Knife boxes - Keep 'em or toss 'em?

[Wolverine666]

I keep all mine. But to each his own.

 

[Danny Linguini]

I keep ‘em all, in case I ever decide to sell. I’m not planning on selling right now, but you never know.

 

[snuffle]

I haven't moved in more than a decade, and live in a big place, so I keep them. If I still lived in my last place (about 1/4th the size), they'd all be gone.

I suspect I only should keep maybe 10% of them for knives I'll sell someday. The problem is I don't know which ones those are, and keep being surprised at how that changes over time.

 

[DavidABQ]

I am one of the people who keeps the boxes. I think it helps if I sell a knife.

 

[sgt1372]

I keep them all and make no apologies or excuses about it. I keep all of the cases/boxes for my guns too.

 

[HexY3co]

Save the boxes. They do make it easier to stack them for storage.

 

[dirc]

I've only kept boxes for ones I may sell at a future date
...or the higher priced ones, like my gb2 or 2018 forum knife (neither of which I'll sell)

for things like kershaw leek, or opinel, or ontario rat or mora or even my ruike jager - no, I don't keep boxes
(I likely won't sell them either but they were on the low price scale ... so why bother?)

if you keep too many boxes, your place becomes a warehouse

 

[drawkcaB]

I keep all the boxes with paperwork/stickers in a shoebox.

I only have a dozen or so knives.

For now..

 

[anthonycastorena2014]

I keep them if I'm not sure I'm going to keep them, or if If the packaging is just cool. I'd imagine if you put a "depends on the knife" option to the vote it would take the majority.

 

[mqqn]

I keep them.

First I remember a poll on this recurring topic, cool!

Wouldn't it have been cool if 100 years ago they kept the packaging.

It won't be for me to see, but it will be interesting for knife collectors 100 years from now to have the packaging.

Best

mqqn

 

[WedgeAntilles]

I was an action figure collector before I was a knife collector. So yes, I keep the box.

 

[DocJekl]

I keep all of my knife boxes for a single purpose: when I die, my wife will have to spend hours, possibly days, painstakingly attempting to match each knife to its correlating box to maximize its value when she sells off my collection. I imagine she will likely go from a state of bewilderment to absolute frustration when she gets to all of the Bugout and 940 variants.

Call me kooky, but if I have the boxes I keep them and I store the knives in them. This will make it easier to liquidate them when I die. But your process does have merit. I may have to rethink things.

 

[Mannlicher]

I always save the box and any paperwork. Folders, I store in the box

 

[Uncle Timbo]

Keep them. Never say never, you may have to lighten the load and the boxes help sell a knife.

Bingo! Just because you're madly in love with a knife today, it doesn't mean you will be later. I like it when I buy a used knife with a box. Just get a plastic tote to store them in.

 

[Happy Hippo]

When I buy a knife, I very much prefer to have the box along with it. So, if more people are like me, it should be easier to sell a knife with the box. Also, having the box can help with proving the knife's authenticity. I've seen Kershaw knives, for example, that look genuine (maybe they are genuine parts but got smuggled out of the factory, I don't know) but the boxes are clearly not correct.

 

[Terry M.]

I keep every box. But then I tend to sit on the crazier side of the 50 yd line

 

[Ironbut]

I keep mine. I have a couple boxes of boxes that my kids will have to sort through & try to match the knife to the box when I kick the bucket.

 

[AntCaps]

Its entirely based on price and if I know its going to be a user.

 

[The Hawk]

I keep them in a large box under our bed. I guess it's just habit, but they are not in the way there.

 

[Locutus D'Borg]

I keep boxes. When you sell, people like having the box and papers.