Hi. My name's Ed and I'm a boxaholic.
What's a boxaholic? Someone who is obsessed with boxing? Perhaps, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm a boxaholic because I save every box that something comes in, new or used. Folks, it's reached epidemic proportions. Something has to be done or I'm going to commit myself to finding some pricey help.
I'm not sure where it stems from. My parents aren't boxaholics. In fact, while some family members could have been classified as "Messy Marvins" or "Messy Marys", saving boxes hasn't been a family tradition or trait (or sickness), as far as I know. Until me.
How many of you have read online auction posts that tout "I have the original box"? I'm set, lemme tell you. With the exception of one, I have the original boxes for every single radio that I own. Stereos, DVD players, speakers (Klipsch LaScalas and Magnepans - BIG boxes), tv's, elliptical machine (technically a 'crate', I guess), you name it, I've got the box. And they all ended up downstairs in the garage and in the unfinished rooms.
Well, not anymore heh-heh. I've spent the past 3 days on a box-cutting rampage. I've reduced the tower of boxes down to a mound (ok, make that a pretty big mound) of sliced paper.
I'm saving the radio boxes. After all, who wants to buy a used radio without the original box?
Of course, I still have to take them to the dump...ugh.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
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Come on....everyone KNOWS that the Original Box adds value to the radio within, such that even the oldest radios that are deaf on 40m and incapable of full output are still worth their original sticker price back in 1987. Right? :)
And shouldn't the term Original Box always begin with capital letters, just out of respect for the nuance and sophistication it brings to any device enclosed within?
73 de w4kaz
Great catch. You're absolutely right, "Original Box" should always be capitalized. Indeed, that must have been why I passed on several offerings at the Catawba Valley Hamfest yesterday. No Original Box.
Do you think I just sliced the value of my ham radio empire in half last week by discarding all those boxes?
73's, Ed
You bet. No Original Box equals no sale! The mojo is in the cardboard....
Also, all of those box-less radios will now probably cease functioning immediately. Lacking the security of their own Original Box, they will no doubt now show their ire by Letting The Smoke Out too.
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