I keep collecting buying"empty boxes" [hmm] plastic cardboard etc anyone else collect things they might need?

Boxes do come in handy and I must admit to owning about a dozen, some of which are quite pretty. They contain paperwork and suchlike.
Being a bit of a 'pot maniac' I have about 25 mugs/cups and saucers in the kitchen cupboard but I only use my favourites on a regular basis. If I see any pretty ones in a shop I really have to drag myself away reluctantly as I want it. It's almost an addiction - there, I've confessed.

I am so glad my dad's mom kept things for sewing. I have her button tin that came with a Christmas fruitcake. She kept all buttons off what became rags. She also had the buttons from DGF WWI uniforms. Yesterday I found a good big button to replace the broken one on my jacket. She taught me to sew when I was 5. I'm the one keeping leftover cloth now. Glad I do, because I made a quilt for each of my GC tenth birthdays.

My MIL used to have a thing about bagging things up with many do-ups! She'd use layers of bags each with their own do-up and as she got older she used more and more bags. I was walking through Homebase the other day looking at storage boxes when my husband remarked that I was turning into his mother but with storage boxes rather than bags. I resemble that remark!

I am a sentimental old fool so lots of things are precious to me. I still have all the letters my mother and father wrote to me when I was a student, far away from home. They are precious to me.
I find it hard to throw away beautiful packaging, but I do. There is nowhere to store it. I keep the odd padded envelope or cardboard box and then use them at Christmas and birthdays to pack oddly shaped presents.
I have a carrier bag full of carrier bags in the utility room - and often find myself without a bag hen I go supermarket shopping, so have to buy new ones!
I am tempted by stationery and pens, In packing up my old house I brought so many pens with me, found in various rooms and drawers. I do try to organise things and have drawers and boxes for my paper and art stuff.
I have just been unpacking stuff brought with us from our house move (a few years ago) and found a few sets of IKEA flat pack boxes in green. I have just the use for them! It was a good find. Yes bikergran - I felt quite excited by their discovery!

Ive just received a lovely wine glass for my birthday ( not a plonky)? And the bi was lovely so kept it. Also Christmas had lovely smellies and kept them boxes!!! I love keeping posh marks and spencer biscuit boxes and I've got quite a fear cake tin boxes I don't need therapy do I???? ???

Bags! My Husband would say! ? lol

Marshall and snelgrove... black with floral bouquets ? I have one too

Wow! after reading the post I feel quite ! "normal" lol

I do have a solution for the cardboard boxes (bright idea)

If you "Flatten" them they will not be as bulky, you can hide them under beds/sofas, slide them anywhere really, then resurrect them when needed

Do you also LABEL things...we used to laugh at my mum as she would label everything (she still does at 84)

But then when I reached about 55 I also started Labelling things boxes etc I used them stick labels on a roll.

Me too ?!!!

OMG now I have visions of houses stacked to the rafters with pretty labelled boxes

I go to shoe shops & ask for their unwanted empty shoe boxes
They are so useful especially the ones with hinged lids & they’re free !

Collections not used?
Pens
Notebooks
Shoes
Knitting wool
Knitting patterns
Knitting needles
Drinking glasses
Denby China
Cheap and designer handbags
Bed linen
Any linen
Curtains
Clothes.
Kitchen paraphernalia.

Most of the things I own I have never been able to "waste on me".
(See a previous thread on toiletries).
Oh and I have two giant black wheeled storage boxes full of "tupperware" type storage boxes.
Plus the ones in the kitchen.

Yes another box collector here. My family laugh at me but guess who they come to when they need a box? Thinking about it I have upended shoe boxes on shelves and in cupboards keeping CDs, DVDs and books tidy. Children's crayons, pencils felt tips etc in another shoe box with lid Colouring, puzzle and drawing books in a cardboard box under an occasional table. Wardrobe shelves and drawers have socks, scarves, tights, knickers etc neatly kept together in a variety of cardboard boxes. Oh yes shoes and trainers in the bottom of the wardrobe also in boxes. Ice cream boxes are used for lunches, keeping buns and biscuits in and also water colour blocks and paint brushes. Sewing stuff , buttons, zips, cotton reels also kept in old sweetie tins.

I have also found the perfect place for hiding sweets and chocolates ... a big 'Roses' tin. No one ever expects actual goodies in a sweetie tin!!!!

We are decluttering here and boxing things up ready for moving hopefully in the summer. So boxes are handy especially for posting things we're selling on eBay.

I have a tower of boxes in our cellar containing dressing-up clothes (we love a good theme party round here!). All labelled - children’s outfits, period dresses, accessories, Hallowe’en, pirates, etc. I hadn’t realised it was a bit odd till DD1 took a photo and posted it on Facebook.