Do you keep packaging?

quartzz

Cardboard boxes from large items (flattened), bubble wrap, large polythene bags, thin sheets of foam, jiffy bags, that sort of thing.

I'm bad with it. I keep a lot of stuff. packaging can be useful for all sorts of things, but I try to not hoard "too much". but every time I can use it, I'm glad I kept it.

JGB1955

I don't hoard it - just put it in the re-cycling bin.

Brie

Sadly I do too up to a point.  I keep trying to only keep that which I know I need "this week".  But I made the bad mistake of answering a freegle ad where someone wanted to get rid of a lot of pack material and it's now been in my car since picking it up about 4 months back.  I do know that most charity shops will be happy to have free wrapping material so if you have too much that might be a way for disposing of it without actually throwing it away.

quartzz

I use it for any number of things - cardboard can be useful for protecting carpets from heavy objects, lining the bottoms of drawers in cupboards, jiffy bags are useful for low value ebay items where a 99p bag would be half the cost of the amount received for the item. sponge layers can be useful for just general protection between stacked items, large polythene bags I use for storing some items outside for protection from rain or frost. Always open to "you can do it this way, rather than keep it for that" type suggestions.

moneysaver1978

My OH and I have a deal - whatever we buy like a TV, screen monitor, or even dehumidifier, we keep the box in the loft until the warranty ends, after which we recycle unless we can repurpose these for storing things.

Cairnpapple

I used to be a bit of a sucker for a 'good box' but I feel like lockdown taught us that cardboard is genuinely recycled (when everyone had to hold on to their boxes there were supply worries). Also it degrades over time so better to keep the supply turning over. 

Now I try to keep approx 2x sturdy medium sized boxes with no more packaging than will fit inside one of them, plus a magazine file of jiffy bags for reuse. I haven't found that to be inadequate yet. We do need more boxes at Christmas but enough come in with online orders. 

TELLIT01

I do similar to @moneysaver1978.  We have a massive loft so boxes go up there and then get broken down and recycled.

chrisw

moneysaver1978 said:

My OH and I have a deal - whatever we buy like a TV, screen monitor, or even dehumidifier, we keep the box in the loft until the warranty ends, after which we recycle unless we can repurpose these for storing things.

We do the same but always forget to recycle. As a result, our loft is stuffed to the rafters with 30 years worth of defunct appliance boxes.

quartzz

In the back of my mind (& Pet Shop Boys reference), I'm often thinking "am I ever going to sell this, and get £10 more for it if the box is included"

moneysaver1978

quartzz said:

In the back of my mind (& Pet Shop Boys reference), I'm often thinking "am I ever going to sell this, and get £10 more for it if the box is included"

We were the same in the early days especially for iDevice things and you could even sell empty boxes but it doesn't seem true anymore.

Albermarle

JGB1955 said:

I don't hoard it - just put it in the re-cycling bin.

Cardboard boxes from large items (flattened), bubble wrap, large polythene bags, thin sheets of foam, jiffy bags,

Apart from the cardboard, none of the other items would be normally accepted for recycling by your local authority.
Some supermarkets have a collection for plastic bags, but the rest should go in the normal rubbish bin, unless your local council has a super sophisticated recycling system.