How long should I keep the boxes?

momkrissy · Feb 19, 2013

I got my system more then 90 days ago so I can't return but I won't need to however what I wonder is how long should I keep the boxes and what else besides the instruction book should I keep?

veggiegirl228 · Feb 19, 2013

I keep the boxes and manuals till I no longer have the seat.

D&L's-mommy · Feb 19, 2013

veggiegirl228 said:
I keep the boxes and manuals till I no longer have the seat.

me too. you never know if you may need to store your seat/stroller for some reason. I collapse the boxes and put them in the storage closet

nataliem257 · Feb 19, 2013

It's super nice to have if you ever want to sell it and get something new, good luck finding a box to ship it in I you don't keep the original

krasota · Feb 19, 2013

As soon as I know it won't be returned, the boxes get collapsed and recycled. My home is too small to do otherwise.

momkrissy · Feb 19, 2013

Yes my house is 600 sf maybe ill try putting them flat i just don't know we're i could leave them

jacqui276 · Feb 19, 2013

Mine get recycled as soon as I am 100% certain that I will not be returning anything. I don't have space to store boxes for everything. I do have a drawer full of instructions though.

stephpook · Feb 19, 2013

I usually recycle my car seat boxes within a week or so of purchasing them...until I had to ship a MyRide back to Graco a week ago and spent way too much time and gas trying to find a box big enough to ship the darn thing back in. Wal-Mart and Lowes didn't sell boxes big enough and I went to two BRU's looking for a car seat box that might have been left behind that it would fit in. Finally found a Maestro box that had been returned with a defective seat. It wasn't a perfect fit (there was a bulge in the box at one end) and the guy at the Fed Ex store balked about it. My husband was going to pay an arm and a leg buying a box it WOULD fit in until the Fex Ex guy realized that he didn't have one big enough either. Sigh. In the end it shipped as it was and Fex Ex told us they wouldn't be responsible for the seat if it got damaged (although it was already defective, so I'm not sure it really mattered much). The moral of this story (for me at least), is that I will be keeping future car seat boxes if at all possible, if only to save me a lot of stress and frustration should it ever need to go back to the manufacturer.

Athena · Feb 19, 2013

I have a basement, so I usually keep them. However, if I had a small home with no basement, I'd probably recycle them. The reality is that I rarely ever use them again.

T4K · Feb 19, 2013

I collapse the boxes and stack them in an area of my garage.

How long should I keep the boxes?

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