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My woodshop teacher saw my shelf and asked why I kept the cardboard box it came in
I was helping clean out the garage last month and found a plain brown box from a clock radio I bought back in 2004. My old shop teacher stopped by to drop off a borrowed sander, spotted it on the shelf, and asked why I still had it after all these years. I told him the radio died in 2011 but the box had this great old printing on the side, a red sunburst pattern with the specs in tiny type. He laughed and said he kept the box from his first table saw for 30 years just because of the label. It made me think about how we pick what to keep. Half my shelves are things I only bought for the packaging. The item inside was almost an afterthought. Do any of you keep the box long after the thing breaks, and what made you hold onto that one?
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the_jade18h ago
There was a whole study on this! Some group did a thing where they found people get attached to boxes because of the "story" part of it, not the thing inside. The label and the little details are what stick with you, like your sunburst and his table saw label. I have a shoe box from a pair of boots I wore out in 2015, and it's the font and colors that make me smile every time. My dad does the same thing with old tool boxes. Reading about that study made me feel less weird about my shelf full of empty boxes.
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