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I keep my boxes too. One shelf in my cupboard has all them boxes stacked. The other shelf has all the blades, lights and other gadgets.

On two instances, I have gifted my blades on a whim and it helped to have the box in mint condition.

Its funny we would protect items in a material that those items were meant to defeat.

Yup. You never know when you might sell one.

I have a couple of display shelves that I keep my knives and flashlights on, I arrange their boxes in the back leaning against the wall. Documentation, manuals, accessories, or packaging that doesn't stand very well all go into a storage box. I'm not going to sell any of them but I tend to hang onto packaging for computer parts, etc for awhile then dispose of them when I spring clean.

I am a box keeper. Never know when you may want to sell one or gift one to a bro.

I keep them.

I usually carve the box up into shreds after I slice up the little plastic bag. I guess I don't plan on selling anything for good money. I'm kind of into sprint Militaries, and I use the pi$$ out of em. Had to cut some medium heavy copper cable the other day, had nothing but a military and a rubber hammer. Tapped my S90V right through on the end of a 2x4

sure do!

I have every box of every Spyder I've ever owned except for those I traded away and the recipient wanted the box.

I also have many Spyderco boxes that 2 great Spyder Brothers sent to me as a gratuity some time back.

I also have a ton of Spyderco collectibles. For instance how many of you folks have an official Spyderco "mouse pad" :eek: ?????

I even keep the boxes of my Spyders that I have for "users".

I also have a knock-out collection of Spyderco catalogs.

When they take blood samples from me at the hospital or Doctor's office they see many blood cells that look like "SPYDIE" under the microscope :rolleyes: :D

Jay_Ev wrote:I have saved my boxes but I find that all they are doing is taking up space in my apartment. Eventually I might reach a point where I will end up tossing them. Maybe tear off the bar / UPC code on the end & put in a 3-ring binder for informational purposes.

Thats a good idea! :D Get the large Spyder-bag and put the bar code label slipped in with the knife in its spot :) I kept mine so far...

Cheddarnut wrote:Its funny we would protect items in a material that those items were meant to defeat.

:p lol

I keep the boxes too. After a while they begin to take up a lot of space so I pack them into a larger box for storage in a closet.

I keep them all and cry when they develop a "blemish." :)

I keep them for storage purposes.

Yep, keep them all :D

I'm a box keeper as well, even for my EDC knives.

SQSAR wrote:I keep them all. Mainly just to keep track of the months/years the knives were made. Also, if I end up gifting one away it's nice to have a box to put it in.

Exactly this. And I like it for storage, easy on the eye and although they all get used, they dont get scratches because of bumping into each other.

I guess I'm in the minority here. I trash the boxes. They're a waste of space to me. All of my knives get carried and used to some extent, so I'm not what I would call a collector. If I ever bought a knife that I knew was going to be a safe queen, then I'd keep the box.

I keep all the boxes for storage purposes as well as for convenience if I want to sell or trade my Spyders. :D

Cheddarnut wrote:Its funny we would protect items in a material that those items were meant to defeat.

That is a very funny observation.

I keep all my boxes.