LOOSE COLLECTORS- WHAT DO YOU DO WITH PACKAGING?

I usually keep them for a day or two unless its someone i really like. But I usually throw them out

Replace with a Jakks figure and return it..... KIDDING! Never, eeeeever do that. But seriously, recycle the package =]

-Another silly but serious note- my wife for the most part doesnt care that I collect. I still feel guilty some times when I buy something and will open them in my truck so I can "sneak" them in. I'll usually have a walmart sack with several cards wadded up until I remember to toss them when I take trash off.

Some good answers. Would love to see pics of anyone displays them.

I honestly have fonder memories of the packaging of a lot of stuff I had when I was kid than the contents inside it haha. I collect loose as well but keep the boxes/cards of all my figures in a drawer. I carefully slit the tape at the fold and then fold the box until it's flat and then basics and BP's I I try as hard as I can to leave as much of the print in tact.

They put a lot of effort into the box art and Elites especially how they have the specifics on the back is cool.

Side note- I wish they still did the figure line ups like the good old days on the back of the cards. I mean I understand nowadays the internet takes a lot of the fun out of the hunt, but nothing was as cool to me as getting a new ToyBiz Marvel figure and circling which figures I had to find next and also in the series.

I have cutout some of the backs of the boxes incase my son ever wanted to make something out of it. I'm realizing more and more im just wasting my time so I've been throwing the whole boxes out now.

Toss it. I did keep all the Legends cards, but ended up tossing them as well a year or so ago.

Since I started collecting again, I have been struggling big time with this, and it's nice to see this thread to remind me that I'm not the only one! My family thinks I'm a hoarder, because I have nothing but boxes of figures everywhere. Like, it's getting out of control. For some reason, I just can't bring myself to throw them out. I do keep many of them MOC, and I have started to hang a lot of them up on my wall to save space, but I keep telling myself I need to start opening them and throw out the packaging. But even when I actually bring myself to open them, I just can't throw out the box. Please help! What can I do? I don't have the space right now and it's literally starting to severely affect my living situation. I'm not a hoarder, I just don't want to throw out these nice boxes that I may want to reuse again one day!