j.l. hudson department store – detroit, michigan

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i have always loved boxes

some for nostalgia or beauty

others for their material or design

as my children know

sometimes a box is my favorite part of a present

yes, i have a kept a few or so.

apple – macbook air

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“thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society.

we receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

-erma bombeck

 

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one specialized group are those who save the boxes created by apple and the used boxes are actually for sale on ebay.

 i only recently gave a gift in my macbook air box that i had saved for no reason other than i loved its amazing design.

see the link below for a look into this apple phenomenon:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bw3b/why-people-keep-empty-apple-iphone-macbook-boxes