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You can tell that he doesn't live in a New York apartment.
But I confess that I have two oriiginal containers stashed here: one for my 7600, which I should remove from the back of the closet and throw away, and the huge one for the MDD 867.
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What's scary is that people like that apparently do "get off" on stuff like that.
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That would be me too...
The packaging on my first iPod (2nd gen) was awesome. Very impressive packaging design really created an experience of opening it up.
It was odd to me recently when I saw a friend rip open his iPod nano box like it was a candy bar.
I also admit to taking some pictures of each step of the unpacking process of a few other products, just to capture the "experience".
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I save my boxes, but it helps in resale value and shipping if it's going to eBay.
Yeah, that's been my rationale for hanging onto packaging for things like graphics cards. But these days, by the time I get around to wanting to sell stuff like that, the resale value is nearly nothing.
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Well, last spring it raised the value of my first gen 5gb iPod in box. It sold for $125 on April 19. It was in fantastic shape (box and iPod).
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I hung onto the original (huge) boxes for my Lisa. If I kept them when I was living in a 1BR apartment, no way in hell am I going to throw them out now. I only wish I'd eBayed the whole system back when they were getting over $1K.
But I consider myself a "reformed" pack rat, because during our last free collection of electronics for recycling, I actually managed to discard several "perfectly good except for the power supply" Duo docks, along with a dead Duo or two, a dead Mac II, and a bunch of other stuff. Okay, "partly" reformed -- I still kept some working SCSI equipment, the dead Mac II prototype, and a bunch of other embarrassing stuff. But at least I'm moving in the right direction.
