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12-27-2008, 06:34 AM | #1 |
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Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
Every year as I pack up the Christmas ornaments I painstakingly put them all back into their original boxes. And it takes FOREVER. Last year we got one of those ornament bin with the cardboard dividers but I had already packed everything.
Yesterday as I took the tree down (yeah, I'm right on it, day after Christmas! It was dead and was blocking my sunlight, it had to go) I thought "Why do I put all of these things back in the original packaging year after year?" So, out came the special box and I packed all of my ornaments away and tossed their original boxes. I feel so free! (I'm also slowly letting go of ornaments and decorations that I hate.) |
12-27-2008, 06:37 AM | #2 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
I'm a packrat, so I have trouble letting go of things too. Good for you!
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12-27-2008, 06:47 AM | #3 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
dh is that way with electronics. It drives me insane. Everything takes up so much more room that way. Plus since the electronics are being used it means that we are storing EMPTY boxes!!!
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12-27-2008, 07:01 AM | #4 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
Okay I need one of those boxes you got. I get so sick of putting them back into each box too. And this year since DS#1 helped take them out, some are ripped anyways. I would also save a lot of space I think.
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12-28-2008, 06:03 PM | #5 | ||
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12-28-2008, 06:05 PM | #6 | |
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12-28-2008, 09:22 PM | #7 | |
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12-28-2008, 09:35 PM | #8 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
I save and file receipts for a time - until I know I won't need it anymore - either the return time expired or something like that. As for the box, I do often keep them for a bit, but also let them go by the time or before the warranty runs out.
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12-28-2008, 09:59 PM | #9 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
you're hysterical LOL but way to go! I swing from one extreme to the other, keep it all for a while then have a spurt of delcluttering energy and chuck way too much.
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12-28-2008, 10:05 PM | #10 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
Dh does this with *every* piece of electronics he buys...I free those back into the world on a regular basis. It's a good feeling, no? |
12-28-2008, 10:09 PM | #11 | |
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12-29-2008, 01:21 AM | #12 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
So I got rid of all my ornament boxes and now I have 1 box with ornaments, stockings and lights. YAY!!! I love that
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12-31-2008, 10:48 AM | #13 | |
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01-01-2009, 08:52 AM | #14 |
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Re: Finally letting go of my 'original packaging' obsession!
I need to look in to those boxes for ornaments, does any one have a link? We didn't put ornaments on the tree because I didn't want to face unpacking and packing them all up again in a few days
saving the box funny - my FIL gave DH a printer when he went to collage it is a great printer (we have all the books but no box), but it is optimized for text and the ink is crazy expensive so the last time we bought ink (5years ago - it does last for ever) we deiced that when we ran out of ink we would buy a printer that would do images. So we buy this house and in the attic is an empty box for the printer we have. So when it runs out of ink, and I think it will this year, we can list it on Crag's list whit all the books and the box and we didn't have to keep up with the box for years,
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01-01-2009, 04:17 PM | #15 |
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Knitlove, that is amazing!
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