It’s recycling day… What’s the statue of limitations on keeping huge, awkward boxes hanging around “just in case”?
by BarryTownCouncil
It’s recycling day… What’s the statue of limitations on keeping huge, awkward boxes hanging around “just in case”?
by BarryTownCouncil
16 comments
TV last Wednesday, Soundbar yesterday…. We all know they’re never going back in their boxes, right? But then apparently the TV is so new that there aren’t any software updates to fix the fact the menus are REALLY slow yet… so that’s really annoying. So maybe I will need them… oh the conundrums
Adapted from the cycling community; the statutory time limit is expressed as S-1, where S is the amount of time it would take for your other half to leave you.
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I take expensive goods boxes to the tip myself, less people there on the rob.
Seriously if you can find a home for that TV box (I strapped it to ceiling of the garage) there is (unsurprisingly) nothing better for moving it about in if you ever need to.
If its “iust in case” then flat pack those buggers and stash them somewhere. If you have a couch against a wall then stashing them there is ideal. That gap can swallow a stash of big (potentially useful _one day_ ) boxes easily.
Out of sight, out of mind… Then feel super smug when it’s a case of “oh no! For some odd and random reason i need a big box! What am i going to do?”… OP reaches behind the sofa and feels like a hero 🤣
(Its why despite “having” tp purge “_useless stuff_” when I got married, i still have a small stash of crap)
Put it in the spare room and leave it there for a year
If you have somewhere to stash it out the way completely, then it really is just best to keep them until about 2 weeks after the warranty is over. Because very occasionally I do see posts where a company has been kind enough to warranty fix a product where the warranty had ended a week before.
You will never be able to pack it properly without the original box if it needs to go anywhere.
Just a tip don’t leave these types of boxes outside a few days before recycling say. Shows everyone what new suff you have and makes you a target for opportunists in the area nabbing stuff!
I used our TV box to lay out flat on the floor outside while I painted the house. Stopped any drips on the concrete
I kept my TV box and bike box for a few weeks in the spare room, just in case. It was quite difficult to enter the room with them in there 😂
A woman was in bed with her lover when she heard her husband opening the front door “Hurry!” she said, “stand in the corner.” She quickly rubbed baby oil all over him and then she dusted him with talcum powder. “Don’t move until I tell you to,” she whispered. “Just pretend you’re a statue.”
“What’s this, honey?” the husband inquired as he entered the room.
“Oh, it’s just a statue,” she replied nonchalantly. “The Smiths bought one for their bedroom. I liked it so much, I got one for us too.”
No more was said about the statue, not even later that night when they went to sleep.
Around two in the morning the husband got out of bed, went to the kitchen and returned a while later with a sandwich and a glass of milk.
“Here,” he said to the ‘statue’, “eat something. I stood like an idiot at the Smiths’ for three days and nobody offered me as much as a glass of water.”
For me such boxes live behind my settee
But that does remind its time ot look and see what’s past it’s warranty time and can go.
I’ve got matryoshka boxes in my attic – it’s the only way they’ll fit
Depends on the item and if you’re considering moving in the future, if you’re not considering moving in the next few years then it’s break them down into more manageable sizes put out for recycling immediately.
You should never throw away your TV box for at least a month – this was good advice I got from my delivery guy since the LG panels have been known to fail and your TV may need to be sent back.
This is exactly what happened to me, dead pixels right across the screen within the first week.