I have a dilemma. I have a lot of boxed software for Amiga, Commodore, PC etc and am running out of room. Now normally, over the years, I would get to a point and just toss the boxes, put the manuals in a single box or a shelf and the software to cases. Most of my PC games are like this. Boxes went bye bye. But people today say that is sacrilege and act like you are a committing a sin by chucking the cardboard. If that is a sin, they don't get out much.
I am not a collector per se. I have a large collection but only because I started it in the 80's and never threw anything away. I buy what I want to use nothing more.
So I have all these boxed games and software and am at the point where it is taking up too much space. So, many boxes must go. Where do you draw the line? I have a few games that I really like the box art and they typically have large manuals and the box is filled nicely. (SSI, Sierra) Same with some of my productivity software where the manual is hard bound in a binder and slides into a hard cover slip case (Directory Opus, Word Processors, Amiga OS). Those make sense to keep. But then there are the boxes like Pinball fantasies, shootem up games, etc that are basically a disk and a box with a flimsy ref card or manual. Those can go.
So what do you do with boxes?