It's for me.....id upvote but..... ya know

Actually bad advice

Then why are so much resources wasted on such high quality boxes?

I won't even see the boxes in the store as they're in storage. They take the box out front in the store and open it for you or if you ordered online, it arrives and you open it

Stop the waste

My work pays for my phone I just need to return it after. I keep the box for that. It is very convenient!

Funny story, today I met someone that was using their phone box as a case for their phone

People are selling them on my local market place. Not sure if any of them sell but they have all sorts of boxes for sale.

Some of those boxes are very nice. I’ll paint them, decorate them, and use them for storage. Add some custom-cut foam inserts and they make excellent storage solutions for minis.

No. I'm using it to store spare cables, the plastic cover my sim came in (in case I'm forgetful...), some microSD cards, and the little sim removal pin.

Akshully...... I use all of them to keep little treasures. That I need. For keeping. Like phone boxes.

There is a lot of validation in this thread.

I've resold all my old phones (for cheap, but still). Handy for that, it is much easier to resell something with a box than without one.

It's easier to resell the phone later on if you have the original box. Why throw it away if it takes up practically no free space?

Never!

I only keep the boxes for things I intend to eventually resell, or are valuable enough that I would want to repackage it in the event of a warranty return.

Everything else is fair game for the recycle bin. We have limited space in the garage, can’t take it all up with useless crap!

I still have the box for my Nexus 4 which was stolen from me 11 years ago.

I definitely need it. I save it and after 3 years when I'm selling my phone for about 1/3 of the original price to someone on the internet, I can present it in pristine condition, with original packaging.

Out of all the boxes I keep (like GPUs, PC cases, but not fridges, etc) phone boxes are so smol nowdays.
I also gift by phones to friends & family and when I pass things to someone I need them to be clean - the boxes just somehow (for me) add to that (like, kinda, sorta, to the clean look & feel).

Boxes of old phones from the olden days are legit collector pieces.

Also, reading other comments, I'm glad it's a controversial topic.

I still have the box for my Treo 650.

Boxes stack better than lose phones with various different sizes and shapes of camera bumps.

I usually send my broken phone to one of those places that buys it off me, so the box totally helps ship it.

It is also where I keep the SIM card key.

I keep random small things in the boxes and forget what's in them until I open them once every year or two.

What about my GBA game boxes? Do I need them?

But it's such a nice box. Someone probably worked really hard on it.

They said that about the big box full of cords too, but I saw what happened to Gen X.

Won't be me.

I have a large box in my garage labelled 'product boxes' that's full