn’t keep me up at night, lol, but if I knew someone with an extensive list of manuals, for like $1-$3 each, I’d probably get a bunch for completeness sake.

 

I used to keep all the boxes. Then I got rid of all the boxes. Then, around Transformers Siege, I started trimming out the character art on the side and front of the boxes.

Recent packaging art has been really, really good for so many lines from so many companies. Even when it was good before, it usually got destroyed in the process of removing the blister pack, so it wasn’t worth keeping.

I wish they would sell us art books so I could feel better about getting rid of all this cardboard and look less like a hoarder to my wife.

 

I tossed all of my boxes and cardbacks many years ago once I realized I wouldn't be selling any of the figures I kept. I just kept the instructions and inserts. The hardest to get rid of were the older Takara Beast Wars and Armada era, which for some reason I had some attachment to. In general japanese packaging is pretty spiffy, well it used to be; nowadays it's all bland black and white drab that I am very happy to toss in the garbage.

I must have posters made out of the Toxitron collection boxes. At least for some of the bots like Jazz or Toxitron.

 

This is the primary reason I want packaging artbooks.
I could free up a bin or two.

 

I have all the boxes from Seige to Legacy. I was going to throw them away but I saw someone on this site make a framed banner collage with the Seige and Earthrise boxes. I want to do this but never found the time. Like you I was waiting/ hoping for an art book or print poster.