For those of you that open the package and display the figures, do you keep the boxes for later storage or for the art or do you just throw them away?

 

For higher resale price, it is better to keep the box.
To preserve our environment that we depend on for life, it is better to recycle the boxes.

 

I keep cardbacks but not the boxes...unless they're special items (City Commander Armor, etc) or look awesome (Masterpieces).

 

I bin the boxes but starting with ROTF I started taking the front insert of the box out to keep

 

I keep cardbacks

In regards to boxes, I keep the back and frontal art and throw the rest away.

 

If you like em keep em, if you don't don't.

It all depends on how much storage space you have.

 

I keep all the packaging and store it in boxes, all the twist ties, too, in case I ever need to repack them if I move out of my house (although I don't have stuff beyond the early movie, as that's when I started collecting again after Energon lost me.) I also have most of the instructions for all the figure's I've bought (even my Armada Hot Shot)

 

I think I'm at that point. I will keep my Henkei boxes though.

 

i keep them in my attic for higher resale value even though im not planning on selling my collection and i like to occaissionaly look at the box art

 

I used to keep boxes too, but they do take up way too much space. Now they go to the recycling bins, except for a few of the rarer pieces if decide to resell them later. Otherwise, bye bye.

 

I toss them out unless then are Henkei or any other Japanese line.

 

Throw/Recycle them. But I do keep the Mighty Mugg Boxes.

 

chunk um........keep backboards...i don't know why though...and definitely keep instructions...unless the toy is something fancy like an exclusive or real hard to find...then i keep the box..ill be damned to throw my clear mirage box away.

 

I keep the card backs and and the back of the boxes and bin the rest

 

Ya need a 3rd option, I only keep the boxes from my imports & exclusives but throw away most of the other packaging. I don't ever plan on selling any of them but if I ever get jammed up and need some money I figure it will add to the value.

 

Keep instructions, keep unique cardbacks (in Canada we often get the same cardback per wave), keep boxes but recycle all inside packing materials and only keep the folded flat boxes.

I don't actually know why I keep them - sentimental reasons? I never intend to sell my collection, and packing-material-less folded up boxes wouldn't exactly help sell them in any case...

 

Unless it's really nice packaging, I recycle them.

 

They're usually going in the trash when I buy a new TF. No space to try and hold onto them  

 

I keep the boxes in case i need to move or something.